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Sunday, June 7th, 2009 2 views
Battle Tanks , coming to the PlayStation Network from mobile developer Gameloft this July, feels very familiar. At its heart, the game’s a two-stick shooter with a few interesting mechanics to help differentiate it from the crowd (bullets ricochet off of walls and power-ups break up the monotony). Which isn’t to say what we played of the the game was bad — it felt like digital distribution’s equivalent of a rental-worthy game — which is quite the dilemma, considering the PSN-based distribution of the title. Commanding a World War 2-era tank, we piloted ourselves around a handful of different square maps, where a variety of enemy tanks and power-ups laid in our path. The layout of each level’s semi-destructible environments helped to dictate our tactics while we dominated Destructoid’s Ben Perlee — er, rather , while he blew himself up, given that ricocheting bullets (even your own) can mean game over.
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Hands-on: Battle Tanks
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009 2 views
Battle Tanks , coming to the PlayStation Network from mobile developer Gameloft this July, feels very familiar. At its heart, the game’s a two-stick shooter with a few interesting mechanics to help differentiate it from the crowd (bullets ricochet off of walls and power-ups break up the monotony). Which isn’t to say what we played of the the game was bad — it felt like digital distribution’s equivalent of a rental-worthy game — which is quite the dilemma, considering the PSN-based distribution of the title. Commanding a World War 2-era tank, we piloted ourselves around a handful of different square maps, where a variety of enemy tanks and power-ups laid in our path. The layout of each level’s semi-destructible environments helped to dictate our tactics while we dominated Destructoid’s Ben Perlee — er, rather , while he blew himself up, given that ricocheting bullets (even your own) can mean game over. While we weren’t exactly jonesin’ for more once the demo had ended, Battle Tanks ‘ detailed environments and combination shooter/puzzle gameplay could very easily help us while away an empty Saturday. Too bad we can’t rent it. Gallery: Battle Tanks (PSN) Original source: www.joystiq.com , delivered by rss-farm.ru
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009 0 views
Depending on your internet connection you might be able to download a lot more (or a lot less) than 1Mb in two seconds - but calling this a post about apps under a meg just isn’t quite as much fun! No, you don’t really need to pay too much attention to an application’s hard drive footprint any more. After all, when you can buy a 1.5Tb drive for less than $150US, what difference does a few megs here or there make? On the other hand, it’s amazing to see what some developers are able to accomplish with a very small amount of code. There are a ton of great, free applications that have been created in less than 1Mb - I didn’t fully realize just how many until I started putting this list together. This is by no means a complete list, so if your favorite got overlooked make sure to share it in the comments! Desktop/Shell Enhancements Launchy (408Kb) - Hotkeys FTW! Launchy does more than hotkeys, of course, but even if you add a bucketload of plugins it’s still under 1Mb.
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40+ awesome free Windows apps you can download in 2 seconds
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009 2 views
Depending on your internet connection you might be able to download a lot more (or a lot less) than 1Mb in two seconds - but calling this a post about apps under a meg just isn’t quite as much fun! No, you don’t really need to pay too much attention to an application’s hard drive footprint any more. After all, when you can buy a 1.5Tb drive for less than $150US, what difference does a few megs here or there make? On the other hand, it’s amazing to see what some developers are able to accomplish with a very small amount of code. There are a ton of great, free applications that have been created in less than 1Mb - I didn’t fully realize just how many until I started putting this list together. This is by no means a complete list, so if your favorite got overlooked make sure to share it in the comments! Desktop/Shell Enhancements Launchy (408Kb) - Hotkeys FTW! Launchy does more than hotkeys, of course, but even if you add a bucketload of plugins it’s still under 1Mb. Open++ (114Kb) - Helps you tweak your context menu six ways from Sunday. Pair it with another app like NirCmd for a nice one-two punch. ViGlance (198Kb) - Want Windows 7’s iconized taskbar in XP or Vista? ViGlance pulls it off in just under 200Kb
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40+ awesome free Windows apps you can download in 2 seconds
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