A few weeks back, we introduced you guys to Hawken, an upcoming Mech Combat FPS game from indie game studio Adhesive Games. Well geeks, Adhesive Games has just released a new video showing how the game will actually look like while you’re playing, and after watching it, I must say I CAN’T WAIT FOR IT TO COME OUT!
Marvel and Paramount have just released a short clip giving us a first look at how our hammer-wielding friend fares on earth after his arrival.
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Check out this cool zombie survival interactive movie from the folks at The Game Station. Do you have what it takes to survive through the zombie apocalypse?
In 1999, Ricky McCormick was found murdered in St. Louis, MO. In his pocket, investigators found hand-written notes in a secret code, which they’ve not been able to break–despite years of work by the FBI’s Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) and the American Cryptogram Association. On Wednesday (March 29, 2011), the FBI released the text from the to notes and a formal plea for help. “We are really good at what we do,” said CRRU chief Dan Olson, “but we could use some help with this one.” As of yet, there are no witnesses and no suspects.
Though McCormick was a high school drop-out, he was said to be smart; he’d been keeping notes in code since he was a child, but no one in his family knows how to decrypt them. The notes are written in a jumbled system of letter, numbers, parentheses and dashes, and traditional cryptoanalytical techniques have proven useless against them. And without a third (or similar) sample, there is very little to work with in the way of clues.
Though there is no monetary reward being offered by the FBI, any whip-crack decoders out there might find the key to solving this crime. If you’d like to give it a shot, the transcribed text is available for both notes. And should you feel you’ve made a valuable breakthrough, correspondence can be sent to the following address:
FBI Laboratory
Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit
2501 Investigation Parkway
Quantico, VA 22135
Attn: Ricky McCormick Case
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TNT has just released a new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming alien invasion miniseries, Falling Skies. Check it out:
FALLING SKIES opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force. [Source]
Well, that actually looks pretty good if you ask me, but I guess we’ll have to wait until June 19 to find out!
You remember our last post about these Epic Rap Battles of History? Well here’s the latest one! Who do you think would win between these two genius minds?
It’s here! BBC One has just released the first full length trailer for Doctor Who season 6! Enjoy!
Youtube user egorzhgun explains the current situation in the Middle East via a game of Angry Birds. Funny stuff.
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A Canadian internet provider appears to have caused World of Warcraft players to fall victim to its attempts to target peer-to-peer filesharing. Rogers Communications says the effect was unintentional and has offered a workaround.
The case is a classic example of mixing up the medium and the message: while there’s little dispute that most p2p use is for copyrighted materials, it’s not inherently illegal, hence the traditional cry of “what about my Linux distro?” whenever an ISP targets the technology.
It recently emerged that Rogers customers were finding gameplay noticeably affected while using World of Warcraft, prompting speculation that the cable provider was intentionally targeting the game. Rogers then clarified by saying peer-to-peer filesharing was the issue. That initially caused confusion until it was revealed that World of Warcraft creator Blizzard now uses p2p technology to deliver updates to the game during play.
It’s important to note that while Rogers has referred to “traffic management equipment”, it hasn’t specifically said it is throttling peer-to-peer traffic. Instead it says there is a specific problem that occurs when both World of Warcraft and a peer-to-peer service (whether in the game or an external application) are running.
Rogers therefore recommends “you turn off the peer to peer setting within the WoW game and ensure no other P2P file sharing applications are running while playing WoW. WoW does use P2P for software updates, but with this setting changed you should continue to automatically receive software updates through other methods.”
It appears that if users switch off the p2p update setting (which is found at View > Preferences > Enable Peer-to-Peer Transfer.), they’ll revert to having to wait for an update to download in full before being able to start a gaming session.
Rogers also notes the problem is only temporary: it’s looking for a resolution as soon as possible, but also notes an update in June should address the problems.
