So in the midst of panicking for exams and living in my crapshack, I totally forgot that I actually have a blog sitting here. Somebody even commented on it, but got blocked by my spam catcher.
Anyways, over the last few days I’ve been struggling through getting a working installation of Debian on my server box. [...]
Reading through the news today revealed this gem: http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics/ff11us/detail/3599/detail.html. This is a new system designed to help attract newer players to the world of FFXI. Basically,
The FFXI development team is proud to announce the “Level Sync” system, a revolutionary new feature in the upcoming version update that will allow all players—grizzled veterans and novices alike—to [...]
Alright people, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts around the net about a recent study on the MMORPG genre. Now, as a fairly active participant in said genre, I would like to point out that while this study is valid, the recommendations provided by Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai don’t make any sense. Let’s take a [...]
It’s official. Moments ago, Microsoft announced at E308 that it has paired up with Square Enix to release FFXIII on the Xbox 360. I know that this is big news for me, as I know several people with a 360, but not a single one with a Playstation 3 (and I seriously doubt any of [...]
PHD Comics is at it again with a new short. Every so often, Jorge releases a strip that doesn’t require any background knowledge, and is at the same time quite amusing. Find it here (before the masses at digg do).
Reading gaming industry news actually brings up something interesting from time to time, and being a big fan of the MMO genre, I decided that this would be noteworthy. Today’s MMO is Atlantica Online, and it’s unique in the fact that it claims to be a turn-based MMO. For those of you unfamiliar with this [...]
No, I’m not talking about slow torrenting, I’m talking about what effect BitTorrent has on other applications and services on your network. George Ou has a very interesting article on how the BitTorrent protocol and its packet blasting nature can disrupt VoIP and online gaming protocols.
Since I have recently moved into a new house and [...]
After a brief database corruption, I have managed to reinstall WordPress on this site. I have to say for one, that I’m very impressed with the quality of the Admin Panel in this version of WP. The last version that I installed (yes, laugh if you must at both my laziness and any website insecurity) [...]
