Control Structure #57: The Way It’s Meant To Be Played

Steven and Andrew talk about Oculus VR, new Java things, Microsoft, Mozilla, and tons of gaming related technical news, along with listener feedback.

Links

• EVERYTHING IS FINE – YouTube
• Pinburgh 2014 | PAPA.ORG
• Twitch
• Pono Music – Where Your Soul Rediscovers Music by the PonoMusic Team — Kickstarter
• Facebook to Acquire Oculus | Facebook Newsroom
• Twitter / notch: We were in talks about maybe …
• Latest JDK 8 Release Notes
• NetBeans IDE 8.0 Release Information
• Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010 | Ars Technica
• Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta | C9Team | Channel 9
• Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public – The Official Microsoft Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
• DONKEY.BAS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Google donkey: Google forced to deny killing donkey with Street View car in Botswana | Mail Online
• Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, names Brendan Eich as its new CEO – Digits – WSJ
• ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP – Computerworld
• 2048
• Play 2048 and all of its derivatives and clones
• 2048 Variants | Semi-long Blog
• 2048
• xkcd: Digits
• Want to Stay Anonymous? Don’t Make a Hit Computer Game – Digits – WSJ
• Unity 5
• Untitled: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4
• CRYENGINE | Crytek
• DirectX 12 – DirectX Developer Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains | NVIDIA Blog
• DHrpcs3/rpcs3 · GitHub
• Troy Hunt: The prophesied Windows XP and IE 8 crisis is nigh! (unless you’re in China)
• Moonbase Commander – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Rebellion brings MoonBase Commander back to PC for $5.99 | Polygon
• State of The Andrew Bailey, March 2014 | the Andrew Bailey
• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Younnat – Magician’s Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #205: CS #57 — Five Good Fringe Titles!

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