Alan's asylum

What, just because I play video games for a living doesn't mean I get to rant.. does it?

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Guitar Hero For the PC, With Any Music

Want a way to play Red Octane's awesome PS2 game Guitar Hero, but lack Sony's console? A former computer science student from Ottawa may have the solution. His Freetar Hero is already showing a lot of promise. The first part, a music editor, should be available soon. Follow the link to see it in action.

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Monday, May 08, 2006

First Shots of Nintendo's E3 Booth!

In this shot, they're still constructing it, but it's exciting to get a glimpse of the floor layout this year.

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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

girlz 0f destruction take all at QCon!

I'm so proud of "my" girls!!

I guess I have to explain since I haven't here yet! I have taken the role of managing the girlz 0f destruction, an all female gaming team. They have recently attended QuakeCon and took the top 3 places in the tournament there... Awesomeness!

Tuesday, July 26, 2005

RIAA Shuts Down MMORPG Movie Site

The RIAA is at it again! Now they managed to shut down RPGFilms.net, a game movie hosting site for World of Warcraft, Dark Age of Camelot, Everquest II, and other MMORPG game movies! ...all because there was music in the videos!

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This is just absurd in my opinion. This site (and others like it) are not advertising these videos as a means to listen to the songs that are contained within. These movies were works of art that were created for the general enjoyment of others. I guess this is where copywrite laws really hinder creativity (once again).

I would have a problem if these people said the works were completely theirs, but most people even put credits in the end of their movies which stated the title and artist of the song(s) used.

UGH!!!

Saturday, May 28, 2005

"Falling dominoes" in Half-Life

Cool demonstration of the physics engine in Half-Life. This guy set up a bunch of steel doors and other objects to create a Rube Goldberg-esque way to crush a character.


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Friday, May 06, 2005

A site that has the cupon code for almost anything!!

This site has coupon codes for CompUSA, crucial, Barns and Noble.....Almost anything!!!!

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Monday, April 25, 2005

Wow, have I been busy

So I got a contract at work which extends until November. I'm running the World Cyber Games program for the entire United States. It's been quite a chore, settling into new responsibilites when it seems your work doesn't fully trust you, but they're learning to let me be and I'll get the job done.

I just wanted to post to say that I'm still alive, not that anyone reads this or anything. I'll go ahead and post more later