It’s true my fellow Portal fans. Valve announced this Friday that a sequel is in the works and will be released later this year! This confirms earlier suspicions of an upcoming sequel suggested by a recent patch to the game which introduced clues and a new achievement.
More details will be revealed in the next issue of Game Informer magazine, but apparantly it will be longer than it’s predecessor, and there possibly will be a Mac version.
As a web developer, one of the more annoying things about forms is the validation part. Luckily there’s jquery-validate which makes validating forms as easy as just adding a simple class to an input field that needs validation.
However, during one of my latest projects I discovered that under certain conditions, jquery-validate doesn’t play nicely with Internet Explorer 6. By the time you will read this, things might have changed, but the issue I had was that no form validation was done at all.
After some Googling, it turned out the problem is caused by the fact that jquery-validate is encoded as ISO-8859-1. Since the page itself was using UTF-8, and Internet Explorer 6 seems to assume all scripts without a proper encoding defined must be using the same encoding as the page, this caused the validation to stop working.
The solution is simple however. You just need to change the line where jquery-validate is loaded :
<script src="jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
and add the proper encoding by adding charset=”iso-8859-1″ to the script tag :
<script src="jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript" charset="iso-8859-1"></script>
Installing the Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate under VMware Fusion on the Mac isn’t difficult at all. Probably the hardest step is downloading Windows 7 RC itself. But for those who still are unsure (or plain lazy), this guide was written! And if that wasn’t enough, a Flickr photoset with even more screenshots is available. Read More
Check out the exclusive BioShock 2 debut footage of GameTrailers.com. In it we finally get to see a Big sister and of course the famous Big Daddy drill in action. Only a few more months till Rapture awaits us all!
The Behemoth, the game developer responsible for Castle Crashers and Alien Homonid today released the first teaser screenshot of their upcoming game.
Very little is known about this game, so in preperation of the planned trailer (March 18th!), this single screen shot is very welcome. Unfortunately though, it doesn’t tell us much.
If you liked the style of Castle Crashers, you will absolutely love this.
In my previous post I discussed the new teaser site for Bioshock 2: Sea Of Dreams, the upcoming sequel of the highly successful video game Bioshock.
Since that post, they updated the web site and added some clues in the form of even more news paper clippings, pictures and notes. Apparently, more girls aged 5 to 7 were abducted along the Atlantic coast of Europe, again by a ’skinny monster’ wearing a ‘red light’. The new content also mentions reports of strange red lights beneath the sea surface.
I’m very interested in how all these events and facts will fit in the story arc of Bioshock.
Once every few years there comes a game which manages to amaze everyone. In 2007, Bioshock did just that. Besides great game play and graphics, the true beauty of the game were it’s interesting story and atmosphere. So it’s not surprising that many of us are eagerly awaiting it’s sequel ‘Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams’ which hopefully will be released this year.
Very little is known about the story of Bioshock 2. The short teasing trailer released in October 2008 revealed virtually nothing but successfully generated a lot of buzz, speculation and anticipation.
Recently, Take-Two launched a teaser site which like the October trailer doesn’t tell us much.
Finally! The latest version of Wordpress, version 2.5 has arrived! For many it was a long wait, but as I’m typing this message from the new administration panel I must say it was worth it (especially since the editor now seems to work properly with Safari!)
I’ve been following the development of this version on my local sandbox install and each time I checked it out (literally through SVN) it got better and better.
If you are running an older version of Wordpress, it’s worth upgrading.
For more information on Wordpress 2.5 it’s new features, read the announcement by Matt Mullenweg on the Wordpress Development Blog
I just found out something very neat in Mac OS X which some of you might find handy. I’m sure this tip has been around and known for some time, but in case you haven’t heard of it before (like me), read on.
By default, if you want to change the toolbar from say icons and text to just icons, you would do that through the View menu. However, by clicking that ‘pill-like’ button in the top right part of a window while holding down the Control (or Apple) key, you can easily switch between toolbar styles. It won’t work with all windows though, but so far, I succesfully tested it with Finder and Colloquy.
Finally, the WiiWare service for the Nintendo Wii has gone live. The first region to get their hands on the nine games available at launch is Japan, but the US and Europe will (hopefully) follow in May this year.
The list of launch titles for the WiiWare service is as follows :
Before you can use the WiiWare service, you first need to update the Wii system to the latest version, which will add the WiiWare service (when it’s live in your region) to the Wii Shop channel. Also, judging by the screenshots and information available, buying WiiWare games will be like buying Virtual Console games, using the same familiar interface.
At the moment, the prices will range from 500 Wii points to 1500 Wii points. One thing that raised concern is the fact that judging by the filesize of the games and the limited internal memory of the Nintendo Wii, it’s very possible you’ll soon run out of available space, especially if you also have some Virtual Console games installed.
Probably the coolest thing of WiiWare games (compared to Virtual Console games) is that they offer online functionality like online multi-player gaming, leaderboards etc (if supported by the game).
Some games can also be extended with additional downloadable content through the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay & Play service. At the moment, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Wii and LONGPOS are the only games which support this functionality.
