‘SimCity’s DRM Defeated By Modder: Play Offline, Play Outside City Lots
Look at all the strange things you can do!
Well, that was fast. For some time now, Maxis has claimed that to turn off two of the biggest dings against SimCity, those being the persistent online connection and the small city lot sizes, would require an extensive engineering effort to replace. As this video shows, however, it’s only a matter of accessing a debug menu before you can play offline indefinitely and modify the region’s highway structure. Maxis, you have some ‘splainin’ to do!
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‘PlanetSide 2’ Game Update 4 Is Out, Roadmap Gets Updated
Invisible Flashes! W00tz!
Yessiree! At long last, the latest update for PlanetSide 2 has gone live and it boasts an impressive array of new features, fixes and other flourishes. I’ll get into the specifics below, but to whet your appetite a little bit, I’ll tell you that someone is getting a camera guided missile launcher and a feature that people have been screaming for since beta has finally been implemented.
Check it out!
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‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Successfully Funded Through Kickstarter, Breaks Records
Just doing some surveillance.
Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign this morning to fund a Veronica Mars movie. It went viral and amassed $1 million in less than four hours, making it the fastest project to raise $1 million on Kickstarter ever. That’s not all: in less than twelve hours they raised the entire asking amount of $2 million.
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Twitter Announces, Releases Windows 8 App In One Swoop, Finally
It’s Twitter, but for your Windows 8.
It’s been almost five months since Windows 8 launched and the ecosystem is still suffering a bit. I love crappy games and half-assed Metro (sorry, Modern UI) apps as much as the next guy, but today that desperation clears up just a small amount. That’s right: Twitter has brought us a native app.
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Today, I’m Thankful I Never Used Google Reader
This is how I was greeted the first time I ever opened Google Reader
Google Reader fans, I feel your pain. A little. When Twitter announced they were shutting down TweetDeck for Android, I was just a little sad. Google announced today that, as you can see, the program would be vanquished from the Earth on July 1, 2013, as part of their seasonal product cleansing. Built to handle RSS, Reader let you pull in streams of content from across the internet, be it articles, podcasts, or whatever, and have it in exactly one location. I’m just guessing though, I never used it.
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StarDrive (PC) Beta Preview: Finally, A Space-Based 4X Game With Some Spunk
Once you zoom in close enough, the spectacle of space battle comes into full effect.
StarDrive, a new space-based, 4X-style strategy game, started its public speaking life as a humble $7,000 Kickstarter at the tail end of 2011. Not only did it meet its goal, but it do so nearly three times over and won the publisher guidance of Iceberg Interactive, who gave us last summer’s bland Master of Orion-like Endless Space. Now in a public beta, available if you purchase the game through Steam, I got a good hands-on with this little empire builder.
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Does The Twinkie Really Need To Come Back?
They’re so… delicious?
When Hostess announced last year that they had no option but to enter bankruptcy and liquidate the company, people rushed groceries stores everywhere to gobble up a slice of Americana that was quickly slipping away. Do you know what I’ve missed in the time since those Hostess cakes disappeared off store shelves? Not Twinkies, not Ho-Hos, not Donettes, nor any Dolly Madison product. Not because the competition hasn’t already been in place for years making arguably better product, but because maybe we should keep them retired. Read the rest of this article…
Developers Of ‘Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition’ Want To Know Which Android Devices To Develop For
The PC classic is now headed to Android
It’s crazy how we’ve entered this renaissance for classic PC games. Studios are either restoring the games outright or their developers are trying to relive the glory days by Kickstarting spiritual successors. Long before Mass Effect or Star Wars The Old Republic, Bioware was a humble studio making complex RPGs for Interplay. Their breakthrough was Baldur’s Gate, a game that was remastered by Overhaul Games for iPad last year. Now they’re turning their eyes to Android and they need your help.
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Facebook Is About To Sneak A New Timeline Update To The World
The asymmetrical look has me excited, but all of these Facebook updates do.
Or rather, Facebook was about to sneak a new timeline update to the world before I told you about it. Sure, they had the full horse and pony show for the huge updates they’re doing to News Feed (which we still haven’t received (*clenched fist to the heavens* FACEBOOOOOOOOOOK!)), but they were just about to sneak this new layout by you without you knowing. Hey, it looks pretty cool.
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The ‘Kick-Ass 2’ Red Band Trailer Is Here, Looks More… Kick-Assier?
These “super heroes” are back for more violent nastiness.
I had totally forgotten that this movie was on its way, but the red band trailer for Kick-Ass 2 is here for your viewing pleasure. It features all the same vibrant costumes that would make Joel Schumacher cry while blasting off expletives and kicking said ass. Naturally, I’ve included it below.
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