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Angry Birds HD: My thoughts on Ouya

With Ouya’s Kickstarter [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console] page going live yesterday, people have been asking me what I thought of the new console. I’ve had some time to think it over, and I keep coming to the same conclusion. The Ouya is little more than a smartphone masquerading as a home console. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it’s just what it is. Hardware Lets start with the hardware. It’s near-identical to what’s found in the current gen

Posted in: Development, Indie
By: Tyler Rilling
2 min read

Penny Arcade Sells Out

> People don’t like advertising almost as a general rule; Advertising is simply The Way It Is. People who make content learn to like it, because they want to make content, and they also want to eat food and sleep under a roof, and the opportunity to do both at the same time seems like a pretty good idea. Honestly, I thought this was a joke at first. It falls way beyond what Kickstarter was meant for- that is, time-limited projects. Either way, it’s an interesting take on the crowdfunding issue

Posted in: Business, Culture
By: Tyler Rilling
1 min read

Valve Announces Steam Greenlight

With the success of their Steam Workshop, Valve has found a way to crowdsource the approvals process for Steam.

Posted in: Business
By: Tyler
1 min read

Banned 'Diablo 3' Linux users speak out against being called cheaters

If you’re computer savvy enough to figure out how to get Linux installed, and setup WINE to get Diablo 3 playable on an unsupported OS, you should be smart enough to realize Blizzard’s in-game security, Warden will throw off some false positives on occasion. Blizzard is not going to waste time sorting through thousands of bans to verify you’re just playing, and not having multiple VMs open and botting.

Moral of the story: If you play an online game, dont complain if you get banned or something

Posted in: Culture
By: Tyler
1 min read

Second Life Didn’t Fail

The problem — really the only problem, but a big one nonetheless — is they couldn’t ever find a way to make those numbers grow. Nothing they did worked, and Rosedale doubts that even early Facebook integration would have helped.

Right, Second Life didn’t Fail. It just could never figure out what it wanted to be.

Posted in: Business, Culture
By: Tyler Rilling
1 min read

Hydrophobia and the fearless mingling of ideas

Taylor Cocke finds the promise inside the deeply flawed Hydrophobia in this Joystiq story

Posted in: Play
By: Tyler Rilling
1 min read

Development

PostgreSQL 8.4 on a Media Temple (dv) Server

Upgrading PostgreSQL from 8.1 to 8.4

Posted in: Development
By: Tyler Rilling
2 min read
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