Turning out to be a big year for videogames

Here I was trying to kick the old videogame habit, and they go and announce a bunch of new games that I’m interested in! So far my picks for the year are:

1. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
2. Resident Evil: Revelations
3. Resident Evil 6
4. Lolipop Chainsaw
5. Onechanbara Z: Kagura
6. Persona: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena
7. One-Piece: Pirate Warriors
8. Code of Princess

And games I might consider once they hit the bargin bin:

1. Soul Calibur 6
2. Final Fantasy X-2

Now to get a PS3 and 3DS…

Resident Evil 6 announced (finally!)

Honestly, the only thing that’s more shocking than the sudden announcement of Resident Evil 6 is how long it’s taken to announce it! Anyway, they’ve already released a piece of promo art and a (long) trailer, and the game looks to continue the gameplay style seen in RE4 and RE5. It’s been announced that Leon and Chris will be playable w/ their own scenarios, and Ada will be playable as well (as for how long, who knows). Likewise, there’s a third, new playable character who may also get their own scenario.

Yes, I’ve been away

Been away from posting at least, but still been around. It’s a new year, 2012, and here’s what I’ve been up to lately.

Mint didn’t quite work out

So much for my grand plans of switching to Mint (again). I actually went ahead and installed Linux Mint 12, and it almost suited my needs. The only problem? The menu. I remember liking the classic Gnome 2.2 menu a lot more than the one in Unity, however after switching back I soon discovered that it’s hard to find where the programs you install show up. Will they be in the system tools menu, the applications menu, or the others menu? W/ Unity and Gnome Shell, you just hit the window key and type in what program you want, which is actually more intuitive than having to remember where it is.

So now I’ve gone ahead and switched back to Unity, and though I’m feeling a bit defeated, there is a plus side: I got the notifications working properly again w/ a dual monitor set-up! Here’s how:

1. Install dconf-editor:
   sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
2. Hit Alt+F2 and type “dconf-editor,” and then hit enter
3. Navigate to Apps -> notify-osd
4. Double-click on the value for multihead-mode, and then change it to “focus-follow”

And that’s it! Now the notifications will appear on the same monitor as your mouse, just like they should.

Falling behind on updating, huh?

Comics look gorgeous on the Galaxy Tabs!

I’ve fallen behind on updating recently, so why not post an update?

Bought Batman: Arkham City

Finally bought my first game in around four months, and just when I thought my gaming hobby was unofficially dead. It’s a very fun game, which is something I haven’t been able to say in a while now. Man, I can still remember back years ago when I was in elementary school and we rented the Batman game based on the first movie. I remember it being hard as hell, but man, was it cool. Comparing that to this one, it’s amazing how far videogames have come. This is easily the best comic book-based game ever (well, in my opinion at least), and gets my vote for game of the year.

Also, I really like the main theme, so I’ve included it below.

OG Galaxy Tab finally getting an update to Gingerbread

I had all but given up hope, and was seriously thinking about trying to load a custom ROM on my original/first-gen Samsung Galaxy Tab (the 7-incher), but it seems like finally Verizon is preparing to release the system update from android 2.2 to 2.3. Still, considering that both Samsung and Verizon were pointing the finger at each other as to why there wasn’t any update available (Samsung says it’s done and it’s up to the carrier to roll it out; Verizon says it was up to the device maker to produce it), I’m glad that they didn’t end up being a dead-in-the-water device (I’d given up on Honeycomb a long time ago).

Rooting the Galaxy Tab 10.1

So I have a wordpress site set up on a VM that I used for testing purposes, which have benefited me greatly at work. Recently, I wanted to test out some mobile skins but in order to do that I’d have to edit the hosts file of the target device. And for whatever reason, the android hardware manufacturers insist on locking down their devices – hell, I think even Asus and Acer are guilty of this (wtf?). I know, security and all that, but they should at least give us the ability to set up an admin account. Fortunately enough, it’s pretty easy to root the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, even for a newbie like me.

Cluster f—

This is rediculous – trying to re-enable root access on my galaxy tab 7 but it’s not working. Man, I really hate how they lock these things down so much. Is it a personal computer or not?!

This is getting ridiculous

I just re-installed Ubuntu 11.10 for the 3rd time, not b/c my previous install was busted, but b/c I wanted to shrink my Linux Mint install. However, I made the mistake of deleting the boot partition as well, and I couldn’t figure out how to re-install grub2 again. Meh, I don’t mind that much, but it sucks that it takes me about an hour to get my system configured correctly again.

Glad I only have to do this once every 6 months. Well, usually anyway.