It seems there has been some small developments in the quest for an R18+ rating for video games in Australia. The first bit of "news" is that the new game "FEAR 2: Project Origin" has been refused classification. FEAR is an action-horror type of game… more »

It's generally a bad idea to reinvent the UI controls in your application just for the sake of it. It's not particularly hard per-se, it's just very "fiddly" and it's indeed tricky to get every little detail "just so." Office is an example of an appli… more »

There is some debate in Australia about the introduction of an R18+ rating for video games. Currently, the highest allowed rating for video games is MA15+ which has meant that many games were either banned completely from sale, or modified from the origi… more »

Man, I've been spending too much time playing XBOX in the last two days since it arrived :-) To celebrate all my XBOX-time, I've added my gamertag to the blog... to advertise my whopping score of 30. Yay! Expect to see that number increase over time..… more »

Well my XBOX arrived the other day, so as you can imagine I've been rather... uh, "busy" for want of a better word. I'm sure my wife could think of a few other words :) I haven't been totally idle, however, and I've been busy porting Missile Command o… more »