Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Oct 10, 2008 6:00pm PDTDiablo 3 StarCraft 2 Diablo 3 StarCraft 2 Diablo 3 StarCraft 2 Diablo 3 StarCraft 2
Diablo 3 StarCraft 2... also, World of Warcraft. Anything else?
- Future space
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/09/space.fashion/index.html">fashion
- Seagate going solid state
- Air-traffic is
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/10/09/outdated.airways.ap/index.html">outdated
- College gossip is
hot
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Gears of War 2 gone gold
- Microsoft responds to Xbox 360 Blu-Ray
rumors
- Crysis Wars free weekend starts
now
- Dead Space hands-on preview
- Warhammer Online breaks 750k
players
- Diablo 3 hands-on impressions
- Warcraft movie not coming in 2009
- Spider-Man: Web of Shadows trailer
- Diablo 3 lead designer reveals skill
rune system
- StarCraft 2 gameplay footage
- Diablo 3 Wizard revealed and
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55250">unveiled
andhref="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55262">full skill tree
andhref="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55257">video footage
andhref="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55255">more video
- Blizzard strongly hints of Diablo 3
href="http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55256">console port
- Sony dude likes Xbox 360 and DLC
exclusives
- StarCraft 2 cinematic and in-game trailers
- StarCraft 2 single-player campaign
details
- StarCraft 2 splits in to a trilogy!?
- Halo 3: Recon details
Lastly, I need food. Bad.
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
we play a little game now yes?
we guess what diablo 3's offical release date will be.
rules:
1. reply to this comment with a release date in format year/month/day (ex: 2137/02/12). entries not is this exact format will be rejected.
2. shacker must have at least 500 comments on shacknews.com to qualify entry
3. release date will be based on date given by blizzard as posted on http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/. if a clear release date is not posted on http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/ prior to diablo 3's release, the amazon.com release date as it stands two weeks prior diablo 3's actual release will be used.
5. winner will have picked the date of the release exactly, or if no entry matches exact release date, the closest date either before or after the actual release date will be selected as the winner.
5. in the event of a tie, (ex: release date 2010/02/04, entry A is 2010/02/01 entry B is 2010/02/07), the entry that is closest without going over (entry A in ex) will be the winner.
6. one grand prize will be given to the winner.
7. grand prize will be the official collectors edition of diablo 3. in the event that the collectors edition is more the $150 a amazon.com gift certificate for $150 will be substituted.
8. grand prize will be awarded as a pre-order gift with fastest shipping option shipped directly to winner from amazon.com as soon as the first(hopefully only) release date is posted on http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/. if a release date is never posted on http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/ the grand prize will be awarded two weeks prior to diablo 3's actual release date based on amazon.com's release date.
9. there is no cost to enter.
10. you have my word that i will follow through. i'm doing this for fun and will cancel the contest for any reason, at any time if i choose (i wonder if this really covers any/all legal remifications?).
11. only dates posted as direct replys to this comment will be accepted.
12. only one entry per qualifying shacker will accepted.
12. entires will be accepted until 12:01am monday october 13th.
13. only the first 250 entires will be accepted.
14. qualifying entries will be listed in this google spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p0G5-T3OdB9E0HfNR2aHXeg&output=html
15. oh ya if diablo 3 is broken up into multiply releases (ie part 1 part 2, ect ect, only the first part will be awarded as the grand prize)
16. if you replied to my previous comment post, http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=18156577#itemanchor_18156577, that asked if there was any interest in a pool like this one with a date, that didn't count.
17. posting questions about this pool or the rules will be ignored. i have the final say as to who wins blah blah blah, let's all have some FUN!
18. i suck for making a post this large outside of "in reply".
good luck shackers! may the change in diablo's color scheme please you.
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http://lazarus.planetdungeonsiege.gamespy.com/
http://lazarus.planetdungeonsiege.gamespy.com/AboutLazarus.php (features and so forth)
To play it, you need either Dungeon Siege or the standalone expansion (Legends of Aranna).
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but still enjoying it, to make things even better, my room mate just got a free HDtv from a relative and everything is looking quite spiffy.
So the free weekend is almost over and I haven't gotten to try Crysis Wars. Fuck. And you know what would have helped? Putting the damn free weekend on... I duno, Steam? Instead I spent about 6 hours downloading four 1.5 gig rar files from fileshack only for them to be corrupted (who's fault i'm not sure, but not the point here). Then spending about an hour hunting down mirrors only to find several with broken links (gamespot, bigdownloads, etc) or other ones that require accounts created. Luckily I remembered my fileplant account so I jumped into a 30min queue. Unlucky for me I wasn't around when the download was ready and missed my slot. Fuck.
Piracy isn't killing the PC, it's stupid shit like this that has plagued the PC for a decade. Publishers, listen up. Steam is a godsend. Use it. And (probably) profit. It alleviates all this bullshit. Anyways I probably won't buy Crysis Wars now because I didn't get to try it.
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Iv seen it all now
http://www.gamernode.com/news/7465-wow-gamer-has-36-personal-accounts-cost-5711/index.html
WoW gamer has 36 personal accounts
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hoodrat stuff with my friends. Word.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/6a17/
Too bad the blue one was out of stock, but the red one is more fitting in a way (school colors and all that). This'll be the first time I have a new order shipped to my work rather than my home (I have the too much text hoody coming in from Penny Arcade this week too).
My only concern is that I haven't worn a watch in 10+ years and I won't get used to it.
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Maybe I'll have the girlfriend buy me a subscription card to WoW for my birthday.
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I'm wanting to look into making a simple game on the iphone - I have some experience in C/C++ and would be animating / modeling my own assets... however I don't want to really be making my own engine
Does anyone know much about the GarageGames Torque engine for iphone? Their website doesn't seem to be that informative of if it can use all of the iphones features (such as tilting / rotating the phone)
Anyone? :)
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http://games.tiscali.cz/images/news/gta4pccon3.jpg
http://games.tiscali.cz/images/news/gta4pccon2.jpg
http://games.tiscali.cz/images/news/gta4pccon1.jpg
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12stream.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Pretty cool stuff.
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http://xkcd.com/488/
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You know that feeling you get when your foot falls asleep and it feels all tingly and numb? Well I have had that same feeling in my left hand for 1 full day now going on 2. It even extends into my left arm. Is this something I should get checked out because it feels very unsettling since it has lasted this long. Any advice will be appreciated.
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http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/eng/_press/detail.asp?NewsId=1101
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http://www.thecubsbrickyard.com/2008/09/02/mlb-uses-instant-replay-to-repeatedly-oggle-erin-andrews/
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Vista Pro x64 and Chrome. Anyone else getting sweet, no blue screen or anything, lock-ups and reboots? It's happened about 4-5 times now. When scrolling pages using the side slider, some others had flash video on them if I'm not mistaken.
This hasn't happened once on my other machine running XP Pro x86, so just trying to figure out whether its hardware or software.
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Last night the (as yet unnamed) party continued from where they'd left off at sub-basement 1 down through sub-basement 2 and 3, killing lots of Kobolds and a pair of Guard Drakes along the way while also falling victim to several nefarious traps laid by the crafty Kobolds. The PCs took plenty of damage and suffered several knock-downs, but they were able to adapt, improvise, and overcome by the skin of their various-raced teeth.
Sub-Basement 3: The encounter map late in the fight
http://wadmaasi.shackspace.com/photos/ShackDnD/Session%202/shack_dnd_1_MAP.jpg
skizl and Wadmaasi (was I singing "Walk Like an Egyption" or some shit?)
http://wadmaasi.shackspace.com/photos/ShackDnD/Session%202/shack_dnd_2_Players.jpg
MY WIFE and amrbean
http://wadmaasi.shackspace.com/photos/ShackDnD/Session%202/shack_dnd_3_Players.jpg
No pictured is SockMonkeh/Durgas, who acted as the photographer. Two party members couldn't make it last night; I played the missing cleric (Praesil) which probably worked out for the best with the four extra Healing Words. The Dwarf fighter hasn't been able to make it to a session yet, so that PC has sat out both game days.
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http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=11118
Oh I can't wait til computers can scan our brains and create virtual copies of ourselves and then have robots take control of the Earth and kill all humans with nothing but our virtual selves remaining. Storage proudly provided by Lacie
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# Warhammer Online breaks 750k players
both go to the same article. plz to fix :)
WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 22nd...ALL DAY!!!
All hamburgers will be sold for 25 cents, Cheeseburgers 30 cents, Fries 15 cents, and drinks are 10 cents at In-n-Out Burger.
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