Radio streams back up, default site skin rotation

Well we had a day or two of downtime, but the radio streams are back up, and much more stable! I upgraded the stream box and it should run much more smoothly now. I hope to add more music to the playlist soon as well, even though the list is already quite large! If you encounter any issues with listening to our streams, be sure to let us know by commenting on this news post or dropping a message on our forums!

Also, I have rotated the default skin, as I feel many of our visitors are unaware that they can change the look of the site! Currently there are only two fairly similar skins available, but more will be coming along as we develop the site more! You can change your skin at any time with the 'Edit Site Options' link on the right side menu. This sort of custom configuration will be part of your user account once the control panel is completed...

Posted in Site News by Locke on April 05th 2009 at 11:01am 0 Comments

Tracker needs users, new poll, site tweaks

Thought I should drop a little note about our torrent tracker. We are always seeking people to help seed the albums, as well as people to come and enjoy them! (I never thought I would have to ask people to leech our files, heh). The tracker has a built in request feature, so you can ask us to post up any albums you might want but currently cannot find! We will do our best to fill requests as we can. I never know what to post next, so adding your requests helps a great deal! Drop on over and check it out. Sign-up for our tracker is simple, and only takes a few clicks!

Just keeping up with minor tweaks and quirks of the site, as my free time has been limited. I added a new site poll for this month, and changed the way the recent torrents table at the top of the main index updates itself. It should stay much more accurate now. I've been doing some minor changes as well to optimize the database, but those effects are not really visible to most users.

Posted in Site News by Locke on March 31st 2009 at 5:08am 0 Comments

Beyond Good & Evil still in development, a new IP also in development

A quick news from the Career Pavilion at Game Developers Conference 2009. Apparently Ubisoft Montpellier has 4 openings listed, two of which are specifically for BGE2, one for a new IP, and one vaguely listed for future AAA titles.

Good news is that Beyond Good & Evil 2, which we haven't really heard anything after the first teaser trailer almost a year ago, is still in development and hasn't been canceled or anything silly like that. I was starting to get slightly worried because of the lack of news. Hopefully we'll get some more at this years E3.

As for the job positions, Gamasutra has the listings. So, if you are looking for work and qualify, live near Montpellier France or are willing to move, and all that other stuff, now is the time to break into the business! Act now!

Quote: Senior Game Designer for Beyond Good & Evil 2 Technical Artist for Beyond Good & Evil 2 Lead Animator (for a new IP) Gameplay Programmer (future AAA titles)

Oh yeah, one other thing. You should buy the original Beyond Good & Evil from Good Old Games, DRM free, $9.99. Comes highly recommended by yours truly!

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on March 27th 2009 at 8:49am 1 Comment

Max Payne 3 announced, will be arriving at winter 2009

Lets kick of this news entry with a quote from Rockstar founder Sam Houser.

Quote: We're starting a new chapter of Max's life with this game. This is Max as we've never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation.

I'm interested in this. While I haven't actually finished Max Payne 2 yet, the story and the way it was told has always been interesting to me. And lets not forget that the first two games were developed by Remedy, a Finnish game development company, who is still working on Alan Wake I guess. Have to keep track of your countrymen.

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on March 23rd 2009 at 12:01pm 0 Comments

Left 4 Dead Expansion Pack: Date Announced

The Left 4 Dead downloadable content will be available to download on the the Xbox 360 starting from April 21 2009 on the Live network. The download will be free of charge and includes new modes, including a multiplayer option named Survival and two new campaigns for the versus mode.

There has been no set date for the PC version but a Valve spokesman has expressed the company would like to release the add-on on or around the same date.

Posted in Site News by Baron on March 23rd 2009 at 9:30am 0 Comments

PlayStation Network Bandwidth Fee Slammed by Media

A recent fee introduced into the PlayStation Network for publishers of PS3 games has been seen by several media sources as a blow to publishers. The $0.16 per gb has been introduced to cover bandwidth costs of the network. Many media sources are spouting that this will ruin the network for free and paid publishers. I reality this fee is likely less then it would cost the publisher to host the content themselves and/or produce optical media such as a DVD or CD. The fee will be charged to free content publishers for only the first 60 days after release, while paid publishers will pay It on an ongoing basis.

What does this mean for you the end user? Almost nothing. The PS3 games will still be there, the free content won’t be going away anytime soon. The only difference one might see in their downloads is the price on some games will go up a fifty cents or something similar. The PlayStation network is still free when compared to the Xbox Live (which costs $49.99 US per year for the gold membership) is still a sweet deal.

Posted in Gaming by Baron on March 23rd 2009 at 4:22am 5 Comments

New and improved Square Enix Members

Check it out here.

Apparently the site has been around for a year now, according to the blog posts at least. Funny I've never heard about it before. Maybe it was under a different title or something. In any case, according to this blog post, it's now new and improved! Radical!

From a brief glance it looks like yet another social networking site, but this seems geared towards... Square Enix fans? Yeah, it looks like that the main difference between any other social network and this one is that you get to have a collection of Square Enix games you own, play or want to get your hands on. Other features include the usual journal, group functions, private messages and avatars. You can earn points by doing stuff I guess, and probably do something with those points as well. Like buy new junk for your avatar maybe.

This all sounds terribly interesting. I'm certainly not going to register, how about you?

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on March 18th 2009 at 4:35pm 0 Comments

Radio page updated, milestone reached

Just made some small changes to the radio page, everything should be accurate. The streams have been up 24/7 for a few weeks now, and I see some regular listeners! Great to see. I am still working out a method to allow users to request songs for the playlist, that will come later on.

On a side note, yesterday we surpassed a site milestone which should be noted. We had our 1,000,000th page view since site re-launch! It happened sometime yesterday, around 5:30pm. Hooray. Hopefully I can find some more spare time to continue progress on the upcoming control panel and we can get this place moving again. Oh, and Happy St. Patrick's Day to all as well!

Posted in Site News by Locke on March 17th 2009 at 3:37pm 1 Comment

World of Goo deal on Steam, get it while it's hot for $5

Just a quick news here while it's still hot. This weeks weekend deal on Steam is World of Goo, the awesome little indie puzzle game. Get it now just for $5. And remember, it's a weekend deal, so be quick about it.

Nothing else absolutely interesting has been happening lately on the gaming world. Some new and interesting games are coming out on March, so there probably will be some posts about those. I'm personally especially looking forward to Resident Evil 5, though I probably can't get my hands on it just yet, being that it costs money and all. The old/new Riddick game seems like it might be pretty good as well.

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on March 07th 2009 at 8:44pm 0 Comments

The Last Remnant PC demo, system requirements and benchmark available

Earlier today I got an email from Square Enix about The Last Remnant's PC version, and that demos for both the European and North American release are now available for download.

The Euro version of the demo is at The Official European Last Remnant Site. Since it's an European demo, it probably has some additional language options for you Italian, Spanish and German folks.

Additionally, both the North American and the European demos are available from FilePlanet. Both demos are about 1GB in size, so I don't know what exactly is the difference between them, but I guess the NA version also has some additional language options.

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Posted in Gaming by Kilu on February 28th 2009 at 12:25pm 4 Comments