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Exciting developments.

Another long break from updating the blog. Yes, I know. I’ve been researching and writing this massive article about 3D at home for Hifimaailma magazine, and it’s finally done, out of the gate. Off you go, version 1.0 of the copy, ready to be savaged and brutally torn apart by the folks who actually put the magazine together. I have a nasty feeling I haven’t seen the last of you yet…

And wouldn’t you just know it: I’ve now been hired to write an article about 3D for another magazine. Luckily for me I need to approach the subject from a slightly different point of view for the 2nd article, so it’s not going to be a simple re-hashing of the first one. Not that I wouldn’t mind that at all; it would save a bit of time. Maybe. Or more likely not.

Anyhoo! I’ve had a whale of a time doing research for the article(s) and I’ve learned a lot of new things. It’s what makes life living for, I’d say. I’m well chuffed about the whole 3D lark, to be honest. Can’t remember the last time something got me quite this excited! You see, I’ve learned not only how to shoot, edit and post 3D, but I’ve had a number of rather intriguing ideas and, dare I say, epiphanies. And I will do my best to share them all with you, once I get my hands on a few missing pieces of information, hardware and software.

So, prepare yourself for a series of long-ish blog posts about what you can achieve with a remarkably small amount of money and carefully scavenged knowledge. Coming soon… ish.

Canal Digital on valmis 3D-lähetyksiin

Canal Digital kutsui minut katsomaan Eurosportin 3D-testilähetystä French Open -tennisturnauksesta. Lähetystä demottiin ensin Panasonicin 3D-plasmatelevisiolla, minkä jälkeen siirryimme kerrosta alemmas, jossa odotti Samsungin jo kauppoihin ehtinyt LED LCD 3D-televisio. View full article »

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Octopuses and… HDTV?

High Definition images helped researchers gain new insights into how octopuses react to their environment, reports this article from MSNBC.

So, Army of Two: The 40th Day for PS3. I play almost nothing but co-op games these days and as Borderlands (by far one of the best games I’ve played in years) was starting to taste a bit too grind-tastic after 100+ hours of gameplay, I was really looking forward to playing The 40th Day co-op campaign.

Except that it’s nigh on impossible to enjoy the experience. Regardless of how good your internet connection is, co-op campaign throws you out of EA’s server every 10-15 minutes – totally at random. After that happens, you need to restart the co-op campaign, select your character and difficulty level, re-invite your buddy and start again from previous checkpoint. You lose all progress, all money and all weapons modifications you did before the disconnect. At the end of our first co-op session I told my friend I refuse to touch this piece of crap game until EA releases a patch which fixes the disconnection issue.

Oh, and while I’m at it, why on earth do we need to stay in constant connection to EA’s servers while playing the co-op campaign? Two players against an army of NPCs, you know? Why the need for anything but peer-to-peer connection, huh?

Anyhoo, EA released a patch for the game a few days ago. I downloaded the patch earlier today in anticipation for our 9 o’clock session. And off we went! Neither of us could remember what controller button did what, but a few minutes of experimentation soon sorted that out. The mission ahead was pretty tough, we effed up a couple of times and had to restart from previous checkpoint, you know the drill. Eventually we reached a point where we had cleared the immediate area of enemies and were planning our next move.

And suddenly… *KA-DONNGGG!!* “You have been disconnected from EA’s server.”

EA, what the fuck? Honestly, what the fuck? EA, surely you realise that the co-op campaign happens to be the reason why people bought this game? With that in mind, shouldn’t you, umm, you know, maybe have had a couple of guys playtest the co-op campaign in PlayStation Network before releasing the code for replication? Don’t say you did, because I know that’s a blatant lie. Check out your own forums and you’ll find umpteen players complaining about this issue. If you had tested co-op in PSN, you would have noticed the problem within ONE hour!

Or maybe you knew? Maybe you thought, “Hell, we need to make our Q1 figures look good for the shareholders so we’d better put this puppy out there! Yeah, co-op players disconnect from our servers all the time which kinda completely ruins the game, but we can fix it later by putting out a patch. Right? Right. Now let’s make some money – and fuck those gamers!”

No, Electronic Arts. No. Fuck you.

Artist: Babylonia
Title: Motel La Solitude

In brief: Well-produced electronic rock/pop from Italy, obviously influenced by DepMode

I don’t remember exactly where and how I first bumped into Babylonia. I probably heard their rather fantastic single “(If U Want) My Love” which spurred me into blind-buying their first album “Later Tonight v2.0″ from a German online retailer. I enjoyed the album immensely, especially “A Spreading Infection”, one of the v2.0′s extra tracks which was noticeably harder-hitting than the rest of the rather poppy, at times bordering on cheesy, album. In fact, it made such an impression on me that I had to contact the band. View full article »

Recommended: Hard Disk Sentinel

Allow me to introduce a small-ish application which has saved me a lot of grief in the past year or so. I stumbled on HD Sentinel by accident, and it was one of the luckiest accidents I’ve ever had. View full article »

It was only very recently that I finally had a moment to hook up the Logitech G25 to my PS3 and to really get to grips with Codemasters’ Colin McRae Dirt. It’s a lot of fun – especially on a 3-meter-wide screen sitting at a distance of 2 meters. I was really looking forward to DiRT 2. It arrived from Amazon.uk today, and I stole an hour off work to try it out. View full article »

‘Twas a good day today.

Lots of cool gear came in today. Philips BDP9100 Blu-ray player is supposed to be able to change the placement of subtitles on the screen, so I just had to ask Philips for a review unit.

That's good lootin'!

Vince Clarke interview on RBMA Radio.

Interview after the jump to stop RBMA’s player app from hogging your bandwidth when browsing my front page: View full article »

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