Minecraft Slime Finder

Ingame Mod
This mod expands your F3 screen to show the world seed (pre 1.8) as well as whether or not slimes can spawn in your current chunk. You need to manually copy the .class file into your minecraft.jar (open with WinRAR or the like) and make sure to delete the META-INF folder if it's still in there. 
If this doesn't help there are lots of tutorials out there, e.g. here. 

Download (1.0.0 Release): http://www.mediafire...g22n2ptdx2cbcxd (Mirror)Go to http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/397835-find-slime-spawning-chunks/ for more info

Star Wars: The Old Republic - PC

As pre-order early access codes for the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic continue to be sent out, BioWare has issued a statement updating fans on the future of the MMORPG.
"Since we’re an online game we are going to continue building on the game for years to come. You can count on us to diligently expand the game and service to surprise and delight you."
In the statement, Star Wars The Old Republic game director James Ohlen outlined a list of features, revealing information on what the dev team is working on for patches coming in the near future.

New Content – We will be adding new content to the galaxy on an ongoing basis. These worlds will include Operations, Flashpoints and solo content.

Guild Functionality – Guilds are important to the long term health of any MMORPG. We have a huge list of guild centric features. This will be an ongoing effort that will probably never end. Guild banks are the first thing we’ll be delivering in our plans for increased guild functionality. Eventually we even want to deliver on the promise of the long hinted at “Guild Capital Ships”.

UI customization – You like choice. We hear you! SWTOR is all about choice. Being able to choose how you interact with an online game is something we feel is very important. We are going to be giving more control over the UI as an ongoing effort. This is a very big priority for us.

PvP – We have an entire team dedicated to adding content and features to player vs. player. We have some of the most experienced PvP developers in the world on this team. So far very few people have seen, or know much about the stunning Open World PVP on Ilum; when you get to the high levels prepare to be blown away! In addition to that high level PVP content, expect new Warzones and new PvP features on a regular basis.

Space Combat – We will continue to add missions to the space game. We also have a special project going on right now that will expand space gameplay in a significant way... for now the details will have to remain under wraps.

Legacy System – The ability to select a surname for your character is just the start of something much bigger. Soon, the Legacy experience and levels you earn will grant your characters access to powers, objects and other cool benefits.

And more – We have an entire team of developers working on future content. Right now we are focused on nothing else but Star Wars: The Old Republic, so expect new and cool things.

"It is fair to say that we’re just as excited as you are about the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Not only are we launching one of the largest and most impressive games ever created, but we’re also excited about the prospect of continuing to work on the game so that you, the fans, will always have something heroic and amazing to enjoy. Thanks for playing."
Star Wars The Old Republic doesn't officially launch until December 20th, but BioWare has promised early access up to five days early for those who have pre-ordered the game. This week, they surprised fans by granting an additional 2 days of early access by sending out codes yesterday.

Alan Wake Confirmed for PC Early 2012

After rumors of an Alan Wake game being available for PC emerged yesterday amidst the findings of game files in Steam, Remedy Entertainment has officially announced the release.
"Coming in early 2012, the game will give PC gamers the Alan Wake experience they have been patiently waiting for," they announced in a press release today. "Remedy is a developer with deep roots in the PC space (Death Rally and Max Payne 1 and 2), so the game will have the high resolution polish that longtime fans will expect."
The PC version of Alan Wake will also include The Signal and The Writer DLC.
Alan Wake tells the story of a best-selling writer suffering from writer’s block. He goes on vacation to the small town of Bright Falls with his wife, Alice, to gain back his creative flow. Shortly upon arrival, Wake finds himself trapped in a nightmare when his wife mysteriously goes missing. He keeps finding pages of a manuscript he apparently wrote, but can’t remember writing. The manuscript is coming true. An involving psychological action thriller, Alan Wake raises the bar in storytelling and creating a suspenseful cinematic experience.
News From pc.gamezone.com

Minecraft 1.0.1 Pre-Release Available, Weekly Pre-Releases Scheduled

While many of us were at home stuffing our faces with turkey and watching my beloved Dallas Cowboys beat the Dolphins, Notch and the rest of the Minecraft development team were hard at work releasing a new update.

On Thursday, November 24th, the minecraft_server.jar was updated to 1.0.1, which according to developer Jens Bergensten fixed "the login key problem and null pointer exception" when logging into servers.

This was a server-only update, with Minecraft 1.0.0 remaining as the current client version.

According to Jens, Mojang is "working towards automated snapshots, and will try to get one 'prerelease' out every week, regardless if it's stable or not."

These "snapshots", or pre-releases, "will be named 11w47 (year and week) + a, b, c et (in case we do more than one), in one word such as '11w47a'."

Until automated updates are functional, these pre-release builds are patched similar to before. You must manually copy the test .jar over your existing one, and aim to playtest various fixes, additions, etc. to future official releases.

Similar to how Minecraft 1.9 had several pre-releases, "these will build up to official releases once they feel stable and add useful features."

The new Minecraft update 11w47a can be found here, and Jens noted that it is practically identical to version 1.0.1.

"Barely anything has changed since 1.0... I'm getting into the mindset that snapshots are releases regularly regardless of progress."

As everyone knows, Mojang is currently expanding Minecraft for the Xbox 360, and is also working on a brand new title, "Scrolls". Many fans have been wondering if Minecraft will receive the same attention from developers as it had in the past. Jens assured fans that he will still be working full-time on Minecraft, while creator Markus 'Notch' Persson will oversee and work on newer projects.

Bringing Battlefield 3 to consoles was a "big challenge" - DICE

News From oxm.co.uk
In a new interview, Battlefield 3 rendering architect Johan Andersson has explained how DICE adapted the game's vaunted Frostbite 2 technology to fit Xbox 360.

"We've been working with both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 since the very first hardware was available so we have built up a deep knowledge how to develop & optimize for the consoles; what works well and what doesn't work well," Andersson told AMD Game Blog.

"When we started with Frostbite 2 we had this knowledge in the back of our minds when developing all the new rendering & lighting systems, but we didn't let the constraints of the consoles limit us, we instead experimented quite freely with multiple types of rendering techniques and methods of building objects & effects on PC and DX11 to come up with what we wanted to do.

"I think this was a refreshing and healthy approach that lead to a great step forward with some really good new tech; tech that we might not have thought of, or dared to develop, if we would have taken a more incremental development approach and focusing primarily on the consoles.

Having put together their vision for the game in a spec-free vacuum, the Battlefield 3 team then worked to scale the engine down for console play.

"It was a big challenge to bring up the game and engine on the consoles after that," Andersson admitted. "A lot of low-level optimization and adapting systems to the specific strengths of the platforms to try and keep as much as possible of the gameplay and visuals while both fitting into 30 fps as well as a fixed low memory budget."

Though noticeably less handsome than the marketing shots, Battlefield 3 on Xbox 360 blew us away with its draw distances, lighting and gazillions of simultaneous animations and particle effects.

Too Many Items Mod for Minecraft 1.0.0

      

Too Many Items Mod for Minecraft 1.0.0 Features

• Add items to your inventory (If on SMP, you don’t need to know the item ID #. This is very helpful)
• Unlimited Stacks
• Save and Load up to 7 Inventories (SP Only)
• Put items you don’t need in the trash (SP Only)
• Get previously unobtainable items such as leaves and bedrock in your inventory

How to Install Too Many Items Mod 1.0.0 for Windows

1. Go to Start Menu
2. Click on run
3. Type in “%appdata%” (without quotes)
4. Find a folder named “/.minecraft/” go inside and find a /bin/ folder.
5. Delete the /bin/ folder.
6. Open up minecraft and log in. This will re-instate your /bin/ and is called “cleaning your folder.”
7. Inside the new bin folder you should find minecraft.jar
8. Right-click on it and choose open with WinRAR/7Zip
9. Drag the files into minecraft.jar.
10. Delete a folder called “META-INF”
11. Congratulations, you’ve installed Too Many Items 1.7.2!

How to Install Too Many Items Mod 1.0.0 for Mac

1. Type in the following command line by line
   • cd ~
   • mkdir mctmp
   • cd mctmp
   • jar xf ~/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar
2. Don’t close the terminal yet, you should find a mctmp folder located inside your users folder
3. Go inside, copy all the files from Too Many Items into mctmp folder
4. Back to Terminal.app, again type in the following commands
   • rm META-INF/MOJANG_C.*
   • jar uf ~/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/bin/minecraft.jar ./
   • cd ..
   • rm -rf mctmp
5. Finished !

Too Many Items Mod for Minecraft 1.0.0 Hotkeys

• Type “O” to turn on/off
• Shift+Click for unlimited

Assassin’s Creed Revelations

Developer Ubisoft Montreal

Publisher Ubisoft

Platform Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Release date November 15, 2011

Genre Third-person action-adventure, Sandbox

KEY FEATURES(source:assassinscreed.ubi.com/revelations)

BECOME DEADLIER THAN EVER –Take on the lethal skills of a wiser, more efficient and deadlier Ezio. Swiftly eliminate your adversaries by deploying a new arsenal of weapons and abilities, such as enhanced free-running and hook blade combat. Experience new levels of gameplay customisation with bomb crafting, and use heightened Eagle Vision to overcome your enemies and the environment.

TEST YOUR SKILLS AGAINST THE BEST – A critically acclaimed multiplayer experience gets even better, with all-new team modes and unlimited replay value.

EXPERIENCE REVOLUTIONARY GAMEPLAY – Explore the farthest reaches of the Animus as you uncover the mysteries of Desmond’s past while gaining insight into what the future might hold.

Minimum System Requirements –

* OS: Windows® XP SP3 / Windows Vista® SP2 /Windows 7® SP1
* CPU: Intel Core®2 Duo E4300 @ 1.8 Ghz or AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+ @ 2.4GHZ
* RAM: 1.5 GB Windows XP / 2 GB Windows Vista – Windows 7
* HDD space: 12 GB
* Graphics: 256 MB with Shader Model 3.0 or highe
* DirectX: 9

Recommended System Requirements

* OS: Windows® XP SP3 / Windows Vista® SP2 /Windows 7® SP1
* CPU: Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ @ 3.0Ghz or better
* RAM: 2 GB
* HDD space: 12 GB
* Graphics: 512 MB with Shader Model 5.0 or higher
* DirectX: 9.0

Supported Graphics Cards:
Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: AMD® Radeon HD2000/3000/4000/5000/6000 desktop series

nVidia GeForce 8/9/GT200/GT400/GT500 desktop series

Recommended: Check for the Latest Driver Updates for Your Graphics and Sound Cards.

Markus Persson hands over reins of indie hit to Jens Bergensten, plans to stay on dev team but also work on "new project."

Markus "Notch" Persson is a name that has become intrinsically tied to the Mojang-developed sensation Minecraft. However, with Minecraft seeing full release for the PC on November 18, Notch is now stepping aside as lead developer on the game.

Persson will move on from Minecraft to put another notch in his belt.

In a post to his blog this morning, Persson confirmed that Jens Bergensten took over lead developer duties yesterday. Persson also sought to reassure Minecraft devotees, saying that he and Bergensten have a similar vision as to where the game should go.

"We've been working together on Minecraft for a year now, and I'm amazed at how much in sync we two are when it comes to how to design the game," he said. "And when we don't agree, we discuss it, and something much better comes out at a result. He's truly a great person to work with, and I feel very confident handing over the leadership of Minecraft to him."

Persson won't be vacating Minecraft development altogether, but he will be taking a vacation. Once back, he also plans to start working on "some new project."

Beyond Minecraft, Mojang's only other known projects are Scrolls and Cobalt, which is being codeveloped with Oxeye Game Studio. Currently the subject of a legal spat with Bethesda Softworks, Scrolls draws elements of its gameplay from collectible card games and board games.

Minecraft is expected to be available for the Xbox 360 in early 2012. For more on the game, check out GameSpot's review of the PC version.

Modern Warfare 3 PC Requirements

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 PC requirements have been revealed.

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

OS: Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X38750 processor or better
Memory: 16 GB free hard drive space / 2GB RAM
Video Card: Shader 3.0 or better 256 MB NVIDIA®GeForce 8600GT / ATI Radeon X1950 or better
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0C or later

Batman: Arkham City Pushed Back on PC

PC fans are gonna have to wait just a wee bit longer to get their hands on Batman: Arkham Cityas today Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment confirmed that the game, originally slated to ship on November 18 for the PC in North America, will now take flight on November 22.

In addition, Australian gamers will finally get their Batman on on November 23rd, while it’s slated to hit Benelux and France on the 24th. All of the other European territories getting the game will see its arrival on the 25th.

So, tell me, are you PC players going batty over the fact that this game hasn’t released yet?!?!

GET MORE: BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY

Boomz,DDTank or弹弹堂 version 3.2 Update Details(In English)

[The Update details is translated from Chinese to English]

Projectile Hall after update 3 for a new era, new elegant interface by the play of faithful love.

Today, the new 3.2 version will be further upgraded, provides players with a more glamorous gorgeous game interface, a more comprehensive system plus a diversified and interesting game, players with different gaming experience!

New features:  

1.	Newbie guide and comprehensive innovation, not only with a new boot boot tasks interface, new to more generous gift pack. Game square features buildings and function buttons will also be the main interface with the character level and gradually opened:

1 open tasks, log and achievements;   2 open the lobby; Level 3 opened blacksmith shops, Mall, backpack, mailboxes, recharge button;   5 open friends Center, social buttons; 6 open and apprentice;   7 open Association; 8 open expedition Pier, attendance;   Level 10 open Wedding Hall; 12 open Hall of Fame;   13 open hot springs; 14 open auction;   15 open training ground; 16 opening gift boxes, refining;   20 open card.

2. Add " Restore sacred stone " prop, " equipment" → "auxiliary box " equipment recovery sacred stone, equipment began to take effect. To copy/competitive players in battle, each round will automatically revert to own a certain amount of hit points (every restore sacred stone restoration to life of 100), different levels of recovery recovery by the sacred stone of life values differ, use level varies. Restore sacred stone can be obtained through normal competitive and public campaign flop (public battle chances get higher), or in the Mall " recommended pages" → "new column " direct purchase;

	Restore sacred stone class 1 , with level 0-level and above, per restore hit points is 20;
	Restore sacred stone 2 , use level is level 10 and above, per restore hit points is 50;
	Restore sacred stone class 3 , class for 20 and above, per restore life value is 80;
	Restore sacred stone class 4 , class is 30 and above, per restore hit points to 120;
	Restore sacred stone class 5 , use level is level 40 and above, per restore hit points to 150.

3. Set " activities & awarding ", " daily receive " all in one " registration system " officially opened, play friends log on game to enter the registration interface, to sign in by clicking on the current date, within one month of the cumulative attendance signed Gift Pack will be given multiple times, the more you get the Gift Pack award by the more lucrative;

 

                                                        New attendance system

4. Added watching system:

Players through the room list into competitive room, room and copy room to watch other exciting duel between players;

Into reviewing requirements: room game does not start, the owner turned on watching mode (creating a room is open by default);

Watching the number limit: challenge rooms and accessible 2 watching the copy room, athletic room can enter 1 watching users.

5.	VIP adjustments:
	VIP combat experience bonus promotion, VIP1 is 1.5 times, VIP2 for times, VIP3 is 1.6 times, VIP4 for times, VIP5 for times, VIP6 is 1.7 times, VIP7 for times, VIP8 is 1.8 times, VIP9 for times; After you upgrade to the VIP5, failed to fight without deduction of contributions; Increase VIP Gift Pack award; Daily VIP task Rewards promotion; VIP friends raise the upper limit to 750; VIP31 day pricing to a 1980 point reserve, VIP365 day price adjustment is 20,910 coupons.
6.	Added 5 new kinds of special effects speaker: Birthday wishes, non-' If you are, to explode bomb madman, first love feelings, outface sentient beings, faithful bomb through the Centre recommended bar → new direct purchase;
7.	New projectile log by clicking on the home screen " more " button into " projectile log " interface, where you can view your growing footprint projectile Church today (for example: added some friends, today completed a number of tasks, etc)
8.	Game master loading interfaces increase the clear cache button, when does not function when loading a game, you can use this feature to bypass your browser cache to reload;
9.	Wedding Hall increased gift giving feature ;
10.	Ghost of increasing independent interface , rich play ghosts;
	Player life values as 0 o'clock into the ghosts, ghosts by collecting the battlefield fighting psychic value in buying props to help teammate to fight; Ghosts can buy up to 20 fight props, each round you can use up to 2.
11.	Additional channel switching function square in the lower left-hand corner of the game;
12.	Increase the " with friends " in the unique identification of the buddy list.
13.	Increasing President mass mailing function . President can make mailing to all members of the Association, Association of mass consumes a certain amount of wealth at a time.
14.	, President of the new automatic transfer function . 30 days in a row, President of go live automatically triggers the transfer function, then the system will automatically according to the Association a member of the sort the selection of candidates, for the Union members voting.
15.	Increases card wash function . When your card after you upgrade to three levels, you can take a certain number of similar card for washing, washing point card properties are the basis of random growth. Card runs out or washed through the consumption dianquan points.
16.	Add continuous open Baozhu and jar features , less frequent actions.
17.	Increase with city friends recommended interface , the player reaches a specific conditions into the friends Center, the system will be randomly you and recommend a player of the same city, you can add him (her) friends, with the game.
18.	Public campaign flop increase rare weapon debris falling;

    Other changes:  

1.	In the right corner of the lobby add " activities and awarding " entry.
2.	Players in the game room, into the mall will pop up prompting you leave the room.
3.	Copy limited to finish, same copy every day up 10 times (: "ants nest" copy 10 times/days that "chicken run of" copy 10 times/day number also failed), exceeding 10 flops will only get gold awards;
4.	"Tray" out card quantity adjustment, fixed 1, revised to random 1 to 3;
5.	"Denoting request, command, etc., mainly used in early vernacular cluck games" copies of all difficulty levels adjusted to 3 under, reducing copy operating hours;
6.	Mall "free area" adjust the refresh time to 0 points, 8 points, 16 points;
7.	Room settings adjustment, the player in the "lobby" and "expedition to Pier" to start the game after entering the room, the owner can click on the "room information" set the room name, and password;
8.	Blacksmith shop "enhanced/melting" show total success rate, avoid misunderstanding;
9.	Message adjustment, Outbox attachment box adjusted by four to one;
10.	Wings field name modified to decorations;
11.	Seal hole transfer changes the equipment transfer can choose whether transfer seal holes, including seal and seal holes that were successfully opened experience within value;
12.	Card position adjustment to the bottom right of the backpack;
13.	Task interface display adjustment, when a certain type of task is empty time-varying "grayed" is "not displayed";
14.	Battle Labs named "training ground";
15.	Player titles and the trade unions can tick show;
16.	Adjusting the 8~20 of daily time treasure chest to receive grade-level;
17.	Combat special effects further optimized;
18.	Other UI interface adjustments;

Facebook? Fox News? Who Will Anonymous Target Come Nov. 5?

[News From pcmag.com]

Will Anonymous celebrate Guy Fawkes Day with a bang or a whimper? Will the global hacktivist collective attempt to bring down Facebook and Fox News on Saturday—the deadline for those and other audacious "operations" some Anonymous factions have warned the world to expect on Nov. 5?

"Remember, remember the Fifth of November," goes the popular verse that tells the tale of Guy Fawkes and the failed Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes, who attempted to blow up England's House of Lords in 1605 and was hanged for it a year later, has become a sort of patron saint to Anonymous members, who often wear Guy Fawkes masks at public protests like Occupy Wall Street. Though Guy Fawkes Day has historically been celebrated in England for the unraveling of that plot, Alan Moore's graphic novel V for Vendetta and a later film of the same name helped make Fawkes an anarchist anti-hero in popular culture.

Anonymous being what it is, not all of the hacking operations supposedly being planned for Nov. 5 should be taken seriously. It may be that there's an Anonymous operation or two in the works for Saturday that hasn't been announced, and that seemingly impossible tasks like Operation Facebook are just distractions.

We'll know soon enough, but for now, let's examine the plans for Guy Fawkes Day mayhem that some Anons have publicized with an eye towards gauging how likely each of these digital gunpowder plots are to happen.

OPERATION FACEBOOK
Several months ago, Anonymous vowed to "destroy" Facebook on Nov. 5, stirring up a storm of headlines and speculation about the audacity of that plan. The only problem with the story was that several reliable mouthpieces for the collective quickly announced that there wasn't a lot of there there with regards to Operation Facebook, something they've reiterated as Nov. 5 grows closer.

A few days after word started spreading about the plan to take on Facebook, the Anons who had initiated the operation clarified their intentions, calling it an "awareness campaign" intended to call attention to the social network's perceived flaws like abuse of user privacy rather than an attempt to take it offline.

Chances of success: Slim. As an awareness campaign, the odds are pretty good that those behind Operation Facebook may get a few people to quit the site, but probably not enough to make much of a dent in the social network's massive user base. If the operation is in fact an attempt to hack the site or take it down, the chances of success are even slimmer.

OPERATION FOX HUNT
Another proposed Guy Fawkes Day operation, Fox Hunt, threatens to either take Foxnews.com offline or actually take control of the Web site, if some of the more boastful Anons are to be believed. The reason Anonymous is targeting Fox News is that the cable news network has been consistently critical of Occupy Wall Street and associated protests. Anonymous has attached itself strongly to the global Occupy movement and doesn't take attacks on it very kindly.

Chances of success: Decent. Operation Fox Hunt seems much more likely to happen than Operation Facebook. Taking Foxnews.com down surely has a lot of support within Anonymous' ranks and would no doubt please many of the collective's Occupy allies. Anonymous has a long track record of taking down Web sites with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks—and many believe the group now has more sophisticated tools in its arsenal for such operations.

OPERATION CASH BACK
Like Operation Fox Hunt, this proposed operation is closely connected to the Occupy movement. But Operation Cash Back isn't a hack or a DDoS attack, it's simply a campaign by some members of Anonymous to encourage people to transfer their money from big banks to local credit unions on Nov. 5.

Chances of success: Tough to tell. It remains to be seen if Anonymous is able to rally regular people to go out and do something like this. The group is getting better at such core social protest activities as communications and turning out members for protests, but Operation Cash Back is another sort of animal entirely. Projects of this scope are usually attempted by organizations with the assets, on-the-ground personnel, and track record of a MoveOn.org. And picking a Saturday to urge people to conduct banking business, however noble the intent, strikes us as getting off on the wrong foot.