Brad Wardell published an insightful “op-ed” on the PC game market, particularly concerning how piracy has become the scapegoat to explain away disappointing sales, when the real reason is simply that if you make a product very few people can or want to buy, then you just won’t sell many of them.

Update: Riven X 0.6 is now available.
Riven X 0.5 is now available. The most important new feature is the edition manager, which will allow owners of the CD edition as well as owners of the various DVD editions to use Riven X. It should be noted that optical disc swapping is not supported yet, which [...]

MPQDraft 1.1 is now available. This release basically adds proper support for Mach-O PowerPC and Intel programs. The download link is available from the sidebar, or you can update via Sparkle.

Update: I initially had stated that LLVM was the future of Apple compiler technologies. This is the case in-so-far as I believe LLVM is the future of the gcc compiler backend. This is a personal blog and I’m obviously not speaking for anyone but myself.
While watching the iPhone SDK announcement video, I noticed some odd things [...]

Apparently, a lot of people wanted the iPhone SDK, and for the first time that I can remember in the past 10 years, developer.apple.com died. I think it’s mostly a good thing, but it sure is making programming a little bit more tedious this evening. At least there’s the built-in documentation.

DropMPQ 0.7.1 has been released. It adds support for dropping folders on DropMPQ’s icon in Finder or the Dock.
This is a relatively small but critical update for DropMPQ. The highlights are:

Fixed a bug in MPQKit that caused invalid MPQ archives to be created on Intel Macs.
Added support for the bzip2 compressor and updated the compression [...]