"Ubisoft DRM server downtime locks players out of Anno 2070, Driver: San Francisco and more"

What was predicted last week has indeed come to pass, and is actually a bit worse than predicted, apparently.

Glad I don't own or care about any of those games and, thus, haven't been affected by this. Sucks to be those who do and are, I guess. But then, if they've been paying even a little bit of attention for the past few years, then they brought this on themselves by knowingly buying these broken games in the first place. As such, my sympathy for them isn't too awfully high.

Game Music Thing 9: X-Universe Edition

Yeah, I've been playing a whole lot of the X series lately. As of this post, I've completed the (one and only, so far) storyline plot missions in X3 Albion Prelude and have returned to Terran Conflict in order to wrap up some of the plots I'd left incomplete when I moved on to AP.

The music is not an insignificant part of why I like these games so much.

So, let's get to it.

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There is a ton more awesome music in the games besides those, but it's beyond the scope of this post to just list everything. >_>;

Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter Project

Apparently this only opened up today, and they've already raised over $150,000 $170,000 of their $400,000 goal as of the writing of this post (it went up by about $15,000 just in the time it took me to write this post). I'm honestly considering pledging at least the $15 minimum myself, possibly $30. I still have a month to decide, either way. (EDIT 2) I went ahead and pledged $30 to them. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what they've already raised, but every little bit will help. Hell, even if a million people only pledged a single dollar, that would still be a million dollars (which they're already within $100,000 of reaching anyway, as of the time of this edit). (/EDIT 2)

Found out about it via this.

I don't know... this seems like the beginnings of something potentially huge, to me. And I don't just mean this one game, either.

(EDIT)

And now, two hours later as I'm about to go to bed, they're already over $300,000. They'll be well over their goal of $400,000 by morning.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal #2514