Category Archives: Creative News

Adobe Touch Apps Review: Adobe Ideas

Adobe have recently released the Touch Apps family, a compilation of six, tablet optimised apps which allow creatives to produce work on the go and share via the Adobe Creative Cloud.  I had my eye on these apps long before … Continue reading

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Block and Load – An Open Minecraft Server – No Whitelist

Alas it seems we can’t get enough of this fun, creative offering by Mojang Specifications and we’re certainly not alone!  Creative Fail readers are the first to be invited to the Block and Load server, which is currently hosting a … Continue reading

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Call of Duty: Black Ops – Instruction Manual Fail

On the run up to Christmas, Call of Duty: Black Ops sales figures surpassed the $1 billion worldwide milestone. In short, the game is about as hot as molten lava. Hundreds of thousands of gamers are regularly online, fragging away … Continue reading

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Collabtive – open source project management software

At the end of last month I was in dire need of some project management software, something that can log the hours I work on particular projects and enable me to keep tabs on when jobs needed to be completed.  … Continue reading

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DarkBASIC Pro now FREE

The popular game development tool produced by The Game Creators is now FREE, the announcement was made in their 10th anniversary newsletter: we have decided to make the core Dark Basic Professional language completely free! By lowering the barrier to … Continue reading

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TGC “10 Years” Cover Contest

Open Photoshop now, read on as it loads… The Game Creators are fast approaching their 10th birthday, to celebrate this event they are inviting you to design the front cover image for their anniversary newsletter.  Rules and templates can be … Continue reading

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Heard of Creative Fail?

Have you heard of creativefail.com ? I created this video using a wonderful piece of online software called xtranormal (www.xtranormal.com). With xtranormal, you select your scene and camera angles, type the dialogue for each character, and within minutes the software … Continue reading

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Quick Fail – Wordle.net

This is the first post in a series of Quick Fail Recommendations. These will be creative websites or open source applications that you can bookmark and add to your toolkit for next to nothing. Lets get started with a real easy one – Wordle.net is basically a … Continue reading

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Maxon announces Cinema 4D 11.5

Maxon recently revealed to the world the latest version of their Cinema 4D product.  Cinema 4D has been a favourite 3D application of mine for many years, it has enjoyed much success among illustrators and digital artists. The latest version … Continue reading

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Music Video Competition – genero.tv

I stumbled upon a pretty interesting opportunity the other day. genero.tv have launched a worldwide music video competition. There are a large range of selected tracks by artists who are taking part (one being The Temper Trap!!). You basically download … Continue reading

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