Battlefield 2142 v1.20 patch dies on Vista
I’ve spent another fun day banging my head against a brick wall. The light I’m starting to see is from the cracks in my skull…
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Gaming miscellany
Gaming miscellany
Posts about gaming that don’t fit into any specific category.
Gaming miscellany
XBox 360, XBox Live, Gamer tags, and the future…
I’ve been playing with my XBox 360 quite a bit lately. One of the features I enjoy is it’s online match up, content, and “game tracking” service, XBox Live.
I originally signed up with XBox Live when I bought my original XBox (I.E.: before I bought the 360). It was really a poor investment- I played the old-style XBox for about three weeks, and bought (and renewed!) a full year subscription to XBox Live. That’s two years of XBox Live, and I’m really only starting to use it now. You might be asking…what is XBox Live? And why would I care unless I have an Xbox?
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Gaming miscellany
Second Life, ATI, and Vista: fix coming
I’ve posted before before about the fact that I can’t play Second Life since I upgraded to Vista. I was pretty certain that the problem related to the ATI video drivers. ATI added OpenGL support in the 7.1 release of the drivers and updated that support in the 7.2 release, but Second Life still doesn’t work. I haven’t been logging into SL recently: I decided to cut back and focus more on other things, but I would like to be able to log in once in a while…and the lack of support for Vista and ATI has been a major inhibitor.
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Gaming miscellany
Building a console station…
I have a somewhat mixed history with regards to console games. Looking back in history, I believe the first console I had was some kind of pong-type thing…back in the days before console games had cartridges, so about 1977…30 years ago. Yowsa, I’m old! The first console I had that I have a clear memory of was a Colecovision: I had Donkey Kong, plus some kind of adventure game where your “character” was a little ball with a bow going through a 2D maze. After that I went through a succession of Sega systems, culminating in a Sega Genesis “portable”. That was about when online PC games started showing up (1996), which somewhat coincidentally was the last time I played a console game for about a decade.
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Gaming miscellany
Gothic 3 and Vista: getting it to work
I played a great game of “Make the Game work with Vista” earlier this week. It was fun! I give it an 8 out of 10. How is the game itself? I’ll tell you in a few days…
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Gaming miscellany
Make love, not Warcraft…
I’m not a big fan of Southpark. I find its “humour” to generally be too crude for my tastes. But every once in a while I catch an episode, and now and then it’s funny without diving too deeply into toilet humour.
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Gaming miscellany
Irene wants to play EverQuest….
I’ve been playing computer games for…<shudder> decades. The first computer game I played was probably a text adventure game I hand-typed into my Apple II from a magazine. I saved it to cassette tape…I think the game had something to do with exploring an abandoned mine, but I’m not sure. That would have been about 1979/1980 or thereabouts: my memory is a bit hazy.
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Games, Gaming miscellany
Nintendo Wii- Dumbest Name Ever
The “new generation” game consoles are stacking up to be pretty impressive. All of them are based on variations of the IBM Cell processor technology. The first out was Microsoft’s XBox 360, soon to be followed by Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s entry which was, until a few days ago, code named “Revolution”.
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Games, Gaming miscellany
Its true: Alienware has been bought by Dell
I was really hoping it wasn’t true, but apparently it is: Alienware is being bought by Dell.
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Games, Gaming miscellany
Uncanny Valley…
I’ve heard people say that they prefer the graphics in World of Warcraft over those in EverQuest 2. The discussions I’ve had with people about why they feel this way seem to boil down to a description of the characters in EQ looking “plastic”, “like corpses”, or “not cool”.
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