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Dr_Asik's Blog - C++, .NET and the future of console game development

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:51:00 +0000

By and large, C++ is still the language of the video game industry. Every engine powering today's Xbox 360, PS3, and most PC games, is written in a 30-year old language, itself based on a 40 year-old language. None of the paradigms designed back then are adapted to today's...

Neobond's Blog - Mixed ups and downs for the start of 2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:17:00 +0000

On the 2nd of January this year, Christopher White published a story that eventually went on to gain over 140,000 unique views; if you haven't already seen it, it's the "Samsung flips off Apple, uses same actress in ad" story. We set a record for...

Xinok's Blog - A thought on tech standards

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:26:00 +0000

In the world of cryptography, an institution organizes a competition to find the best cryptographic algorithm to become the new standard, one currently active being the NIST hash function competition. They previously did this for...

zhiVago's Blog - The King is Dead! Long live the King!

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:50:00 +0000

SonyEricsson is dead! All hail to Sony!

On October 27, 2011, Sony announced that it would acquire Ericsson's stake in Sony Ericsson for €1.05 billion ($1.47 billion), making the mobile handset business a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony. The transaction's completion is expected to occur...

warwagon's Blog - My opinion of Metro on Windows 8

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:50:00 +0000

Don’t get me wrong I think Metro is a beautiful UI for a touch interface, fantastic even, but only for a touch interface. The problem with Microsoft is they don’t think out of the box. They think everything needs the same UI. This is why, when in early 2001 / 2002 Gates tried to get tablets mainstream he failed. To him everything had to run windows. He...

Stating the Obvious - Tablets in 2011

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000

I have seen several articles in the past few days stating that Tablets had failed in 2011. I would have to disagree. Prior to the iPad's launch tablets had been bulky, generally just a laptop that had a screen that flipped around and the interfaces on them had been horrible. After the launch of the iPad numerous vendors had come out with their own...

Woo Woo Woo, You Know It! - My Top 10 Albums of 2011

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:21:00 +0000

Got lazy this time around. Tried to get this finished by New Year's Eve, but obviously failed. Oh well, better late than never, I suppose. BTW, I actually posted this list on New Year's Day over on my Facebook, but I forgot to post it here.

To make things even lazier, there's no writeups on each album this time, so here's the...

Woo Woo Woo, You Know It! - Steam Holiday Sale 2011 - Damage Report

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Ahh, Steam Sales. They're so unbelievably good, that they tempt even the most frugal of gamers into opening up their clamped wallets. For I, and a few million others, the now-gone Steam Holiday Sale 2011 was yet another case...

Stating the Obvious - JSON, its like XML on a diet.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:04:00 +0000

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a text format derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). XML, has 2 enormous advantages as a data representation language: It is text-based. and it is position-independant. However; XML is not well suited to Data-interchange. it carries a lot of unneeded info and it does not match the data model of most...

Dr_Asik's Blog - Skyrim's music

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:16:00 +0000

It is no secret that I don't like the Elder Scrolls series, especially Oblivion and Skyrim. Morrowind at least had the merit of creating an original, alien world: with their run-of-the-mill settings, the latest two installements have managed to squander any potential for retaining my interest.

However, since others have explained why Skyrim sucks way...