Today I want to brief you on what’s currently going on at Elioncho’s. For the last couple of months we’ve abandoned desktop apps and have been focusing on the internet building blogs and web apps. Tiogus has enjoyed relative success with his boxing blog while Elioncho has had 2 sunken ships due to his lack of discipline. I list them here:
1) sports4breakfast.com – Died after Elioncho thought he enjoyed more writing about sports in Spanish than in English. Sadly, it died when it was gathering momentum.
2) sehablafutbol.net – Died when Elioncho realized he didn’t find the right words in Spanish neither. The name sucked and the .net extension was overkill.
After two consecutive fails Elioncho opted to help others create their blogs. He assisted Pablo Bassil on Tech n’ Crap and Andrés Crump on Golfing Highlights.
Talks have been going on between Tiogus and Elioncho to fully return to work on an app together, but chances are they’ll not do it until late next year. Tiogus is currently working on another web app code-named ‘huzzla’ and Elioncho is struggling to open a new family restaurant while working extra hours on a web app code-named ‘dumodo’. We’ll have to wait and hope this two creative forces join once and for all and deliver, that’s right, DELIVER.
Our friend and fan Pablo Bassile has released Tech n’ Crap, a place where you can read his tech and gaming ramblings. Visit it and make him happy, leave a comment and make him cry.
When the ancient and mysterious ways of a ninja embrace the need to smack the ball of a tee 300-yards+, when the evil that lurks behind every tree joins forces with those unforgiving gophers and green-guarding, fire breathing dragons, the golf course will never be the same again…
So-ho, many of you might’ve heard of this old-school gem. Ninja golf has got be one of the most half-baked premises to a game ever conceived. Nevertheless, it’s still bad-ass.
This was before the invention of crack-cocaine, by the way.
Watch this twenty minute, funky flavored, gritty short film about how the sport of boxing is giving people hope in a violence ridden Brazilian favela in Rio de Janeiro, and find out more about this award winning project which seeks to keep expanding into major cities of the world such as London.
Finally, after three months of trial and tribulations, sheer uncertainty and despair, still out of physical (yet not digital) shape, with our unkempt facial hair tingling with anticipation just a couple of inches away from a screen, (which is a window, (which is a world),) we return to our natural form.
A lot has changed, however, since we last posted. Changes, and not mere updates or refresh button clicks, both communal and personal; political and spiritual; philosophical and financial have bombarded our passive perceptions from all imaginable corners of the media ring this last annual quarter. Changes that have spiralled us into the infinities of re-thinkingness, a seemingly bottomless pit from which only the most daringly brave, after having sucked from the teet of the very essence of life, can spring out from with garnered wisdom, passion-laden hearts and a nearly canine olfactory sense for what’s hands-down fucking awesome.
In short, we’ve learned along this exodus of a trail that there is more to life than just gaming, video games, games played in video game consoles (also referred to as v.g.), the consoles themselves, people who develop these so called v.g. and the people who would sacrifice herds of lambs to do so.
Today was one of those days where I detach my mind from the daily routine involving work, work and more work, and have the time to sit back and think about they great college years – years spent mainly in the following set of activities: cramming for exams until 4am, chatting with Diana Fernandez, and of course, playing every single Half-Life mod out there. The latter activity brings me many nostalgic moments, as I remember how at 1am on Friday nights, after a “long” day of school, I would go back to my apartment and decide on which new mod to play.
From the shitty “When the Army came to the Office” to the legendary “They Hunger” by Black Widow Games, I managed to play almost every single Half Life map pack, mod and total conversion out there but I could stay here for hours mentioning every single one of them.
If you haven’t played any Half-Life mods to date, you better check this playlist out – which shows you some of the best mods from the Half-Life era. Not all mods are mentioned, but I’ll come back and go over some of my favorites later on:
Duke Nukem Forever has changed its release date from “when it’s done” to “done with it”. Fans haven’t stop posting since the news broke out. These are the highlights of an online conversation:
Dude 1:
QUAKE was always better than Duke
Dude 2:
At least Duke had a theme going instead of mixing all kinds of crazy shit at random (samurai sword guys, soldiers with laser guns, zombies, tar balls, demons, ghosts, lightning-shooting mutant polar bears, wtf)
Dude 1:
Lizards with jetpacks, flying mentalist octopodes, pigs in cop costumes… yeah, totally.
