Evening Reading: RTS Madness!
by Brian Leahy, Feb 25, 2010 5:00pm PSTEvery once and a while, there seems to be a rush of games in a particular genre. Right now, the RTS is hot news, mister. Blizzard launched the beta for StarCraft II, EA's Command & Conquer 4 is also in beta, Supreme Commander 2 hits next week, and the first Dawn of War II expansion pack, Chaos Rising, drops the week after. It's the season for real-time strategy.
All of these titles have different gameplay systems and offer unique experiences. RTS gamers tend to get extremely focused on one game at a time, much like FPS players. It's a sad trend that makes a small genre even smaller. I wish the teams behind the non-Blizzard game all the luck in the world. It's still just in beta, right? How about a Game of the Evening?
Savage: The Battle for Newerth - "Savage was one of the rare attempts at RTS/FPS fusion. The incredible thing is that the gameplay worked, it was stable, it was fast and fun. More incredible is it somehow managed to be not as popular as it deserved to be. The FPS portion included multiple classes while the RTS commander gave orders, built units, and assigned buildings to be built. Each team supported up to 128 players." (LoioshDwaggie)
Daily required reading, Video Games 101:
- Alpha Protocol gets a release date, again.
- Plants vs. Zombies sold a bunch on the iPhone.
- Final Fantasy I & II are released on the iPhone.
- New Battlefield: Bad Company 2 videos make me happy.
Finally, I've spent way too much time today putting random phrases into TranslationParty, which translates from English to Japanese to English to Japanese and so on. Tip: StarCraft-related sentences are particularly amusing. Or this.
Oh, and the last ever (probably not) Day of Defeat: Source Shackbattle is tonight. So go play it with Shackers one last time!
Atari to auction off game assets in July
Civilization 5: Brave New World trailer delves into new ideologies
What the community thinks of Xbox One
Rumor: Microsoft's NFL deal cost $400 million over 5 years
SimCity 4.0 update offers 'launch park,' new region



Dallas 9 PM EST
Awwww yeahhh!!!
Join us as we bid a fond farewell to our Day of Defeat: Source Shackbattles... by squeezing in a Counter-Strike Source Shackbattle before the final DoD:S game tonight!
We will be testing a couple of the new maps added to the server as well.
Everyone thank RyDogg1 for being an ever-awesome server admin!
Don't forget to download the new maps here!
Download Link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1938786/cstrike.zip
(Extract to steamapps/username/counter-strike source/)
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new devblog out of CCP: http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=735&aid=105650
talks about the incoming calendar system and the standings system upgrades.
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http://www.macheist.com/
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Apologies if it's already been announced but I didn't see it mentioned anywhere.
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It used to be if you stopped on the ad block it would start the audio. Now on some of these ads, if you hover past them the audio buffers up and plays a second of very loud shit. :\
Since the RC is about to go kaput next week, I need to get a retail version of Windows 7. I can get by buying just the Upgrade version, right? Or do I have to buy a "Full?"
And is Home Premium gimped compared to normal use of the RC, or are the differences negligible for a regular user?
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This morning I watched Remington Steele while eating Sugar Smacks out of a salad bowl. I was naked.
http://twitter.com/ConanOBrien
I have a feeling more comedy will ensue.
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Playing music in this way is a bit... uneven when your wife's old country music or Celine Dion pops on.
What's MP3 is always first in your list?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3SY61uBM_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-VTdbZotL4
I'd forgotten how incredibly difficult this one was. They don't make 'em like this any more (and with good reason!) It was pretty fun but hard as balls. Did any of you jerks ever finish it? I can't remember how far I got, but I remember getting close to throwing my game boy out of the window during some of the jump puzzles (skip to ~7:30 in the first one to get an idea of how tough it was to make some of those jumps)
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http://cbs13.com/politics/no.cussing.week.2.1519540.html
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So I got some POS used car. Has a 6 CD changer in it. Won't play MP3 CDs. Is there a format I can burn my Mp3s so an old CD player will recognize em? .wav files? Anything? TIA!
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The 90 minute Darksiders Demo is now available on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network. If you have been on the fence about this game - give this a shot.
http://www.livestream.com/noobja
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http://pixeloo.blogspot.com/2008/03/homer-simpson-untooned.html
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8&feature=related
Best song/dance routine I've seen. Dance starts around 1:30.
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HOMEOWNER digital thermostat menz:
So for no apparent reason, the room temperature readout on my digital thermostat just stopped giving a readout today, so it can't tell my furnace when to turn on = no heat. House / furnace / thermostat are one year old. Anyone ever have something like this happen before? All the wires on the back seem firmly connected.
So everything is on the digital readout except the ambient temperature, instead of saying something like "66F" it says "--". And yes, I put in new batteries.
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Let's do this bitches!
http://kotaku.com/5479525/sega-yakuza-3-cuts-were-necessary-for-western-release-%5Bupdate%5D
tl;dr: "You can still go into Cabarets and on dates with the ladies in the game and Kazuma still kicks major ass."
Anyone else unable to play youtube videos in Chrome? They seem to work fine in IE
As far as King's Quest games go, it's the one I have the fondest memories of playing other than I and especially II. It's just a shame that it came bundled with King's Quest IV (horrible game) and King's Quest V (Fuck. That. Mouse.)
I wonder how much more enjoyable the games would be if they were played with walkthroughs without having burnt out on them beforehand by playing without. Maybe it'd just highlight the deficiencies in the storytelling more. :(
http://m.jalopnik.com/site?sid=jalopnikip&pid=JuicerHub&targetUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fjalopnik.com%2F5479661%2Fis-this-the-largest-camarobird-collection-in-the-world%3Fop%3Dpost%26refId%3D5479661
F bodies as far as the eye can see. The cop car is very cool.
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