Infotaxis Blog

Fallout 3 is the major release of the year for me, and many other fans of both Bethesda Softworks and Fallout around the world. If I could have anything at the moment, it was “Damn, I wish I could get Fallout 3 on Steam”, and the Internet has answered my prayers! O.o
Fallout 3 is now [...]

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I’m sure you’ve heard of AlwaysOnTop, right? Where the window stays on top of all other windows - always. What if you want the window to be always on the bottom? There is no function for this in the Windows API! This stumped me for a very long time, until I just dove into learning [...]

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This game is quite the unexpected surprise. Tilted Mill entertainment is a relatively small-name company, but they have really managed to strike a niche genre that I for one adore. This game has Diablo-style gameplay for items and combat, and a unique citybuilder perspective rolled into one game. The basic idea is to grow from [...]

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nVidia acquired PhysX a few months back, promising hardware support for physics processing on it’s 8-series and above GPUs. The first game to feature nVidia’s new release (to my knowledge, anyway) is Brothers In Arms - Hell’s Highway.
 
For those of you who don’t know what that means, basically from here on out, whenever you play a [...]

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I’ve played Spore enough to tell you about it, now. I’m sorry I didn’t get to this sooner, but again, I was busy playing Spore.
Let me mention that depending on how much of the hype for this game eeped into your skull, there’s a chance it could disappoint you on a few fronts - if [...]

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I am not a Mac user. I have been and will be a PC user - with that said I love mac’s style. Clean, sleek, and simple. For $50 I picked up an Apple keyboard at Best Buy; I am typing on it right now. It has rounded white keys with simple lower-case gray glyphs [...]

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Let me first start by telling you how astoundingly fun this is. Alright, moving on..
I’m going to post a number of articles on the beta as I play. This first one covers the balance of the nations you can play as.

One of the biggest changes from RA2 (aside from the inclusion of Japanese an exclusion [...]

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If you take World of Warcraft, remove the 12-year-olds, and add some whores (okay, a lot of whores), you’re left with Age of Conan. With some of the most impressive graphics to date (similar to those of Crysis), lots of voiced dialogue, and the best MMO combat I’ve ever experienced, it’s sure to please the [...]

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In the iPod/iPhone (iPhod?) community, everyone’s talking about the 2.0 firmware series. The appstore has brought sanctioned 3rd party apps to the iPhod and a jailbreak lets you get the best of both worlds. This one is a bit harder than previous ones, and even I had trouble getting it to work due to numerous [...]

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I never got around to learning the pen tool, and it came back to bite me in the ass now that I want to learn Illustrator. I searched around for a good tutorial, and after lots of really shoddy ones came up with this:

This tutorial covers many of the points I have been struggling to [...]

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