Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Thirty Years Since Mount St. Helens Devastation [Science]
May 18, 2010 – 8:29 am | No Comment
Thirty Years Since Mount St. Helens Devastation [Science] Everything was calm in beautiful Skamania County, Washington, until May 18, 1980. Then, a massive stratovolcano unleashed its rage, obliterating 230 square miles around it. It was Mount St. Helens. This video show how things have changed since then. 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide were released during the largest known avalanche in history, resulting in 57 casualties and a dramatic change of landscape. From ...
American Heart Association approves of the Nintendo Wii
May 18, 2010 – 12:34 am | No Comment
American Heart Association approves of the Nintendo Wii Yesterday, when we reported about how Nintendo and the American Heart Association had something planned for Monday, most people suspected the Vitality Sensor. Turns out, it isn’t a new gadget that was the announcement, but rather an older one. The AHA is apparently putting its personal stamp on the Wii, such as games like Wii Fit Plus and the Wii Sports Resort. By the way, the American Heart Association said that they will be receiving 1.5 million ...
NVIDIA GTX 480M will bring Fermi to laptops this June, crazy power requirements and all
May 2, 2010 – 4:55 am | No Comment
NVIDIA GTX 480M will bring Fermi to laptops this June, crazy power requirements and all We had an inkling NVIDIA wouldn't keep the Fermi goodness just to the desktop and here's our first pseudo-official confirmation. Rushing in ahead of any announcements, Eurocom has started listing a GeForce GTX 480M part, replete with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and a $345 markup relative to ATI's Mobility Radeon HD 5870. It's not clear whether the 100W number refers to the TDP or power requirements of NVIDIA's new ...
Puppet Pouch is one cute Nintendo DS cover
April 29, 2010 – 5:30 pm | No Comment
Puppet Pouch is one cute Nintendo DS cover I found this particular mobile gaming accessory in my inbox this morning, and just had to report on this. This Puppet Pouch is by CTA Digital, and it has a felt interior and elastic strap to keep the Nintendo DS inside this stuffed animal. It only costs about $19.99, and the DS cover can double as a puppet. What’s not to like? Source Related PostsHershey’s ...
Japanese hardware sales, April 12 – April 18: Dry spell edition
April 25, 2010 – 8:17 pm | No Comment
Japanese hardware sales, April 12 – April 18: Dry spell edition Poor, poor April. After a quarter of pretty enormous video game releases, we've seen a noticeable slowdown over the past 25 days. Normally, we'd relish the opportunity to get caught up on the surplus the past few months have brought us, but ... well, we miss the action! The excitement! The variety! The occasional disappointment! In an attempt to recapture these raw emotions, we've been forced to seek out other hobbies with even more frequent additions. Like, for instance, comic books. There's new ...
Rumors of RIM buying big touchscreens spark further rumors of tablet plans
April 10, 2010 – 7:15 pm | No Comment
Rumors of RIM buying big touchscreens spark further rumors of tablet plans Reports from component suppliers in Asia have RIM buying an unspecified number of 8.9″ touchscreens from supplier Hon Mai. The sources are unnamed and the original report is proving difficult to track down; the only copy of it seems to be in CrackBerry’s possession (copied below). That already places this rumor in pretty unlikely territory, but hey, you be the judge. Add in to the mix that RIM’s Mike Lazaridis publicly stated last year that they were not developing a tablet and had no specific plans to ...
Nintendo 3DS: New details leak in Japan
March 24, 2010 – 3:30 am | No Comment
Nintendo 3DS: New details leak in Japan Nintendo’s announcement of its new portable 3D gamimg device 3DS was very brief, prompting us to speculate about possible features and implications for the way people will play games in the future. But today the Nikkei , Japan’s Wall Street Journal, is offering a bit more insight (and the Nikkei is usually a very reliable source). As a reminder, what we know so far is that the new hardware won’t require any glasses for users to see the 3D images, will be backwards compatible to DS and ...
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 22 – Feb. 28: Oscar primer edition
March 7, 2010 – 7:54 pm | No Comment
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 22 – Feb. 28: Oscar primer edition [Image via The Stub] If you've been avidly following the Hollywood scuttlebutt this past week, you've probably heard of an event which is unfolding at this very moment: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards. We know how badly you guys want to be able to talk about the Oscars whilst chatting over your place of business' water cooler, coffee pot or rodeo clown make-up station, so we're here to help you understand the Awards ceremony in terms you'll find easily understandable: The ...
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15 – Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition
February 28, 2010 – 10:21 pm | No Comment
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 15 – Feb. 21: Stationary Year edition [Image via mlive] We think we can all agree that Leap Years are like, the best thing ever. It's an extra day! An extra 24 hours you can spend doing whatever you want, unless it falls on a work day, in which case, you'll probably spend it working. It augments the month of February, changing it from a truncated, dissatisfying calendar partition into a slightly less truncated, dissatisfying calendar partition. We had planned out a ton of ...
Prepare wallets! DSi XL hits on March 28 for $190
February 24, 2010 – 3:23 pm | No Comment
Prepare wallets! DSi XL hits on March 28 for $190 Not everyone agrees that the DSi XL was a necessary step; after all, the original DS and DS Lite were the best selling game things on the market with their little screens and limited brightness. But when you hear about parents and grandparents enjoying a game of Picross or Professor Layton, you start to remember that yeah, there are other people in the world. And maybe they could use a device more suited to their needs. That’s kind of the other side of the the coin in ...