New patches are now available for
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3,
updating the various language editions of EA's RTS sequel to version 1.09. The
patch is available via the game's auto-update, and manual downloads are found on
this page. Word is: "This patch for Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 fixes
several exploits and bugs, improves balance, adds a community news viewer, and
more.. More further information on Patch 1.09 and to report any issues, please
comment on our forums here." There's also a new
The Wing Commander of Uprising movie featuring actor Malcolm McDowell
promoting his acting role in
Red Alert 3: Uprising by reminding us of his
participation of the destruction of the Wing Commander franchise playing Admiral
Tolwyn.
bit-tech.net reports NVIDIA is considering porting PhysX to OpenCL to allow
their physics technology to be used by other manufacturers. They quote Nadeem
Mohammad, NVIDIA director of product management for PhysX, saying: "In the
future it’s a possibility that we could use OpenCL," noting that a later comment
about future plans includes the quote: "as and when we do move to OpenCL."
Mohammad points out NVIDIA has worked closely with The Khronos Group to help
shape the OpenCL specification. Thanks
Ant and
Slashdot.
Action video games sharpen eyesight reports on a study that says action
games, like Hannibal Chew, can make your eyes:
They said people who used a
video-game training program saw significant improvements in their ability to
notice subtle differences in shades of gray, a finding that may help people who
have trouble with night driving.
"Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means getting glasses or eye surgery
-- somehow changing the optics of the eye," said Daphne Bavelier of the
University of Rochester in New York, whose study appears in the journal Nature
Neuroscience.
"But we've found that action video games train the brain to process the existing
visual information more efficiently, and the improvements last for months after
game play stopped."
Mod DB offers download of version 1.0 of the client and server for
Decadence, a new Source-engine modification that's been in the works for about
18 months. Decadence is described as a "story-driven" Source-engine multiplayer
modification "that combines the personal relationship to characters and
surroundings of single-player games with an adrenaline filled multiplayer
experience. Decadence pits two teams against each other in a fight over
territorial control."
Sorry this was not posted Friday: The final installment in the
Steam week-long
Ubisoft promotion is a sale on the
Ubisoft Classic Pack
(Beyond Good & Evil, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Far Cry, and IL-Sturmovik:
1946) for $9.99.
I'm back in the BlueTower after my visit to rural Maine. It turned out my
wireless internet was close enough to non-existent to be a problem, so all "I
found the internet hiding in a pond" commercials aside, that's something that
will need improvement before I consider updating the site from that location in
the future. That aside, it was a fun trip to some property a friend of ours has
up there, and I got to try a couple of things I, being a city boy, never had
done before, including shingling a roof and firing both a high-powered rifle and
a handgun.
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