And with that, i will see you all in about 3 weeks…
Archive for the 'Geek' Category
Microsoft have teamed up MEAN Magazine to produce “Cinemash,” a series of videos of classic scenes from old movies, that have been “Sweded”. The shorts will appear first on the Zune Marketplace, so about 4 people worldwide can enjoy them, before moving on to the XBOX Marketplace, and leaked to Youtube…
To be fair, Microsoft have done a bunch of cool things with video recently, funding the second season of The Guild as an XBOX Live Exclusive, and even cooler, getting a bunch of Horror film makers to direct comedies. (Again, an XBOX Live Exclusive).
Rock on Microsoft!
For those who are sick of lolcats (you are not my friend) and their bad spelling and grammar, i give you the Erudite Ferret.
This was the only tech ‘news’ on TWiT this week.
Valve, as makers of Portal, probably the best new game since GTA 3, get automatic access to “the guys who get it” club
. Rather than resting on their laurels, they wen’t ahead and proved they are ten times awesome.
Speaking at the Games Business Law Summit in Dallas, Valve’s Jason Holtman addressed game piracy;
The final sacred cow that Holtman took a stab at was the issue of piracy. “There’s a big business feeling that there’s piracy,” he says. But the truth is: “Pirates are underserved customers.”
“When you think about it that way, you think, ‘Oh my gosh, I can do some interesting things and make some interesting money off of it.’”
“We take all of our games day-and-date to Russia,” Holtman says of Valve. “The reason people pirated things in Russia,” he explains, “is because Russians are reading magazines and watching television — they say ‘Man, I want to play that game so bad,’ but the publishers respond ‘you can play that game in six months…maybe.’ “
“We found that our piracy rates dropped off significantly,” Holtman says, explaining that Valve makes sure their games are on the shelves in Moscow and St. Petersberg, in Russian, when they release it to North America and Western Europe.
There are, concludes Holtman, “tons of undiscovered customers,” because publishers look very narrowly at the Western market.
While I can’t see Russia from my house, I am used to waiting months for a legitimate copy of a film/tv show/game to reach Australia while the pirated version is available immediately..
Via Game Daily
This is very cool, ports of old Nintendo Game and Watch titles for the iPhone. (iTunes Link)
Helmet (above) is free, the rest are probably a little to expensive for anyone who’s too young to remember them. ($2.49 AUS)
Hopefully they’ll release a clone of Donkey Kong Jr, which was my favourite Game and Watch title.
So, on second thought Yahtzee didn’t really like GTA 4. Can’t agree with the boy here, but I am looking forward to the GTA add on packs that seem to remember the fun of titles like Vice City Stories.
Thanks Escapist Magazine, for finally making your videos embed-able.
I’ve posted Merlin Mann videos here before, but i always feel i have to justify it. Yeah, its not really film related, but in my defense:
a) This was never meant to be a film only blog – it just kinda evolved into it.
b) Merlin’s advice is perfect for people wanting to find the time outside of their 9 to 5 to focus on creative pursuits.
c) Bite me.
So here he is, Merlin Dreamy Mann, on Time Management.
Wanna see more geeky stuff round here? Tell me in the comments.
Get through the cheesy introduction and you’ll get a great hour of Merlin Mann.
“Work out what your voice is then blog the shit out of it”
Yeah, its not film related, but sometimes I need to get my geek on round here.
Edit: Whoops, I better take Merlin’s advice and link to him, so he know’s i love him to death.
As i write this, the Sydney Apple store is opening its doors. What better way to celebrate that then to make Fulltime Casual iPhone / iPod Touch ready?
I have a look on the googles and the oldest and most linked to plugin was iPhone-Wordpress by Content Robot. I tested it out, but i wasnt really happy with the results. A bit more Google juice gave me Brave New Code’s WPTouch, which is just all kinds of sexy. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, check it out now!
To be honest, i only installed the thing because Justin and FixedR6 keep writing damn good posts I want to read, so an iPhone ready version was important.
But it does beg the question, if this shitty little blog can be iPhone ready, then why the hell isn’t The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au and the like? More baffling, a year after the iPhone’s release, why aren’t technology blogs like TechCrunch, Engadget or Valleywag iPhone ready? Could it be the obscene amount of ads each of these sites want to push on there readers?
Get your bloody act together kids!
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