Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Feb 18, 2009 6:00pm PSTAnother reminder: sign up for the Frisco, TX Shackmeet. There will be gelato. It will be refreshing. Because you will be in Texas.
Some of today's news, sans broken links:
- Dead Space Wii is an on-rails lightgun shooter
- Nintendo DSi launch date, price details
- Intel files suit against Nvidia over chipset license
- Blizzard reveals new World of Warcraft raid
- Xbox 360 losing accounts in expired e-mail snafu
- Namco revives Dead to Rights
- Konami announces new Metal Gear Online expansion
- Classic Matt Hazard game coming to XBLA, PSN
- Internet whining leads to lower Braid PC price
- Champions Online going online in June
- New Team Fortress 2 community maps revealed
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
Demon's Souls servers extended again
Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection coming in June
Sony patent would interrupt gameplay to display ad
Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
New Zone of the Enders project underway
* Two new gametypes: Greed and Betrayal
* One new mutator: Titans
* 16 new maps: 6 Deathmatch, 4 Warfare, 3 CTF, 3 VCTF
* Two new weapons: Stinger Turret and The Eradicator Cannon
* Two new deployables: The X-Ray Field and the Link Station
* One new powerup: The Portable Slow Field
* Two new characters: Kana of the Ronin and Nova of Liandri
* One new vehicle: The Axon Stealthbender
* All due on: March 5, 2009. Two weeks! Really!
From http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12517 and much more details at http://www.beyondunreal.com/articles/titan-pack-reveal/?page=1
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who here levels slower than i do? i got the xpac shortly after release and i'm still only level 76 on my main.
i just want to hit 80 so i can start doing naxx/heroics. how long do those take? i can usually get in a couple hours a night if i really want to sit down and play.
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He says some great sutff about combating piracy. Really seems to hit the nail on the head when it comes to the PC market. He says that people aren't pirating because they're cheapskates, they're pirating because it's a better service. No regional delays, no DRM, instant downloading, that kind of thing.
Which Steam is aiming to match. They're not trying to stamp out piracy, they're trying to catch up.
http://kotaku.com/5156238/gabe-newells-dice-keynote-left-4-dead-sales-tf2-comic-books
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I was thinking about it earlier tonight. How amazing it was, especially for its time.
I mean there were so many game design philosophies that were not yet solidified when that game came out. It basically defined a bunch of standards. I believe it was the first game to offer a save, at least on a console? I still remember burning that secret bush to uncover the stairwell.
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http://shirt.woot.com/
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Damn you, BoA!
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Long story short: pay your fucking bills.
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Its unlocked - http://store.steampowered.com/news/2261/
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gonna scan it tomorrow and i'll post ... maybe we can zoom in and see who's logged in :)
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Below is a screenshot that may or may not be of help.
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I just ordered 3 of these:
http://www.theneocube.com/productcatalog.html#CubeTastic
(order 3 = free intl shipping)
They look awesome
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003537.php
It's been a long time since I lost my super strong magnets, I had 4 flat cylindrical ones and they were awesome.
I don't know why I did it tho, it's not like I need 3, maybe I'll try to sell 2 sets off and make a profit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU
These lonely island guys are the best part of SNL
in before repost
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In 28 days England will be overrun by zombies.
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Time to sleep after exploring a few more burned out buildings. Just a few!!!!
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Running past a huge, spray-painted "God is Dead!" in Dead AIr. Zoey runs past it and screams out "Oh nooo! The zombies killed God!"
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It's a lot of fun. Short, but there's a lot of replay value so that's fine. (Right after finishing it I started playing the Director's Cut mode, which is quite different, just to try it out... and I stayed up and played through half the game again before I pulled myself away. So I think it'll take a lot of play-throughs before it gets boring.) You can play co-op, too, which should be a blast.
The graphics are fucking terrible and most of the time it looks like a bad PS2 game but, aside from the awful textures, lighting and resolution, the presentation is brilliant. Everything is way over the top and it's presented like a series of horror B-movie shorts. It's also full of humour which really made me laugh in several places. It's a rare game where I want to show my friends the cut-scenes.
Shooting zombies in the face is as fun as ever.
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Is this the same guy in all the pics?
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The Wire for 100 bucks
http://feature.jp.msn.com/skill/special/article/oowaza/week015/003.htm
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PM me if you want me to pass your contacts along.
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I swear every time that song plays, this pink ooze comes out of my speakers that smells like cotton candy and astroglide. It's liquified gay.
Oh well. SF4 thread goes here.
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http://improbable.com/2009/02/19/guardian-column-146/
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