Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 06, 2008 6:00pm PDTSo after years of people requesting it we're finally getting around to starting up a
file partner system for FileShack. If you run a gaming related website that generates a
significant number of downloads (at least a few thousand per month) and you're sick of
dealing with FF or FP or whoever else drop myself or Maarten an email and we'll set you
up.
- Musicians and
blu-ray
- Fake sugar for
your brain
- Dude, cyberwars
- Bears are indeed godless killing
machines
- Some kind election is going on today
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Blizzard opens a digital
distribution store
- Take-Two sues Chicago over GTA
4 ad removal
- Shacknews preview of Fallen
Empire
- Shacknews debut of Fallen Empire
trailer
- Mirror's Edge footage is kinda
nifty
- McDonalds doing Rock Band DLC
oh and South Park
- LittleBigPlanet,
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52543">KillZone 2
are the latesthref="http://www.shacknews.com/tag.x/Delay">Delay tag casualties
- EA is fussing with their branding
- Spore & Mass Effect to require
online connection
or lockout - Far Cry 2 video
- THQ losing lots of money.
Shoulda made Titan Quest 2!
- PlayStation 3 outsells Xbox 360 in
Europe
Lastly, why did most of the interesting teams in the NBA have to lose out in the first
round? I suppose as long as we get a Lakers vs Celtics finals a lot of people will be
happy. Sad to see Suns and Mavs and Rockets all gone. :(
Darksiders 2 releases June 26, pre-order bonuses announced
PlayStation Home getting avatar 'fighting' game
Girl Fight bringing fighting girls to XBLA and PSN
Skyrim Workshop touts 2M downloads, 2,500 mods
Xenonauts dev promises 'proper remake' of XCOM
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16889026#itemanchor_16889026
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This game had amazing voicefeedback in the UI, I can never forget that calm female voice telling you exactly whatthat critical hit destroyed on yout 'mech. Or what subsystem you engaged. "The temperature is 32 point......6...degrees" "Low-light enhancment......engaged" "Target....destroyed".
Why does this really old game have better voice feedback than most new games?
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I bought a new 20" imac. I got the $1199 version since that's all I'll need for now. Overall I like it a lot, but I'm disconcerted by the TN panel that is used in the 20" iMacs. I adjusted the color settings by eye as suggested by a few Shackers and it really did make a world of difference. I'm debating on upgrading to the 24" iMac, which costs $600 more.
I've done some basic color tests to see just how shitty the TN panel is, but I need your help to determining the quality of full motion video and any other display related problems I might run into later. I just want to know if I can live with it before my 14-day return period is up.
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Let me first preface this comment by saying I am a devoted fan. I love everything BSG has been up until this season. Some of the finest programming in the history of TV.
Now that that's out of the way; Am I the only one who is completely done with this series? This whole season has been SO blah and SO meh that I now no longer care what happens. It could come to be that Earth is the homeworld of the Predators and the cylons and humans must wage an all out war against the Predators and then a rift in time tears open the sky letting thousands of terminators fall onto the battlefield and I STILL wouldn't give a shit. Each character is a plodding, boring, droning, shamble of their former selves and not a single plot point is keeping me interested. I don't think I have ever sat through a series solely on the fumes of the last season and holding a fleeting hope that it ends with something worth trudging through this garbage for.
BSG is officially dead to this shacker. So say we all?
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:(
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this guy is pretty smart tho and I'm pretty sure he doesn't own an xbox 360
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http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight/spice-id-quiz
17/20
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Ice Cube - Steady Mobbin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPOy8oiFYHM&feature=related
those japanese take their break-dancing seriously. A++
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they delivered gta4 and a hd/svga cable for a few days but they have fucked up my 360 order.
now the have canceled it for some reason(their fucking fault) and are out of stock for god knows how long.
talked to 5 different dudes and all of them were terribly sorry for their fuck up and they were over the top friendly but never ever said anything reliable.
two of them told me they would fix this shit and call me back. none of them ever did.
i gave them each one day.
at last one of them told me to just sent the other stuff back because they don't know how long it will take for them to restock and that he could not promise that i would get it to the same price i did order O_o (even though another guy from customer support promised me just that and never called back).
in conclusion, fuck amazon in the ass. this is not the first time they have pulled this kind of crap.
i have order the bundle with 4 other guys and all of them have already gotten their stuff.
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At the time the story ran, I didn't think too much of the families that they chose to participate in the project, but soon after, it was pointed out to me by blogger and Slashfood reader Lelonopo (via twitter) that the Oregonian had only selected families that were white, straight and had children. As a lesbian woman without children, their selection made her feel invisible.
http://feeds.slashfood.com/~r/weblogsinc/slashfood/~3/284975514/
Whereas lesbians eat moon rocks and crows feet
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o_0
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29th April (release) - 3rd May
514,000 copies for 360
413,000 copies for PS3
That's 927,000 copies. One for every 65 people. It outsold Wii Fit 9-to-1. 631,000 of the copies were sold on the first day.
The higher sales on 360 are interesting considering that the PS3 has apparently sold more units than the 360 here, though there are plenty of obvious explanations (such as the more hardcore nature of the average 360 owner, PS3 owners that just use it as a Blu-ray player, the exclusive DLC, Xbox Live, etc.).
Previous best week-one sales:
120,000 copies of GT5: Prologue for PS3
411,000 copies of Halo 3 for 360
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33578.html
Fuck... timed button-press sequences are overused, and getting old. Please let this trend die out asap. It was fun the first time in God of War... but now it seriously needs to go.
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can someone answer my question in the GTA thread?
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16898320
so...fucking...frustrated.............ahhhhhhhhhhHHHH!!!!!
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Czech girls, I'll miss you.
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Wow, it's always such a weird feeling to finish a film, but these last two have been really heavy for me in a lot of different ways, so it's a big deal tonight to be done. It's good, and it's not good at the same time. It's like that part in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels where Big Chris says "and one more fing.... It's been emotional."
It really has been one of the most insane six weeks of my life. These last couple were two huge movies for me to make, and I know for an absolute fact that I will remember and look back on this time for the rest of my life.
Hopefully it's just the beginning of what will be a long stretch of awesome. I have a gig in Europe that looks like it's going to come through and pan out, so that is a dream come true... being paid to travel the world and make pictures. Never mind getting to do it for free, but to come away with actual profit and still get to hang out in London and Paris and wherever else, that's amazing!... and I plan to hopefully make something awesome happen romantically with the art director from the movie I just finished, since she is unfathomably cute and awesome and talented, hopefully she'll have me!
Good times, shack.
You = alert'd
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Please, PLEASE, someone tell me that I get to kill Brucie or that he eventually gets killed. If I have to hear him scream ALPHA one more time I'm going to put my controller through the TV.
please, don't tell me if he gets killed :p
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Age of Conan will not start for me. I get to the page where it does all the patches, and then says its ready to go... I click the button and BOOM something blows up and my face frowns.
Maybe this game was made with lead.
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Penny arcade stole your joke!
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/5/7/
Those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, see http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16873615
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http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05072008
Don't you even think about it, Roast Beef >:-(
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/26363517@N06/sets/72157604915760196/
Divx still incoming.
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