Know It Or Blow It

Darn, Microsoft just announced the compatibility list for the Xbox 360, and my most recently bought game, Burnout Revenge, is not playable on the 360 yet

I have a pre-order for the 360 so I can pick it up on December 2nd.
Halo & Halo 2 are ofcourse playable, Project Gotham 2 isn’t. Seems I need to keep the old Xbox attached for a while.

This autumn, SpaceShot will be offering a skill game where players can win a suborbital trip into space.

We offer a highscore-table, now others begin to offer flights in space. Oh great

Together with a number of Casual Game companies from both the US and Europe, the company I work for, Zylom, will be organizing a fully dedicated 2-day Casual Games conference named ‘Casuality Europe; to be held in Amsterdam early February of next year! You can expect all the top game developers, publishers and distributors from the US and Europe to be there

For more information on content and registration please visit: http://www.casuality.org/.

*sigh*
Due to Microsoft basically removing Java from their browser, nowadays most browsergames are ActiveX (don’t get me started about Flash). This however requires you to install an ActiveX object, to allow downloading the games and play them in your browser. We spent quite some time creating a good loader object which works onder IE and Firefox (Wintel). This loader object is required to play (our) ActiveX games.

However, each and every day I get google alerts regarding postings on forums with hijackthis logfiles, and other people suggesting to those people to remove the Zylom Games Player. Then afterwards they contact our support that “suddenly the games stopped working”, when ofcourse they never changed a bit (except for removing our player)…

So if you see a line like
O16 - DPF: {BFF1950D-B1B4-4AE8-B842-B2CCF06D9A1B} (Zylom Games Player) http://../zylomgamesplayer.cab
in you hijackthis log, don’t worry, it’s not spyware. It’s our game-extension and is required to play the games.

See the zylom help as well.

As has been noted in various media, Pac Man turns 25 this year!

As I like these old arcade games, I build a MAME cabinet myself, reliving my yought. I however was quite pleased and astonished when I found out that somebody has created Pacman for Excel. Try it yourself!