Eurogamer’s Retrospectives, Almost as Good as Playing the Game

For a while, Eurogamer has been featuring reviews of old games. For marketing reasons, they call them retrospectives. I hear you wondering, what’s so special about reviews for age old games? Well, that probably means you’re either too young to know the games, or have too much time on your hands and can play through all those games.

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Unity 3D Engine on the Rise: LEGO Star Wars, The Quest for R2-D2

LEGO, Star Wars, free and games. What could be better than combining those four. Not much! The new LEGO Star Wars game has it all. The Quest for R2-D2 is a completely free game that you will love. It isn’t quite as deep as the full games, such as the original trilogy, but the quality is incredible for a browser-based game that is free. Chances are low you’ve seen anything comparable in a browser.

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4 Industrial Design Resources

As a ramp up of a new project (don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten the Android one) which I may or may not start I have been looking for affordable industrial designers or schools in Belgium. There are obviously a bunch of consultancy firms, but I’m afraid my budget is too limited.

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Closed Video Boxes, (not) Hacking the Telenet Digicorder

This article focuses on Belgium, but it’s also a commentary in general on the state of digital video receiver boxes. Since about a year, I have a Telenet Digicorder (site in Dutch), which is a device that both decodes incoming digital broadcasts and is able to record and timeshift them. It’s a fairly user-friendly device and, while I have experienced a crash or two, is pretty stable so I’m happy with it.

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