Zombie Nexus

Pidgin 2.0 (formerly GAIM) Review

NightSpirit — Mon, 7 May 2007 23:08:12 +0000

ars technica have posted up a review of the multi-platform IM client, Pidgin 2.0. Pidgin was formerly known as GAIM but from this release it has been renamed to avoid legal troubles with AOL. Aside from the name change, many things have been improved and polished including a more user-friendly and visually enhanced layout plus extensive plugin and scripting support.

It is still missing video & voice which will affect some people but for the majority of others it could prove a very nice alternative to single-protocol and ad/spy-ware filled clients.

Read the review @ ars technica

NOLF3 Petition site launched

nazgul — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:58:13 +0000

For those who have enjoyed playing Monoliths NOLF series and would like to help try and bring a third game to this fantastic series there is now NOLF4EVER, so what not spare a few mins and go and sign up so that we can make NOLF3 a reality.

Football Manager 2007 v7.0.2

NightSpirit — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:25:58 +0000

The guys over at SI Games have released an update to Football Manager 2007. Included in the list of fixes is the much requested toning down of violent incidents and Chairmen repeatedly selling off their teams best players.

Read more and download from SIGames.com

ZombieNexus Newsletter - January 2007

NightSpirit — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:23:55 +0000

Once again, it's been a very quiet period here at ZombieNexus - except for the deletion of spam posts :rolleyes: The next version of the site is still being worked on, tho, which should solve all the problems I have with the site currently.

The problem with ZBNv4 has always been the size of the project. Coding additions to an existing project (PHPBB) is far easier than junking everything and building from scratch - even more so than I originally thought. Fortunately, I have finally been given something at work that actually tests my skills recently in the form of building a knowledge base and reporting tool for our online systems to replace the chaotic mixture of several email logs, piles of print outs and verbal communication. Technically this was a smaller and more focussed project than ZBNv4 and thus I switched most of my energy on this to improve my coding skills.

The biggest thing I got out of this was that I finally learned the point of object-oriented coding. As I tried to improve efficiency and maintenability of my code I found I was mostly writing in an OO style anyway. The bad news from this is now I am taking a jump backwards for ZBNv4 in having to re-write the code to use the classes that I have written for the work project. Hopefully tho, this will enable me to move forward faster with ZBNv4 :)

VLC 0.8.6 Released

NightSpirit — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:18:59 +0000

Slashdot have posted news that the open source media player VLC has just been updated. The 0.8.6 release includes Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video support amongst several other improvements. Some excellent news as one of the best multi-platform media players gains more format play-back options :)

Read more @ Slashdot

Firefly: the MMORPG

NightSpirit — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:40:10 +0000

Thanks to Adam for this link.

It seems that Multiverse, a software company, have managed to secure the rights to create an MMORPG based on the Firefly universe. The good news being that it will bring this exciting universe to a wider audience (if done correctly), the bad news being that FOX are involved it again so very well may screw it up like they did to the TV series :rolleyes:

I havn't had time or desire to play a MMORPG since getting bored with Star Wars Galaxies but will be keeping an eye out for this one to see how it develops.

Read more @ Bit-Tech.net

FM2007 7.0.1 Patch Released

NightSpirit — Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:52:44 +0000

The eagerly anticipated patch for Football Manager is finally released. News was posted around 3pm yesterday so hopefully the initial rush has died down and anyone trying now should be able to get a decent speed :)

For fixlist and download mirrors head over to community.sigames.com.

EDIT: It seems there is a new bug with regards to contract renewals. Read more on this here. An updated patch has been promised soon.

EDIT2: The updated patch is now technically available via community.sigames.com, although you'll be lucky to find a mirror with a decent transfer rate currently. It's an 80.6Mb download and I am currently only managing 5.7KB/s :(

Jewel Staite returning to StarGate Atlantis

NightSpirit — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:09:08 +0000

Adam passed news onto me that Jewel Staite, who played Kaylee in Firefly and the Serenity movie, has been offered a recurring part in Stargate Atlantis. I never quite got into the StarGate shows but I know plenty of people who do. Regardless it's good news for Jewel as she needs to keep busy until someone finds a way to get a second season of Firefly made ;)

Read more @ Gateworld.com

FM2007 Patch news

NightSpirit — Thu, 9 Nov 2006 01:13:02 +0000

For many in the SIGames forums, the latest release has brought with it a host of problems from aggreviated players. Their development team seem to have been doing their utmost to find the cause of issues and fix them for the forthcoming patch. In an effort to pasify some of the more vocal elements, reassure their loyal fans and stop the daily influx of topics about the same things, news and a changelog for the patch has been posted.

The release date will still be "when it's done", but it's promised for later this month which is some good news indeed. :)

Read more @ SI Games forums

ZBN Goes Gourmet for BRAINS!!

Outrunmaster — Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:37:09 +0000

Any zombie needs variation in his (its?) diet, so as a change from the tradition of Live Brains, or Raw Brains, i have found :-

fooddownunder.com

For all your brain-cooking needs!! whoohoo!!

BRAINS!!! LET ME EAT YOUR BRAINS!!

Firefox 2.0 Review

NightSpirit — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:33:54 +0000

Linux.com have posted a review of the latest Firefox release. The main improvements to Firefox 2.0 seem to be session restore, RSS implementation and tabs.

Read the review @ Linux.com

Hyperbol Open Beta

FraZor — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:50:18 +0000

Its been a long time since I posted any news, but I wanted to share a cool new game I have been playing:

Hyperbol

Its hard to describe. Its sort of a more tactical version of gravity wars, with quite cool Tron style graphics and a prety nice online play system whereby you join a faction and fight over territory. Like I said, hard to describe. Join the open beta and try for yourselves. Oh and I'm "FraZor" on the blue faction.

Football Manager 2007 Demo

NightSpirit — Sun, 8 Oct 2006 17:22:25 +0000

In case any of you also missed it, the gold demo for Football Manager 2007 was released last weekend. It comes in two flavours (one cut-down version without photos/commentary/sounds etc and one with lots more content), for both Windows and Mac. The demo only allows you to play for 6 months but is save-game compatible with the full release.

The following page lists more information as well as listing a whole bunch of mirrors to download the version of your choice.

SIGames.com

(note: The page seems to screw up royally under Firefox/Linux making it impossible to click on some links although it was fine on Opera)

Evanescence UK tour dates announced

NightSpirit — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:50:54 +0000

Evanescence will be returning to the UK this winter with two confirmed concert dates.

November 20th @ Hammersmith Apollo
November 21st @ Manchester Apollo

Ticket prices will be around £22 and go on sale tomorrow (friday 15th september)

Read more @ NME.com

Get Hasslehoff to Number 1

NightSpirit — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:54:47 +0000

This was passed on to me by Adam as a cause worthy of some attention ;)

It's a campaign to gather 75,000 people willing to purchase David Hasslehoff's new single inorder to award him the number 1 spot in the UK chart. I've never personally heard any of his records but judging by the rubbish that seems to count as popular music these days I'm sure it's no worse. Afterall, if My Blobby can have a number 1 single, why can't the Hoff? :P

Read more on the campaign @ GetHasselhoffToNumber1.com