Gaming
Valve Brings Steam Service to Mac
Mar 8th
It’s officially official: Valve will bring its Steam online distribution service and titles from its massive library of hit games to the Mac this April, the company confirmed Monday.
The successful content-delivery service will bring Valve titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2, as well as games from other publishers, to Apple computers for the first time.
The move was telegraphed last week in a series of teaser posters that mashed characters from Valve games into retro Apple ads. Dan Connors, CEO of Telltale Games, called Apple and Steam a natural fit.
“If there’s anything like iTunes on the PC right now for games, it’s Steam,” Connors said. “So you’ve got two great leaders in digital distribution coming together.”
Hackers Bypass WoW Authenticators
Mar 8th
A new keylogger disguised as a World of Warcraft add-on is stealing account info and goods.
Last week reports of a “man-in-the-middle-attack” surfaced in regards to Blizzard’s MMORPG. World of Warcraft. Apparently hackers have created a tool that grants them access to accounts protected by an authentication tool. Once they are in control of the account, hackers can thus steal virtual gold and possessions until the account password is reset. Currently there’s no indication if the hackers gain access to data such as credit cards or other personal information.
Creating your own Half Life 2 Server on Linux
Feb 22nd
My Aim here is not to write from scratch what you cannot already find by using Google but rather try and get it all in one place. Half Life 2 Death Match can be gained for Free – so first let us get that:
For ATI/AMD (Radeon) graphic card users: install – storefront
For Nvidia (GeForce) graphic card users: install – storefront
Now let us begin on our quest to get a server up and running on Linux, I am going to assume you have access to a Linux box to complete this part.
The case of the hacked Steam account
Feb 19th
For those that are no in the know – Steam is the company that runs the servers and account details of games such as Half Life 2 and such – the FULL game list I have linked. When you buy a game that is Steam enabled, when you go to install you need a steam account and that game (plus serial) is now linked to that account. If anything happens to this account – the game on the shelf is of no use, you cannot play without that account or re-register another account and install. This works most of the time but what happens when it all goes wrong? Read on for my complete story so far..
Lineage 2 Java Server
Jan 19th
There is a game called Lineage 2, its a Korean MMORPG using the point and click movement, runs using the Unreal engine and is 3D and has been going in Pay to play now for many years, even longer then World of Warcraft by far. There is a Java Server server (the guys who wrote it only knew java) which allows anyone to run a server and play the game without paying a monthly fee for the real thing. This quick story is my few days stabbing at a laptop trying to get it to work.
Mangos (WoW Server Emulator) hits 3.3.0A (11159)
Jan 12th
If your a World of Warcraft player, you would already know that WoW has been updated to 3.3.0A and are relishing in the goodness that the update brought to you but if you mess about on your own (or others) server running Mangos – you would have been stuck behind the main stream.
Legend of Mir III – Reopens and now Free
May 7th
I seems Legend of Mir 3 although going offline from GN network has came back from Wemade themselves. It is in closed Beta and the moment and is due to move to Open Beta. The graphics back in the day (many years ago) were not so bad as they are 2D Isometric but it also means it runs on anything.
Legend of Mir Closing its Doors
Feb 1st
Legend of Mir is a 2D Isometric MMORPG which has been running for about 7 Years now. Its appeal was how easy it was to pick up and play with only having 3 Classes to choose from (Wizard, Warrior & Taoist). It was said many times it would be loosing money by the number of cheats, people selling stuff on ebay and the private servers offering free play.
Working out why my MMORPG always fail
Jul 27th
In my Time I have ran “Legend of Mir 3″, “Lineage 2″ and “World of Warcraft” and each of them has been online / offline many times with varied player bases but what is common is that every single time – the server eventually died a death and went offline.
I can explain this easy enough with the likes of MIR3, this was more of me going through the files making sure it worked and was in English then wanting to run a live server. When I did run a Live server, too much of my time / bandwidth was taken up by people playing and finding bugs. Lineage 2 came and went many times – this one was different as the whole process is open source, so no translating required on my behalf. I used to update every single day and when I found nobody logged on for weeks on end (me been the only one to have played in over a month for example) annoyed me as I kept a computer running, spent time updating it and made sure I posted what had been fixed – so a complete waste of my time.
World of Warcraft though was not as bumpy as the rest – It was online and stayed there even when nobody was playing and only had one complete wipe in that time due to bugs coming across from old characters. I can predict what is going to happen as of now in fact though:
1. Lineage 2 will fall by the wayside as 50x Exp and played too many times means its only a matter of time before I get bored of updating it.
2. WoW has a much longer life span – I have done it all before though but the low exp will keep me playing for a while yet.
I can foresee that I will end of been the only one who will play and this is why it always ends off with the servers dying.
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