First impressions of a Death Knight
As most of you would know, or at least know of, Blizzard have just recently released a new expansion for their massively popular MMO World of Warcraft. The new expansion introduces a lot of things like more content, more quests, but the thing that I was most looking forward to is the new hero class the Death Knight.
Chronicles of Riddik – Escape from Butcher Bay
I recently finished the Chronicles of Riddik, Escape from Butcher Bay. I picked it up cheap at a Blockbuster near my house after hearing Penny go on about it being the best movie-game crossover she'd played. I do agree it's good in terms of movie-game crossovers, but it doesn't do what it sets out to do very well.
Hack 'N' Slash as a new Gaming Genre
In a tute at uni recently we discussed game genres and the motivations of play that usually drive them, and player types that are usually found playing them. E.g. adventure games like the old Kings Quest series would be made for 'Explorers', or Counter Strike was made for 'Killers'.
R18+ Debate gets shelved. *sigh*
I've been following the R18+ for Games in Australia with more passion than usual lately, it could be the gaming subjects I'm studying at uni that are giving me more interest but I still can't see any reason not to have the rating here. It just makes sense to me; if the anti-R18+ camp's main arguments include anything to do with protecting children from very mature content, then how can they possibly oppose it?
The difference, in my view anyway, is that if we do have the R18+ it would be tightly controlled (because there's such a debate, it would have to be monitored at least as closely as alcohol & r18+ movie rental laws). If we had the R18+ two things would happen; Nothing would get banned outright, but then it would be easier to put some of the currently MA15+ titles into the R18 category, thus restricting MORE games from minors more effectively.
I don't see any reason children-protection can be used as an argument against this being added to our classification system.
More on it here via the Age:
http://blogs.theage.com.au/screenplay/archives//010915.html
Submitted By: kythin
Night Vision for the masses :)
ThinkGeek have always been one of my favourite places to buy geeky toys and especially shirts. Infact about a third of my wardrobe is from there! Anyway while browsing their site yesterday I came across something I have wanted since I was about 5. Night Vision Goggles.
Wordspinner – Free Word Spinner Plugin for WordPress
I got a couple of emails about my last article about the free spinner code, and have made a rather spiffy plugin for WordPress that will do the same thing on any posts or pages on the site.
You can grab it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordspinner/
[[There's, There is]] an example of what [[it, WordSpinner, Word Spinner]] does in this [[very,]] page. Hit refresh on your browser and see if you can [[tell,pick it]]!
See the included readme file for changelog and useage (it's easy as pie).
UPDATE: 24th June 2010: BUG & PERFORMANCE FIX. Also, please now post questions at http://www.kythin.com/wordspinner2/
UPDATE 21st June 2010: Multiple Spinner support finally released!
UPDATE 26th Aug 2009: Just upgraded it to be compatible with 2.8.6
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