Guild Wars Halloween 2010 Festivities

Hi all!  Just a quick set of snapshots from the Halloween Festivities from Guild Wars this year.  Check them out: Location: Lion's Arch Me with a Bone Dragon Chillin' with a Necrid Horseman A sweet Ghost Ship in the Harbor Location: Kamadan It wasn't me!  LOL Good times! Location: Droknar's Forge Was that a ghost? Another Necrid Horseman A cool, spooky skull. Come out and join us.  The Mad HKing...

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This Week in The News: Jax Returns!, F2P MMO Halloween Fun, Tribes Returns to Us, Champions Online to go F2P, and more!

There has been a lot of news, rumors, and buzz flying around this week in the Tech/Game world. First up: -We have 2 returns to look forward to in the near future. The first is Jax. That's right, the guy with metal arms from the Mortal Kombat series. It has been confirmed that we will see him in the next incarnation of Mortal Kombat video game. So look forward to brute-martial arts-goodness. source The second is Tribes. Remember, that was the awesome FPS that gave us jetpacks to zip around...

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Movie Trailer: 'The Warrior's Way'

Ok, apparently today is 'anticipated-movie-trailer-awareness-Friday' on the TechieSmarts Blog. So in the spirit of watching trailers for movies that just look cool; here is the trailer for 'The Warrior's Way'. About halfway through the trailer is becomes very apparent that we will get to see a showdown between cowboys and ninjas! Who can resist that...

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Another Trailer for 'Skyline'

Personally, I am really excited to see this movie.  Simply for the special effects.  I am a sucker for movies with large monsters, robots, or aliens.  And this one has huge aliens and rather large spaceships (lots of them).  So, can't wait for this one.  Check out this trailer: Happy surfi...

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Sintel an Open Source Movie Awesomeness!

Hi everybody, if you have been following this blog at all; then you will know first hand that I am a huge fan/proponent/advocate for open source software.  I also like art, drawing, painting, and animation stuff in my other spare time. :)  So this recommendation is right up my alley. If you have never heard of Blender, you should get to know the name.  You may be seeing it more and to show off it's capabilities the Durian Open Movie Project created "Sintel".  It is an outstanding...

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Weekly Tech News: Microsoft wants to sell us Games, AT&T is learning, and more!

To be honest, I have been pretty slack this week in keeping up with the news.  So, in advance I apologize. -Microsoft wants to sell us Games...Online Well, looks like Microsoft still has plans to grow their online commerce presence by opening selling games via the Games for Windows Marketplace.  This site has in fact been around for a while, but in a state of choas.  Personally, I have yet to buy any software from Microsoft online.  I have purchased titles via Xbox Live for...

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This Week In Tech News: Videogame Stocks are Down, Teen Text Messaging, Free Angry Birds, and More!

This week in Tech News we have several interesting topics, so here we go. - Videogame Stocks Are Down.  But Halo is freakin' breaking the bank! During the month of September, console game sales dropped about 6% when compared to September 2009.  This was reported in the The Wall Street Journal.  Does this mean sales are going to be crap for the holiday season, which is no doubt the biggest time of the year for videogame manufactures?  Who knows, I doubt that the sales for Christmas...

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Mobile Game Review: Zombies Ate My Baby for iPod Touch/iPhone

Since Halloween is just a couple of weeks away, I thought it was only suiting that I review a few Halloween themed games.  This weeks review is for 'Zombies Ate My Baby' for the iPhone/iPod Touch.  I know, the title sounds kind of bad, but it isn't quite what you're thinking.  The premise is, a girl and her boyfriend were on a date, and her boyfriend gets killed by a zombie while trying to protect her.  So, she kills the zombie and to her surprise, she finds that killing zombies...

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Making the jump to 'Maverick Meerkat'

Like so many others, I too downloaded the newest Ubuntu release version:10.10. Which happened to release on October 10, 2010. I did a fresh install today (over my existing 10.04.1 partition). From first glance, I honestly could't tell that much of a difference from 0.04. LTS). Sure, the new wallpaper looked nice. But the overall experience was still pretty much the same. Nothing seemed to be lost or gained in the new version of the Live CD. Then, I launched the installer. And to my surprise,...

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