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60 Minutes ’till Lights-Out

["What's Your Coffe Bean and Tea Leaf Story?" entry.  If you like it, please vote for me here!]

“Would you like some cappuccino, soldier?”

I turned around to find the professor we rescued holding two steaming cups in hand.

“Where did you get this?” I asked.

“Unlike the other parts of the city, this café appears to have survived [...]

Gleemax Shutting Down

I just read over at ICv2 that Gleemax, WotC‘s ambitious social-networking/hobby gaming site, will be shut down sometime in September.  The announcement was made by Randy Buehler, WotC’s VP of Digital Games.

Wizards of the Coast has made the decision to pull down its Gleemax social networking site in order to focus on other aspects of [...]

Nomad Video Game Log, 2008.07/25

Video Games

Namco/Bandai Calms Hellgate: London Fans
Hasbro Sues Scrabulous For Making Scrabble Popular Again, Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous
Forbes: MMOs As Business Primers
Study: Subscription Fees Unappealing to Gamers
Idolmaster, Japan’s Popular Idol Sim, Goes PSP
Why a Fighting Game? Castlevania Creator Explains Himself

Video Games and Movies

EA Dives Into Film Industry
Two-Episode Watchmen [...]

Thank you for watching “The Dark Knight” with us!

I’ve been too busy to post anything this past while, but I’ll take some time for this.

On behalf of my SO and our friend, we would like to thank all of you who graced us with your pressence in last night’s “The Dark Knight” Private Screening to celebrate our respective birthdays.

We hope you all had [...]

Busy Week

Yep, this week’s been so busy that I don’t even have the time to browse the internets for news.  I don’t knwo what’s going on in the world, except for the fact that “The Dark Knight” is already out in theaters here in the Philippines.

No, I haven’t seen it.  I’ll be seeing it next week [...]

Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 (quick review)

A quick review of

Mouse Guard: Fall 1152

[Amazon][I got mine from Comic Quest]

The official description:

Mouse Guard is comic book written and illustrated by David Petersen. Each mini-series is six issues long and published by Archaia Studios Press as well as a collected hardcover edition [sic]. Villard will be publishing the softcover edition of Mouse [...]

Kongregate’s Kongai has been released!

All the cards I earned by playing Kongregate’s Card Challege games these past months will finally be put to use! David Sirlin announced in his website that Kongai, one of the games he’s been designing, is already released to the public!

Here’s a description from David:

What is this virtual card game that I’ve [...]

Nomad Tech, Robot Log 2008.07/10

Tech

Google’s Open Source Protocol Buffers Offer Scalability, Speed
Poker program battles humans in Vegas – It would really suck if this machine ate your money.
PDF format becomes ISO standard
My Yahoo Drops ‘Beta,’ Paves Way to OpenSocial Apps
Firefox 3 Beefs up Page Info
Owner Of Infamous JPEG Patent Tries To Line Jump The Re-Exam Process
Exploring Lively, Google’s [...]

GameTable Online is Now Free!

I just read an email from GameTable Online saying that starting July 1 (yep, I read the email a week late) GameTable Online will be free to everyone!

To those who don’t know, GameTable Online is a website that allows you to play selected boardgames online.  It uses Java, and is actually the tech used by Gleemax‘s [...]

How hard is it to make a wishlist?

Short answer… pretty damn hard.

Last week, with urges to buy books I don’t need, I thought of reviewing what I really wanted to get.  Strangely, although I could come up with a lot of crap “I’d like”, I honestly couldn’t think of anything “I’d need”.  [my SO interrupting my typing: "dont worry baby, ill help [...]