So I was mining in the cliff above my house, my house made of wood, when I happened upon a steam of lava.

Hilarity ensues...
http://daz.quaddicted.com/images/temp/mc7.jpg

and Necros, I believe the 1st version of minecraft was simply a building simulator with no inventory management or crafting or enemies. The new alpha versions have all that good stuff :) 

it's an alpha... and it costs 10�.
it's a sad day when someone charges you to beta-- alphatest their game. 

It looks great though, despite the Valve style pay to playtest thing. Do you get access to all subsequent versions?

Daz, did you rebuild on top of the smoking ruins? 

if you pay for it now its only 10 euro's. It will be 20 once its finished. You do get access to all updates + expansions for free if you get it now.

I did manage to eventually put the fires out by running to my well with about 8 buckets and filling them with water. The trouble was that I had to stem the flow of lava first :P eventually most of the wooden walls were gone and I had a nice layer of snow on my stone floor :P all is rebuilt now and I managed to swipe some buckets of lava for my next home addition, a moat of lava! :) 

Tested it last night, it's been a long time I was looking for playing it...
More comments to come when I'll have finished the game :) 

Yeah I bought it a while back (should play again for the new stuff, but I'm afraid of wasting too much time with it again).
It's fun, I made a really high tower of solitude, once it was done I just stood at the top with my pile of useless gold, not knowing what to do more. :)
Looking forward to some kind of multiplayer with this mode. 

So... either it's really being made/finished by Gearbox or it's an amazingly good joke.

Either way hilarious. 

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/03/controversial-long-awaited-duke-nukem-forever-will-finally-be-released/

Shit... now I need to hurry up with rubicon 2 or else DNF might come out first! 

Not surprised about DNF, and I can't say I'm all that excited about it anymore. I'll get it, I'll play it, but the hype is just too far gone for me.

Rubicon 2, on the other hand ... I would like teaser pics please :) 

(at least about rubicon 2).

please? 

posting this as a reminder to myself to play it some day:
http://decay.half-lifecreations.com/ 

sad 

Random -- the text is from the times of india. 

I tried the demo today.. I need to go to the shops tomorrow to pick up some new pants :P

Its great, and a pretty natural evolution from the Penumbra games.

..Don't...stand...in the water 

GG Gearbox really. Reckon they'll get a half-decent shooter out of it. 

interesting anyway: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/Parallel/QuantumChess/ChessApplet2/ChessGame.html

1. Pieces randomly choose their type when you click on them once, then you click again to move (or if no legal moves are available, your turn is over.)

2. once a piece type is determined, it won't go back to a question mark until it lands on a black square.

3. you have to actually capture the king to win, rather than just mating. 

but totally missing the point of chess. 

http://thelettervsixtim.es/

Posted previously, but it was $15 which is pretty outlandish for a (nice) flash game. $5 seems reasonable.

(Also on Steam apparently) 

It's super hard!
But fun. :) 

The computer always gets the right pieces and all i get are peasants.

Maybe it would be intersting if there were specific rules that decide what piece you get. 

The world is not entirely evile;

http://kotaku.com/5633629/minecraft-creator-hiring-help-working-on-new-game 

good twitch platformer with a grappling hook. I've only made it to level 43 so far:

http://armorgames.com/play/6586/give-up-robot 

Yeh, tis cool, very GlaDOS on acid vibe to it, altho the jump response is slightly annoying at time (you have to release all keys to jump again, so I kept running off ledges).

And strangely played it, returned to post and found I'd got to exactly the same point. I think it's 'cos that run left/right on the elevator through a death maze in level 42 is so taxing that a break is needed. 

Nice game, reached the last level (50), it's hard.
Also finished VVVVVV yesterday, fun game, but hardcore as well.