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Affilliation
Tenacious Games (producer of The Spoils CCG) Closing Shop
Tenacious Games, the producer of The Spoils CCG, is closing shop. Patrick Meehan, founder, Creative & Art Director, and Chairman of the Board, posted last 2008.05/22 in The Spoils website forums about the difficulties in the past while.
The game got me curious a year ago because of all the positive feedback, and because Jon Finkel helped in its development. It’s personally annoying because I’ve been wanting to try the game out since then and I’ve never really had the time to go to the play/demo sessions around the metro. But I guess it will be much harder to the converts it made in the past while.
You can read Patrick Meehan’s post about the situation here.
[source] ICv2 - Tenacious Raises the White Flag
No tags for this post.Nomad Log 2008.05/28, Doodads, Robots, DIY
Doodads
- Beautiful And Original Product Designs
- Please, do squeeze the Chumby
- CHW on the MSI Wind (translated)
- World’s Smallest Helicopter Ready For a Spin
Robots
- Grasshoppper “robot” sets new high-jump record
- SRI’s Wall-Climbing Robot
- PhD Student Makes World’s “Most Advanced” Walking Robot
DIY: SW
- Google’s ‘Friend Connect’ Offers a Way to Bring the Social Web Together aka Google’s instant social network widget!
- Build your own fonts online!
- Hack a Nintendo DS to Make an Awesome Digital Sketchbook
Features
No tags for this post.Nomad Video-Game Log 2008.05/27, News and Features
Video Game News
- “Place to Pee”: new Belgian urinal-based video game
- Ticket to Ride comes to XBox Live Arcade
- “Castlevania”/”Pac-Man” movie?
- Video games can make us creative if spark is right
- N-Gage Users Enraged Over Device Lock-In
- Microsoft Axing Underperforming XBLA Titles - Asteroids Deluxe appears to be a casualty.
- WhoreLore Parodies Age of Conan in XXX
- Encryption chip will end piracy, open markets, says Bushnell
- The website is down because someone removed the X-Box - tsk tsk
Video Game Features
- Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time
- Beyond the Carnage: 7 Life Lessons from GTA IV
- The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey
- The Wisdom of Adding MMOs To Your Resumé
- The Changing Face of World of Warcraft
- A Video Game Star and His Less-Than-Stellar Pay
- The AMD GAME! Experience - AMD Wants to Standardize PC Gaming
- Shigeru Miyamoto, The Walt Disney of Our Time
Nomad Tech Log 2008.05/26, News, Features and Opinions
Tech News
- Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders
- Nanotubes ‘as deadly as asbestos’
- Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free - The content appears to have been around a while already, but it’s news to me.
- MPAA Gets Two More Sites To Settle For Merely Linking To Infringing Content
- Yahoo postpones annual meeting, battle with Icahn
- MIT helps develop new image-recognition software
Tech Features
- AddArt: Banish Ads and Enjoy Contemporary Art Instead
- Online advertising showing signs of economic wear?
- So that’s what a botnet looks like.
- First Year Kindle Sales vs. iPod, Palm Pilot and Other Famous Gadgets: How’s It Doing?
- Help OSNews update their Resources Page!
- Survey: iPhone Users Satisfied; Using BlackBerrys Anyway
- Smell the Roses Already: 4 OSs that Should Be Open Source
- Self-portrait with GPS
Tech Opinion
- Yottabyte’s a comin’ in the next few years?
- Our Data, Ourselves - I wanted to change the headline to “what you data is what you are”, but it just didn’t sound right.
- Back and Forward Buttons Are a Bad Paradigm
- RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era
- If you’re Jerry Yang, play that Stanford card for all its worth
- Old Is New Department: Microsoft Patents Proactive Virus Protection
“The Secret History of Star Wars” (ebook)
I’ll let the author, Michael Kaminski, introduce his free downloadable book in his own words:
The Secret History of Star Wars is a new full-length e-book exploring the writing and creation of the Star Wars saga. Culled from over 400 sources and filled with quotes from people such as George Lucas, Gary Kurtz and Mark Hamill, The Secret History of Star Wars traces all the way back to 1973 to examine how the first 14-page treatment that began the series came to be and was slowly built, draft by draft, year by year and movie by movie. Covering a period of over four decades, you will discover how George Lucas got his ideas for the original film, how Darth Vader was made into Luke Skywalker’s father in 1978 and forever altered the arc of the story, what happened to the infamous third trilogy in the series and how the prequel stories came to be. The book also reveals the style and method of Lucas himself and how his personal life affected and shaped the story, for better and worse. This is a book which challenges many legends surrounding the series and places the films in a new light. For the more casual fan this will be a mesmerizing read and for those who think they know everything about the series, prepare to be surprised!
After going through the first few pages myself, it’s proving to be quite an interesting read. As with most things like this, take it with as much salt as you feel is needed.
You can download “The Secret History of Star Wars” for free from it’s official website.
Tags: has downloads, Star WarsPenny Arcade’s “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One” is Out!
“On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One“…
… whoa! That was a mouthful! Let’s try that again with an acronym…
OtRSPoD:E1 is an episodic game based on Penny Arcade, one of the best/most infamous webcomics to come out of the web. Is the game any good? I have yet to find out. While I try to get my hands on the demo in order to find out the level of suckage, here are some links to help you check-it out for yourself:
- OtRSPoD:E1 official site
- Penny Arcade ponders on wisdom of their video game venture
- Prequel comic and demo downloads here
- Critical-Hits’ review here
- Trailers and wallpapers here
- Penny Arcade promotes their game with flamebait from their biggest critic - lol
Nomad Log 2008.05/22, Geek Stuff and Lists
Geek Stuff
- A New Hope: The Future of Star Wars
- R2-D2 Ice Bucket with Han Solo Ice Molds Makes Any Drink Nerdier
- ‘Street Fighter’ Opens February 27th - After the Van Damme movie, I’m very leery of the words “Street Fighter live-action movie”. Let’s hope this will be different.
- Death Note Manga Spawns Movie, Crime Wave
- Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum
- Grandmaster Flashed: Kasparov Attacked by Flying Penis-Copter
Numbered Lists
- The 9 Most Obnoxious Memes to Ever Escape the Web
- The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Bullsh*t Statistics
- 7 Pleasurable Ways to Improve Your Reading Ability
- 99 Extraordinary, Creative and Unusual Uses for Ordinary and Everyday Objects
- Tech’s 10 worst entry-level jobs
- Five Gadgets That Will Make You a Superhero - Something must be wrong with my browser because I only counted four.
Other Lists
- The ‘Winners’ of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest
- Mock the Apocalypse From a Stylish New Houseboat
- Annoying software: a rogues’ gallery
Nomad Log 2008.05/21, Tech, Science, and Video-Game News
Tech News
- RIAA ordered to shell out $100k for P2P witch hunt
- Asus To Produce Millions Of Mobos With ‘instant’ OS Technology
- Hydra vs Dragon: Software Development Spectator Event! - Ummm… [shrugs] Who knows? It could work…
- 20% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail - But 110% has received spam!
- HP: Teen Edition
- Online Publishers Optimistic as Growth Slackens
- Mininova Faces Legal Action: Filter or Else
- High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers
- Senator targets YouTube, but law not on his side
- Icahn skeptical as Microsoft, Yahoo in new talks
- Hamas said to be putting Islamic filter on the web
- LisaNova Battles Boob Shots on YouTube — With Boobs!
Science News
- Universe Suddenly Twice as Bright
- How a magnet turned off my speech
- Obesity as a cause of global warming?
- Vatican says aliens could exist
- A Close Look at the Colossal Squid - Architeuthis?
- Self-repairing Aircraft Could Revolutionize Aviation Safety
- Soy moves from tofu to electrical transformers
- Billionaire oilman backs wind power
- The Changing Face of World of Warcraft
Video Games
- GWAP, with an article here and here
- Jury orders Nintendo to pay gaming company Anascape $21M
- Xbox 360 hits the 10,000,000 unit mark
- Bill Gates gives mother of pearl-clad Xbox 360 to South Korean President - I wonder what GMA’s Xbox will be like?
- Apple’s Next Step: 3D, Wii-Like Gaming?
- Congress Slashes Funding for Peaceful Conflict Resolution Game
- World’s most advanced puzzle website launched by Conceptis
