1. ZoopTEK.com, we has it.

2. I have put up a page for Paint Ball 3 EXTREME with a download to the second to last version of the game. The game is still retired, which means we offer no support for it though! The Paint Ball Opponent Network is live, so you can meet players, and player registration has been cracked to work. This will be the first time Paint Ball 3 EXTREME has been near 100% in years. Yay!

That is all.

I have released the merged version of Zomband! Now the player must not only escape the city, but also the neighboring suburbs by heading eastward. Collect food, water, and makeshift weapons and survive the zombie invasion!

New Features:

• Whole new region: the suburbs!
• New monsters!
• Bosses!
• Enemy raiding parties!
• Easier barricading!
• New items, including hand grenades!
• New tiles!
• Mouse over for identifying tiles and objects!
• Several new user interface additions!

Enjoy! Be sure to post your stories of victory and... more likely... failure! If someone can escape the suburbs, I want to know!

This morning I added manual installs for all of ZoopTEK's games for advanced users ONLY. If you do not want to mess with installing prerequisites, then please use the ZoopTEK Launcher. I have also included instructions to aid those who wish to manually install ZoopTEK software.

I also realized that the ZoopSand page was mysteriously never added to the navigation bar, and therefore no one could read about ZoopSand! That's been fixed as well.

A week or so ago, I competed in the Seven Day Roguelike contest. A contest where you build a roguelike (the genre Zomband is in) in seven days. For the competition I effectively doubled (or more) the playtime for Zomband, adding suburbs to the east of the main city. I also added new types of monsters, added bosses, friendly NPCs, new items, and few more terrain tiles, and one or two exciting twists you will have find for yourself. Soon these changes will be polished and integrated into the normal Zomband game, but for now, the 7DRL Zomband exists as a separate item in the ZoopTEK Launcher.

Warning: The 7DRL version of Zomband is EXTREMELY difficult to win. Tweaks and balancing will be made as I combine the 7DRL verison of Zomband into vanilla Zomband. Until then, best of luck!

Yay!

I have added service links to ZoopTEK.net so you can send ZoopTEK links to your friends. To send a page to a friend, click on the icon of the service you wish to use. They are located at the bottom of each article.

I just read the most ridiculous news today. That the recent saddening NIU shootings in Illinois (not far from where I am actually) is somehow being blamed on video games.

http://kotaku.com/357301/nypost-college-killer-crazy-for-violent-vid-gam...

Wasn't it the first day that we all knew the kid was off his rocker because he stopped taking his prescription drugs that kept him in check? Didn't we know that the attack may have been because he was angry at his ex-girlfriend who goes/went to NIU? Well, that's what I heard, and that sounds like a motive to me. If the police can investigate people for motive alone, I think that sounds far more likely than blaming video games out of the blue.

If that wasn't logical enough, to top it off, LaRouche blamed "Microsoft Counter-strike." Wha-wha-what!? Microsoft doesn't even make Counter-strike!

http://kotaku.com/358052/larouche-blames-microsoft-for-niu-tragedy

It is clear the people who blame video games don't understand technology, or even the business of technology, at all. Computers are probably scary magical boxes to them. If they could start witch hunts for computers, these people probably would...

... and an amusing comic that is related to this: http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/6382/12pt3.jpg

I have finally released the next version of Star Fighter Duel 3!

This update polishes the whole game experience.

• EIGHT brand new weapons radically alter how the game feels!
• Choose between TWO introductory weapons. The original 50 caliber machine gun (now beefed up a bit), or the brand new micro-missiles. Micro-missiles don't do much damage, but they home onto targets, which make it easier for new players.
• All the weapons have been rebalanced. No longer can pilots fly about mindlessly firing Death Hands and destroying everyone.
• Game modes and rounds! Now there is finally a goal in each match. Right now it is free for all, as it was in the past, but, whoever reaches 50 kills first wins and enters the hall of fame!
• A new equipment screen that includes scores and chat!
• Players now have user profiles so they don't have to retype their name in each time.
• Bullet weapons move much quicker, making them easier to aim with.
• Planets and lighting effects!
• More debris and bigger sparks!
• Frame-rate efficiency!
• High scores are saved per server now.

Thendash gave this link to me, pretty cool!

http://yourgamer.net/2008/01/15/zooptek-indie-answer-to-steam/