Minecraft changing to Beta on December 20th

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106061-Minecraft-Shifting-to-Beta-With-Price-Hike
I will be buying the game incredibly soon. Because this game is gonna just get bigger and bigger and bigger.

PODCASTAN

Apparently, a few friends and I are making a podcast tonight and I will upload it tonight or tomorrow morning.
I have so much to do today.
In the meantime, I've spent the last week or so listening to the following podcasts:
Minecast - Two guys doing some awesome Minecraft talkan
Sunday Night Safran - Everything religious and cultural by an awesome Jew and an awesome Priest
The Ricky Gervais Podcast - Ricky, Stephen and Karl just talk and make me lol so hard.
SmodCast - Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier kick some ass
This American Life - I started watching the series from Showtime and have loved every minute of listening to these stories.
Shuan Keavny - Originally got him for a Charlie Brooker interview and I've come to love this guy.
Check out those guys and hope you have a greet weekend.

Tomb Raider to be rebooted

http://www.1up.com/news/details-emerge-tomb-raider-reboot

Being a 90's kid, this gaming goddess is critical to any gamer or teenage boy. Having her return in, what looks like, a gritty remake, isn't a bad idea. But I kind of liked what I saw from Guardian of Light and I heard some bad/mediocre things about the past games, well anything after 3. The developers seemed to have focused on more of an action orientated Lara more than anything else, which is good, it's where the gaming world was going in this age of Gears of Halo, cover, shoot, find enemy, cover, throw grenade, gratutitous shot, but people and the industry needs to grow up and I just hope the next generation or rather next year we will grab onto something much more fun or tangible.

For previous years, trends have gone as such:

2001 - Hey, let's make Halo

2002 - Violent/gory games are soooo mature

2003 - GTA3 is da bomb

2004 - Sequelitis/Handhelditis

2005 - The rise of the music game

2006 - The beginning of the end for motion games (i.e. Nintendo Wii launched)

2007 - Hey, let's make Gears of War

2008 - Hey, let's make GTA4

2009 - Hey, let's make motion controlled games
2010 - Hey, let's make some great Indie games/MINECRAFT

Daily Dose - 23/11

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105527-Minecrafts-Hardcore-Mode-Will-Delete-Your-Entire-World
Minecraft Hardcore mode to be implemented.
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=34851
Writers of Zombieland plan their next directorial debut around fairly funny 80's type flick.
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=34852
Jessica Alba would have quit if Fantastic Four was worse, oh, what a shame to lose her from the acting community.
http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=34848
In more bad movie news, Mark Wahlberg said The Happening was shit.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105524-CoD-Black-Ops-Sales-Fall-85-in-UK-Still-Overwhelming
CoD Blops sales dropped 85% in it's second week, but that's like 85% of someething like $100 million, games still keep being made and the world continues to spin.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105521-CD-Projekt-Plans-to-Make-Witcher-2-Pirates-Sorry
CD Projekt, creators of the the Witcher and the Witcher 2 are having pirates shake in their wittle boots, after announcing their plan for bringing down pirates....yeah....good...luck with that.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105501-Black-Ops-Swastika-Emblems-Will-Earn-Xbox-Live-Ban
In a strange bit of censorship, Xbox Live will ban you if you have swastika as your emblam on CoD Blops.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/21/entertainment/la-et-1121-tangled-20101121
Disney are thinking of leaving kids films based on Fairy Tales behind.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/21/ipad-newspaper-steve-jobs-rupert-murdoch
Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs are creating the world's biggest industry killer with announcing the iPad newspaper.

Afternoon Dump 19/11

It's been a long day for me. I know it's not over, but just been busy with stuff. Planning a new album for just a week before Christmas and played a lot of Minecraft, The Saboteur and TF2, prepping myself for a LAN tomorrow, so I may just do a daily dose in the morning and that's about it, won't be home till after midnight on Sunday. So anyway, I hope this tires you over for the weekend.

12/11 THE LATE EDITION

I know I have barely done anything today.
But to be honest it's been a bit hectic here at AND, a few things have been mucked up and I might only be posting daily posts rather than bi-daily...or whatever...
anyway
First off, we have some good news from Minecraft

MINECRAFTAN!?

Afternoon Dump 9/11

To start off this afternoon's blog, enjoy my prejudice and lack of having one story about Apple today

Dawn Patrol 3/11

Simply because I don't wanna post this at 3 in the morning and I also didn't want to post this before I went to bed, here is an early morning roll call for you people who are staying up late or are simply in a different country, I love you international viewers whoever you are :)
So what happened whilst I slept?
Well, Tommy Chong is a fan of weed, your body loves and hates you when you make a mistake, Green man gets a job and Apple is still making a metric fuck ton of money.

Extra Dump 2/11 :Cars, Microsoft Sensing, Killer Proteins and Minecraft

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-buys-canesta-leader-in-3-d-sensing-technology/
Microsoft's Kinect seems to be hyping alright right now and Microsoft is pushing for greater advancements in sensing ttechnology and props to Canesta for probably making a fuckton of money and will hopefuly make a bunch of money in the coming years.