Recent content by Godron

If Valve feel like making more Half-Life, they'll make more Half-Life. They won't abandon the saga just because they made a game with a 3 in its title. Also this.

They actually did it. I can hardly believe it actually worked. Good job NASA.

Live coverage here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/nasatv/ http://eyes.nasa.gov/index.html (let's you watch a real-time java simulation, pretty cool)

You seriously underestimate the difficulty of such a task. We don't have any technology even approaching that capability working on Earth yet, let alone reliable enough to be sent to the red planet. There's already enough relatively unproven technology aboard Curiosity to have Nasa's engineers...

Well it's about to land, at 05:31 UTC on Monday (that's 01:31 in America). This is the Curiosity rover, aka Mars Science Laboratory. It's about the size of a small car; it absolutely dwarfs anything that's been sent to Mars before. The engineering inside is fantastically complex, and it's...

However much shit this guy got from everyone involved, I still find it unthinkable that he can get off without any kind of legal penalty. Anyone who does 60 in a 30 zone whilst not even drunk is not fit to drive; he should probably have his license taken away until he can earn it back. Glad to...

Can't make up my mind on these. How do you know they're legit, and how do you know they're from circa 2008?

Anything that makes network address translation obsolete is a good thing. I could never really get my head around that stuff. I long for a day when every computer really does have its own unique IP address, it sounds so much simpler than the current system. IPv6 is supposed to simplify and...

Good to see a game with actual spaceships in it, even if it does look like it never made it past alpha. Looks like hates all the right things too, according to my own half-baked opinions; always a plus. Don't look like he much cares for story or atmosphere or characters though. Guess that...

Now that is interesting. I'm no expert on 3D graphics, but I've always wondered why mainstream game devs always choose DirectX, while indie devs often use OpenGL. From what little I have read, DirectX doesn't seem to be any more capable. I can see how developers would prefer to stick with what...

Really loving the sounds in that. Reminded me a bit of some of the Submachine games.

In all fairness, I had always wondered what'd happen when HL2 finally joined HL1 as a vintage game from unfathomable aeons ago. I say, bring on halflife3.net. A massive all-encompassing Valve-news site sounds like a great idea and all, but the Half-Life franchise has always had enough hype...

Black Plague is still the best game they've made. Amnesia is gut-purgingly scary but I thought the writing was terrible compared to that in the Penumbra games. Probably because they hired a different writer for it. The monsters were terrifying as usual but a lot of the horrifying/disturbing...

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