I noticed Geocities is closing down. Good move Yahoo, good move.

Geocities has always annoyed me. It was a sea of bad backgrounds and marquee tags. By closing the service, Yahoo has hopefully inspired a few people to learn HTML full time and start making website the proper way: by hand.

…is a great website. If i had to describe it, I would say “Music based MMO”. Give it a try.

I’ve added a flash widget on the sidebar so you can look @MyTweets (twitter joke) without leaving the page.

I just updated the GreenCloud website to version 2, and I’ve announced a new game project, “Espial”. Visit the site for more info and full plot details (possible spoilers).

Oh hey, I released an album.
“Yellow” is the culmination of the best part of a year dicking around on my PC, chopping up sounds, recording, finding the perfect sample, levelling, etc. It’s free, so click the album artwork above to download it. It took much longer than I expected, but I am quite lazy, so I apologize if this album doesn’t meet your taste, it was more an experiment of mine.

…but if you like it then that’s cool too, I guess…

I’ve added a “Share on Facebook” link to all my posts, so if I say something you like, you can tell everyone else about it. Probably won’t happen, but it’s there. Click “Comment/Share” to do so.

It was quite good, iPhone 3g price drop, new 3.0 features, all in all it was a good conference. Now I just gotta hurry up and get myself an iPhone!

I’ve switched up the blacbox site, so bear with me. It will be a bit buggy for the next couple of hours. I’ve opted for a blog on the main page, with subdomains for software, games, etc.

A pretty epic game from Blendo, the creators of gravity bone. It’s super short, but just surreal enough to work. GET IT.

While I understand that developers need to make money for coder’s paychecks, licencing technology, etc, I always get quite annoyed when another same-same sequel is churned out only a year after the original. Don’t get me wrong, some sequels are incredible, in some cases cementing the series in it’s place as one of the greatest games of all time, but when it comes across as nothing more than a quick money grab, I, and I assume most of the earth’s gaming population, feel cheated. We get a glimpse into what could be the next stepping stone along a path of awesome gaming experiences, but what we get instead is a quick texture change, and perhaps a few extra “innovative” features that everybody else has been including since 2005. I call this “FIFA syndrome”.

With games that need to be updated every year to coincide with current sports teams, (for example, the FIFA games) this money grabbing is easy, sheep herded to next year’s “top release” featuring negligibly improved graphics and up to date stats. I ask you, why not just charge a small amount for a software update with all this information? The answer is that they would lose money. Not a little amount either.

Think about it. A list of all the current teams and their current players - maximum 1mb text file. Would you pay £40 for a 1mb text file?