Category Archives: General

Everything in one big rolling beauty, was gonna be an option to put posts on the homepage, but naything not in quirks ahould go on to the home page anyway

Ooops, we forgot to mention, Minecraft is officially launched, but you knew that already

Posted on November 23, 2011 12:05 am by lartens

So last weekened was the big MineCon in vegas, where 5000 met to celelbrate the release with @notch and the rest of Mojang. As we here at grig can’t afford a plane ticket, 3 nights in a hotel, and the … Continue reading →

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Need to buy a new Kinect, don’t use the one you got?

Posted on November 22, 2011 11:31 pm by lartens

Well folkes, here’s the skinny, over at the Microsoft Research Kinect for Windows blog, there’s news that next year will see a new kinect that will have “optimized certain hardware components and made firmware adjustments which better enable PC-centric scenarios”. … Continue reading →

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720 inbound?

Posted on November 16, 2011 8:40 pm by Dibbs Ahoy

Following on from yesterday’s article by actually bothering to write something new for the Grig, I venture forth once more and set my sights firmly on the future as we plot a course for the next generation! Now this is … Continue reading →

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Street Fighter revives the Grig again!

Posted on November 15, 2011 8:26 pm by Dibbs Ahoy

I’d heard about the Mary Celeste but never thought i’d ever encounter such an eerie scenario myself. But as I stepped out on to the decks of the good ship Grig Orig and looked around, ’twas all I could think … Continue reading →

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IGN are gonna live stream some MineCon goodness woo hoo

Posted on November 5, 2011 12:26 am by lartens

News of the day is that if you are a fan of Minecraft, but do not live in the states, and cannot afford to go to MineCon over the 18th -19th of Novemeber, then fret not, as Mojang have partnered … Continue reading →

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Kinect for Windows SDK beta 2 is out

Posted on November 4, 2011 10:53 pm by lartens

It’s great that Microsoft have put efforts in helping the community utilize the power of kinect, and now we’re seeing proof that they are continuing that commitment. Today i saw a news item in my rss feeds from Microsoft Research … Continue reading →

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Street Fighter X Tekken Update Ahoy

Posted on October 31, 2011 5:36 pm by Dibbs Ahoy

WARNING – A massively outdated article follows! It’s been a long time, and I indeed shouldn’t have left you, and regretfully I plead guilty to the crime of leaving you without so much as a dope beat to step to. … Continue reading →

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Grrrrr xcode 4.2 woes

Posted on October 30, 2011 11:09 pm by lartens

Recently i started a new job where i have to learn to develop iPhone apps, which is pretty cool and interesting, better than android too. But just recently we’ve updated to xcode 4.2, and here lies a few problems, i … Continue reading →

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Daytona USA as it should be, out now XBLA

Posted on October 28, 2011 10:43 pm by lartens

Daytona on an XBOX 360 is awesome, it looks a lot sharper than the saturn version, doesn’t suffer the bad pop ups or clipping, but still has that daytona look, unlike the Dreamcast updated version that looked slightly weird, still … Continue reading →

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Minecraft 1.9 pre 5 is up for download for the impatient

Posted on October 27, 2011 10:53 pm by lartens

What up minecraftalonians, if you’re one of those who likes to take a sneak peak at whats new, then you maye be intereseted in tehis here link http://assets.minecraft.net/1_9-pre5/minecraft.jar which will be the latest build for hardcore fans to test out, … Continue reading →

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