Jun 16
First off, I’m not going to do a full write up of Sony’s conference because, quite frankly, it was boring. The only thing there that I liked was Portal 2, and that’ll be on PC anyway.
Microsoft, with the Kinect, is at least trying to bring something new to motion control. The Wii and Kinect each have their own separate Pros and Cons, but Sony’s Move looks like it’s trying to hard to copy and 1-up the Wii.
Now for Nintendo: Holy crap! Nintendo wins E3 2010!
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
We all knew it was coming, Zelda with Wii Motion Plus control. I am a little disappointed that I can’t play with a control pad anymore. I didn’t like Twilight Princess on the Wii because I could never get the sword to swing the correct way and ended up reverting back to the Gamecube version. If what I’ve experienced with the swordplay games in Wii Sports Resort is any indication, then this new Zelda will have that problem fixed with it’s 1:1-ish sword swinging. The new art style looks perfect to me. It sits somewhere in between Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. I would compare it more to Super Mario Galaxy, cartoon candy but still beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 14
Joel McHale was funny at least.
Child of Eden
Purdy. Not much else to say about it. I wonder if the shooting it automatic after you lock on to targets or if they guy was actually doing something to tell it to shoot.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Hell yes. Assassin’s Creed II was my game of the year for the 2009. This direct sequel/spin-off is looking to be just as good, if not better.
Shaun White Skateboarding
If it controls like Tony Hawk, I might give it a try. I tried EA’s Skate a few times, but I couldn’t get used to the controls because I played the hell out of the Tony Hawk games to the point that their controls felt natural to me and I kept trying to play Skate that way without even thinking about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 14
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
I never played the originals much, but this doesn’t look much different aside from the updated graphics. However, having the game turn your friends in to cops and criminals is pretty cool.
Dead Space 2
I still haven’t finished the first one, but the new looks the same to me. And the guy demoing it looked like he was getting his ass kicked.
Medal of Honor, Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion, and Gun Club
Blah. Blah. Military shooters. Call of Duty competitors. Whatever.
And I’m tired of having to sign up to developers stupid services after I’m already signed up on XBox Live or PSN. With EA its Gun Club, uPlay for Ubisoft, Social Club for Rockstar, etc. Read the rest of this entry »
Jun 14
Another year, another E3. Time to rant.
Halo Reach, Call of Duty Black OPs, Gears of War 3:
Meh, meh, and meh. Neither of these over hyped franchises is the reason I own a 360.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising
The bullet-time slicing is pretty cool, but I hope there’s more to the game than that. Otherwise the hack-n-slash with occasional bullet time is gonna get old fast. But in typical Kojima fashion, the trailer didn’t reveal much detail about the gameplay or the insane story that likely goes along with it.
Fable III
Fable and Fable II has been excellent games that I’ve gone back and played again several times. One of my gripes about Fable II was that your choices didn’t seem to affect the main story much, unlike the first Fable. I hope we’ll see that improved in the new game. The trailer puts emphasis in the story of the 2 brothers, the one who inherited the throne, and the one who the player will be controlling to lead the revolution. But it raises a question to me: did they remove the ability to play as a girl? In games wiith a good/evil system, I typically play through with a good guy first, then an evil bitch second, just to see how the games plays in contrast. Read the rest of this entry »
May 25
More random code stuff…
I wasn’t happy with the default Yahoo search engine for getting box art for my video games, so I made two search engines that use GiantBomb‘s API.
GiantBomb_v1 is the first one I made. It gets the first images that are returned when you do a normal game search, but it’s not always accurate for games that have many releases or sequels.
GiantBomb_v2 digs much deeper to get as much box art as it can, but is much slower because it crawls through more data.
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Apr 20
My brother-in-law wrote a PHP book. And he knows way more about PHP that I do.
Go check it out.
Despite all the advancements in web APIs and interoperability, it’s inevitable that, at some point in your career, you will have to “scrape” content from a website that was not built with web services in mind. And, despite its sometimes less-than-stellar reputation, web scraping is usually an entire legitimate activity—for example, to capture data from an old version of a website for insertion into a modern CMS.
This book, written by scraping expert Matthew Turland, covers web scraping techniques and topics that range from the simple to exotic using a variety of technologies and frameworks:
Dec 08
burningwriter needed a quick way to download all the songs in a Playlist.com playlist (formerly called Project Playlist), so I wrote this quick script to parse the playlist files as links that DownThemAll can read.
To use it, download a playlist from Playlist.com.
You do this by clicking the “Export Playlist To Windows Media Player” link on the right side of the site. If it doesn’t prompt you to download a file, right click the link and select Save As.
Then upload the asx.wvx file here: samutz.com/playlist
The script will generate links from the playlist. You can then download them individually or use something like DownThemAll to get them all at once.
Source and more technical info after the jump.
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Oct 31
I must the the only Borderlands PC player in the world not experiencing Borderlands glitches. Whether it’s gaming blogs like Kotaku or Joystiq, or forums like Steam or Gearbox, all I ever see is bitching and moaning about the glitches, or the game not working, or the game needing a patch.
The game is running great for me on Windows 7 via Steam.
Oct 23
I’ll be moving all sites to a new server over the course of the next month.
I’ll contact each site owner/manager individually before I move their site to make sure I move them at a time that’s most convenient for them.
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