Modern Warfare 3: Catchable Fatal Error – “Reliable Command Buffer Overflow”
Yeah, that error that you see above happened to myself eariler this evening playing the “Goalpost” mission of Modern Warfare 3. Unlike how the game would randomly crash in eariler versions of Modern Warfare, MW3 catches that error and kicks you back to the title screen. A little discomforting, shooting away, screen flickers and title screen appears. The exit button was also a little confusing – would I have to restart MW3 or was this going to close the popup?
Our word on Sony, PlayStation Network and recent hackings
Here at Coburn’s Domain, we’ve been observing the recent attacks that Sony’s online intrastructure has been copping from unknown identities. While the details vary, we can confirm, from a trusted news source and local news and current affair programs, that the Australian side of the PlayStation Network was indeed hacked and large number of Australian PlayStation Network gamer profiles (that contained personal data and also credit card identification) were crippled as a result along with the massive hack that the global network suffered.
iDroid Developers: androidoniphone.com is a SCAM, DON’T be a victim
Image credit: iDroid Dev Team. We are not claiming that image as our own.
The iDroid Project crew have recently discovered that some scammers are attempting to drain your wallet by monetizing the iDroid Android port for jailbroken iPhone 2G/3G/4s, and iPod Touches which allow you to boot Android natively on the hardware itself. The annoucement was made on twitter under the name of @iDroidProject:
The Battle With Laptops and Microsoft Windows – I should have brought a Mac instead.
Please note that this article expresses the views of the author, not Coburn’s Domain as a whole.
As some of you might not know, but I have had a lot of problems as of lately with Microsoft Windows.
Like the episode that happened today, Windows spazzes out and froze 3 times in a row, making a very low-pitched loud buzzing sound. I thought it was a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) about to strike, but no. It just died right in front of me.
Faux-retro games and difficult compensation.
This is I have pondered for a fair while, but have only just recently questioned. What exactly are my out-of-game motives for putting up with some of the extremely frustrating challenges some modern games present to us, and why do some developers try to use unfair difficulty as a way of extending a games playtime? Starting just a few years ago, there has been a massive boom in creating games that have a retro visual style, and general appeal to prey on innocent Gamers’ sense of nostalgia through their rose-tinted goggles. However, along with any good faux-retro game, not only does the art style have to be fitting, but there has also been the need to up the difficulty to extreme levels.
Sony lashes out at PS3 priates using the PS3 Jailbreak Device; Sony sues
Not too long ago, an Australian modchip supplier was supplying a device that allowed gamers to backup their legit game copies to internal or external USB devices and play them from there.
Unfortunately, the success the device has been shortlived. Sony recently demanded that all orders for this device to be cancelled, in which the manufacturers agreed to and promptly the modchip supplier refunded all the paid orders that were queued.
Fake TweetDeck Application in Android Market
TweetDeck, a powerful Twitter client for operating systems, has been a victim of a scamming attack by another party. The issue came into attention when the lead TweetDeck developers found out that an unofficial version of their product for Android devices was released by “Hijacked Account, GmbH” with the price tag of $1.00 USD on the Android Market. This fake version has numerous features removed and may be incompatible with some devices.
Google quietly censors Sankaku Complex, refuses to explain why
Anime, Manga and Gaming (not to mention sometimes not-safe-for-work) Blog Sankaku Complex has been quietly slipped in the Google Blacklist of words, thus as an result, being removed from search results in the mentioned search engine’s auto-complete features and the system is slowing removing results from the search results for the “Sankaku Complex” term.