Category: Entertainment

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. faster, less easily

    Faster: The most recent patch (1.004) of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl video game is remarkable because it accelerates notably the performance of this game on your PC without changing its hardware configuration. Less easily: It was forecasted to have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl in download on Steam, the game distribution system from…

  • Top colors in movie posters

    Top colors in movie posters

    It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.

  • FEAR Perseus Mandate, the expansion pack video

    After F.E.A.R., the First Person Shooter (FPS) PC game that impressed (because of its playability as much as because of the then-overblown hardware requirements), here comes an expansion pack (F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate) that will allow you to explore the same dark universe, to experience the same acceleration effects, and to fight many opponents. Sierra…

  • YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads

    Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…

  • Bioshock is having real DRM problems

    We have been speaking a lot about Bioshock the newest First Person Shooter (FPS) PC video game from Second Take. We expected a very nice game in a complex environment with varied adversaries and game tactics. But we did not expected the most poweful adversary: The Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection against copy. TwitchGuru video…

  • News from the P2P front line

    It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…

  • Jesuits always missionaries for Christ: Second Life

    Jesuits belong to a catholic church order that can be rightfully praised for its passion for spreading the word of God to all ends of the world and for science in general (and some less brilliant moments, I have to admit). Today, we learn from Antonio Spadaro in La Civilta Cattolica a Jesuit Rome-based journal,…

  • F.E.A.R. 2 is not the sequel to F.E.A.R.

    F.E.A.R. 2 is not the sequel to F.E.A.R.

    This is becoming weirder and weirder. I had previously spoken about Ubisoft announcing FarCry 2 to follow in the footsteps of FarCry (a sequel?) while Crytek was working on Crysis (a technical improvement and a sequel). Here, we have to speak of another video game in the First Person Shooter (FPS) category, F.E.A.R. that has…

  • I Was Gored by a Bull – Is my life in danger?

    I Was Gored by a Bull – Is my life in danger?

    That is the very interesting question answered in this article from Slate. Whatever you think about corridas (Spanish bull fights) it may be interesting to look at the consequences of being gored by a bull, like it happens in the encierro of Pamplona (when they free the fighting bulls in the streets to have them…