Monday, December 28, 2009

Steam's Holiday Sale

Don't forget to check out Steam's page everyday for their amazing daily deals.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

RSS Feeds now available

Those who don't like visiting 10^10 of sites everyday or are on a "limited bandwidth" internet connection *cough* can now take advantage of the RSS feeds which I placed on the top right of the site. Happy feeding !

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tech 'it' is still alive !

Greetings Everyone,

After 47 days of inactivity, I'm finally back to keep this blog going.
I apologize for the lack of updates but there are moments in life when devastating incidents take place causing a state of complete shock. One comes to realize just how plain and simple their very existence can be at times. Recovering will take some time but with God’s will and power, I should be able to cope.

I hope to be able to proceed with updating the blog with whatever interesting site(s) I encounter so please anticipate a new post in the near future.

Thank you,

Monday, October 12, 2009

Daily Roundup

- Open Source Cloud Service
- Street Fighter in 15 pixels
- IBM devised a method of reading DNA just like reading a barcode.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Daily Roundup

- Watched Transformers 2 in BluRay and enjoyed every CGI frame of it. Another good movie I saw was: I am Legend. **Spoilers** Why does Will Smith like dying in every movie? He dies in I am legend and in Seven Pounds :(
- October's top games on facebook
- Best of Indie games for 2 weeks
- Game editor another game developing tool
- Flash coming to iPhones

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Daily Roundup

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Daily Roundup

I will try to change the style of my blog by inserting a couple of activities I do throughout the day.
Here is my first post:
- Finished Chapter 3 from Foundation Game Design with Flash.What a great book so far, Rex really knows how to elaborate on critical topics.
- Watched Air Craft investigation on National Geographic Channel. Too bad they keep on repeating the same epis over and over.
- Don’t forget to try one of the best Tower Defense game created by Popcap: Plants vs Zombies
- Watched a small section of a Metal Gear solid fan released movie and decided to redownload it in HD.
- Read an article on Chris Taylor’s favorite games throughout the past decades.
- Watched the TGS trailer for Final Fantasy 13. 3 words: Go See It!
- Earth Coolness: Salar de Uyuni

Sixty Symbols

Sixty Symbols: The Symbols of physics and astronomy

Monday, October 5, 2009

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Friday, October 2, 2009

Awesome Stalker Mod

Link
Just check out some of the changes:
# Natural multi-phase day and night transition, based on daily observations.
# Vast distant views, creating large open world around player.
# New multi-phase moon design authored by Dolgov Studio.
# Proper sun travel according to date (01.05.2012) and geo location (Ukraine).
# Number of weather cycles multiplied.
# Different types of storms, from fast to slow.
# Wet surfaces during rain.
# High resolution star constellation map.

Time to play it for those who haven't yet.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

15 Most Cinematic Gaming Moments

Awesome

If video games were realistic

It is a big page so it can be heavy on your bandwidth.
Link

If you are accessing it from outside Lebanon then don't worry about the first line. :)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

Play Monopoly in google maps

It opens tonight.
Link

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Want to play Diablo 2 in High Res?

Check this article

Get the patch here

This does not work with Bnet.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Blind Search

A new interesting Search Engine

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Best of youtube

Pretty cool site

Orchestra does amazing rain effects

For those who missed this:

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Monday, July 27, 2009

Monday, July 20, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall free download

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, we've released The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall as a free download.
Link


Friday, July 3, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Top 10 Free Online FPS

I should be trying BF Heroes and Quake Live.
Link

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Monday, May 25, 2009

Cool Game Idea

link

LOL Time

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Stalker Mod

Now you have no reason not to play this game !
Mod

Game Development Resource List

It has been done !
Link

Metal Gear Full Story

Must read !

Monday, May 18, 2009

Busy Times

Sorry for not posting lately on the blog. There is just too much to be done. I'll get back asap.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Periodic Game Table

Link

Paper Moon

A game done using Unity
Paper Moon

Mumble

Low-latency, high-quality voice communication for gamers. Includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players. Link

Monday, May 4, 2009

Game Development Resource

I am in the process of compiling a huge list of websites that tackle different fields in game programming (Graphics, AI, Audio, Networking..etc).
I'll be posting it in the coming few days.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Unigine:A class-platform real-time 3D engine

Unigine™ is a cross-platform real-time 3D engine. It stands on the bleeding edge of the technology providing ultimate power of photorealistic 3D rendering for interactive virtual worlds (games and virtual reality systems).

Monday, April 27, 2009

Geowarfare:RTS from Digipen

This is the person who hosts some of the webcasts on the MSDN regarding game development:
Doug Heimer is a senior real-time interactive simulation undergraduate at DigiPen Institute of Technology. Doug is responsible for the game play and artificial intelligence (AI) in the strategy game “GeoWarfare,” and also the graphics engine in “Resonation.” He has taught many video game programming classes, including ones that focus on Microsoft Visual C# and exploring online environments.

I am downloading them all so don't worry Chaotic.


A nice C++ FAQ

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009

DirectX 11 in detail

Kinda old article but very informative.

101 Undiscovered Freebies

Another free software list

The Game Creators

The Game Creators are dedicated 100% to delivering you the best range of affordable and cutting-edge game development tools...

Warzone 2100 Resurrection: Another Free RTS

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Google goes 3D

I have yet to try it.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Accelerate x.264 1080p movies over the GPU Guide

Pretty effective if you have a capable video card.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Sunday, April 12, 2009

View Earth from the ISS

Pretty awesome if you got the bandwidth ;)

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Game Deving Tutorials

Big list here

(Amaz)on is (amaz)ing !

now we can save a bit on shipping :)

Total War Fan Forums

I found two really big communities:
First
Second

Raknet

Raknet is a cross-platform C++ game networking engine. It is designed to be a high performance, easy to integrate, and complete solution for games and other applications.

Randomizer !

Randomize all you need.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Starcraft 2 beta to start March 31 ?!

Link

SBS 2008 and Pop3 Connector Problem

Just wanted to post this in case someone was facing a similar problem.
""
SBS won’t see users via the SBS Console or the POP3 Connector until you modify an attribute on the user object in AD. In AD, go to View…Advanced Features. Then open up the user you want and go to the Attribute Editor tab. Find the property msSBSCreationState. Change the value to Created. Then your user will show up in the SBS Console and, if the account is mail enabled, the mailbox will show up in the drop-down list under the POP3 Connector as a valid Small Business Server email account.
""

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Neat L4D comics !

Link
Just look at the quality of the photos.

CryEngine 3 in Detail

Link

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Monday, March 23, 2009

Ubi deals on steam this week.

Day 1 started with Assassin's Creed Director's Cut for $10 = bought.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

NASA's MMO

It will be based on the Unreal 3 Engine.
Read more

Monday, February 23, 2009

224 word palindrome

This guy is insane !


"Dammit I'm Mad"

by

Demetri Martin

Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider... eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one... my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.

Amazing HL 2 Fan made movie

In case you missed it which I doubt since it was on every site on the net.
Link

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Monday, January 26, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Friday, January 16, 2009

Finally a HeliSim that does NOT suck !!

Awesome reviews:
here and here.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Games of 2009

Link

Top 5 Moments of 2008

5 Best Linux Distros to Convert Windows Users

I'm thinking of trying something else besides ubuntu.
Link

Most Anticipated games of 2009

At least let me finish playing games of 2008 !
Link

DOW 2 Beta and System Specs Revealed