I'm making this post in the hope that it saves someone from the hour of pain that I've just been through with StarCraft II. I was running StarCraft 2 version 1.02 and have been playing it on and off for the last week or so (it's great by the way!). I figured I would have a quick blast before cracking on with some programming this evening, and was annoyed to find it wouldn't launch. The game would load, I would catch a glimpse of the login screen then the game would crash. I'm running Windows 7, so I tried the following things that have reportedly helped others; 1. 'Running as Administrat

Following on from my previous post about Vendetta Online, I've spent a large portion of my day working on a new skin for Vendetta Online. I've always found the default skin fairly mediocre. While it's nice, it doesn't scale overly well to my 1080p monitor. Now, in the modern day, it's not unusual to have a high-resolution monitor, and to have the radar sprites aliased and upscaled to fit the screen was my equivalent of scraping nails down a blackboard. So, instead of bitching about it, I thought I would 'simply' fix it. Now, I leafed through a couple of other people's skins, browed through

I've been playing Vendetta Online for a couple of months now in the little spare time I have, and I wanted to put a little bit of background onto my blog before launching into some screenshots of the skin that I'm working on for this game.