How to Fix Blacklight: Retribution if it Does Nothing After Clicking Play

For those of you who installed Blacklight: Retribution from Steam and found that clicking the Play button on the launcher did nothing, there is a quick and easy fix.

You must find the folder on your computer that Steam installed the game to, which in my case (64 bit Windows) is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\blacklightretribution\Redist\directx. If you have 32 bit, it will look something like this:C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\blacklightretribution\Redist\directx.

Copy and pasting that link and entering it at the top of 'My Computer' should work fine to get there.

From there, find the file called DXSETUP. If you open that file and install it, when you go back to Steam you should find the game to now be working.

Good luck and happy gaming!

Getting Your Android Phone Connected to Eclipse

I recently ran into a problem getting my Google Nexus One phone connected to Eclipse. If you are running into a similar problem and are using Windows, then, first off, obviously make sure you have turned on your USB Debugging on the phone itself (Settings>Applications>Development and then tick the USB debugging box). You will probably see that Windows is trying to install the driver, and will likely fail at it. From there, you should right click My Computer and go to properties and then to devices or device manager, and find your phone on it (it will have something like a yellow triangle by it). Right click it and push update driver software. At this point I should have mentioned that you have to download the Google USB Driver from the Android SDK Manager (under extras). After you have done that, point Windows towards the place where you put the driver: \extras\google\usb_driver\. For a better overview of what I just said, follow the directions written here: http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html.