Minecraft gets themed alcoholic drink

Minecraft, which finally made its way to Xbox LIVE Arcade today, is the latest video game to be given an alcoholic drink by Cornish gaming cafe Loading.

Loading produced the Minecraft drink set in conjunction with Microsoft and Mojang using 81 shot glasses and 162 measures of alcohol. Billed as a "fan piece" the alcohol set was created to showcase just what Loading can come up with.

The shots were made from Kahlua, Baileys, Midori, Blue Curacao and mixers such as rum, pineapple juice and Sambuca. unsecured loans

Loading's owner James Dance will recreate the Minecraft drink if someone is willing to cover the cost of all the booze, said to be around £162.

"We thought it was a great way for us to celebrate the release of Minecraft on the Xbox 360 and show we're not just about gaming cocktails in the bad credit loans conventional sense," Dance told MCV.
Loading has previously produced the Deus Ex on the Beach cocktail.

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

So far, Traveler's Tales have revealed first look images at Hal Jordan, Wonder Woman & Catwoman, and Lex Luthor & the Joker from the upcoming video game Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. Now, thanks to Digital Spy, we bad credit loans get to see three more images. These feature Nightwing (Dick Grayson) and the villainous Two-Face (Harvey Dent) and the Riddler (Edward Nigma). Check them out below:

Each character will have unique in-game abilities. Two-Face uses dual pistols and wreaks havoc around Gotham City in his own custom truck, while Riddler hides boxes around the city. Finally, Nightwing has an acrobatic unsecured loans fighting style, using two night sticks, a Batarang and the ability to grapple.

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In Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, the Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin join other famous super heroes from the DC Universe including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to save Gotham City from destruction at the hands of the notorious villains Lex Luthor and the Joker. Batman fans of all ages will enjoy a new and original story filled with classic Lego video game action and humor, as players fight to put the villains back behind bars. Developed by Traveler's Tales, the game is set to be released on June 1, later this year.

Robert Doisneau's 100th Birthday - Google

The photo collage on search giant Google's home page today celebrates the 100th birth anniversary of French photographer Robert Doisneau.

Doisneau, alongwith Cartier-Bresson is known to have lead the way towards a new path in photojournalism. One of the four photos in the collage is his most famous unsecured loans photograph Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (Kiss by the Hotel de Ville) shot in 1950 in Paris.

Another photograph on the doodle is titled Le Remorqueur du Champ de Mars (Tug on the Champ de Mars). The 1943 image shows two children playing at Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Another is the image of a woman (representing the anonymous reader) bad credit loans at the 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant's monument at Parc Monceau, Paris. The fourth photograph is Le Chien a Roulettes (Dog on Wheels) from 1977.

Widely acclaimed for his ironic images as well as those that depicted juxtapositions, Doisneau's photographs mingled social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes. Doisneau lost his parents in childhood. His father died during World War I when he was only four, his mother too died some three years later. He was raised by his aunt.

At 13, Doisneau joined a craft school where he was first introduced to the arts, participating in still life and figure drawing. He earned diplomas in lithography and engraving here.

At 16 he discovered photography. According to some accounts, in the initial days of his photography he was so shy that he'd only photograph cobblestones. Doisneau later moved to photographing children and then adults.

In the 1920s, he joined an advertising company. In 1932 he sold his first photo-story to Excelsior newspaper. In 1939 he took up a job working with postcard photography and freelance advertising services. Later that year he was drafted as a photographer and a Resistance soldier.

He used his skills to forge identification papers and passports. During this time he photographed the Battle of Paris. After the war he worked for Life magazine and he also worked with Paris Vogue doing fashion and high-class photography. He won the Prix Kodak in 1947.

Gears of War 3 dlc

Nobody can say Gears of War 3 doesn't have staying power. Not only is it massive to begin with, but Epic keeps pushing out downloadable content and title updates. In fact, the fourth and latest title update has just appeared, a week ahead of the 'Forces of Nature' DLC (pictured). It contains a number of minor tweaks and bug fixes, all of which should make the multiplayer experience more enjoyable.
Title update release notes:
IMPROVEMENTS

• Savage Drone and Savage Grenadier can now “swat” turn in Beast mode
• Spectator mode now starts viewing a player instead of a battle camera
• Alternate control users in multiplayer will no longer look at DBNO characters when pressing R3
• The crosshair for the Longshot and Hammerburst will now show an X if a shot is obstructed.
• KOTH – ring locators are now unsecured loans visible in spectator mode
• KOTH – some hill locations have been adjusted

BUG FIXES

• The Onyx Guard decoy in Horde will not drop his rifle after exhausting the Vulcan ammo
• Clients will no longer be stuck with a “Waiting For Players” message up if the host quits Horde during the progression screen
• Chainsaw audio loop will now persist for listeners who leave the audible range and re-enter it
• Fixed some instances where special event ribbons would not be properly awarded
• COG pistol firing rate has been adjusted to be equal on host and clients
• The Flaming Retro Lancer is now available for attendees of the first special event
• Fixed some issues fixed related to bad credit loans the destruction of meatbags
• The Slab start up screen no longer has debug text
• After a host migration in Horde, the waves will no longer go past 50
• Cover near the elevator on Hotel no longer allows players to lean outside of the visible area
• Grenade throwers that are killed mid-throw will receive credit for any kills that grenade causes
• Silverback will be disabled if hit by a smoke grenade when the driver is in the middle of the exit animation
• Team Deathmatch time limit no longer resets to 3 minutes when both teams are out of respawns

Gamers should receive notification of the update the next time they start up the game while connected to Xbox Live. As for 'Forces of Nature,' that's coming on March 27 and will cost 800 MS Points ($10). It adds five new multiplayer maps and four character skins to the existing buttload of each.

GAME Group removes itself from London Stock Exchange

Board sees 'no equity value left in the Group'.

GAME has requested to be removed from the London Stock Exchange with effect from 7:30am today.
The news comes after "ongoing and regular discussions between GAME and its lending banks and between its lending banks and a potential third party provider of finance to the business".
"The Board now considers itself to be unable to assess the business's financial position, and is of the opinion that there is no equity value left in the Group," explained a unsecured loan statement released today. "Therefore the Company has requested that the listing of its securities on the Main Market of London Stock Exchange plc be suspended from trading with effect from 7:30am today.
"The Company will provide a further update in due course."
It now looks likely that GAME will go into voluntary administration in order to save some of its assets.
According to MCV, GAME's stores will be reassessed and will likely mean the end of gamestation, other than rare stores which are performing well.
"If everyone commits it's great news," MCV was told by a source close to the negotiations. "A GAME with 300+ stores is what we'll all get, which is basically where bad credit loans they should have been three years ago during the peak. There's no need for two, or even three, stores in the same town or city."

Comic zeal

The iPad should technically be perfect for comics. The large screen, the swipe gestures and the pinch-to-zoom all make digital comics that much better than it has before. But no one comic reader has gotten it completely right.

Here are the contenders for comic readers. There's the Comixology unsecured loans and Marvel's reader, the latter of which is just Comixology, but locked in to only Marvel's own comics. These are good if you want to read 500ish Marvel comics, or some more indie comics on Comixology, but what if you get your comics elsewhere and want to import them? Then you need Comic Zeal or Comic Reader.

Both these apps supports iTunes file sharing, which is basically file transfer—in iTunes—directly to the app. That part works fine. Once the comics get on the pad, that's when the experience splits.

Comic Reader Mobi

It's $15, but comes as a universal app (you get the iPhone version for free, essentially), and has more features than Comic Zeal. File support includes ZIP, RAR, CBR, CBZ and PDF, which are the common container formats comics come in online, from non-official sources. You know what I'm talking about.
Advancing pages is done by either swiping bad credit loans forward, like in iBooks, or hitting the forward button, and is quite smooth. Going backward a page, however, causes the app to reload the image from scratch every time, causing a weird second or two delay. It also auto-detects two page layouts and automatically switches to landscape view, which saves you the brain processing time of figuring out that things are sideways and manually flipping the iPad.
Overall though, the experience is pretty good, making up for the iPad's size shortcomings with clever zoom and smooth scrolling. The best way to read is to turn off size-to-fit and scroll a little bit on each page, then flip to the next. But the teal UI really needs to be redone to something more presentable.

Comic Zeal

The UI here is a lot more polished and iPad-like than Comic Reader Mobi, and the app comes in at only $8. You still transfer comics to the app via iTunes, but strangely, Comic Zeal has to do some processing once you fire up the app. It took around 3-4 minutes to process 7 comics I dumped in, whereas CRM processed it instantly. Strange.
Unlike CRM, Comic Zeal doesn't auto-detect two-page layouts, and it doesn't have the ability to zoom into text bubbles independently. Overall though, the presentation is nicer and the UI isn't awful. Swiping is strangely awkward, with the page chunking when you swipe, and if you don't swipe really far, it just pops back into place on the current page. The next page button works better in this app.

The size problem

The big issue with all these comic readers is that the 10-inch iPad screen actually isn't quite big enough to comfortably read comic book dialogue bubbles off of. If it were only 20% larger, things would be fine. In "fit to screen" mode, Comic Reader Mobi addresses this issue by allowing you to tap on dialogue bubbles and instantly get a magnifying glass effect over the text. This is genius, and works really, really well.
But you can also view comics in their original size, which means you'll have to do a slight bit of scrolling in CRM. So you're getting 80% of the page in one go, then flip down to see the rest. You can't pinch-to-zoom to enlarge the entire page, but if you pinch you can draw a rectangle around the places you want to zoom. You can actually pinch-to-zoom, but for some reason when I do it it makes the page jump awkwardly to the right.
Comic Zeal, on the other hand, allows you to either fit-to-screen or pinch-to-zoom. Fit-to-screen works exactly the same as Comic Reader Mobi, but because Comic Zeal doesn't have the text bubble zoom function, you have to pinch and pan and zoom all the time in order to read the text. Not ideal, and makes the whole experience unsatisfactory.
Marvel and Comixology tackle the problem by introducing the "guided view", which goes one panel at a time, blowing it up to full screen so you can easily see everything. Problem here is that although you can easily read the text, you lose the page formatting and panel flow.

So is the iPad a good comic book reader or not?

Man, if the screen were about 20% bigger, this would be the best comic book reader yet. You wouldn't need to pan, to zoom, to scroll or to pinch. You could just read. But right now, Comic Reader Mobi has the best solution—even if its UI is ugly as Bizarro and costs twice as much.

EA fucking over the buyer, more server shut downs

It’s that time of year again.  When EA says screw you people, I don’t care what you paid for a game we’re shutting the servers down.

So what games are the lucky canidates unsecured loans this time?

- Burnout Revenge
- Create
- EA Sports Active 2
- The Godfather II (This has no online achievements)
- EA Sports MMA
- Need for Speed: ProStreet
- The Saboteur (This has no online achievements)
- Spare Parts (Online not required for achievements)

This list really, in a way, suprises me…but doesn’t at the same time.  A couple of these games have been out for ages, while two of these have barely even been out a year.  That’s EA for you I guess.

If there are any of these games that anyone is bad credit loans wanting to boost, hit me up!