Evening Reading
by Brian Leahy, Jul 01, 2010 5:00pm PDTLast night, I fired up ArmA II and let me tell you, having a PC capable of playing the game at 720p or 1080p (framerate!!!) makes all the difference in the world. Previous attempts at Operation Flashpoint or even the original ArmA were met with crippling performance, but no longer, for my PC is equipped to deal with this.
I ran through some tutorials and a few scenarios (on the easiest difficulty) and generally had a pretty great, immersive time. I also had a great time getting shot right in the face on several missions. After playing the multitude of modern war shooters for a few years, ArmA II is about as hardcore as it gets. I'll definitely be returning to the game.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Square Enix getting in the Monster Hunter genre.
- QuakeCon 2010 registration and hotel details.
- A bunch of TF2 news.
- I review Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
All the rest
Chatty: Diablo III, Dragon's Dogma
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
Canabalt
The Hero
Plants vs. Zombies
Underworlds
Gangster
NFS: Undercover
Peggle
Sim City
NOVA
Moto X Mayhem
Real Tennis
Zen Bound
Pac-Man
TapDefense
Hero of Sparta
Tetris
Auditorium
Angry Birds
Doodle Jump
Flight Control
Rolando
i Love Katamari
Space Invaders Infinity Gene
Crayon Physics
Live Poker (Facebook poker game from Zynga)
Rope and Fly
Eliss
Kapowie
Jetcar Stunts
Edge
Angry Birds
FixPix
I haven't play any good platform games yet, Spider is supposed to be good, just got OmNomNom which is a classic snake game (I loved Snake back in the day so...)
There was also a Metroid like game but don't remember the name, anyone?
I wish there was a good platform game... Right now I'm getting OmNomNom which is a classic snake game, and would
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YAY! People that want to piss me of are up for a game tonight!
8 PM MST / 9 PM CST / 10 EST on Rydogg's alright? Ya'll down with that?
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http://vimeo.com/12819723
A perfect example of how it's not what you have that makes something great, but how you use it.
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http://www2.razerzone.com/sc2/
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If you don't watch Black Dynamite, you hate freedom you jive sucker.
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this is my sneaky "I got a new iPhone thread". The screen is amazing!
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http://www.spike.com/video/cinemassacre-top-10/3424340
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Also, screen is no joke as everyone has said. And the camera with flash now is fantastic!
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There must be a solution :( Death penalty or something.
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But anyway, I just joined a Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band, we are the Red Not Chili Peppers =)
I play the part of Flea, but I need an outfit before our first gig next Wednesday. Ideas?
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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38048982/ns/today-entertainment
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The antenna thing doesn't bother me because I like the bumper case anyway.
I'm sure there was a decent thread about this already, but I can't find it. What are the apps that specifically take advantage of the new hardware / OS? Besides Pandora... :)
Things I like:
2 speakers (why doesn't the ipad have this?!?)
display (damn it's nice!)
Folders (I'm sure I'm hardly taking advantage of this so far)
Front camera (i liked it on my Evo too)
latest chatty is so bitchin (love you squeegy)
Things I don't really like:
How fragile it feels - I feel like if I drop this thing once, it's toast (and from reading around online, apparently it will be!)
Folders (lol, probably because I'm not using them enough to really care)
Wish the screen was a little bigger (spoiled)
The comic apps aren't as good as they are on the ipad (duh, I know, but still - I think it could have been better)
Someone link me to a thread where a bunch of apps that take advantage of this thing were listed off... :)
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http://news.bigdownload.com/2010/07/01/project-offset-officially-shut-down-at-intel-founders-launches/
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http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/1818360923.html
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http://loscaminantes.net/stickfordead.png
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http://www.americanapparel.com/m434burn.html?cid=200
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Over 50 people voted over the span of the last two days (including the Nomination and the Finalist ronds) for what game they would like to play during next Wednesday's Throwback Shackbattle.
The Winner!: Soldier of Fortune 2 MP Test with 20 of 52 nomination votes and 14 of 25 finalist votes!
Details for adding your Throwback Winner to your gaming collection will be forthcoming...
As stated, that game joins HL2:DM, Wolfenstein: ET, Tribes 2, and Quake 2 Threewave CTF (though Threewave will be back at a special time due to technical difficulties last week) as being locked out of voting for the next shackbattles.
Full voting results are also in reply...
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Then she makes me watch Clueless again
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okay, so I just spent the last what seems like an hour queuing up EVERYTHING on my steam games list to download (except of course the stuff that I've got downloaded already)
137 games... GO!
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