Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Nov 18, 2008 6:00pm PSTSo as you guys saw in our Left
4 Dead review, the game delivers co-op good times. I am not really sure about the
longevity of the game for myself personally but I do know that the moment more episodes
come out for that game I am all over it.
- What the hell is that thing
- Where next in
space
? - iPhone gaming
href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/18/iphone.game.developer/index.html">is hot
- Yahoo! founder
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/18/tech/cnettechnews/main4612942.shtml">finally
stepping down
As for the the videogame news around these parts:
- Call of Duty: World at War selling
well
- Epic apologizes for Gears of War 2
issues
- Age of Conan getting DX10 update
- King of Fighter 12 incoming
- Sony claims 14 million PSN users
- Crysis Wars patch
- LittleBigPlanet PSP talks from
Sony
- Square Enix doing action games in
USA
- Nintendo realizes there is a
community
- Call of Duty: World at War on
Steam
- Midway hates Unreal 3 technology
Lastly, the new Xbox
dashboard nonsense is just around the corner and I must say I've been very
underwhelmed with just about everything I have seen outside of Netflix integration and
that looks like it still needs work. I'm sure many focus groups have said this thing works
great though so I guess we'll see shortly.
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
Thanks for the no-bullshit post Mr. Gibson!
I'm getting pretty tired of the ridiculous marketing speak ("new xbox exerpience", I mean come on). I'm kinda surprised that the other guys on here have been regurgitating that same phrase time and again... the reason I have been coming here since the shugashack days is that I can usually get news and info without having to read bullshit like that.
I appreciate the efforts of all the new guys, and generally being more professional and unbiased is A Good Thing, but if you take it too far you risk diluting the coolness of the site somewhat.
Needs more Steve! Bring back stuff that sucks and other things that were good! :D
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Finished the NO MERCY campaign with some Shackers on Advanced. God what a blast. We got majorly shafted at a couple spots with basically every boss being thrown at us at the same time. But I also got a slew of achievements in that first run. Molotov cocktail + zombie swarm = win (and achievements)
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My stuff will be mostly embedded videos from youtube/vimeo
I'm kind of thinking aloud here....so apologies if it reads strange
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weekday news: Take your pay cut for now and like it. A lot of you may not have a job by the end of the year. Happy Holidays!
The bad economy is no fun. :(
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Care to explain?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/pasta_sauce/
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How do I kick my roommate (of two months) out and not have it blow up in my face?
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BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) -- Police are investigating an incident in which a squirrel was nailed to a cross in Bremerton.
The Kitsap Sun reports the man returned to his home Friday and found the crucified squirrel in a plastic bag on his porch.
Police did not provide any suspect information.
They're onto you.
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My submission: Mirror's Edge. The textures as you run around look way sharper, and all the places where you could outrun the textures (where all the ventilator grills turned into 4x4 pixel disasters) are completely gone. BUT more importantly, the load times are amazing! All the elevators in the game are like 3x faster now, sometimes the doors open before the dialogue has even finished playing. And quitting to menu, or restarting a speed run, is way faster.
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Just read about someone's crazy idea on a forum. Imagine an iMac connected to a MacBook through something like the new LED Cinema Display triple connector. Through magic (a lot of ingenious programming), you could then drag and drop files between the two desktops, allow opening of applications in each other's displays, etc. Two computers connected that can share displays, input, memory and CPU processing.
Kinda like a Remote Desktop mashed up with Extended Display. I guess the tricky part would be the cpu, memory sharing/scheduling/offloading part. How do you tell an application needs more power automatically without the user manually assigning programs to each CPU? And is that even possible, given the speed of USB?
12 - 17 days to repair the WRX :(
I'm going to be driving a god damned Kia for 2 weeks. This sucks. Not to mention the time it's going to need when I take it back to Subaru and tell them the clutch release bearing is bad ... again ... for the third time. It's too bad I love the car so much or I'd just get a beater and not worry about some body damage.
Also, does anyone know if they may HDMI switching boxes yet?
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WHAT THE FUCK? Come on Sony, quit being childish. Yanking the license for streaming Netflix movies on the XBOX 360? Seriously guys, you all have the worst executives ever.
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Can you have more than one companion follow you? Right now I have paladin star cross or whatever her name is from the main quest from the brotherhood - then last night a certain inn keeper met her demise and obtained the contract for charon, but he said my party is full
Is this tied to charisma? Earlier I had my first companion and dogmeat following me, so I was assuming you could have more than one, but was disappointed when I couldn't roll thick.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJL-Huv8h8
Right now i'm only using 1 mic to record both guitar and voice. Anyone know if it's that much of an improvement to separate channels?
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Pubbies aint cutting it :(
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Then i loaded them into the computer and whoops, there's a penis.
I had forgotten to put my underwear on.
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Wow, does this mean......does this REALLY mean Vic is off the hook? O_o
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The HD you need is $60 compared to the $140 for the MS branded 120GB.
Thoughts? This is what I am talking about http://www.pcworld.com/article/150970/upgrade_your_xbox_360s_hard_drive_on_the_cheap.html
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I have an unopened copy of Vista Ultimate 32 bit, how can I get MS to send me the 64 bit copy? I won this for participating in a promotion a few months back, and I have no idea why I chose 32 bit at the time.
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Great games brickmatt, sigpro and monkeygone. Left4Dead is awesome.
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For example, in Fedora Core 5 I can move windows by holding down the Alt key and clicking on anywhere inside the window. Similarly, I can resize the window by holding down Alt+middle click drag.
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Rob Bozer says:
Alive?
No response yet. I will keep you update. Apparently they have the internets in the desert
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