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flashquake news release
While flashquake is currently on hiaitus, well-known flash fiction writer Pamelyn Casto is not.Pam will be teaching her online four-week flash fiction class beginning on November 1st. To see more information on the course, comments from previous participants, and to register, visit <http://www.flashquake.org/online-classes/flash-fiction.html>.Sign up soon, as Pam's classes usually fill up quickly!Debi Orton,...
Picaroon Press Release
Picaroon's official press release went out for its beta. I'm currently checking the game for beta impressions. Cambridge, England - Nice Technology proudly announced that their newfree-to-play massively-multiplayer real-time strategy game, Picaroon, hasentered beta after just a year's worth of development by their small six-manCambridge-based team. Having spent the summer in alpha, all the plannedmajor features for a Winter 2010 release have...
Bizarre Piece of Online Gaming Phishing
The title of a recent wacko email I got: "World of Warcraft hackers stealing brings you hurt us deeply apologize" And the text: This is Blizzard Entertainment's apology, we acknowledge a mistake, for you to lose the World of Warcraft account in order to recover our losses, we will give you 10000 gold coins free of charge and rare mounts a (celestial steed), I hope you can restart the game. Login...
Ashamed to be a PC Gamer these days.
Like I mentioned in the Top Shot Elite article, I really love my mouse. Call of Duty 4: MW was my PC shooter of choice. After I got my Xbox 360, I was really pondering on whether or not to get Modern Warfare 2 on the PC or 360. So I ended up borrowing a co-worker's MW for the 360. I quickly got used to it. (Yes, I played online, not just the campaign.) I can safely say that I am quite comfortable...
Duck! The Carbine High Massacre Movie Review up at Flickzone
The premiere review of FZ October 2010 is up now at http://flickzone.net/review.php?Type=1&Item_ID=153 It is a review of a trashy direct to video production that was exploitative of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
Outage Information: September 16th - 17th
From September 16th at about 10:15pm Pacific Time through September 17th at about 12:45am, OMGN and all websites hosted on the DarqFlare Enterprises server in Las Vegas, NV were inaccessible. I apologize for taking so long to post about what happened, I meant to within a couple days. Occasionally we'll perform operating system and software upgrades on our server. This usually doesn't end up with any issues for all of the websites hosted on the...
Global Combat in Crisis
Here is what you find when you try to access to browser based game Global Combat at http://www.globalcombat.com : Server Error500 - Internal server error.There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
OMGN Release Notes: 4.2.0
It's been nearly a month since OMGN's last release. What the hell have I been working on then?! Mobile Version You read that right, folks. Finally, after long last, the mobile version of OMGN has launched to the public. You can now view OMGN on your smartphone in a format designed for your small screen! Go ahead, give it a shot. And please, if you find any issues, please let us know! We don't have every device available to test. You'll have...
More from Lonnie Martin About "Women's Studies"
Greetings, fan of Ningen Manga Productions!We have twin Women's Studies events on two sides of the U.S. this weekend.On the west coast is the BlueLight Cinemas "Week of Terror" running September 17 - 23 in Cupertino, CA. Women's Studies screens twice; Sunday the 19th at 6pm and Tuesday the 21st at 11pm. Tickets are $10 and info can be found here:http://www.bluelightcinemas.com/index.asp?page=events#17Closer to home is...
"Women's Studies" Needs Your Help
Greetings, friend of Ningen Manga Productions. I'm writing to ask for your assistance. Don't worry. You don't have to help me move. As you likely know, Women's Studies, NMP's movie about a school run by homicidal feminists, was recently released to DVD. While it has been listed on Netflix, it's currently not available to rent or watch via their "Instant Watch" program. My understanding is that there's a magic number of "saves" the...
flashquake stuff
From the flashquake email list: Fall 2010 Issue now available Posted by: "Debi Orton" dorton@flashquake.org oradnio Thu Sep 2, 2010 8:33 am (PDT) Hello, It's been a hectic few days, but our Fall 2010 issue is now available online. We are also announcing that this will be the last issue of flashquake with this editorial team. We have been producing flashquake for over nine years now, and it's time for us to retire. We are oopen to someone...
OMGN Release Notes: 4.1.4
It's been nearly a month since we had a major enough release to let all of you know about it. This one's got plenty of goodies and I hope you'll like some of the new features. HTML Emails We've been sending email in plaintext here at OMGN for quite some time, even back to our old site design, which is now the OMGN Archive. Today marks the first day that OMGN will be sending out HTML emails! We've had this planned for awhile now but we've finally...
More from Jerle About TDZK Successor Game "Fleets"
Fleets is an entirely different game than the original TDZK. A shortsummary from our internal documents reads "TDZK: Fleets is a massivelymultiplayer tick-based 4X strategy game. Players in Fleets will beable to explore vast, randomly generated star maps, construct outpostsand fleets of starships, gather resources, research technology, signtreaties with other players, and fight other players for control ofterritory."The game is set in the...
StarCraft II Pwnage
As my wife's been in law school the last 2 weeks, I've had a bit of time here and there to load up StarCraft II - when I'm not reading or studying for my MBA, anyway. For some reason I've settled on the Protoss as my primary race. I'm not really sure why, because in the original StarCraft I was primarily a Zerg player. It's a bit strange, anyway. So I've been playing a lot of league matches, trying to play random and get some good teams together...
Open Salon Problem
Code 300: User 2751 does not exist My blog at Open Salon apparently has been eliminated even though they never sent me any emails about any problems and they have failed to respond to my emails about the problem. Guess I better avoid have anything to do with Salon in the future.
APB - A Third Look/Aftermath
As if I didn't talk about this game enough already. With the recent news of RTW dwindling down from a team of hard working people to a small group of clueless employees no doubt thinking just what the @#$! went wrong, it's definitely no surprise people are in a stir. I sure am, because I'm tired of writing negative thoughts on an otherwise great game. Despite the doubt, RealTime Worlds IS working on the game, make no mistake...
Women's Studies Movie Released on DVD
Press release from Lonnie Martin: Women's Studies is now available on DVD! Released on JUNE 8, 2010 from R-Squared Films' Big Bite Entertainment label, Women's Studies is the story of a pregnant grad student and her friends who become "guests" at a women's academy where female empowerment is taken to murderous extremes. In addition to the movie, the DVD includes the following special...
Fleets: News About Successor to TDZK
Here's the latest word on the status of Fleets from a former member of the Trex Mercenaries in the original Space Merchant: Hey, it's been a while. I just thought you might be interested to know that Fleets launched last week. It's set in the same universe TDZK was, but it a social strategy game rather than a RPG/BBG like TDZK.It can be found over at http://playfleets.com-Michael Sewell (Jerle)Metaspace Studios
OMGN Release Notes: 4.1.3
Just a quick release here before Laura and I head on our vacation to Hawaii for a week! Session Ping Websites always have session timeouts for logins and OMGN is no exception. Unfortunately, as we've discovered in the administrative side of the site, you can work for so long on an article that your session will timeout before you hit submit. Then when you hit submit... All is lost. We've rolled out a "session ping" feature that when editing...
Captains of DarkTide Open Beta Begins
Got this release in. Captains of DarkTide has entered open beta testing, go check it out. Provo - UT, August 2, 2010 ---UtopiaWire---Today Silverlode Interactive announced that its Fantasy Pirate game Captains of DarkTide (CoDT) has entered its open beta testing phase. DarkTide is a 3D Browser-based MMORPG for Mac and PC. For the first time, players who sign up at www.playdarktide.com will be granted instant access to this full...
Beast
So let's see here... Over 6 years ago I built my last gaming rig. I never really named it. It was my primary Windows machine at the time. Could have been longer than 6 years, really. I don't remember. I know I upgraded it a little about 4 years ago or so, and I added a Blu-Ray burner about 7-8 months ago. Unfortunately, that's all that really happened with that box. I got my HP Pavilion laptop about 4 1/2 years ago and it became my primary...
OMGN Release Notes: 4.1.2
If you're a person that deals with verion control in any form, then you've likely dealt with differencing engines. Programmers use diffs all the time to make comparisons in old code versus new code. Journalists use this kind of technology too to track changes to their articles. Well, today we're rolling out this kind of technology for use administratively and in your blog posts! Compare Differences Support for aforementioned difference engine!...
OMGN Release Notes: 4.1.1
Got some release notes for our 4.1.1 release. This actually released on July 26th! I apologize for the delayed write-up. User Messages Reorganization When we released user messages with the new Forum, I wasn't totally happy with the directory structure we introduced. They were all lumped in the user/ directory even though they deserved their own subdirectory therein. That's been corrected and they are better organized now. Smart Forum...
Chicago Horror Film Festival Press Release
In less than 24 hours, the promotional price for passes to the Chicago Horror Film Festival will have ended and the regular prices for this years season will have begun. We have already announced some great films and there is still much more to come. Plus we have Zombie Day. A day jam packed with Zombie films, a Zombie Walk, Sinister Visions Zombie Pinup Contest, and much more. We will also have our "I Want to hear you Scream" contest! We bring...
The Strange Limbo of GameRifts
Back in the day, GameRifts at http://www.gamerifts.com/ was the premiere website for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Then, all of a sudden, in late 2005 it ceased updating and it has since become a link spam center. Just why it has never been updated or cleaned up is a complete mystery. The shame of it all is that there are still a great many articles on the website that are well worth your while. Hopefully, Div...