For anyone that's been following the world of tennis the past week, the Wimbledon Championships are in its second and final week for this year and today one of the greatest matches in this year's Wimbledon took place with the former champion, Lleyton Hewitt from Australia. (Read the article here!) Hewitt, who won in 2002, is an amazing tennis player who has been struggling to get back to top since then, entered into the Championships this year unseeded against 23 seed Radek Stepanek in the 4th round and was down 2 full sets (4-6, 2-6) and then made an absolutely incredible comeback in the following three sets, even after a rain-delay interruption, to win the match and get to the Quarterfinals! Although I am a huge Rafa Nadal fan myself, as Nadal had to withdraw from Wimbledon this year due to injuries and seeing Hewitt's inspiring match, I can't help but cheer...
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Wow, this is really cool! I'd like to know how they did this animation.
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I mentioned over Memorial Day that I had been working on a Holidays-themed game. It looks like it's been put on hiatus since my friend's gotten pretty busy with work but I thought I would at least post screenshots of what it looks like. The idea for the game is that you are playing as Scrooge, who of course doesn't like holidays, trying to defeat the Holiday-Bosses from Valentine's Day to Christmas. It was the first time I didn't do any coding for a project so that was an interesting experience for me. My friend Jay did most of the coding, we had a script (didn't make it into the game unfortunately) by my friend Justin, and I made the models and levels. Anyway, here are the screens! Valentine's Day: Easter: Halloween 1: Halloween 2: Christmas:
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I think I just found a real-life pokemon while stumbling across a Pac-Man Skeleton. And I want one. (Pygmy Jerboas: http://www.geekologie.com/2009/05/awwwh_i_want_a_million_pgymy_j.php)
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Two updates in one day! Imagine that. So I wanted to update everyone on one more piece of technology that I was skeptical about and decided to try today, and that is Bing.com. Wow was I impressed. So the thing that made me decide maybe I should try this new search engine over my former google default was this GearDaddy video: GearDaddy: Hands-on with Bing After watching that, I decided to do a couple of searches like my name, which brought up great results, which is pretty much expected if any search is going to try to compete with the google engine, but then I could hover over and get preview text in the exact context I needed; a huge time-saver, I could enter in addresses directly to get directions, I could ask it questions like "Why is Nadal's uniform pink and yellow?" and have results I wanted. Holy cow. There...
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The E3 Conference was this week and working on Xbox LIVE and all, I felt the need to share this exciting Project Natal with everyone, now that it is publicly announced! I got to try it out a while back and it definitely worked very well, detecting all of my movements and gestures right away, so check it out:
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