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Entries from May 2007

Company of Heroes - the 1st complete DX10 game in the world

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

We hit a pretty big milestone at work today. Patch 1.7 for Company of Heroes was released, making it the first complete DX10 game in the world.
Buggo, the community manager at Relic has the details on her blog, along with a snippet from an e-mail I sent out earlier today.
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Burst - 2008’s new buzzword

May 31st, 2007 · No Comments

For the past couple of years, I’ve been preaching about Burst and what it’s doing to consumption and creation of modern media, be it books, comics, television, web, music or any other media.
Most of my preaching was tied to my work at Nokia, and thus, was kept in board rooms and under wraps. […]

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links for 2007-05-29

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

All five homes in Saskatchewan over 1 Million Dollars
18K gets you Climax, but if you want to drop some dollars on the prairies, there are only 5 single family homes on the market for seven figures. The Vancouver area filtered for $1,000,000 homes yielded more than 500 responses and I needed to narrow my […]

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links for 2007-05-28

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Golden Compass Trailer
I am beyond psyched at the opportunity to see The Golden Compass in the theatre.

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links for 2007-05-27

May 27th, 2007 · No Comments

warrenellis.com ยป Burst Culture
Your weekend inspiration courtesy of Mr. Ellis.

Buy a home in Climax for $18K
Every once in a while, it’s fun to see what you can buy back in Saskatchewan. A similar home in Vancouver will run you at least $500K, bump that to $800K if you go west of Cambie Street. […]

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links for 2007-05-20

May 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Zombie vs. Robots cover
The picture that made me smile the most today.

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links for 2007-05-19

May 19th, 2007 · No Comments

b - side - favorite discovery of the weekend
I stumbled across this blog from their online gaming survey post. It’s basically random new media information. Now I get to spend the weekend scrounging through the archives for random nuggetsof brilliance.

StarCraft II - The official announcement
Blizzard returns to the genre that put them on […]

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links for 2007-05-15

May 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Game Crafting Extraordinaire
I want a Street Fighter blanky.

Super Happy Vancouver Lux Map
Play Risk in Vancouver. Lux rules!

‘Panty Explosion’–Japanese Schoolgirl RPG
Personally, I’m alot more ecxited about the Classroom Death Match RPG.

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links for 2007-05-14

May 14th, 2007 · No Comments

The Secret World
Funcom’s new MMO has been getting a lot of coverage, but I’m going to link to Wonderland’s - because Alice feels exactly the same way I do. This is the game that might make me stop playing WoW (although I barely have time to play any MMO these days)
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Sorry for the hiccups

May 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Had some weird website bugs over the weekend. For most of Sunday, the site was down completely. Hopefully everything is cleared up and it’s back to link-spam :) (This whole ‘being a dad’ thing makes it really hard to find the time to blog…)

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