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Opera 9.52 released. Changelog.

Persona 3: Extreme Evoker.

Watchmen trailer/comic comparison. [via]

Good Old Games. [via] DRM-free classic PC games guaranteed to work on Windows XP/Vista, selling for less than 10 bucks. The service launches in September. (See also.)

ZoneAlarm 7.0.483.000 released. The latest version of Check Point’s basic firewall fixes the problems with the Windows Update DNS spoofing patch.

Windows patch messes ZoneAlarm. The critical update, meant to prevent DNS spoofing, prevents ZoneAlarm users from accessing the Internet. A ZoneAlarm update is expected today.

Guild Wars 2: translated interview. “Mindless monster camping, generic ‘collect this and get that’-quests and loot stealing will be avoided.”

“English will become more like Chinese …” We may all be tuning in to Phua Chu Kang for English lessons.

Opera 9.51 released. A security fix.

Beauty and brains … brains …

Re: Speed Racer. “‘I lost my parents when I was young, so another thing that made a big impression on me was the structure of the family in American films … All of these things eventually appeared in ‘Speed Racer,’ and they all came out of my longing for American home life.’”

Ultra 7 mugged. That’s no way to treat a defender of the Earth.

Opera numbers. “… more than 20 million users running the desktop browser …”

For everything else, there’s Batman.

Guild Wars 2: too soon? A 12.7MB, 22 minute MP3 file. Take a sip of your favourite beverage every time Michael Zenke says “definitely.”

Climate Debate Daily. We’re doomed! No, we’re not!

The classics condensed. In three lines or less.

Gamers carded. “The clerk made me show him proof of age ID … BTW, I turn 52 this Friday …”

The charitable Stormtroopers. “Where else can I dress up like an action figure and help kids?”

On games and gamers. “… the average American video game player is now 35 years old and has been playing games for 12 years, while the average frequent buyer of games is 40 … with women over 18 representing a far greater portion of the game-playing population … than boys aged 17 or younger …”

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