Evening Reading
by Aaron Linde, Jul 31, 2008 6:35pm PDTWith Steve and Nick on location at QuakeCon, the rest of us are stuck at home, with fanciful dreams of Rage dancing in our heads. Ah, well—Faylor and I picked up PixelJunk Eden today, which is kinda like Rage, when you really think about it.
- Former Scientologist calls church "a crime syndicate"
- Is there life on Mars? Well, there's definitely water
- Want to look stupid? Wear shorts with that suit
Today's QuakeCon 2008 round-up:
- Nick previews Wolfenstein
- Wolfenstein extended trailer released
- John Carmack talks iPhone
- Quake Live name change due to domain squatter
- Wolfenstein Live not likely
- Quake Arena 2 depends on Quake Live success
- Rage Engine nearly complete
- Compression uglies up Rage on Xbox 360
- Carmack denies falling out with Activision
Elsewhere in the gaming world:
- Madden 09, FaceBreaker demos hit Xbox Live
- Ray tracing coming to games in 2-3 years
- Ghostbusters possibly delayed
- Less than 25% of Xbox Live users hail from Europe
- Himalayan survival horror becomes a game
- Guitar Hero World Tour PC listed by ESRB
- Armored Core: For Answer trailer released
- WoW gets unofficial iPhone apps
- The Last Guy screens, trailer released
- Pachter says DS follow-up before year's end
- Activision believes PS3 will outsell 360
- Too Human goes gold
- Blizzard talks WoW/Age of Conan rivalry
- The Godfather 2 slated for late 2008 to early 2009
- Activision expecting $50M in DLC sales
- More Guitar Hero, Call of Duty in 2009
- WoW expansion coming between October and December
- PlayStation Store updated
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Long (but interesting) article on Trolls and /b/tards.
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Mazda3 (trading in my PoS 1999 Malibu)
Samsung 46" LCD (still using my 27" JVC circa 1997)
Xbox 360 & games to go with it (still using my original Xbox)
Digital Camera (using ancient 1 MP Kodak)
Home Theater System
Laptop
New cellphone
I feel like such a consumer whore. Even after all that I'm still left with quite a bit. Anyway, Yay me!
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Thinking about getting one for Blu-Ray and games. What games are a must have? I already have MGS4 (don't ask). I've only really seen Resistance, Uncharted and Warhawk as the other games worth getting. I have a 360 so I've got most of the major games, but looking at the line-up the only potential one I really want is L.A. Noire. What say you?
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It almost seems like they value their PS3 more than normal player units. Are they pricing up the technology to give consumers incentive to buy a much more expensive (in terms of cost to sony) PS3 unit? When the format war was underway, it seemed like we were on the road to $150 players and possibly $100 players going into Christmas of 08, but all that has changed. Sony has no competition, and almost immediately after winning the war, cranked up the price of their disc players, taking away free disc incentives and rebates.
Anyone have any idea why Sony has pushed up the prices so much? I mean, I can understand that a company with little competition will increase price, but if I were the movie studios, I would have expected the format victor to flood the market with cheaper players in hopes of getting my movies into homes. It almost seems like this whole blu-ray thing might backfire, keeping DVD in the lead for some time until digital downloads become commonplace. Blu-ray will remain a niche thing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8SxsOOELs
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We're looking to hire a desktop support / system administrator in the $45-$65k range as soon as possible. Hopefully someone in the higher spectrum to handle the sysadmin stuff.
Primary responsibility will be dealing with support issues from employees (150-180 users). Secondary will be sysadmin managing current systems, setting up new ones, and coming up with backup/redundancy policies.
This is an awesome job, it'll be pretty relaxing as long as you know what you're doing.
More details found here:
http://www.iamgoat.com/help.txt
Reply here or SM iamgoat if you are interested.
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I finally found a flat. An awesome, massive flat. 2 bedrooms with built in wardrobes, 2 bathrooms, huge lounge, big kitchen, lots of storage, garage, quiet area, 15mins walk to work/town center/station/pubs n clubs. £1200/month between 2. It's a stretch but it's SO worth it.
here is the only pic I have http://img.findaproperty.com/gascoigne-pees/Guildford-Lettings/p11594591.jpg - it's basically the entire top floor.
It will be the home of many shackmeets.
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It's juvenile yeah, but it really is a pretty solid little game.
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A great little article about gaming vs politicians.
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Soldier was always my main class just because I am a quaker, loved all the rocket arenas etc.
But man pyro with all the unlocks is awesome. Most definitely my favorite class to play now. So fast to move in comparison, + backburner so I play really stealthy now (ambushing groups/mini groups/stragglers). Going balls on capture points, and not feeling as useless as a soldier when approaching a massive group while ubered (most times).
Flaregun makes for some fun, for anything.. runners/stragglers/large groups of people/snipers
I really hope they add these little extras to all the classes, sooner than later. Soldier could use a revamp, even such a minor one like run speed...just a tiny bit, anything!
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extra high quality version now available.
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I feel dumb having bought SC4 the other day now, because I'm fairly sure my $10 on PJE will go much further than the $60 on SC4.
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Hopefully its not a complete waste of $420.
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At work, we have this draconian Internet policy that blocks every gaming related browsing site (NO SHACK :( ).
If I installed Steam, do you think it'd be blocked? (i.e. Could I login/verify a cache file?)
For reference, I am teaching kids how to make videogames right now, so it's...semi-legit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqotfn78RIo&feature=related (good beat, ignore the dumb Kim verse)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM89Hc9_l1M&feature=related WOOOP WOOOOP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy8V8w0Wm0s
BONUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6yZyVqYLM Trick Daddy related but it's really all about Scarface and Dillinger on this one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVYCIKeJH5c
The intro is 2d, unlike the movie, and done by animation guru James Baxter. If this doesn't make you want to watch the movie, then you are dead inside.
bodacity
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I was listening to a 1up podcast and they mentioned free FPSs being the next big thing apparently (doing well in korea, and battlefield heroes + quake live are on the way). They also mentioned these two as being decent:
http://www.instantaction.com/legions - tribes-style shooter that plays in-browser
http://combatarms.nexon.net/default.aspx - described as 'between CoD4 and counterstrike but not quite as good.'
I'm going to check them out for viability over the weekend. Does anyone else know of any other free multiplayer fps's?
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http://a745.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/50/l_764b690f3ddb05a93a0e15045e939810.jpg
Whatever http://a966.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/21/l_954e17ae5b48c84433297ce2bfbf18cd.jpg
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Secret of Nihm on HULU
http://www.hulu.com/watch/25523/the-secret-of-nimh
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James watching Where Eagles Dare was brilliant too.
Also...I have to work tomorrow. :(
Chris Thile must hate us :(
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