Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Aug 18, 2008 6:00pm PDTMonday! Again! It's almost like last week! This time I'm totally sure though that
Maarten is going to show off his boobies.
- Wind power hot?
- Google Android cell phone incoming
- Olympics in legos
- You got burned by
your email
- Windows 7 details incoming
As for the the videogame news around these parts for today:
- Alan Wake struggling but still
going
- Warhammer Online open beta
September 7
- Dragon Age: Origins heading to
consoles
- Nintendo DS motion control with
Tony Hawk
- EA still talking with Take-Two
- Witcher Enhanced Edition trailer
- Tomb Raider: Underworld trailer
- Chrono Trigger DS on November 28
- Godfather 2 trailer gets huge
interest
- Duke 3D on XBLA really soon
- Too Human to change the world
- Rock Band 2 / Guitar Hero World / Rock Rev instruments
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54238">on PS3
- Armored Core: Stupid Name September
16
- Epic defrauded developers
Lastly, Hitler is alive
and hacking
Notch 'can do' $13 million for Psychonauts 2
Shack Giveaway: Mighty Switch Force (3DS)
Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack preview
Alan Wake 2 would be 'much quicker' than first game, says Remedy
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
Binary Domain demo available this week
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Dictionary.com says pahy-lon but I've never heard it said that way. I always thought it was either pie-lon or pea-lon.
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221 fucking tries to get challenge room 14 - Cliffhanger. Can anyone do any worse than that? I love the game but it also causes me to spew curses like verbal diarrhea. Haven't had a game do that to me in a long time.
Playing on PC with keyboard btw.
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So I'm thinking about getting a new computer. I don't really need one (I do whatever little gaming I can on my PS3 anyway) but my current computer (5 yrs old) is getting a little slow for even normal tasks like viewing HD video. How does this look?
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X48
VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler
PC Power & Cooling S75CF 750W EPS12V
BenQ G2400WD Black 24" 5ms, 2ms(GTG) HDMI
Main question: is the Intel X48 motherboard worth it? I'm thinking I can always add another Radeon down the road for Crossfire if I want.
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Important that they dont sell my info or try and rip me off etc.. etc.. does a reputable online site exist for cheap mags?
Looking for ESPN, Playboy, PC GAMER, and maybe Sports Illustrated
I checked out discountmagazine.com and their site just looks shitty / sell your info
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When I say parents, I mean our parents...
I've just had to travel roughly 100 miles because they managed to get Antivirus XP 2008 on their computer.
There's possibly other things as well, because this PC is running like treacle.
Pray for me.
[I may be back for help/sympathy]
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Pretty big announcement in AI/Game/Holy Crap Processing Power stuff - http://www.sara.nl/news/press/20080813/Go_computer_victory_eng.html
The press release says it's the first time a machine has beaten a human at go which is of course wrong and ludicrous. However, it probably is the first time a machine has beaten a professional. And an 8-dan at that!
I'm pretty impressed.
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No idea if this is any use (or if it's been posted before) seeing as I don't even have a cell phone but I just stumbled across this link here on a completely unrelated site.
The Top 25 Free iPhone Apps:
http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/top-25-free-iphone-web-apps-for-your-daily-life/
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1) Landing a helicopter is difficult.
2) Landing a helicopter on top of two fuel storage tanks is uh... yeah.
Sorry mittense!
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/games/too-human-review.ars/1
tldr; ars seems to like it
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http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=im000426ti0.jpg
He seems friendly so far.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/TopGear
Top Gear finally started using their Youtube account.
*subscribed*
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Post here if you have completed or are preparing to complete Day 1. I've completed it and you should, too. The numbers I turned in were 7 7 5 4 7.
Remember to have some protein right after you finish.
For info please see this thread: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17693590#itemanchor_17693590
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its pop music, so you may be thinking "i am better then pop music, i am better than mt dew also."
http://www.myspace.com/quietdrive
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The plot was straight-up Saturday morning cartoon bullshit -- Save Jabba The Hutt's infant son (I'm not sure why I'm spoilering that -- but there was a bunch of action and most of the acting was better than the prequels.
I guess if you go in with low expectations it's not bad.
I really didn't like the CGI much. A lot of it looked like something that could be done on the PS2. A 360 game could easily look better than the movie. A lot of things like lines and shading on the faces of the characters was baked into the textures like something you'd see in Quake.
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http://idea-sandbox.com/blog/2008/07/what-is-burger-king-thinking/
lol
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All pre-orders are able to download the beta as of today from fileplanet. This weekend most of us will be able to play the "Preview" for a few days.
On the 7th of next month the open beta starts.
So, fgts, who is going order and who is going chaos and who is playing?
also daoc>wow.
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http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blogs/?p=353
Image is being "zoomed out" every day.
1 http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/edited_final1.jpg
2 http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/edited_final2.jpg
Look at the shadow... is dat sum tyranids???
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http://www.google.com.au/logos/olympics08_swimming.gif
looks a little... wrong
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http://www.shopecko.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=3054996&cp=2846009&view=all
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Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games
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When it came back up, it bluescreened a few times and restarted again. Eventually it didn't bluescreen anymore and came up to the login screen. I logged in it told me that my Vista trial has expired and it must be activated for me to continue to use it. This is strange because I already activated it months ago when I installed it.
So whatever, I'll play along. I clicked the button to activate it and I got an error that it can't validate for reason 0xC004E003. I clicked OK and it kicked me back to the login screen. I logged in again and chose the option that gives me "reduced functionality" (which means a browser and that's it). So now I'm here.
I've tried these steps several times and nothing works. I've tried rekeying my product code, too.
Help shack. I have a browser and nothing else and I'm sad.
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lol.
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I picked up the Pucifer remix cd and played Fantasy Wars and a couple of demos (Armies of Exigo and Spellforce 1 & 2). Of the demos, I enjoyed Spellforce the most. It's a nice combanation of RTS and RPG. Exigo appeared to be more of a vanilla RTS, but I didn't spend enough time with it to make a judgement. I really liked Spellforce though and ended up ordering it online.
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2 new sniper games.
hard achievements: http://onemorelevel.com/game/scope_first_blood
i'm stuck on level 6 :( http://2flashgames.com/f/f-Foxy-Sniper-6295.htm
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Turtle is ridin dirty
My friends and I need a name for our MERCENARY COMPANY in DnD.
GIVE US SUGGESTIONS.
So far we have
Blood Tenderly
Black Isle
Crimson Wings
Onyx
Red tide
whirlwind of hate
Keepers of Killing
GIVE US MOAR
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Valve has never disappointed with regards to TF2 content. Its going to be awesome. Or at the very least badlands (lol)
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Pink color, small glass bottles, cartoon-ish label.
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