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Mar/13

SimCity Won’t Start

Filed Under Games at 13th March 2013 20:45 by

I’ve been playing SimCity 2013 on EA Origin system and the game consistently starts fine (besides the server issues). Today suddenly the game won’t even start. Launching it from Origin a dialog box appears saying Launching SimCity… but disappears and … Continue reading →

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Apr/12

Decrypting Minecraft Password

Filed Under Games, Security, Software at 13th April 2012 0:01 by

If you want to retrieve a forgotten password in Minecraft you can use some simple Java to decrypt the “lastlogin” file if the username and password from the last session was saved. I do not condone the act of stealing … Continue reading →

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Jun/11

Steam Saved Game Locations

Filed Under Games at 18th June 2011 11:53 by

I found this on the Valve’s Steam forums. It was handy in locating and importing my Mass Effect game into Mass Effect 2. Steam Game Save Locations

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Nov/09

Valve’s Steam And Windows 7 Integration

Filed Under Games, Windows at 6th November 2009 21:12 by

Valve has done a great work integration Steam with Windows 7. The icon in the taskbar shows the download status of all the currently downloading items. This was demos in my case. I have the Steam icon in my start … Continue reading →

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Oct/08

Multiwinia Limited Edition Unboxing

Filed Under Games at 6th October 2008 13:24 by

Overview I have always been a fan of Introversion since their first game; Uplink. I discovered them in PC Gamer magazine and it told the story of how they started in the bedroom and selling their game at markets. Unboxing … Continue reading →

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Sep/08

Will Wright At Regent Street Apple Store

Filed Under Blog, Games at 4th September 2008 12:53 by

I found out Will Wright will be show casing Spore at the London Apple store and thought I’d go. I was going to meet Dave around 13:30 – 14:00 but he missed the train and got in for 14:30. I … Continue reading →

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Aug/08

Steam Defragger

Filed Under Games at 1st August 2008 12:23 by

Discovered this new feature when I tried to launch Team Fortress 2.

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Jul/08

Ubisoft Uses CD Crack To Fix A Ubisoft Game

Filed Under Games at 21st July 2008 15:53 by

It’s unbelievable that a company would “steal” a no CD crack to patch their game because uses who downloaded it legally couldn’t get pass the CD check. Ubisoft has just done that and it didn’t even credit Reloaded for the … Continue reading →