Tokyo Game Show report not in print

As you might remember, I announced my cooperation with CD-Action concerning Tokyo Game Show 2007 coverage. With fanfares.


Unfortunately, it won't be found in the printed issue of the magazine. Due to the fact that there was a lot of material to go into November issue, it was supposed to be postponed to December issue. However, it seems that there was more interesting things for that edition, hence it finished on CD-Action webpage.

Link to the article in question (Polish only)

At first I was a little disappointed, but then I realised that thanks to CD-Action support I was able to join the Business Days, meet Jessica Chobot, play Assassin's Creed with Philippe Dionne and much more. So all in all, good deal nevertheless!

Status update - iPhone hacking, Japanese, Ubuntu on M200

This time instead of pitifully justifying my absence, I will just briefly let you know what has been devouring my time :

- I try to revise Japanese for my JLPT exam. Due to other activities this is not going well and I am probably going to fail it. Here are some cool pages that are very helpful when studying Japanese : Kanji test, Kanji reference, Japanese Word of the Day.

- I bought Toshiba M200 tablet on Ebay. Great piece of hardware and I have been secretly lusting for a tablet for a long time. I intend to use it for digital drawing and also it is small enough to carry around. I am setting it up for use, making it dual-boot with Ubuntu. This is time-consuming as hell.

- I bought iPhone. Yes, you heard that right. I have already hacked the activation lock (following this excellent tutorial), but still am struggling with hacking SIM cards and installing extra software (yay for BSD subsystem!).

- Programming a 2D game engine in SDL for a game we are working on with Bellamy, who currently is working in Japan. You have read the post about XML library - that was just one step on the way to create a full 2D alpha version of the game.

- There has been an outburst of PSP games recently : Castlevania, Silent Hill Origins, Syphon Filter : Logan's Shadow, Manhunt 2 (with the whole story behind it, including creating uncensored version).

- Also, my private life has suddenly exploded (to paraphrase Leonard Cohen). Not at all computer related, but also time-consuming.

The bottom line is that probably it will take a while for the next post to appear.

History of WipeOut

I have found it some time ago - the movie presents the timeline of Wipeout universe up to Wipeout Pure. You can see how the series have evolved since its debut in the nineties. The author said that he would update the movie when Wipeout HD and Wipeout Pulse are out, but apparently he didn't have time to do that, so I am bringing you the clip as it is. Enjoy!