Robag's blog

Robag's picture

Gallery: BrickCon, The biggest LEGO convention we’ve ever seen

Full Story

Last weekend, the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall hosted BrickCon, one of the nation’s largest and longest-running public exhibitions of LEGO art and dioramas. While Ars’ staff suffers from varying levels of LEGO-mania, we all thought this convention’s 13th annual iteration might be a cool place to see a range of amateur and professional block creations.

This year’s show, in particular, caught our eye thanks to a hot tip about a Doom-themed installation, so we rushed in with our camera to snap a few choice hellions, and then we proceeded to catalog much of what we saw at the show. Take a look at our gallery for Technics, trains, war reenactments, pop culture minutiae, castles, space stations, boats, cars, and much more.

“Doom Lego”

Robag's picture

Gauntlet Released

Elf needs food badly! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announces they’ve thrown down the gauntlet with the release of Gauntlet, a remake of the arcade classic for Windows PCs. Here’s word:

“This new digital version of Gauntlet innovates on past titles while staying true to the brand’s legendary four-player format,” said David Haddad, Executive Vice President, Publishing Operations, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Multiplayer gameplay is at the core of Gauntlet’s appeal and now gamers have the option to play with friends and family locally and online.”

Robag's picture

Borderlands Replaces GameSpy With Steamworks

A Steam community announcement has details on an update for Borderlands on Steam to replace the game’s defunct GameSpy multiplayer support with Steamworks. This page has instruction on how to update your copy of Gearbox’s role-playing shooter, including details for those who have not previously installed the game under Steam. The instructions say the update will come later this summer, but that first announcement indicates this is live now. Word is: “If you have a physical DVD of the game, don’t forget you can get the Steamworks version by running the “Granting Tool” in the “Tools” section of Steam.”

ta
Robag

Robag's picture

Happy Birthday N0mad

Well i go the right day this time.

Rock on good buddy enjoy the Day

eat lots of cake

ta
Robag

Robag's picture

GOG Introduces DRM-Free Movie Store

Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: “We love your ideas, but we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk”. DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation.

Robag's picture

Head Shoot Unreal Tournament Pre-Alpha

Epic Games now offers downloads of a playable pre-alpha build of their Unreal Tournament revival for registered users of their forums (thanks BeyondUnreal). They go to great lengths to stress this is a preliminary release fraught with bugs and placeholders, and that it is intended to inspired feedback from those interested in helping shape the multiplayer first-person shooter. The Unreal Tournament website explains:

Robag's picture

Matrix in 60 seconds lolz

i was searching on the internet and i found this

ta
Robag

Robag's picture

Torchlight & Torchlight II Linux Coming to Steam?

There are new Linux entries for Torchlight II in the Steam database, according to the unofficial Steam Database website, noting there are also now Linux references in the Torchlight entry as well. The penguin-loving gamers at GamingOnLinux note that a Linux version of the original Torchlight was released as part of Humble Indie Bundle 6, but never appeared on Steam, though these indications suggest both installments in Runic’s action/RPG series are now headed there. Thanks Ant.

one for Slacker., ltmon and n0mad

ta
Robag

Robag's picture

Happy Bithday Shad

Ha Shad is the birthday boy that means Mrs Shad has to do anything Shad wants,
its nice to dream hay Shad

ta
Robag

Robag's picture

Happy Birthday Fuzz

Boom baby one more year on the clock

rock on and have a great day

ta
Robag

Syndicate content