Galahaut Blog Posts

On February 10th, 2012, I posted what would become the last Keybards post until, well, now. The details behind the stall are probably standard: personal issues, less free time, loss of motivation. But now, Keybards is back with new focus, n...

On February 8th, Tim Schafer and Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, Stacking, etc.) launched a Kickstarter project to raise money for an unnamed, unknown "classic" point-and-click adventure game. Along with $300,000 for the game, an...

As previously announced, Bethesda released the Skyrim Creation Kit today along with the "surprise" high-res texture pack. The Skyrim Steam Workshop, Creation Kit Wiki, and official Creation Kit forum are now open as well. The Creation Kit can...

Almost 3 months after the release of Skyrim, the Creation Kit will finally be made available tomorrow. The Creation Kit has shifted from "on launch day" to "very close to launch" to "beginning in January" to its final deadline of January 38th. ...

Just two quick Battlefield 3 videos to post here. The first is the latest trailer for the upcoming Back to Karkand expansion, this time set in the Gulf of Oman map. The video shows off some of the new vehicles being added in the expansion, plus the u...

Yesterday, in the midst of the aftermath of the broken Skyrim 1.2 patch, Bethesda made an announcement about both the future of the Creation Kit and upcoming patches. As far as patches go, a patch for the patch is coming next week, followed by "...

Bethesda has released patch 1.2 for Skyrim today through Steam. First, take a look at the rather short list of changes below. Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3) Fixed issue where textures would not...

The trailer for Magicka's "The Stars Are Left" expansion was released today by Paradox Interactive and Arrowhead Game Studios. Like the PVP trailer before it, the trailer for The Stars Are Left uses a "live action" style with no game footage, but bot...

Two days ago the Humble Introversion Bundle launched, continuing the pay-what-you-want/indie developer/charity model. The Introversion bundle includes four great games: Uplink, Darwinia, DEFCON, and Multiwinia, as well as two prototype tech demos (Su...

Minecraft 1.0.0 has been released, finally bringing Minecraft out of beta. The announcement was made by Notch along with the rest of the Mojang staff at Minecon, the (technically second) annual Minecraft convention. You can watch the generally a...

I've been playing a lot of Battlefield 3 since the release. For the first few days I switched back and forth between multiplayer and the campaign; there was only so much of that single-player I could take at once. After forcing myself to finish the c...

The Indie Royale Launch Bundle recently concluded, but now a new Humble Bundle is available, conveniently. Initially this new "Debut" only included Voxatron, a voxel-based top-down shooter with destructible environments which is still in alpha. Later...

Earlier today Indie Royale was launched as a platform for promoting and selling indie games. Like the Humble Bundle (which Indie Royale is not related to), indie games will be offered in bundles for varied pricing. The similarities stop there, t...

With the upcoming launch of Skyrim, Dark0ne has started a contest where you can win one of five copies of Skyrim. The first copy has already been won, so four chances remain. You can enter the contest by liking the Nexus Sites page on Faceb...

Note: This post contains only minor spoilers. The screenshot album linked at the end includes major spoilers, however. You should be safe reading this post if you have not played the game, but going too far through the album will reveal spoilers. A...

SkyrimNexus was launched a few days ago in preparation for the upcoming release of Skyrim in five weeks, joining TESNexus (Oblivion and Morrowind), Fallout3Nexus, NewVegasNexus, WitcherNexus, and DragonAgeNexus. Like the other sites, SkyrimNexus will...

Not much else to say. Visit Apple's memorial page for Steve Jobs, watch Jobs' commencement address at Stanford in 2005, support cancer research and organ donation.

The third and final volume of the Portal 2 soundtrack, Songs to Test By, has now been released by Valve. The first two volumes have been downloaded over two million times. In addition to songs such as "The Part Where He Kills You," "Spaaaaace," "TEST...

This post contains major spoilers for both Cthulhu Saves the World and the Cthulhu's Angels mode. Stop reading if you do not want to read spoilers. After finishing Cthulhu Saves the World, I started a new game for the Cthulhu's Angel's mode. Cthulh...

Before its official release, Minecraft 1.8 was "leaked" for testing. Today, a pre-release version of 1.9 was similarly "leaked." I guess this is becoming a trend. 1.9 is another part of the Adventure Update, which has now been split again, with...