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In GOG We Trust

GOG: Good Old Games
(Original image source: GOG.com)

I made my first purchase from Good Old Games recently and thought this would be a good opportunity as any to get into why I really like the service.

Now, while there are some genuinely great games on GOG, not all the games there are good. Some are merely old and it may be easy for a sceptic to consider GOG the place where old games go to die. That would be selling GOG’s true worth short because this is very much one of those rare services geared towards the gamer rather than publishers.
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By Gobi – Sunday, April 5, 2009

WordPress: multi-loop

In a previous post, I looked at The Loop in WordPress and how it was possible to exclude specific categories from being displayed. I did that to exclude posts from my Web category as I wanted them handled differently.

This time around, I’m going to retrieve and display posts without going into The Loop. To do this, I’m going to create a secondary loop with the get_posts template tag.

At the simplest level, you could use this to create a sticky post (though as of version 2.7, WordPress does this without any additional coding). By playing around with this, you could create a multi-loop, multi-column theme that completely changes the way a blog looks.
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By Gobi – Saturday, April 4, 2009

Elsewhere

Best episode titles ever. “Inverse Raging Fire Punch! There are Too Many Who Deserve to Die!!”

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By Gobi – Thursday, April 2, 2009

Elsewhere

Good Old Games interviewed. “If we added DRM I’m sure we’d have an easier job of bringing on new publishers. But, well, we like a challenge, and we’re going to stick to our ideals.”

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By Gobi – Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Elsewhere

Space Invaders coin bank. This working 1/6-scale table version of the classic game is meant to get you to save up to 80 100yen coins.

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By Gobi – Tuesday, March 31, 2009