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Let's Take Another Look At Aussie Left 4 Dead 2 Edits

November 20th, 2009 at 4:15 PM

There’s a reason they gave the edited version 5.0.

You know, IGN who’s official rating scale starts at 7.

Borderlands Gets Aussie Price Rise On Steam

November 20th, 2009 at 3:57 PM

Ugh, I’m just glad I got it for the discounted price then. Makes sense now I guess, still sucks copious amounts however. Also suggests that the days of cheap digital downloads for Australia are slowly going to end in a big screaming heap :(

Borderlands Gets Aussie Price Rise On Steam

November 20th, 2009 at 3:38 PM

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3894/borderlandssteam.jpg
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6058/borderlandssteam2.jpg

Have a look at the above – It’s showing as unavailable to me on both my home PC (first pic) & work PC (second pic). Maybe the higher price was actually a mistake?

LunchTimeWaster: I Just Headshot A Sheep

November 19th, 2009 at 1:48 PM

Fun little title, spent most of yesterday afternoon playing it after spotting the KotakuAU account giving it a go :)

For what it’s work, my username on Kongregate is “blahjedi”

Evony Ads Go From Bad To Worse To Awesome

November 19th, 2009 at 10:04 AM

Sounds nasty either way. Trashy porn models aside, spyware/loggers in my flash game? Yes please! From the comments on the above site:

——–
Lee
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.

To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.

Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.

Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.

I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.

There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.

Thank you for reading this.

Lee
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Talk Amongst Yourselves

November 19th, 2009 at 9:43 AM

To be honest, I can’t think of much beyond what you’ve mentioned there (ie. Fallout & Oblivion). Borderlands would be the closet thing I can think of, but even that’s more action than RPG. If you’re willing to dive into the “magic shit”, check out Disgaea 3. It’s a fantasy turn-based RPG with massive amounts of depth.

Bayonetta's Torture Moves — Press B To Summon Guillotine

November 18th, 2009 at 3:10 PM

So we’ll be seeing Bayonetta banned in Australia sometime soon?

LunchTimeWaster: The Italian Job

November 18th, 2009 at 12:58 PM

It’s fun enough, but it punishes you hard for missing the line or nudging the wall.

Remember This?

November 18th, 2009 at 9:45 AM

It’s a point & click game. One who’s ad I still remember seeing in various gaming mags from the early-mid 90s.

And no, I have no idea what it’s name is :(

Gamers 4 Croydon Respond To Atkinson Letter

November 17th, 2009 at 11:57 AM

He’ll throw out a canned response, pointing fingers at bigger issues affecting his 20,000 voters than “murder rape simulators”. The only way anything will change is when/if he loses his seat in the next Federal election or the balance of power shifts back to the Coalition..

Talk Amongst Yourselves

November 17th, 2009 at 11:19 AM

A lot of the games are exactly that, with very few offering levels of playability beyond the initial novelty. The only few I can think of are the Popcap games (Bejewelled, Peggle, Bookworm etc), Flight Control or Doom & Wolf 3d. A lot of the other stuff is disposable entertainment: Play for a couple of hours, then don’t go back to it again.

Remember This?

November 17th, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Oh snap. Although I don’t even remember A3 hitting the Megadrive as it is.

Remember This?

November 17th, 2009 at 9:50 AM

Alien 3 on the SNES by the looks of things?

What Modern Warfare 2 Boycotters Are Playing

November 13th, 2009 at 9:43 AM

Idiots. Typical of the Internet generation – Rant & rave, but then bow down & beg to the man to have a piece of the pie once push comes to shove.

Reader Reviews: Borderlands

November 12th, 2009 at 3:58 PM

Did you add the “Really? Ed.” bit David?

I think Borderland’s PC Multiplayer issues can be summed up in two points:

1) P2P
2) Gamespy.

Frankenreview: Modern Warfare 2

November 12th, 2009 at 1:47 PM

I liked this review: http://www.ausgamers.com/games/modern-warfare-2/review/

Actually bothers to cover the PC multiplayer, instead of just going on about how amazingly awesome it all is. Sure they still give it an 8.2, but it’s still one of the better reviews I’ve read for MW2 thus far.

LunchTimeWaster: Be The Running Man

November 12th, 2009 at 1:10 PM

This game is all manner of amazing. For those with biiig monitors, the HD version is even moreso: http://adamatomic.com/canabalt/mega

Aussie Charts: What's In Your Shopping Cart?

November 12th, 2009 at 9:55 AM

Suspect the usage of babble instead of Babel might’ve been intentional. Afterall, the Rabbids do babble quite a fair bit.

iPhone Bejeweled 2 Gets Free Blitz Update

November 12th, 2009 at 9:49 AM

Suddenly I’ve just been given a reason to finally give in and buy Bejewelled from the App Store. I remember remember my wife talking about how the only thing missing from the iPhone version was the Blitz mode. She’ll be happy now I suspect.

Remember This?

November 12th, 2009 at 9:45 AM

My first instinct was that it looks an awful lot like Paradroid, except with no numbers on top of the robots like the C64 version. Also looks like it’s on the Amiga or Atari ST possibly?

WIN! Tekken 6 Xbox 360 Arcade Stick Edition

November 11th, 2009 at 11:58 PM

A new challenge appears
He holds the reins of the world
Fear the Cardboard Tube