Thanks to the efforts of a few hard core fans, Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of The Templars, has been released. This unofficial sequel to the Broken Sword series takes place between Broken Sword II and Broken Sword III. 2.5 also brings back the classic 2D comic-style, point & click interface that made the first two Broken Swords so great to play.

Unfortunately for the moment all the voice actors are in German, though English subtitles are included. The good news however is that they are currently under-way recording the English voices. I just hope they some how manage to get a hold of Rolf Saxon, fingers crossed.

To download the full game, completely free. Visit the offical Broken Sword 2.5 website.

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Just remember not to over do it too much or some scurvy dog might be making you walk the plank by the end of the day

Just thought I’d add to the hype after going to see the Dark Knight at the weekend. All I can say is that it’s brilliant. Fantastic. I’m afraid there’s not enough words to describe how great it is. Clearly a masterpiece. It’s dark, sinister, complex…Believe all the hype you read, I was so impressed with the Dark Knight that I’m even considering going to see it again.

Plot: (source: IMDB)
“Set in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor (Christian Bale) is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and it’s army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind”

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Brilliant, also checkout the James Bond theme song

The upgrade has been pretty smooth as far as upgrades go, there are a few glitches here and there but nothing I can not fix. The only real problem I’ve noticed is that IE 6 has stopped displaying some of my old floated images correctly, they just appear with out being floated left or right but only in IE 6. I’ve not tested it in 7 yet but Firefox and Safari display everything as it should be. The good news is that it’s easily fixable so I am not really that bothered by it.

While upgrading I have also change my site layout a little, I now have 3 columns instead of 2 and I have expanded the post content area by a whole 50 pixels. I know it doesn’t sound like much but I think it looks much better than it did. The only thing thats left to do is update my current theme but I think ill leave that for another time.

“This is assuming that you have already created your Custom Template theme, or at least know how the Custom Template themes work in Zen Cart.”

Okay here’s how to create your custom Zen Cart homepage, starting from the base of your Zen Cart directory go to your custom made template directory “includes/templates/Your_Template/” and create a new directory inside that called: index

Next copy the tpl_main_page.php template from
“includes/templates/templates_defaults/common/” to the new index directory that you just created.

Then the last thing that you need to do is go to your custom css directory located in “includes/templates/Your_Template/css/” and copy the existing stylesheet.css to index.css

Success - Your Zen Cart home page is now completely independent from the rest of your site design, all you need to do is edit either of the the two files you just created tpl_main_page.php or index.css to make changes.

includes/templates/Your_Template/index/tpl_main_page.php
includes/templates/Your_Template/css/index.css