Do you know who’s going to the Olympic games in 2010? Sega is!TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SEGA® Corporation today announced a worldwide agreement with International Sports Multimedia (ISM), exclusive licensee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to once again become the sole approved video game publisher of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada. After an extremely…
Month: February 2009
Grail Quest Books to adapt Decipher gaming property…
Grail Quest Books to adapt Decipher gaming property…Grail Quest Books is proud to announce that it has teamed with the game company, Decipher INC, to adapt its proprietary science fiction, WARS, into a comic book series and tie-in graphic novellas.WARS is set in our Solar System during the late 24th century. The Earthers and Gongen…
NIC on Dell T105 server on FreeBSD
I recently purchased a new server from Dell and settled on the PowerEdge T105. I didn’t max it out when I ordered it because I know most things can be purchased later for a much lower cost. What I did settle on is listed below:Opteron 1212 CPU2GB of DDR 800Mhz RAM250GB SATA DriveI could have…
The Heaviest Dice
I was Stumbling around the web today when I ran into this amazing piece of gaming history; depleted uranium diceNo one knows when these dice were made though it is likely they are from the 1950’s era. The dice are nickel coated and are just under an inch across.These dice are heavy. Depleted uranium is…
Amazon Adds Game Downloads
Is there any market Amazon will not enter? Recently Amazon has decided to enter the downloadable game market. With a starting lineup of over 600 games how does the mighty Amazon stack up against the big boys of gaming?For starters the new Amazon game download service is not in direct competition with the big daddy…
Fallout 3 DLC Review: Operation Anchorage
A few days ago Bethesda released the first DLC for Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage. This added content costs 800 Xbox points.Description:Operation: Anchorage. Enter a military simulation and fight in one of the greatest battles of the Fallout universe; the liberation of Anchorage, Alaska from its Chinese Communist invaders. Gain access to unique armor, weapons, and…
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games Announce LEGO® Battles
BURBANK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games are teaming up with The LEGO Group to deliver LEGO® Battles for Nintendo DS™, a videogame based on classic play scenarios in evergreen themes that include LEGO Castle, LEGO Pirates and LEGO Space. Produced by TT Games, developed by Hellbent Games and published by Warner Bros….
Monitor Your Server With Cron
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you want to know what your server is doing but you can’t get to a secure terminal to SSH in. What do you do? You look to cron.Cron is a daemon that can be found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. What it allows you to do…