After talks coordinated by the government, it turns out that ISPs and record companies could offer legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing of music by the end of this year. This would make the UK the second nation, after South Korea, where this takes place. However, no deals have been signed yet and some details still need to be worked out. This could possibly be the end of large-scale music piracy in this country, and would certainly be a big change in how music is d...

Keeping up with the trend at Firaxis to relaunch older Sid Meier titles, the company has announced that Colonization is going to be released as a standalone expansion pack for Civilization 4. In it you will play as either English, Spanish, French or Dutch colonists trying to forge a new nation in the New World. It will include "Improved Diplomacy", multiplayer, a new interface and the brilliant level of moddability there is in Civ 4. Personally I am looking forward to the game and will certai...

For those of you who thought last time it looked like I hadn't done much, look at this now: I plan to do more to it when I buy Object Desktop in the New Year (hopefully )

First of all, I'm sorry about neglecting this blog, but I've been busy what with Christmas and setting up TBS Modder and all. I'm at the moment writing an really good article on Windows Vista, but just haven't had the time to work on it. Anyway, I just want to say that TBS Modder now has it's own IRC channel. You can use the link to use the Java applet or you can use your IRC client to go to the server www.centralchat.net and channel #TBSModder. I will be there most evening GMT and if you ...

This is my second attempt at making my PC look like a mac. The first time I overdid it and my pc got sooooooo slow. This time I'm just changing some things to keep my pc running well  . Here are some screenshots:

Welcome to my blog! This blog will be about my various mods and mod-in-progress's of strategy games such as GalCiv2 (of course), Civ 4, SimCity and of some strats that you probably haven't heard of, such as Industry Giant II. Beware, as there will more likely than not be EA-bashing. I will also use this post to shamelessly plug my new site TBSModder . It's not finished yet but when it is it will contain forums, mod hosting and tutorials. Happy modding!