Max Payne 3

Max Payne 3 is coming on shelfs 21st of March. Check out the trailers for single and multiplayer mod.

Bullet time dynamics are solved so that when you activate it, it gets enabled only for people in your line of sight.
Gang War mod gives a story based scenario. Outcome of each round dynamically change objectives.
Payne Killer mod gives players a challenge to defeat Max and his friend Raul Passos full with painkillers and ammo.

Targeting and Weapons. You can shoot anywhere while moving. Max positions himself towards his target while still moving. When you jump and fall on the ground Max can rotate 360 degrees and shoot while still having the same accuracy as during running and standing. New thing is a cover system, you can hide from your enemies to take a painkillers or come up a new tactics to defeat them, however enemies can use the same or flanking tactics to force you out of the cover.

Source: http://www.rockstargames.com/maxpayne3/videos

Visual Studio 11 Beta

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta with .NET Framework 4.5 Beta available with Windows 8 Preview.

VS11 has more simplified look that VS10. Metro design gives it a look we used to see in older Microsoft products like Office XP and VS 2003.

You can download it form the link below.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

The browser you loved to hate

Internet Explorer 9 commercial. Check it out:

IE9 is really great with amazing performance. The test results are incredible.
You can download it from here.
Also, you can check out the IE10's preview which final version will be featured in the new Windows 8 OS.

Firefox Add-On: Who's Tracking You Online

Mozilla Firefox launched a new add-on called Collusion which can help you see who's following your online activity. The browser extension creates a real-time graph. Every time you visit a new web site, the graph expands. It's based on cookies your browser download while you surf. Graph connects the same advertisers from different sites.

Each circle represents sites who's cookies you got from visiting sites shown in the glowing circles.
This is the graph after visiting the New York Times, imdb, and NFL.

This is the graph after going through a few Photobucket pages

After full session of surfing you will get very confused with so many circles. If you want to see tracking cookies from a single site, just select it's circle.

This video is showing how add-on works

If you want to install it head over to the Mozilla's web-site.

When you install it you should see small icon in the bottom right corner of your browser. If the add-on bar is not visible, right-click on New Tab sign ( + ) and select Add-on Bar

Source: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/

C Programming - I lesson

There is bunch of C tutorials on the web but they are all written with the lack of compassion towards people who's 1st programming language happens to be C. My main goal is to simplify it so much that a 7 year old kid with the knowledge of alphabeth can understand it. To write and execute C written programs we need an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C+ with GCC compiler. My first was Dev-C++ and I still use it sometimes because it's very simple. I will talk about IDE programs in a few days, now let's start with our first program:


#include <stdio.h>


int main (){


    printf("\nHello World\n");
               
return 0;
           }

Explanation:
#include - includes a group of functions from the filename between signs < and >
stdio.h - file that contains list of standard functions like printf
int main () - main function
{ and } - borders that group commands to one function, in this case to main function
printf - is a function for printing text between " and " on the screen
\n - command for moving onto the next line on the screen
; - a sign which means end of the standard function
return 0; - with this command we return a value 0 to the operating system telling him that our program is running successfully

That's it for today, if you have any questions let me know in the comments.
Next on the list are IDE programs.

Alan Wake: PC edition

As you all probably know Alan Wake PC version is out for 9 days or so. As soon as it was released on Steam the game bumped into the first place. I'm really happy to see that products other than overrated franchises are doing good and small studios can make money in the big fishes' pool. Joyful fact is that Alan Wake Collector's Edition is only 23,99 € / $34.99 on Steam. Another great news comes from the Remedy studio itself. A game developer reveled that they are doing great with the sales:

"I wanted to chime in here. We are very happy with the sales and hitting #1 on Steam at launch was nothing short of amazing. We recouped our development and marketing expenses during the first 48 hours. And yes, we're certainly very excited about PC."

Source: http://forum.alanwake.com/showthread.php?p=141586#post141586

All I can say... good job Remedy, keep it up.

Borderlands 2: 14 minutes of leaked gameplay

This video was recorded on a closed promotion last year... shame only 500k+ people saw it. But I hope that will be changed soon since the official trailer is out.