Jacob Repp

GameDaily compares TR to WoW. We did it for the lulz.

(Thanks wayback machine)

Here is a good article outlining the Z-machine. This is the machine that runs all of the Infocom text adventures including Zork for which the virtual machine is named. This is some really interesting engineering and you can still see the modern fruits of this online in the Parchment project

Mike is uber and Mike recommends: RESTful Web Services.

MMO back-end technology seems stuck in the 90s. Makes me glad I took a hiatus to work at a CMS startup.

Played some Gears of War Sunday night and while I have played a lot of multiplayer the game takes on a whole new characteristic when you’re playing it with a bunch of good friends. We had a 4 player game going between Seattle, Austin and Pheonix with Jamie and myself playing the Locust hilarity ensued. [...]

This kid totally rocks. I can’t even finish this song on hard and here he is wrecking it on Expert. Bonus points for the windmill.

As I posted earlier there was already a lot of things to like about this game. It definitely deserves the high marks it has received in the gaming press. This is one of the few games I’ve played in the past couple years that I had no problem dedicating a huge chunk of time to. [...]

Lately I’ve avoided posting tech or graphics news bits but we’ve been watching the launch of the new Wii and PS3 pretty closely at work, so here’s some completely ‘unbiased’ links to some fun PS3 coverage.

Maximum Moisture PS3 Not Worth the Hype The Violence Inherent [...]

Final Fantasy XII is amazing so far. I’m about 6 hours into the game. I literally could not pull myself out of the game after I got home last night. Circuit City had the game for 38 dollars which is a really great deal.

 The opening pre-render is amazing, great use of cameras and really introduces you to [...]