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Over the last couple of weeks I've been playing Europa Universalis 3. A lot. You could vaguely compare it to Total War games, but ...

I'm as biased about it as it ever gets, but I'm pretty sure this is one of the most awesome things that happened to Total War moddin...

Like all people who came out of Unix tradition I approached Windows registry as something not to be touched even with a long stick, but...

I am not in any way a fan of desktop GUI toolkits - HTML5 and jQuery totally spoiled me, so I resisted for a very long time making GUIs ...

I'm back from Hyper Japan  and one of the things I've done there was a demonstration game of Yu-Gi-Oh! I had no idea what the gam...

Some news about Medieval 2 random scenario generator I wrote about yesterday . Today I fixed most of the known bugs in scenario builder (e...

Total War games have somewhat limited replay value, since campaign map is the same every single time, and there are only so many mods you ca...

The book " Think Like a Programmer " tries to teach people relatively new to programming how to approach problems and program s...

So elections happened, and Intrade lost big. There's no need defending them that they still had Obama as leading candidate. Here ar...

Tomorrow millions of Americans will choose between rule guided by wisdom of the crowd embodied in free markets and rule guided by wisdom ...