I was looking up some old toys I had when I was a child but didn’t know what they were. Wikipedia has a construction toy category so I was able to get some spoilers on my childhood.
Going through the different kinds I eventually came across the ones I had, Construx. The entry for which has a link to the ridiculous creation you see above.
Fantastic news for my fellow Spelunkers, since our last update Derek Yu has released version 1.0 of Spelunky. It is still a wonderful blend of nethack and Rick Dangerous, and it is still free. Now it has some extra bug fixes and will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade in the future.
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The patch is available from numerous sites but they’ve allocated so little bandwidth to this 2GB file that I was reduced to tears, until I remembered these guys. For some of you, this will be the first time you’ve used a file-sharing program for a completely legal purpose, so savor the moment. You’ll need to install a torrent client of course.
In an almost ridiculous display of generosity from the company who most people would probably have previously pegged as the most greedy, EA and DICE are releasing version 1.50 of Battlefield 2 with all of the booster packs included (though not the Special Forces expansion) on September 1st.
Check out the huge list of changes over at the official Battlefield blog. My favorites are proper widescreen display support and the removal of the disc check. Now all they have to do is release the game on Steam and I’ll be able to give my discs away.
The amazing Slackware project has released version 13.0. This is the very first version to include x86_64 support, among a variety of other changes and upgrades. You can get slacked from the usual places.
