Home brew IRC Server PART 1 (the server)
by Silurian on Aug.14, 2009, under Uncategorized
First off i would like to welcome you all to the first instalment of our “Home brew” series. This will be a series of articles focusing on hosting, development, programming/scripting and much more all done on windows machine. These articles are written by Blade and Silurian. We will try keep things simple and explain as much as we can. If you get stuck you are more than welcome to contact us on the FRAG IRC channel and/or pm us on the forums. Hope you enjoy our contributions. Have fun.
No LAN in Starcraft 2
by Ron on Jul.03, 2009, under Gaming News
Yes, you’ve probably heard this going around by now, and yes, it’s true – Blizzard has no intention of including LAN play in Starcraft 2. It appears that the multiplayer aspect of the game will instead be based around their online Battle.NET service.
Firefox 3.5 released
by Ron on Jun.30, 2009, under General Software
Since a lot of people reading this probably use Firefox, it’s probably worth mentioning over here that Firefox 3.5 is now out.
The release notes contain all the information on all the changes between 3.0 and 3.5, as well as a Known Issues section (which I really suggest you read).
Floor crossing, WoW style
by Ron on Jun.30, 2009, under Gaming News
It appears that Blizzard has been listening to the horders of gamers sucked in by our favourite mumorpuger, World of Warcraft – either that, or they’re attempting to emulate South African politics. If MyGaming is to be believed, Blizzard has revealed that they’re working on a service that will allow Alliance characters to switch over to the Horde, and vice versa.
Starcraft 2 later this year?
by Ron on Jun.19, 2009, under Gaming News
Swedish media outlet Press2Play.TV recently conducted an interview with Blizzard in which it was hinted that Starcraft 2 may be released later this year. Blizzard is well known for releasing their games “when it’s ready”, so to hear that a late 2009 release is being planned is definitely great news – it’s a lot earlier than most people were anticipating.
If you decide to watch the video interview, keep in mind that you have to wade through a bunch of Swedish chatter. The interview itself in in English though.
rAge 2009 now official
by Ron on Jun.19, 2009, under Gaming News
OK, everyone knew that this was coming, it’s just been made official now. MyGaming is reporting that rAge 2009 has been formally announced now, making this the event’s seventh consecutive year. The event will run from October 2nd to October 4th this year, and as per usual will be held at the Coca-Cola Dome in Northgate. Ticket prices are R250 and will go on sale at Computicket on August 1st – if the past few years are any indication, they’re likely to be sold out within a fortnight.
Tax breaks for UK game devs
by Ron on Jun.18, 2009, under Gaming News
Here’s the story. The Guardian is reporting that a suggestion has been put forward over in the UK to implement a tax breaks system for games developed over in the UK that are “culturally British”. The original Digital Britain report (PDF warning) states the rationale behind this as follows:
“In film a system of cultural tax credits has long helped to sustain a wide range of films that speak to a British narrative, rather than the cultural perspectives of Hollywood or multinational collaborations. Other countries such as Canada, for similar reasons, extend the model of cultural tax relief beyond the film industry to the interactive and online worlds. CGI, electronic games and simulation also have a significant role in Britain’s digital content ecology and in our international competitiveness. Each of these has the same capability as the more traditional sectors, such as film, to engage us and reflect our cultural particularism. They may in future have a cultural relevance to rival that of film.”
Surfing the soundwaves
by Ron on Jun.18, 2009, under Game Reviews
Don’t know about the rest of you, but to me flashy graphics and all of that doesn’t make a game great on its own. (Case in point, have a look at Crysis – looks great if you have the hardware to run that, but its beauty is pretty much only skin deep.) It’s often the simple concepts, executed well, that will get me addicted to a game… and, well, Audiosurf is one of them.
My very first blog post.
by Blade on Jun.18, 2009, under FRAG
Salutations Fraggers,
This is my very 1st blog post as you can tell by the heading. It took me a while to find out how to even get here so this 1st post is just for me to see how everything works, checking if my IRC bot’s RSS feed for the blog is working and i promise gaming news will follow. 
Please also comment on this post and tell me what kind of gaming news you would like to see. International/Local, Consoles/Computers, and what ever else.
Peace,
–Blade
We can has blog!
by Ron on Jun.15, 2009, under FRAG
OK, by popular request, FRAG now has a blog!
This little corner of the interwebs will be used for selected members of the community to post anything gaming related. You may also be fortunate enough to receive a “behind the scenes” look at the events from time to time. 
I do have a question for you lot though: what is it that you really want to see here? If there’s anything else that you feel should belong up here (besides what’s mentioned above), feel free to leave your comments in the comments box.
