First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 15, 2008 4:04am PDTNew week, new chatty!
I was eager to check out that Mercenaries 2 demo that EA promised would be on Xbox 360 on Friday. So far it hasn't materialized on the Marketplace though, which is kind of a bummer as I'm really on the fence about this game.
In the meantime, I'll continue to enjoy GRAW2. I really dug the first Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, but never ended up buying the sequel. But then I saw it for 30 bucks recently, which is hard to turn down.
FileShack: Unity of Command, Skyjacker
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38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
My company is buying me a new computer and money is not an issue ;). I need your opinion as to what to buy. Thanks in advance.
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Ok so I have been a bit behind lately on the latest offerings for PC gaming hardware. I have been playing lots of console games for the past year or so, and I am considering upgrading. My last upgrade was back in the AGP days, when AMD was king, so this will be a new (Intel) CPU, mobo, RAM, video card and PSU.
I told myself back when i saw Crisis coming out that I would probably upgrade when I could get a machine that plays it at 1900 by 1200 at a pretty good minimum FPS (30) throughout. I made this up as a benchmark that would ensure that I could play whatever else is out there (STALKER, Bioshock) at that resolution.
I just priced out a 4870X2, intel X48 motherboard, quad core 2.8 ghz (forget the model number) Core 2 Duo and 4 gigs of decent Corsair ram - came out to around 1500, which was surprisingly affordable (i thought the fairly high end stuff would cost me at least 2 K)
But I went over to Hard|OCP and noticed that even with the 4870X2, and an even faster core 2 extreme processor, Crisis at 1900x1200 seems to still hang around 25FPS, dipping into the teens.
What the hell? What specs do I need to pull a solid 30 fps minimum in Crisis? Is this even possible yet?
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You can tell that they're trying with this album, but its sometimes obvious that they're trying too hard. Some of the lyrics suck, some transitions in the songs aren't the greatest but its still a great album.
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Do you guys think a simultaneous release on Steam and retail would have helped Spore in regards to the anti-piracy backlash?
IF yes or no, please state why.
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I decided last week that I would spend at least an hour a week fixing up the little niggling things around the house that you know need doing but you never make time for. Tonight's was replacing the garbage disposal (again, got a better one than the one last week - I want to be able to put whole cows down that thing & not clog the drain), lubricating the hinges on the door to the garage, and replacing a door knob on the front door.
I don't know if it's the non-lazy feel I get (likely) or the fact that doing such things makes me feel like a "normal" guy (mechanical instead of mental, and more likely), but it's nice to be able to feel like you've accomplished something worthwhile outside of your job.
Unfortunately my local purveyor of fine booze is out of ginger beer, so I'm having to make do with Gosling's and Coke. Hardly a fitting end to what is, by my measure anyway, a productive day :(
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A lot of people are upgrading right now, and I've caught the bug. I'm thinking about putting together a new system. The following comes in just under $1400. Suggestions? (in reply)
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For me: The lightning gun in UT2k4, popping a head, neck stub on fire, body convulsing on the ground with electricity, what a great weapon. I hate hate hate the sniper rifle in UT, and I think they're retarded for replacing the LG with it. I also have to give it up to the rocket launcher in quake3, and the rocket launcher in team fortress classic.
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If anyone knows why this is happening or what I can do to stop it from happening again, please help.
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You can put lip stick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
A 3.0ghz P4, just isn't going to be able to run warhammer on anything but "fastest frame rate" at 1400x900.
So tempting just to say fuck it, and buy a new pc, but the wife would put a knife through my wind pipe in my sleep.
:-/
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"Let's see.. let me click here... Yep, I'm clicking the Microsoft Windows Office Button. Nothing is happening. Yeah, Dave, I mean I need this to work before a big meeting tomorrow, and I'm here in Vermont. Long way from Colorado so I hope you can help! How was the weather today in Den- FUCK I AM CLICKING THE MICROSOFT WINDOWS OFFICE BUTTON AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED RIGHT NOW!!!!!!"
Man, computers piss people off something fierce. I mean I could kick this guy in the nads and he probably wouldn't have gotten as pissed as he just did. And I loved how it was in the middle of the forced small talk that everybody feels like they always have to do.
The fuck is a Microsoft Windows Office Button, anyway? Fuck.
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Let's play (in a bit). Are club games working yet?
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The new ones should be in store tomorrow right?
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Is this going to work with flash anytime soon? i need a portable hulu
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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080916/D937H5KO0.html
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If your into motorcycles at all, or if you ride, you really owe it to yourself to check out a MotoGP event. The Brickyard did a hell of a good job putting everything together. Over the course of 3 days they had around 175,000 people attend. Can't wait to attend next year!
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Well the game technically official launched yesterday as the head start for the CE guys began yesterday. Myself have to wait till tomorrow as I pre order a normal version :(.
Still the weekend was awesome in the open beta a huge improvement in the graphics where made to the textures and no longer look like blury mess from far away thanks to a new patch. (This was my biggest complaint)
I have posted new screens with the new graphics updated: * anyone who thought it looked like shit check em out, looks awesome *
http://renewsoft.com/war/
I hit lvl 12 as well and got my first Tactic which turned out to be a procing buff, very cool stuff.
Tier 2 region is very nice and the loot is even better.
I am sure allot of Shackers are looking forward to this game, it seems to be a very stable and solid product let keep our fingers crossed.
Another cool thing I found out, I wanted to have two spell bars on my interface so I went out to down load a mod. But I thought why not check the edit interface maybe you can do in there. Sure enough you can there is no needs for interface mods very nice.
Let the WAR begin.
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Fortunately there is that nifty video of Duke3D gameplay on the front page of The Shack and that helped cheer me up a bit.
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Pink Floyd's Rick Wright dies aged 65
http://www.nme.com/news/nme/39724
:( :( :( rest in peace, Richard :(
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Talking to BBC News Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was increasingly worried about the way the web has been used to spread disinformation...
Sir Tim talked to the BBC in the week in which Cern, where he did his pioneering work on the web, turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. The use of the web to spread fears that flicking the switch on the LHC could create a Black Hole that could swallow up the Earth particularly concerned him, he said. In a similar vein was the spread of rumours that the MMR vaccine given to children in Britain was harmful.
The father of the Internet has spoken! And he wants truthiness-tagging!
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Rally Finland
http://sirx.shackspace.com/rally/v1ds/wrcfinland08HL.avi
Two Words: Speed and Carnage
Some great crashes as well as some great on-board stuff here.
Its not my best video as I pretty much just threw the clips together and stuck a track on, but I haven't had the time to do a proper one, sorry.
Enjoy!
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