First Post!
by Maarten Goldstein, Sep 19, 2008 4:02am PDTYay Friday.
Didn't really know what to expect of Fracture, so I checked out the demo and came away not very impressed. The terrain deformation works well enough, and its used in mostly good ways, but the action is so bland. Considering you're shooting at things quite a bit, I lost interest pretty quickly.
Plenty of other games to spend money on the next few months though; personally I'm looking forward to Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, Fable 2, Far Cry 2, and Dead Space...although it's doubtful I'll end up with them all.
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
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Testing
I seem to recall he kind of freaked out about Shadow Warrior being mean about Asians or something?
Can't recall name, but was just thinking of some of the funny from back in the day and I recall that mini-controversy. Is he still in the industry and whatnot?
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So, while I was looking up the Wordle threads, I just noticed that yesterday is OverloadUT's one-year Shack birthday! I thought it was incredible, because it seems like just yesterday he was asking me why he should sign up here. I lied to him and told him that he could talk about games without people calling him gay.
But looking back, I think about how much he stepped up in becoming one of us and contributing to this community.
He started out strong by holding a kickass Shackmeet for Super Smash Bros: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16498579
He mastered Greasemonkey to bring us the New Comment marker script: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=16905639 and again with the Copy Source script: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17413152
He set up a server to run The Ship and got a lot of people to play this awesome game that many had missed. http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17618401
For the last few days, he's been scraping comment histories to post Wordle mashups for Shackers: http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17964833
And in the middle of all of this, the man got MARRIED to the wonderful, fabulous Miresse, who has unwittingly given up her husband to a life of Shacking so he can make our lives better.
OverloadUT, I'm glad you came and decided to stay. I feel lucky that we can keep our friendship going and expand it through all these other awesome people here. Thanks for being a great guy!
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what is highly O_O is that 1080P stuff... WORKS... over the wifi? o_O that was a surprise.
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Primus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn3uiLZY9Jg Tommy The Cat
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This is actually the first sports "real" sports game i've ever bought and Its great. Won my first game (Manitoba Moose vs Pittsburgh Penguins! rookie) 5-0!
What i'm not entirely sure about is how does aiming work? Does the orientation of the camera change how aiming works? how do you move or not move and aim/shoot at the same time? I sort of know "how" but to be confident is another story.
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I noticed that, in a backroom deal not unlike the Merrill Lynch buyout, a Friday Night CS:S event was quietly posted to the Steam community.
This has huge implications for the global economy. With stocks more volatile than ever, experts recommend investors divert their assets into AK-47s, flashbangs and hand grenades, and hole up in a secure area with plenty of cover.
TLDR:
CS:S
Dallas
Soon
BE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
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Fortunately, I found some RB2 drums way up north so I have a 60 minute drive to go fetch those. Better be some beer at home when I get there.....
Anything else I need to make this game as fun as the last one?
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Spare file server: request denied as of june 08
Blamed: me
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What is a good source for high quality dual screen wallpapers? Interfacelift only has a few, none of them really too exciting. I'm looking for wallpapers that actually look good when spanned across two monitors. Any links appreciated.
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Is Core Duo + 8800GTS still the best bang for the buck for ~600-800 dolla?
Fanks.
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so earlier today woddchuck70 posted a recipe for a pumpkin ale:
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=17973338#itemanchor_17973338
I took his recipe and pimped it out Xzibit style and think I'm finally settled on everything but I have a question about the pumpkin. He says to quarter the pumpkin, throw some spices on and then bake it. What about all the pumpkin guts? Leave them there or clean it out Jack-O-Lantern style?
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ncsoft won't let me register my guildwars codes.
awesome.
i guess i'm not playing this tonight.
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Not so hot on True Blood.
But I am SO GLAD It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back on.
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http://www.snorgtees.com/illbebach-p-468.html?osCsid=6218a5d6630ca56e0b6941a73fd3dc4c
i like it
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http://www.bunkbeds.net/velociraptor/index.php
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I was going to hold off until the Xbox Live release but I couldn't. I just launched for a quick tutorial before I go beat Crysis Warhead but the control scheme was kind of strange; I had to hold down the left mouse button to grow a circle selection area. I can't remember how Darwinia handled but it seemed different than this.
Screenshots:
http://www.polycat.net/g/v/games/multiwinia/multiwinia_01.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1
http://www.polycat.net/g/v/games/multiwinia/multiwinia_02.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1
http://www.polycat.net/g/v/games/multiwinia/multiwinia_03.png.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1
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what is a fair rate for custom design work? this is for a desktop application theme. I'm not a pro but I do good work... I have no idea what the going rate is.
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/19/microsofts_im_a_pc_campaign_created_with_macs.html
If the URL doesn't give it away, Microsoft's new "I'm a PC" campaign was created using Macs. Way to eat your own dogfood there!
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This is only going to get worse we get closer to xmas...
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