Max Payne - Movie Trailer

I was quite surprised when I stumbled across this earlier today as I hadn't been aware of the fact that someone was doing a Max Payne movie. Being a huge fan of both games - they're still among my favourite video games of all times - I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Especially given the fact that most movies based on video games plainly suck (not in small part thanks to the work of Uwe Boll).


But having watched the trailer (extra kudos for the Marilyn Manson track!) I have to say that it looks pretty sweet and I'm pretty sure I'm going to see it once it hits the cinemas.

The next computer game I'll probably play is...

...which should apparently become available before the end of the year. Being a huge fan of Will Wright's Sim-series (I even loved Sim Earth, some still judge me for that) I might as well spend all of my christmas vacation playing that game!

Zero Punctuation: Guitar Hero III

This has got to be one of the funniest game-reviews I've ever seen... Enjoy!

SimCity running on the OLPC X0

After last night's session mainly being focused on serious web-services and web-sites I decided to go for something different today. That's why I decided to download and install the legendary SimCity (my Maxis) on one of the X0s I have sitting here. Electronic Arts recently released the game under the GPL and that means that it's now available for everyone to play, hack and sugarize (the process of adapting software to the X0's Sugar environment).

So above you can a screenshot of my city after playing for around 5 minutes. SimCity really brings back lots of memories to when I was in primary school and used to play that game, A LOT!

Anyway, kudos to EA for releasing that game and I hope to see more publishers release older titles under the GPL so they can be ported over to the X0!