Okay that sounds weird, but let me explain this a little. Notch commented in the past that the code of Minecraft would have been much cleaner and more friendly to work with if he had coded it purely as a multiplayer game, and having singleplayer be …
Despite Minecraft’s official release, there are still updates coming in. Snapshots released by Mojang allow people to test the unstable version of the update and report bugs and issues. I’ll point out the most important ones that are of interest to players. These are all from …
Alan Kertz of Battlefield’s gameplay design has given details of the upcoming updates and some insight into how an online game like this gets properly balanced despite problems on individual maps. For instance, the IRNV scope which was recently nerfed to a degree has caused some …
Servers are often subject to problems, especially in games like Battlefield 3 which have to make millions, even billions of calculations every few seconds, and all the while passing accurate data to all players in the game. DICE is certainly aware of the current issues plaguing …
The adventure update that was in pre-release testing for a few days has now been cleaned up and officially released, and the changelog for the entire version is absolutely massive and I plan to report on every single one of them after the jump. This is …
Nearly every game released has bugs, and these bugs are often fixed with patches released after the game has been sold to millions of people. Online games are especially prone to this due the huge number of players discovering tactics and tricks that can be considered …
There isn’t much Terraria news, but since I recently had the game gifted to me by a generous friend, I decided to do a piece on all the teasers and changes that are planned for the next update, and I’ll keep it detailed for those of …
On Notch’s twitter, he posted an image with a height cap of 512 blocks, commenting on how the landscape generator doesn’t like to play nice with numbers that high. For reference, the default height of Minecraft worlds up and down is 64 blocks. On the image …
Many Windows Phone 7 developers have reported receiving an update that enables copy-and-paste functionality earlier this week. Now, WinRumors claims that it has managed to get it’s hands on WP7’s 2011 update schedule. According to WinRumors, Windows Phone 7 will receive 2 major updates next year, …
Upon first install of Firefox 4 beta 3 codenamed: “Minefield” you will notice right away that they have simply thrown away what Firefox was and totally reinvented it. Firstly, the look, as you will see it looks similar to Google’s Chrome browser which is very simplistic …
