Just a quick update today. I’m still alive, I just haven’t had much to talk about recently. That, and the incredible amount of spam comments that have been piling up back here have somewhat demotivated me to write a new post. Luckily, I think I’ve got that sorted out so it shouldn’t be a problem anymore.

Anyway, you may notice a new section at the top of the blog. A few posts back I featured a Nostalgia poster that I had made myself. As I have now made a second poster, I decided to show these off next to my writings. Enjoy.

Back for more!

HOW DID I MISS THIS?! I need to start paying more attention to the latest news on my favorite games. At least as early as August 13th, Runic Games has announced the sequel to the greatest dungeon crawler of all time. Everything you loved about the first one comes back for a second round and not only that, you can bring your friends along for the ride.

That’s right, Torchlight 2 includes multiplayer! Check out the HD trailer below and then head over to the website at http://www.torchlight2game.com.

The old WordPress that is. WordPress 3.0 has gone live and this blog has been updated to it. If you notice any broken links, videos, or other things out of place around here let me know so I can get them fixed right up.

You did it! The weighted companion cube certainly brought you good luck.

From now until May 24th, Valve has decided to give away copies of its award-winning game Portal for the low low price of $0.00.

Wait… WHAT?!?!

That’s right friends, for the next week and a half Valve is giving away full copies of this outstanding puzzle game absolutely FREE! Why are you still reading this? Go pick up your copy at http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/ right now!

And if you’ve been held hostage by aliens on the other side of the universe for the last 3 years (because that is the only way you could have managed to not hear about this game), here is an old, but very good, trailer that explains that sudden urge you have to download this game right now.

School has been keeping me busy as of late, but I managed to dig up enough time to break out a new CWahi Installation Tutorial, this time covering Coppermine Photo Gallery 1.4.26. A few interesting notes on the tech side of this one: The previous tutorials were filmed and edited with Camtasia Studio 6. While Camtasia is certainly a decent recording/editing suite, I have upgraded my toolbox with some shiny new tools.

I learned that Fraps now has the ability to record your desktop, provided you are running the Aero desktop style (sorry XP users). Since I recently purchased a license I decided to give it a try and I am far from disappointed. For editing I stepped up my game to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, with Adobe Media Encoder for the final compression. It took a little toying with settings, but the quality of the output, low file size, ease of use, and future possibilities with Adobe After Effects have made me a convert. There’s a reason Adobe products are so insanely expensive, they truly are the best-of-the-best and their price tag is well earned. Thank god for student discounts!

But I digress. Here is the video tutorial, and of course the accompanying HTML version. As an additional note, I have also added all my videos to YouTube. Due to YouTube’s restrictions, the versions hosted on this blog will have both higher resolution and will be a single video if it runs longer than 10 minutes (like the rather lengthy MediaWiki tutorial.) These videos can be watched on my channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/Drakmyth. Enjoy!

Oh, and sooner or later I will reveal what that mystery picture was. When I’m ready…