Rediscussed

Just a quick blog about Prototype.

Prototype the game

In prototype the game, in the first few minutes you will eventually come to a point where a tank has to be defeated.

The game screen goes into a letterbox shape, an zooms in on the tank. Once the camera zooms out the letter box shape should i can only assume disappear. Although i have not been able to get past this point. The letter box shape stays and i can no longer control Alex Mercer.

The only thing i can press is Esc and then i get to a loading screen that just repeats itself until i close the game.

Has anyone else experienced this with prototype?

I’ve not found anything on the net about it yet, maybe its a rare bug. Prototype had been running fine for the first 8 minutes though.

Here is a quick way to remove crysis wars intro movies fast, just follow the simple steps below.

1. Right click here and click save target as (or something of the simliar sort). Make sure the file type option when saving is ALL FILES, not “txt” on the file save dialog.
2. Browse to the crysis videos folder (by default “C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis Wars\Game\Localized\Video“
3. Click save, making sure the file extention stays as .vbs
4. Goto your videos folder “C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis Wars\Game\Localized\Video” and run crysis-wars-no-movies-script.vbs
5. Click Yes to remove and then you will have the intros removed from your game, just run it again and click ‘no’ to restore the intro’s

There you have removed the crysis loading screens with 5 simple steps, also have a very easy way of restoring them and removing them when you need to.

Crysis Warhead is coming up close, just over a month away from release on the 26/09/2008,

Here is a current full list of features that Crysis Warhead contains, including AUTO MAP Downloads, and patching system. Its what i am looking forward to most on this list.

Crysis Warhead for PC Features:

• A new installment in the Crysis adventure.
• Standalone single player campaign – does not require Crysis to play. (Developed by Crytek Budapest.)
• Tells the Sykes war story, Parallel Story to the original Crysis experience.
• 8+ hours playtime.
• All-new weapons and new player vehicles.
• Standalone Multiplayer, Warzone (tentative name) with new content. (Developed by Crytek Frankfurt.)
• More Explosive and Dynamic Gameplay.
• Play as the energetic, short-fused Sgt. Michael Sykes and prepare for intense, explosive skirmishes
• All Warhead levels build on the Crytek sandbox approach maximising player choice and freedom to choose your preferred tactical approach.
• Pulse-Racing New Story.
• Script development involving Susan O’Connor (Bioshock).
• Cinematic storyline focusing on Sgt. Sykes’ secret mission.
• Stunning New Photorealistic Environments.
• Ice Caves, Foggy Swamps, Airfields, Action-packed Train Ride and more.
• Visuals enhancement over original Crysis.
• New Global Illumination Lighting technology.
• Enhanced Human and Alien AI.
• New squad support immerses the player in battle.
• “Smart” Alien Mechs.
• Faster reactions and optimised group tactics.
• Improved Performance.
• Extended and optimised version of CryEngine 2.
• Improved visual features without hardware impact.
• “Gamer” System Setting Optimised.
• Crysis Warzone Multiplayer Experience.
• All-new game modes.
• Team Instant Action.
• Improved Crysis Game Modes.
• Team Action, and revamped Powerstruggle matches.
• 12 new maps (Five maps were previously releases as free downloadable, 7 never before seen).
• New vehicles and weapons.
• Auto map downloads and patching system.

Crysis Warhead is retailing very cheap, about £18 thats a great price for a stand alone game. (you won’t need vanilla crysis to play this) Although if you are going to go for Crysis Warhead you should at least know the story or have played original Crysis. Crysis Warhead had said to be optimized for a PC worth just $600 so cheaper than ever more optimized than ever, great graphics, great improvements!

I know I’m sold.

Download Acute Control Panel CMS Version 1

(24/04/2008) 21:45pm GMT

Hey over the last couple of weeks i made a Website Content Management System, I called it Acute Control Panel, because it was to be developed in a short amount of time. It’s open source anyone can modify it to suite their needs but i would like the original credit.

I have released it under a Creative Commons License that can be viewed here:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/

Current Features

are as follows:

• User’s
• Edit Pages / Delete Pages / Modify Pages ( Using TinyMCE )
• Parent Pages
• Sub Pages
• Edit Links / Delete Links / Modify Links
• Support for Theme’s
• Page Statistics
• Visitor Statistics

If you need to quickly make a website then acute cp is way to do it, it takes a few minutes to setup. I’ve made the default template in xhtml and the design SEO Friendly. It’s very easy to create your own themes, checkout The “rounded theme” to create and derive your own.

If you find any bug’s or things that will improve it you can email me on “Spencer-AT-rediscussed-DOT-com”, or leave a comment below.

Installation is easy

Installation

1. Extract, the contents of the zip file into a directory.
2. Create a MySQL Database on your webserver and import/run the MySQL Query “acute-cp.sql” from the contents of the zip, with a user and appropriate permission’s.
3. Open “acute-cp/web_settings.php” with a text editor. Replace the appropriate fields highlighted and any other information if need be(not usually):
   define(“db_name”,”acute-cp“);
   define(“db_server”,”localhost“);
   define(“db_username”,”web-cp“);
   define(“db_password”,”web-cp“);
4. Upload the contents of the “acute-cp” folder to your root FTP directory.
5. Installation is complete login to your control panel with the
   Username: admin
   Password: password
   and make sure you CHANGE the default password.

You can preview the default theme.

Click Below to Download

Download Acute Control Panel

Mortal Online is a MMORPG

Release Date: Summer 2009, But Yet To Be Announced.

Mortal Online was first planned back in 2002 and took off in 2005.

Mortal Online is a Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game some of its features that have been announced so far are, Free World/Free Roam, Next generation Graphics, Realtime combat and something they have added that maybe a different feature than other MMORPG’s is history never repeats itself.

So far they have released a bunch of features that i think early mmorpg’s have covered but the no repetitive monster killing. Full PvP is enabled around the free world of Mortal Online.

• Free Roam / Free World - free roam / free world is what you choose to do in the game, whether is be to be an assassin or theif. It also seems that you will be able to keep houses for storage. Explore the big world, discover new places and name them. New resources are everywhere.
  
  
  
• Graphics Next Generation – Mortal Online is using unreal technology for its “next generation graphics”, the unreal engine 3 to power its MMORPG features, using Grome and Speedtree they will be making a game and world of detailed characters, realistic terrain, life like creatures to make you feel connected visually / mentally to the game.
  
• Real time Combat (as seen in age of conan) – Real time combat in Mortal Online is the only combat system available on the game, auto attacking etc will not be implemented, you will have to be the fighter, you will need skill to fight.
• Mortal Online History Doesn’t get Repeated – When playing mortal online don’t expect to face the same monsters over and over again. There will be small monsters that are common but Big Beasts and Bosses that you kill don’t expect to see them miraculously come back to life, once they are dead they are dead. Rare monsters and quests do not return, each players experience will be unique. How do you find these monsters? you just have to be at the right place at the right time they could be anywhere. You could win a unique item or get a unique scar that no one else will bare, from this style of game play.
• Many more… there are more features to come from this game in most definitely but are yet to be announced.

Overall the graphics look nice, the unreal engine 3 should go down a treat, for those of you who don’t know of it. Okay so maybe the features so far aren’t as pretty as they could be but theres many more to come. The best feature so far would be the History doesn’t repeat itself feature. Which a lot of MMORPG’s don’t have and is what will make this game unique.

There usually always is a beta for these type of games, and Mortal online will also be holding a beta testing stage in the future. Anyway still probably a way to go yet, just thought it’d be worth knowing!

Here is a teaser trailer of mortal online:

The worlds thinnest notebook.

Apple have now brought out the thinnest notebook in the world!

The Macbook Air.

This amazing macbook is under 1 inch in thickness and weighs in at 3.0 pounds. This is the most portable macbook / laptop that has every hit the shops and if you are thinking of getting one then it would not be a mistake.

This ultrathin Apple notebook has a 13.3 inch widescreen which is LED backlit and has the same viewbale size screen as any other Macbook. This high resolution screen can give you 1280 by 800 resolution which gives even the lowest quality images an impressive look.

The Apple Macbook Air has all the benefits of high definition but in a very slim design.

Apple have given the Macbook Air the same keyboard as the standard Macbooks have but have added there own little twist to give you that little extra. Every key on the Apple Macbook Air has backlit illumination which makes it much easier to work in an area they does not contain a great amount of light such as meeting halls and taxis.

Not only does the Macbook Air have backlit keys they each have there own light sensor which automatically adjusts the keyboard to display the correct brightness for the best possible visibility.

Macbook Air has an oversized touch pad which has multi touch technology. This allows you to rotate, zoom, swipe or even pinch text or images for adjustments. This is the same input as the iTouch and iPhone.

On the side of the Apple Macbook Air there is a flip down hatch to reveal all the ports you will including USB 2.0, headphone jack and a small DVI port which supports DVI, Composite, VGA and S-video outputs.

Macbook Air contains 2 gb of RAM and an impressive 80gb hard drive which allows lots of storage space.

Apple have included a built in iSight camera which is so small you can hardly see it. This allows you to chat online to anyone else in the world wherever you are. Very handy.

You will have a full wireless lifestyle with the Apple Macbook Air.

The Macbook Air comes with a 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR built in.

I hope my review for the new Apple Macbook Air has answered some of your questions.

Thanks for looking (“,)