Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 18, 2008 6:00pm PDTWell E3 2008 has indeed
come to a close however as Chris mentioned we have several more previews and a
couple of interviews coming up next week. Plus QuakeCon is just 2 weeks away so
we'll be showing up here with more Rage, Doom 4 and Wolfenstein info.
- Windshield of
the future!
- AT&T keeps teasing
WiFi
- Democrats love
lols
- Your neighbor is a
criminal
As for the videogame news around these parts? Yeah the list is huge. How
about I just give you guys links to the wrap-ups already done this week:
- E3 Day 0 preview
and review and
- E3 Day 1 preview
and review
- E3 Day 2 review
- E3 Day 3 review
- E3 trailers bonanza at Shackvideo
Lastly, enjoy Batman!
Daily Filter: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13: The Masters, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Dear Esther Mac port confirmed
Killing Floor hits a million sales, discounted on Steam
Jam Live Music Arcade announced for PS3, Xbox 360
Metal Gear Online to quietly die this summer
My review: LOL
Additional comments: ROFL
A movie like this is definitely better watched when you go into it expecting a complete trainwreck. It was a glorious cinematic shitpile, a reckless extermination of all things that make a movie good. Except explosions, those are always fo real.
Next I think I'm going to watch Battlefield Earth. I know I've seen major parts of it, but I think not the whole thing.
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Madden 09
Warhammer Online
Killzone 2
Fallout 3
Mirror's Edge
Fable 2
Spore
Left for Dead
Dark Void
Borderlands (just got to see somebody play)
C&C 3 Red Alert
Chrono Trigger and FFIV
Resident Evil 5
Street Fighter IV
Far Cry 2
Tom Clancy's End War
Lego Batman
Project Origin
Captain Immy bumped shoulders with me then turned around, I thought he was going to apologize but instead he just punched me in the mouth and I fell down for a few minutes and didn't move. Despite seeing Clifford Bleszinski at every showroom floor I entered, I think he was following me, I never saw anybody from Shacknews although I was told at one point in time I walked right by Chris Faylure. The only guy I've ever seen a picture of is the Gibson and I am told he is 7 feet tall so I thought he would stand out so maybe he was hiding. Also, despite most developers being over the top polite and interesting to talk to the lead game designer on C&C 3 : Red Alert was a jackass. Chris Morris was very nice and easy to spot because of his hair. Some Valve employees told me that the shack's seven is the best sniper they have ever seen play TF2.
Anybody have any questions?
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http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/comedy/64750/Batman-Part-1.html
http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/comedy/64751/Batman-Part-2.html
I think my good buddy Mike did a phenomenal job with these. He wrote, directed and stared as the caped crusader himself. Part 2 is my personal favorite. Hope you guys enjoy 'em!
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I would say that this should serve as notice to fucking rancid shitstain "action movies" like Wanted and Transformers, but then again I can't even put The Dark Knight in the same league as Batman Begins, which I loved.
I will not be surprised if it gets a best picture nomination next year. We'll see.
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That movie was fucking epic. It's rare that i'll keep thinking about entire sequences of movies the day after I see them, but The Dark Knight is just embedded in my brain. In particular all of the scenes with The Joker in them.
I'm not riding the hype train, but Ledger seriously deserves a posthumous Academy Award for his acting. I don't think any character in any movie released in the last couple of years has been as strong, memorable and ultimately well acted as The Joker.
I wanna go see it again.
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Once again the awesome Lampshades and the evil Cyber-Demons have a scrimmage game! It's in about 8 hours, should be fun. The Cyber-Demons want revenge for last years loss.
On paper the Cyber-Demons look like a better team, but we shall see! http://goallineblitz.com/game/compare_teams.pl?team1=738&team2=754
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http://bit-shift.com/images/Multitask.png \m/ 4GB of ram.
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http://www.drhorrible.com/index.html
cute, but where's my new tv show with eliza dushku?!?
They're still very simple characters, Archer's still a very boring uninteresting character, so are mayweather and the british guy, the verbal sparring between the humans and T'Pol is irritating.... its all lame. But the show rises above that when the writing is good.
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Why does DND have skills? It seems fairly intuitive to me to check something like "intimidate" - I mean I read the skill rules and its just things I could think up on the fly, generally speaking. it doesn't seem something that needs to be simulated so specifically, right? So why add another three dozen things for players to remember during a game? Let them just use the basic attributes and determine the difficulty of doing something like intimidate on the fly as they play.
What's wrong with this idea?
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