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New Year, New Plans

It’s already halfway through February, but I’ve been kicking the tires behind the scenes. This is a big transition year for Daydalus Studio. I think it’s safe to say that I’m leaving Xbox Live Indie Games behind for good. XNA itself is officially dead, but I

New Review of Platform Hack

Pretty detailed review of Platform Hack by AlloySevenVideo. Thanks @TheSecondLetter [https://twitter.com/TheSecondLetter]!

Semi-Cacophonous Roar: My Bloody Valentine's MBV

I first heard My Bloody Valentine on a plane to New York City. It was my friend Richard’s first trip, his first flight in fact, and he’d brought along a Sony Discman and a stack of essential albums. He was wide eyed and ecstatic (giddy enough to mail

Thoughts on some 2012 Films

Note: these reviews will contain spoilers. The general consensus is that it’s been a good year for film.  As opposed to some years past, when the Academy was content to celebrate big CGI spectacles (LOTR, Avatar) or well-crafted whimsy (Kings Speech, the Artist), this year contains films that are

The Information

It’s somewhat ironic that despite my Computer Science degree I didn’t hear a lot about Alan Turing until after college, reading Cryptonomicon. I’d heard the name, along with the other big names in computer science: Djikstra, Knuth, Kernighan and Ritchie, along with software deities like Gates and

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