Although video game achievement systems have only cropped up in the past few years, the notion goes back to arcade games that displayed high score lists. Then, you’d enter three initials that would remain on the screen until someone else played the same cabinet game and got a higher score, or until someone unplugged the […]

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I’m big on social networking – I like to share my media with anyone who cares to look. On my personal site, I’ve written software to share what book I’m currently reading and what games I’m playing. I even wrote up a php script that parses Netflix’s XML feed to show what movies I currently […]

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I’ve been toying around with Raptr for some time now, but it wasn’t until a couple weeks ago that I really took notice. Their new desktop client, combined with their new gamercards and their use of Sony’s new PS3 API brings Raptr from a neat curiosity to a seriously useful application. Their desktop application scanned […]

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If you’ve never tried Raptr, now may be the time. The site actually seems to be improving. The gamercards I coded for Lungfishopolis are great in that I can add all games I’m playing on any platform, but the drawback is that everything’s manual – I have to add games myself rather than the card […]

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