EA opens huge Madrid testing centre
Publisher’s sprawling Spanish office will house around 300 employees
Electronic Arts, has opened a European test centre in Madrid, which will employ between 200 and 400 people from 20 European countries…
WELCOME 2008!
WELCOME 2008!
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008! Let Love, Freedom, Happiness, Harmony and Peace be your mainspring for this year. Kisses to all my friends around the world, thank you for all the wonderful time and the fun we had 
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XOX BlackCats “BC”
Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year!
Happy Season Greetings to Everyone!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!
Boas Festas e um feliz Ano Novo
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!
God Jul og Godt Nyttlr
God Jul och Gott Nytt År
Craciun fericit si un An Nou fericit!
Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva i s Novim Godom
Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a Stastny novy rok
Vesele Vianoce a stastny novy rok
Spam, Spam & Spam
Spam, Spam & Spam
(BC) 22.11.2007 - ARGH! Spam, spam, spam - it is everywhere. Here at wordpress, forums and now i noticed that pest even to be a problem in teamspeak :(. Whilst i am writing these lines, the automated Akismet filter here at wordpress.com has already blocked about 900 (!) spam posts/comments - wow, what a big fortune to have that effective tool free of charge here.
I don’t understand why those spammers still keep on trying to get their nonsense online here, Akismet seems to block really almost all spam attacks very reliable. Not that i care too much about spam here at wordpress, but it has become one of the most annoying things for today internet activities like with checking emails. And now, after i have set up a teamspeak server for playing AIX Coop Mod (AIX, Allied Intent Xtended, a mod for Battlefield 2) i had to notice that spam is also a problem in the ‘voice’ world.
Since the teamspeak server is (currently) still public, a lot of guests join and leave, some obviously just with the intention to lurk around and to eavesdrop on the people who talk in the channel(s). Also some take ’spam urls’ as user names and join the server in order to attract viewers by clicking their spam links. After a short while it got quite annoying and so i installed an anti-flooding and an automated Perl script, both helping to avoid those trouble makers :). The scripts detect sneaking tries to record a channel and/or to flood channels and server with spam. All activities resulting in a kick and recurrent offenders are simply banned. Well, the most easy solution would have been to have a password set to access the teamspeak server, but we wanted to keep the server open public for all AIX enthusiast :). If you want to join us in the AIX Coop teamspeak:
Jade Raymond: With Assassin’s Creed On The Covers
Jade Raymond: With Assassin’s Creed On The Covers
(BC) 09.11.2007 - Jade Raymond says about herself: I am just a Nerd. Well, but then a lucky successful and damn good looking one…
The 32-year-old entrepreneur is a real stroke of luck for the game industry. Jade Rymond knows what’s up, she is very eloquent and she looks great. That all is quite an advantage in an industry whose leading minds do not much to contradict the common prejudice to live between empty pizza boxes, cables and computers. Raymond on the other hand demonstrates, that video games are today something perfectly normal for totally ordinary people and thus she turned into the first female superstar of the whole game scene.
Now Raymond made it on the Cover of the German SPIEGEL and the editors spent almost two double-pages on her success story. Jade Raymond was born in Montreal Canada and she is currently the producer of the highly anticipated title Assassins Creed, one of the most buzzed-about titles of 2007. As a video game producer, she is in charge of overseeing the development of the game regarding the creative and technical development of the game as well as maintaining schedules and budgets at Ubisoft Montreal Studio. She is also acting as a liaison between the development staff and the publisher or executive staff insuring the game will be delivered in time. DIGG IT!
Final Key Batch For Crysis Multiplayer Beta - Hurry Up !
Final Key Batch For Crysis Multiplayer Beta - Hurry Up !
(BC) 09.11.2007 - Short before the action shooter Crysis is going public, Crytek and Fileplanet release the final Beta Key Batch for the Multiplayer part. If you haven’t already got a Beta Multiplayer key this is your last chance to grab you one - so HURRY UP!
Crysis DX9 and DX10 Single Player Demo Released
As expected, the pre-order demo has leaked itself to the download site circuit a little early. This 1.7 gig file includes not only a taste of the single player, but the Sandbox level editor as well. Geforce jockies will need this beta driver installed to play. Grab a copy of the demo from:
BF2 Coop And Singleplayer Mod AIX Featured On eGames
BF2 Coop And Singleplayer Mod AIX Featured On eGames
Who’s nerved by teammates not following orders, online players thinking vehicle whoring counts most and/or who’s internet connection isn’t the fastest one: AIX (Allied Intent Xtended) is the solution for frustrated Battlefield 2 players. The editors of eGames, a German online games magazine, published a nice review including an interview with the developers of AIX, Caliber_k, Clivewil, DasRoach, FFOLKES, Kysterama and Velocity. Read more about the fantastic Coop and Singleplayer mod HERE. The English original interview you’ll find HERE.
Soldiers! I have got an AIX Coop Server running at IP 87.106.138.87, Port: 16567 and your are very welcome to fight against 32 fierce Enemy Bots. The dedicated Server is a dual-core linux box and AIX runs with max. 63 bots. So join the battle and have fun - i hope to meet you in Coop soon 
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Datacolor Spyder3 colour calibration
The new Spyder3 series is available in two variants as Spyder3Elite or Spyder3Studio. Though packed with some neat new features the new Datacolor Spyder3 is said to be almost 40% smaller than its predecessor. The new Spyder3 integrates an embedded ambient light detector to measure and take account of ambient lighting conditions. The new Spyder3 …
Zero Punctuation: Halo 3
This week, by popular demand, Yahtzee throws down on the most important media property of the year, Halo 3.
Yahtzee is a British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer with a sweet hat and a chip on his shoulder. When he isn’t talking very fast into a headset mic he also designs freeware adventure games and does the occasional feature for Australia’s Hyper Magazine. His personal site is www.fullyramblomatic.com.
