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Microsoft research is doing some interesting things

Posted on February 28, 2011 11:39 pm by lartens

Well boys, this video was out days ago but things are slow at cassa de lartens. But this video has some very interesting works in rogrss for using cameras like the kinect for tracking and some other fandangled technology for … Continue reading →

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Boggle, free on itunes app store today, might as well get it no?

Posted on February 24, 2011 11:26 pm by lartens

Who doesn’t like a bit of boggle oggle oggle action, the ds had a nice little 2 player version budled in a 4 for 1 compilation, worked well with the stylus until my screen went a bit unresponsive, but today … Continue reading →

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New Apple Mac Book Pro’s out now. oh yeah, which one shall i buy?

Posted on February 24, 2011 7:27 pm by lartens

We’ve been waiting, watching the rumors, and finally here it is. And the big boys have been quaded. Looks like new products to the line, two 13″ models, on with a 2.3GHZ duel core i5 processor and the other a … Continue reading →

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Prices prices Portals prices

Posted on February 23, 2011 1:37 am by lartens

Today seems like a good day to talk about upcoming games, pre order prices and some deals on some past games of yonder. Valve sale on steam and some dreamcast xbox 360 action out friday. Continue reading →

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Make your bed and sleep in it, and scaevolus McRegion? Minecraft is updated to 1.3 in beta

Posted on February 22, 2011 8:19 pm by lartens

Loaded up my original map on minecraft to be greeted with the mesage “Converting World to Scaevolus McRegion” and an extra option in the err options menu for lighting. ##update## There seems to be a fair amount of traffic to … Continue reading →

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Kinect SDK confirmed by Microsoft for this spring

Posted on February 22, 2011 12:36 am by lartens

The kinect is this very cool peripheral for the xbox 360 that most can’t use in their tiny bedrooms/livingrooms thanks to the US user testing, not that it matters becaue there hasn’t been a great buzz for official usage for … Continue reading →

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Minecraft “Dead Island spoof trailer”, i loves minecraft

Posted on February 21, 2011 9:20 pm by lartens

So complementing bedgells Shawn of the Dead Island post below, this little parody/spoof whatever you call it trailer involves the much loved minecraft game. You may have noticed i like posting about minecraft, though sadly i never have time to … Continue reading →

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Green Screen, after effects and a nice camera, yeah that’s what i want

Posted on February 18, 2011 11:39 pm by lartens

So the people who did the minecraft video in a live action cg thing, have a few other video’s up, some of which show how they do things, they kinda speed through the after effects process to show how they … Continue reading →

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Minecraft meets the outside world

Posted on February 17, 2011 11:34 pm by lartens

This was just posted on notch’s blog . Notch is the developer of minecraft. Any this video posted on youtube has taken the players, enemies and tools of minecraft, added some final cut, after effects 3ds max mastery, and is … Continue reading →

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Whats new pussy cat! Woah oh woah oh yeah

Posted on February 17, 2011 10:17 pm by lartens

New portal 2 videos, Back to the future episode 2 is out on steam and a possible sale of pacman dx in a couple of weeks. oh and a minecraft marrage proposal, love it. Continue reading →

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