Skyrim Pre-Order Guide (PC)

I had a good response to my Rage pre order guide, even though the game is more buggy than Amy Winehouse at this present moment in time, so I thought I would do one for the next big game that exites my genitals enormously.

Cool Shit

Just want to throw a quick hello to my friends over at coolshitoftheday.
I love what's coming out of your sick demented minds.
I should probably note that I am dating one of those sick demented people, but I love them anyway.

Rage Preorder Buying Guide (PC)

So yeah, I'm terribly, horribly excited for id's upcoming game "Rage".

Yes

Oh GOD yes

Alas, living in Australia I am in real danger of being terribly, horribly screwed by crappy localisation of prices.
So I decided to compile my efforts of finding the best Rage pre-order deal available.

I am a huge fan of Steam but at $89.99, I am afraid that the ease of use that this platform affords cannot justify that price.


Amazon.com is awesome as always, selling the physical game for $59.99, automatically upgrading to the Anarchy edition which gives you some free ingame crap, and also adding $10 to your Amazon account.
I have ordered games from Amazon before, and it does take about 10 days to get here to central NSW, but if they do decrease the price of the game before it is released, they will sell it to you at the lower price.
I am tempted to go down this path and use the $10 credit to buy the paperback novel of the game.


As always, ozgameshop.com has an awesomly cheap price. $38.99 with free delivery.
This doesn't appear to include an upgrade to the Anarchy edition, but I feel that the inclusion of these free in game items can really cheapen the initial experience of the game.

The only thing with ozgameshop is that I think they are based in the UK, so it has taken from 5 to 10 days for the games to get here, but it is a very good price.


Digital Distribution.
Direct to drive has it for $59.95, but they only operate in USA and Canada.
Gamersgate, Impulse, and greenmangaming don't seem to have it available either.
I even had a look on gog.com in the small hope that they might have it, but to no avail.

Conclusion 

I will keep looking around, but for the moment ozgameshop's $39 is pipping Amazon's $59.95 deal.
Funnily enough its almost cheaper than game.com.au's $35 for the strategy guide.

Countdown Widgets

I knocked up a Skyrim countdown widget the other weekend, and heard some lovely stuff about it. I also had a couple of requests to do countdown widgets for different games. After spending my morning doing up a BF3 one I decided, rather than respond to each and every request I would put up the code.
It is from a tutorial I did a while ago and is very very simple.

Setting up the Wishlist Notification In Steam Specials

Quick guide to setting up the Steam Wishlist watcher component of Steam Specials.

Open up the steam specials app and select wishlist from the menu option:

Steam RSS feeds

So I have been working on reliable rss feeds for the Steam Specials for a while, and I feel I finally have it.
So here they are:

US Feed
UK Feed
Aussie Feed
EU Feed
EU Region 2 Feed coming soon.

If you find any problems with these please let me know.

Wut?

Amazon Daily Free Mp3 and Daily Deal RSS feed

I couldnt find an RSS feed that simply showed me the daily album deal and the Free Mp3 of the day so I went and made some for myself:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AmazoncomMp3SpecialDeals

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeAmazonMp3OfTheDay       (Amazon changed the way they display this data, making this feed invalid)

Instead of the free MP3 of the day I have made a Feed of the top 15 Free MP3's of the day.
TOP FREE MP3's

These are the top 15 paid songs of the day.
TOP PAID MP3's OF THE DAY

Steam Specials update!

So I recently updated my app, Steam Specials to android 1.6 to be able to include ads. I checked my statistics and there were 11 or so users still running on 1.5. I feel bad for all of them so hopefully they manage to find there way here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?4p7lw98xd5nxkd1

That there is a link to the ad free 1.5 version. No notification capability sadly.

Save as Ringtone Android Dev

The biggest trouble i had with my louis soundboard was getting the "Save as ringtone or notification" feature to work with my sound files.

This page from Stealthcopter helped me greatly. This sweet guy did basically all the work for me, the only problem was that it didn't work straight out of the box for me. After much trial and error, the only way i could get it to work was by adding a switch statement for each of my raw sound files, cumbersome and an example of very poor coding yes, but it works!

e.g.

public boolean saveas(int ressound){

String soundname = "";

switch(ressound){

case R.id.sound1:

ressound = R.raw.sound1;

soundname = "louis1";

break;

}