Quick Guide to Setting Up a Minecraft Server
I’ve been meaning to write up a guide to setting up a minecraft server ever since I made the walk-through of our Minecraft server last year. It’s finally here so put on your nerd glasses, you know the ones you bought with the thick black frames and no lenses, and lets jump right into it. This will be showing how to set up a vanilla server and believe me, once you figure that out then setting up Bukkit or any other mods won’t be too difficult. Read the rest of this article…
Facebook Ticker Disappears, People… Miss It?
Maybe it’s just my observation of the techblogosphere, but it seems that people have become very upset that the Facebook Ticker has vanished. Have you noticed? Because it’s one of the biggest additions that people seemed to despise last year.
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Gas Guzzlers Review: A Competent Combat Racer, Little More
And Boom goes the Dynamite
I don’t know about you guys, but when I hear ‘car combat’, I think of Mad Max films. As far as gaming goes, any title marketed in the genre is really just Mario Kart with realistic cars and chain guns. I’ve played Interstate ’76 and Full Auto and Twisted Metal, and I know how big the audience is for Mario Kart (huge), and I know how big the audience is for mature car combat titles (small). Gamepires wanted us to know that there’s still room for one more game in which we shoot up our foes with rockets and shells and collect power-ups. Thus, Gas Guzzlers was born.
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Ted Review: The Citizen Kane of Pothead Teddy Bear Movies
Ted, the R-rated teddy bear movie starring Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, and Seth MacFarlane, hits theaters this week, and for what it’s worth, it is the best R-rated comedy starring a foul-mouthed, cocaine snorting stuffed animal ever made. The titular Ted lives up to the promise of Fox’s advertising blitz: He imbibes alcohol and drugs, bangs hookers, and insults children. MacFarlane milks all the dark, inappropriate comedy he can from the premise and adds just enough genuine heart to the mix that the film never begins to border on grotesque. Ted is the Citizen Kane of Pothead Teddy Bear movies.
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Sony Online Entertainment Opens Registration For SOE Live
SOE Live. It’s a gaming convention where you WON’T get assaulted by the Horde.
I Want The Nexus 7 To Destroy The iPad. Will Google Let It?
What a beautiful piece of hardware, will anyone buy it? Photo credit: Anandtech
The iPad owns the tablet space, there’s no contest. It hasn’t quite become the generic term for one, but if you mention the Apple device, people know exactly what kind of computer you’re talking about. The Kindle Fire had a huge promotional wave behind it and a much cheaper price point, but interest fell off just as the holidays did. Now that Google is introducing some genuinely fantastic hardware (by Asus) with their latest and greatest version of Android onboard, we may finally see some diversity in the market before Microsoft lands with their tablets later this year. But will Google’s proprietary approach to distribution hinder the tablet in the long run? Will anyone care about Google’s attempt to fit Android to a tablet effectively with Jelly Bean?
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With Sadness, I Ended My Whiskey Media/Giant Bomb Subscription Today
Oh, that Brad Shoemaker. What a character.
It was nearly two years ago that Whiskey Media, hoping to finally become a business, opened up memberships by hosting the Big Live Live Show Live (later, its sequel) and proving to the internet that they could pull off some incredible stuff if people simply voted with their dollars. The idea of paying monthly for a set of web sites seemed pretty gnarly and old school many years after IGN and Gamespot had scaled back their subscriptions, but Whiskey’s fanbase, largely wrapped around flagship site Giant Bomb, was more than happy to give enough of their dollars to justify the experiment. Giant Bomb became my home after most of 1UP.com’s staff was dissolved and the Bombcast is still a regular 3-hour listen every Tuesday evening, so it’s a bitter moment to cancel my Whiskey Media subscription after all that time. But why?
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Bullet Run – Tips, Tricks, And Strategy
PEW PEW!!
With the release of Bullet Run looming, there’s a ton of people playing the beta and getting their game on, killing one another for fame, money and glory.
When the game releases, of course, those people will have a leg up in experience and knowledge, which will help them rise to the top of the popularity heap faster than the newbies.
That being said, I have a few hints and tips which will help you in your quest for fame ad riches!
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Bullhead Review: A Man Everywhere Except Where It Counts
Director Michael R. Roskam makes his directorial debut with Bullhead, a fascinating if uneven film that centers on two enforcers within Belgium’s “hormone mafia.” Apparently the hormone mafia is a real thing, though I confess I’ve never heard of it. Regardless, Bullhead fails to work as a Scorsese-esque crime movie, but it is a compelling as a character study of two similarly damaged, violent men attempting to cope with a shared childhood tragedy.
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I Hate SimCity Social
I wish there was a way this game could be more despicably evil.
SimCity Social is a vile piece of shit. How dare you, Electronic Arts. You’d let my favored city management sim languish for years before building my hopes up with next year’s big release. Now you seek to tarnish not only SimCity’s reputation, but yours further, Electronic Arts already known as the worst company in America. While Zynga defined these games, Flash-based Facebook titles that forge and perpetuate a dependency on their slow-drip gameplay littered with microtransactions, EA deserves every last lashing for replicating their ruthlessness to the T. With absolutely no shame in their hearts, EA has produced a game on the whims of a meeting room full of Six Sigma-dieting MBAs that vow to sleaze up Facebook gaming to whatever profitable tangent possible. The world, nay, humanity, is worse off for it.
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