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After suffering a “creative block” with development of his 0x10c project, Markus “Notch” Persson has definitively killed the idea, saying he has “no future aspirations” for it. The keenly anticipated game involved space travelers who wake up after an eons-long hypersleep and have to deal with enemies and other problems aboard their spaceship. He broke the news to disappointed fans on a livestream, but some have decided to keep the idea alive via community effort called Project Trillek. While they’d drop the whole cryosleep bit, the team would keep the concept of a crew navigating space and managing their craft with a 16-bit CPU, Minecraft-style. We’re glad it’s not dead yet, but whether it can survive the vacuum of a Notch-less space remains to be seen.

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It does seem as though the PlayStation 3 version of Disney Infinity has started to result in issues for select users, where some users have reported that the game itself will freeze or lock-up, resulting in it being unplayable because of a network issue that happens to be related to the game’s day one 1.01 patch. A statement on the game’s official Facebook page said, “This is not a software-related issue, and we are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Players with the PlayStation 3 version of Disney Infinity are still able to play single-player and multi-player co-op modes of the game by removing the patch and turning off their Playstation’s network communications.”

You will be able to check out the full instructions on how to do away with the offending patch, as well as turning off the console’s network communications over on Disney Infinity’s Facebook page. The issue itself has appeared across a variety of channels including Twitter, Facebook and the official PlayStation forums, and we do know that a fix is already in the pipeline, which is a good thing, but the sooner it is released, the better it would be for everyone generally. Are you one of those who was affected?

PS3 Disney Infinity Reports “Locking Up” Problems original content from Ubergizmo.

We have seen and heard about some pretty zany vending machines in the past, and one of the most recent coverage involves a bra vending machine over in Japan (how come I am not surprised to hear of its country of origin? After all, Japan has the highest number of vending machines to its population ratio in the world), and this time around the focus would cross seas to Europe – where what you see above is a Belgian fries vending machine that has been specially adapted to use beef fat, and customers would need to fork out €2.50 a portion. Seems all right to us, considering how Belgian has laid claim to being the inventor of fries.

Touted to be Belgium’s first fully automatic fries machine, it is capable of preparing a 135g portion of chips in 90 seconds. Of course, you ought to take note that chips have already been sold in this manner in other countries, the machine here is located outside a supermarket in Brussels, and it has adopted the gold-standard animal dripping, in addition to vegetable oil, which might just be the first salvo fired against Belgium’s street fries vendors. Would you prefer to buy such food from a street vendor or a machine?

Belgian Fries Vending Machine original content from Ubergizmo.

When we talk about video games and Microsoft, one of the enduring images or names would be Halo that defined the Xbox, marking Microsoft’s first foray into the video game console market. Well, Microsoft has certainly come a long way since the early Xbox days, and you could say that Halo: Spartan Assault happens to be Microsoft’s attempt in delivering the popular intellectual property of theirs to the mobile device platform. Having already sold millions of copies on consoles as well as on the PC, the Halo series garnered its fair share of fans, and as more titles roll out, this fan base is set to grow even further.

Halo: Spartan Assault happens to be available on Windows Phone 8, although it was previously restricted in the US to just Verizon Wireless customers via a 30-day exclusivity deal. We are glad to say that this particular deal is no more, which means all Windows Phone 8 devices with the relevant amount of processing muscle are able to handle this title without requiring you to be a Verizon Wireless customer. Would you be picking up this particular title for your Windows Phone 8 powered smartphone, or do you think that you would much rather stick to the console versions of Halo? It can be downloaded from Windows Phone Store for $6.99, and needs Windows Phone 8 and 1GB RAM to run, although it is speculated that an update for 512MB devices should be in the pipeline.

Halo: Spartan Assault Now Available Across All Windows Phone 8 Devices original content from Ubergizmo.