Author: Jack Slater
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Let’s go out to the movie awards with Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman isn’t a nobody, except when he is at the Oscars: I had written a book called Coraline, which the director Henry Selick had transformed into a stop-motion wonderland. I’d helped Henry as much as I could through the process of turning something from a book into a film. I had endorsed the film,…
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Tom Francis, His Gnome, and Left 4 Dead 2
In the Dark Carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2, you can win a garden gnome at the fairground near the start — and there’s an achievement for carrying it all the way to the end. It is, in fact, the same goddamn gnome I carried through Episode goddamn Two, for the same goddamn reason:…
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Forest Hale Interview About Nexuiz and Open-Source
There is a lot of controversy and confusion about the upcoming commercial Nexuiz release for consoles, the re-licensing of the Nexuiz codebase, and what this means for the Nexuiz GPL PC release. I’ve spoken with Forest Hale (no relation to Saxton Hale), the lead developer behind DarkPlaces (the engine behind Nexuiz) about these issues: Zachary…
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The Certified DBA
“I’m not questioning your expertise,” Paul cautiously said to the Certified DBA, “it’s just that I’m just not used to requests with… this level of detail.” Paul should have done what he was asked, exactly how he was asked to do it. After all, he was not an expert but just a lowly systems administrator.…
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Nintendo 3DS
It pays to be on Twitter. Mark “Gaming Jesus” MacDonald linked this Nintendo.jp PR (emphasis theirs) early Tuesday morning via New York Times reporter Hiroko Tabuchi: Nintendo Co., Ltd.(Minami-ward of Kyoto-city, President Satoru Iwata) will launch “N intendo 3D S”(temp) during the fiscal year ending March 2011, on which games can be enjoyed with 3D…