Evening Reading
by Nick Breckon, Jun 10, 2009 6:00pm PDTAfter its confusing opening moments, Blueberry Garden becomes a fun little game. Worth the $5 on Steam. There's a demo, too. Go check it out.
Today's news:
- Max Payne is getting too old for this shit
- The Last Guardian is still kind of ugly
- Prototype is causing headaches on the PS3
- EA is already hyping Battlefield 3
- Burnout dev Criterion is turning coat to Need for Speed
- Carmack is blowing mobile minds with Doom Resurrection
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
I've just installed more Ram to my pc but its running super slow as the cpu usage is constantly at 100%!
The ram is correct and they're 2x2gb sticks in my only 2 slots. Any help would be most appreciated, its taken me ages to type this out lol. Its 4gb now but only 3gb is used as I'm running 32bit Windows 7. Everything is super sloooow :(
What can I do?
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You're best class in TF2?
Easily the Pyro for me, a mumbling abomination which will own you all!
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http://www.hulu.com/watch/77038/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-project-natal-demo?c=Comedy
They do their 3D breakout and the Burnout demo.
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How many hours into a day of "working from home" do you get distracted and start goofing off?
It's coming upto midday here, and well... I'm on the chatboards fucking around, not doing much. Once the new Internet connection arrives, I assume I'll be on the couch playing multiplayer PS3 again... Until the phone rings, then everything goes on mute and professionally answer the phone, lol.
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First minus -- Unlockable hard mode. Fuck games that do this -- I want it right away.
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been long enough since the last one to have another one yeah? here's what i have on mine right now. you?
i'm looking for a good news app, ny times or usa today maybe? also a good "to do" application.
in no order. (reply)
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The Sedgwick County Commission's first order of business Wednesday involved how to recite the pledge of allegiance. "It's come to my attention that when we say the allegiance there is kind of an echo, so let's just say 'one nation under God' without a pause," Chairman Kelly Parks told his peers.
Sometimes I really do wish news papers went tits up. Government too. And Coffee Shops that can't make a decent fucking espresso.
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I hate to post a webcomic link, because we just don't do that here, but this looks like it would actually make for a fun series or even game.
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Anybody know what happened to Stephen A. Smith during this years playoffs? I just realized his annoying ass hasn't been on ESPN at all this year yelling at his audience. Wonder if he got shit canned.
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I went and checked out my car this morning. It's kinda broken. We found the owner of the cow and he's put his hand up - it looks like he's offering to pay for damage due to liability.
http://tastywheat.shackspace.com/VT%20Pics - Remember, aussie drivers sit on the right side of the car. The cow went OVER me - in one of the pics you can see cow fur just above where my head was.
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...but seriously, it seems like this happens everywhere I go. Someone says "Hey, can you add a field to track this kind of data?" Then they come back saying "I don't know if we'll need that data. I don't even know how this helps us."
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http://kotaku.com/photogallery/kofxii520/1008368816?viewSize=thumb1280x1280
Has there been any talk of this around the net? Kinda shocked to see shots like that.
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"Twitter hype punctured by study"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8089508.stm
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http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights
http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=899
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This is pretty amazing / awesome:
"A custom F-16 fighter simulator, it runs off 120 dual core PCs with 120 $400 graphics cards inside them, all chained together."
Hopefully not a repost.
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http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=211086907
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(...) Digital downloads are still a small, but fast-growing business. According to the NPD group, 17 percent of games sold in 2008 by PC gamers were digitally downloaded. (...)
(...) "Downloads will become 20 percent of the market within five years, and probably peak at around 50 percent of the overall market in 10 years," said Pachter. This assumes an overall market growth of 5 to 10 percent annually, he added.
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5596CX20090610?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews
17% seems like a good enough number. How long until next-gen systems are released? If the 5%-10% a year holds up, most next gen console games will probably be purchased digitally rather than physically.
I, for one, welcome our digital purchase overlords.
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I got some milestones for a few classes in TF2, and it unlocked some stuff. I deleted one of those items from my backpack, and now it looks like it's gone forever.
Any way to get that stuff back? If you've earned the item as opposed to finding it randomly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6uI_EQLoWI
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I'm looking into some good old platforming action to play through. I've got Mario, Sonic, and Mega Man covered. Also, Rocket Knight Adventures and Sparkster. What are some other good ones from that era?
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http://explosm.net/comics/1681/
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Any idea where I can find this?
Is $275CDN a good price?
i can hear the hard drive spinning up every few seconds, as opposed to when listening to an mp3 when it spools just once during a song.
i imagine this is because of the larger file size, that the buffer can't keep up? the more annoying part to me is the skipping as opposed to the hard drive spooling up, i can't listen to some songs without it skipping every half a second.
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http://mancide.net/rings/Three%20Best%20Friends.m4r
Zach Galifianakis' song from the movie.
Also http://mancide.net/rings/ houses all of the files from the old wiki ringtones page.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA