Next Tomb Raider to be released in 2012

I can’t wait for this game. I don’t really enjoy adventure games, but this… I sense it will be something different. And hey, who hasn’t played Tomb Raider in the past?

Launched a new blog

It’s been quite some time now since I bought my Nikon, and I decided it’s the time to start a photoblog. Even though my blog covers a lot of subjects, I just don’t think it’s the right place to talk about photography and filming here.

Besides, photography itself is covering way to many subjects I could discuss here, when this blog is probably just a summary about my activities and posting stuff I like to share.

This might mean the deletion of the “photography” category. But instead of deleting it I’ll probably do something else: linking articles from that blog here, when there’s something important- together with a thumbnail or a summary.

http://historylight.blogspot.com/

News

• I finished the linking all the videos of the “S-Star” competition ( a music&fashion competition that’s been held at my school in february). I’ll hopefully upload the video, cut in several parts(it’s 2 hours), sometime soon. The rendering took about 15 hours on my Intel Pentium D 3.2 ghz xD .
• I finished my cubicle entry for www.twhl.co.za “TWHL Cubicles” mini compo. Not much to say about it anyway, so here’s a link to download it if you want(includes screenshot ): LINK_DOWNLOAD&SCREENSHOT
• I got myself into the mapping team for a new PQL project(the same team that produced Issues and Reissues ). It’s almost the same thing, but now the mapping is done in Spirit of Half-Life. The maximum length of the level each mapper can post is 2 maps.I’ll be mapping something puzzle-themed with custom resources. All the maps will be connected through a hub . Right now people from the HL communities are not aware of this project as the team is just growing up right now. I already started mapping my entry .
• This week I’ve done a “not so cool” experiment, but hey… I like experiments . I made some ZnSO4(CuSO_4(s) + Zn_(s) = Cu_(s) + ZnSO_4(aq)). In a time period of about an hour, the blue coloured solution lost its color and some brownish-black deposits formed on the bottom of the glass. I think that’s the copper. Still, it’s interesting I can make experiments at home . (CuSO4 is easy to get, it’s found at gardening stores I guess…. it’s used to protect the grapes).
• I reaaaally want to make a new mini-film….
• I reaaaally have to finish my project for french =)).
  

HL Rooms- A TWHL project

It’s the first Half-Life modification where I participated. It’s a project that’s been initiated on http://www.twhl.co.za, practically anyone who wanted could make a room and then the person who managed the entire project ( Captain Terror from TWHL) would include in the a chain of interconnected rooms. A lot of this kind of projects have failed, but this one resisted.
My map( a dedication for MuzzleFlash,now “The Mighty Atom” from TWHL) was too large and had too many features to be included in that chain, so it was included as a bonus map. You can acces it from the “portal map” where you can see the credits, play the mod, and other things. My map is represented by a spinning globe, near a “Jim Carry” flag( my avatar from TWHL).

Download Link

Have fun playing!

Settlers2

For those of you who loved settlers2 in their childhoods, here’s a surprise !

A bunch of coders from Germany succeded in making settlers2 a multiplayer game. Not hotseat, but multiplayer ! Not only that it’s multiplayer now but it also runs smoother, runs on windows xp and the single player part of the game is a wip.

Here’s a link :  http://www.siedler25.org.

If you would still like to play settlers2 in single player, I recommend you to download DosBox. And here’s the full version of the game ( abandonware) on bestoldgames :

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/settlers-2-gold-edition.php

Happy gaming !

A new NFS is coming – September the 17th 2009(Europe)

That’s right ! The full name is

Need For Speed : Shift

The most noticeable change is the production team : it’s not done by EA anymore, instead the guys who made GTR will do this. I’ve got to say, after watching the teaser my mouth doubled in size. It’s gonna be a real NFS ( something better than GRID !! ) . No more stupidities. A real simulator. At last !
Here’s the teaser ( also in HD )