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Archive for September, 2009

Disturbing Search Engine Traffic of the Day #1

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Today’s creepy traffic comes from Yahoo, where some sicko typed into “anal dilitation porn” and got Evil Empire. To any further “anal dilitation porn” fans who swing by from Yahoo: yes, there is something wrong with you.

Battlefield 2 Update v1.50

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

Wow, who woulda thunk it? DICE have released a massive (1.9GB) update to Battlefield 2. There’s a huge list of changes, including proper Vista support, support for more than 2GB RAM, and many tweaks and fixes. I noticed the addition of an aim deviation when going prone, maybe that’ll spoil things for those annoying prone-hoppers…

Oh, forgot to mention they include new maps and the Euro Force and Armored Fury expansion packs totally free.

If you’re on iiNet download it from 3FL.

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Serious Sam HD for PC Coming Soon

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Oh yes, the classic returns in glorious HD (via ShackNews). Croteam have also release a hilarious “supermercial” advertising their new game.

More definitionier than ever!

Latest QuakeLive Update is Out with Mac OS X Fixes

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Just found out from this forum thread the new QuakeLive update includes these Mac OS X fixes (among others):

  • OSX: Right mouse button fixes.
  • OSX: Game window now always on top.

Hooray!

QuakeLive for Mac OS X is out!

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

QuakeLive is now available for Mac OS X and runs pretty sweet on my MacBook Pro. I had some trouble initially with window control, the screen would go black and I could hear the game, but not interact with it. That seems to have sorted itself out. I’ve had a few Firefox and Safari crashes as well because of the plugin.

Lookout for EvEm Braaaainz if you’re ever on a Sydney server.

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MechWarrior 5 Gameplay Footage

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

I was totally blown away by how awesome this game looks. I was a big MechWarrior 2 fan, bought a Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick just for the game which had a throttle slider and torso twist on the stick. Check it out:

Kotaku reports that Harmony Gold, the owner of the Robotech brand, says the Mechs look a bit too similar to Robotech mechs!

[Update]: Updated the YouTube video, the previous one was removed by Harmony Gold!

Quake III icons

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Doom Guy IconRe-live the glory days (or be haunted by shameful memories, as the case may be) with some old-skoolish Quake III icons for your desktop.

Status Update: [EvEm]_Relic

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Yes, I am still alive and gaming. But that’s not all…

Current games:
Evil Genius (again), TF2 (as Omey’s personal sentry guard)

New toys:
The Chevrolet has had some internal upgrades, but nothing recent.
Dr Scripto bobblehead from Microsoft’s 2008 Scripting Games.

Projects:
Hardware – Multi TB HW RAID PC (planning stage)
Software – Support tools using HTA/WMI/WQL at work (aka IT Ninja)

Work:
Recently took over my own job at Bankwest as a SOE Engineer.
Working on the Office 2007 migration solution, SOE updates, various deployments.

Family:
No new additions, still just the four of us.
Raising two female gamers who currently share a Steam account.
Look out for [EvEm]_Izzy in TF2.

Accomodation:
Living with my parents(!) and building next door in Shelley.
Should be moving in before Christmas.

Misc:
Level 2 grey hair