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I have always been a very unique gamer, I actually appreciate unique and simple games. The going trend of online games either involves twisted and complicated MMOs that suck the life out of you, massive hour-long RTS matches, or twitch-based shooters that cause you to flinch whenever someone turns a corner and surprises you on campus. The general formulas for a successful game have been set in stone for years now and developers usually follow one of the trends and bank on some of the millions of gamers getting sucked in and dropping their hard earned cash. I have no problem paying for a decent blockbuster game as I did with Supreme Commander but sometimes I like a change of pace and I would like this change of pace to be free. NCSoft, the producers behind many popular MMOs has developed a game that is so simple but so unique that it honestly is able to entertain me for an hour or so and I don’t feel cheated. Dungeon Runners takes Blizzard’s Diablo-series formula of a hack and slash slaughterfest combined with a 3D filled with enough humor and irony to make even the most hardened player giggle like a little school girl. The humor found within the game ranges from pop-culture references to obscure references to current-era news. Prepare to be entertained, NCSoft has a winner here.

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Google has easily become one of the largest keepers of secrets on the planet. With services ranging from email, videos, web indexing, advertising and beyond Google has their fingers in nearly every Internet related technology. Information has become a rather expensive commodity, people are willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money for something as small as a couple thousand 9 digit numbers or email addresses. With the right information an individual could potentially assume your identity and cause all sorts of mayhem in your life. Besides identity theft there is also the issue of privacy. Where does one draw the line on personal privacy on the World Wide Web?

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This is just great, perfect timing. This morning I woke up at 7am and sat down to write a little squib on here as I had neglected this place I had pursued other exploits within the real world. After about 30 minutes of writing about Google and their influence on personal security I decided I was hungry, so I stumbled upstairs, grabbed a bagel and cream cheese and plopped down on the couch. After watching the last half of Starship Troopers and the first half of Matrix Revolutions(I think? The 2nd of the trilogy) I decided I should finish up that blog post of mine. With a mind fresh and ready to pound out the last of that article and get started on another I crashed into my desk with much enthuasiam, ran my finger across the touchpad on my Macbook and noticed that Firefox was frozen up. This is a rather common issue, for some reason Firefox on my Mac decides to crash at random every couple of hours no matter what build. So I tried to force quit Firefox but none of my hotkeys were working. Getting frustrated that 1) Firefox had died and 2)I had forgot to save the ~400 words I had just typed into Wordpress I mashed the power button to force the laptop to restart. Then I hear a faint clicking noise as it reboots.. “Oh God” I say to myself, not the click of death. A little icon popped up with a little file folder and the harddrive stopped spinning. Resetting the laptop and holding it to my ear confirmed my fears, the hard drive is dead. Now what really pisses me off is that I completely forgot to renew my Applecare at the begining of June, so this drive died 3 weeks after my Applecare subscription ended. WTFUX, going to the Lennox Apple store on Monday ready to throw this Macbook through one of the pretty skylights. Let this be a lesson to all you people considering to be early adopters, don’t beta test hardware for Apple.

A note, I’ve had harddrives die before, but usually it’s after 3-5 years of heavy file serving, not after 1 year of sitting on my desk doing relatively nothing. Sorry if I have any spelling errors, I have no simple way to check for errors and I’ve got a build in the garage that I need to be tuning.

I never was a big fan of Transformers as a child but the idea of large robots throwing punches on the big screen with metal flying all over the place sounds like something that I’d really like to see. I’m always a fan of rampant destruction and I think the Decepticons will be able to provide me just that while the Autobots attempt to keep them in check. Transformers will also feature a slew of vehicles as disguises for the robots with most vehicles coming from GM’s lineup. Of all the vehicles featured I’m eagerly waiting to see the Pontiac Solstice in action as Jazz the Autobot, perhaps this spin as a damage-dealing robot will give it a more manly appearance (if anyone wants to buy me one I’ll thank you a thousand times). July 2nd at 8pm I predict I’ll be in a theater at Atlantic Station watching mayhem occur on the screen, you should join me. Did I also mention that Linkin Park’s What I’ve Done is the opener for the newest trailer? Rock on

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I do a lot of dangerous and risky things with computer hardware but usually when I own the hardware I don’t mind so much burning/melting/freezing the components as I understand the risk of potentially letting out the magic smoke. However when a friend asks me to take a torch to his processor I start to get a bit worried. Today we popped the lid off a golden E6600 with some rather impressive results. For those of you interested in doing this yourself here’s a quick and dirty guide.

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This makes me happy, I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a device receive so much hype. Oh wait.. Apple TV. Hopefully the iPhone will live up to the hype though as it’s sure receiving a lot of it. Engadget, a website that I look to for little interesting gadgets has recently posted an article about a sighting of the iPhone in California. Now for some things like cars and such where we really don’t know what the device looks like this can be rather exciting, but the iPhone? The iPhone has received more publicity than Paris Hilton’s jail-time, Jessica Alba’s desire for one-night stands, or the ISS losing it’s oxygen generator. So enjoy the iPhone sighting, I’m going to hand this picture on my fridge.

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For the last couple of days I’ve been thinking of different ways to browse through images and I think I’ve found something damn close to what I was thinking about. Microsoft has acquired a new technology codenamed Seadragon that easily makes it possible for users to browse through dozens/hundreds of images very quickly. I myself was thinking of something similar that would scrape content from multiple image and video websites, too bad this has been around for a year. The video below is a demonstration of Seadragon, it’s well-worth the time.

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There has been a lot of interesting news surfacing from Computex 2007 but the most interesting announcement came from graphic card vendors stating that Intel plans on entering the discrete GPU segment with a mid-range card. Supposedly Intel is looking to launch in the $300 bracket which would currently place it up against the 8800GTS 320MB, sadly rumor has it that we won’t see hardware until Q2 2008. Considering how a good portion of the old 3DLabs team was hired by Intel I’d say they have a fair shot as doing a decent job on this first launch. Intel already has the CPU market cornered, the integrated graphics market heavily in their favor, and perhaps they’ll launch a killer card and snag the discrete graphics market.

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