Evening Reading
by Brian Leahy, Aug 26, 2010 5:00pm PDTLast night, I finally got a preview build of Civilization V (be jealous!) and while we've already previewed the game, it was great to finally play the game. It's definitely up there on my list of most antipicated games of 2010. I'll be talking about it, Elemental: War of Magic, and Halo: Reach on the podcast, which will go live tomorrow.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Two Halo: Reach previews and a new live-action trailer.
- Sony Europe downplaying Move launch and 3D. Bwuh?!
- Evidence of an "Ultimate Collection" for Dragon Age: Origins.
- Mafia 2 review.
Links from Morning Discussion
New game releases of May 20-26
Killzone: Mercenary shoots onto Vita on September 10
Trion Worlds hit with more layoffs, Defiance team impacted
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault defending Vita next week
Game & Wario was originally going to be pre-installed on Wii U



How much would it cost me to have you recover my gamertag and beat the Ultimate Endurance tournament in Trials HD with no faults? I don't know how I even liked this stupid game. Also, does anyone know of any deals going on for extra 360 controllers?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qimuYoGMY
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First official talk about the Playstation 4:"The digital future is at least ten years away." I.E. No download only or cloud computing for the PS4.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/26/sony-execs-talk-playstation-move-expectations-ps4-details/
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The highest grossing movie of all time was sci-fi and came out last year. Hint hint you moronic television studios
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I'm talking real IMAX of course, not the fake shit.
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the post is gone now but I read it before it was nuked.
mafia 1 was one of my favorite games of all time and I tried to avoid all media for part 2 to not have it spoiled for me and now this ass spoils it without even a warning or a remark that the post is about the game at all. kids these days...
grrrr, sorry but now I am angry :(
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Mass SMs have been sent out. If you missed them you're an idiot read this http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23821816#itemanchor_23821816
Also there is a Steam group now to organize things. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ShackStarleague
MSG me or an admin for an invite.
To answer horsman's question. No the games are all BO3. Semifinals/finals are BO5. It says BO1 because Binarybeast is dumb and it wouldn't take my settings when I tried to make it BO3.
I still have 1 more slot left for the Bronze/Silver division. SM me your SC2 character name and 3 digit code and I will add you to the list.
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So I decided to resubscribe to kill time. Well, resubscribe isn't necessarily the word. August 7th I got an email saying my account had been accessed and resubscribed. I was all "Wtf." Then I got another email a couple days later saying that the account had been suspended and the password reset for suspected ties to gold selling. So I said, "Cool beans." And went about my business. So a few days ago, I decided I would resubscribe. But the account was active. Paid up starting August 7th on a card I had never seen before, with a charge for September 7th pending. So...yeah. Free WoW? Okay! I made sure to change my password to something really weird. Disassociated that card from my account as best as I could tell. Onto the questions!
I'm seriously leveling a Warrior for the first time ever. I'm doing alright, having trouble here and there. I went out and bought a much better weapon than what quests were giving me, which helped immensely. I'm currently leveling as Arms, as it seemed like a much more interesting tree (I like bleeds and the Battle Stance move set, which seems more tied to Arms than anything). Is Arms good for leveling? Are there any particular things I should be trying to get or any particular playstyles I should be adapting? My only real experience with 'Warrior' is in Bear Form on my Druid, which seems to be very, very different so far.
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If that's you, sorry! Maybe we should play a game sometime!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvUE77nTYfQ
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What the shit. So I'm trying to figure out what the fuck I would actually have to read to understand the storyline, and it's like 14 different series. I couldn't even find a complete list anywhere. Why doesn't DC have this shit right on their site? It's not really on wikipedia either (they seem to be missing stuff like Batman & Robin which apparently is important? I have no idea).
This is the reason I never read "big title" series (with the except of Daredevil, which doesn't have 20 different series). Give me Y: The Last Man, Walking Dead, and Chew anyway. Who the hell wants to read something that is difficult to even understand what you need to buy?
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A friend of mine bought a Sony Ericsson X10 mini but they need to unlock it. I said I'd have a look and see what I could do. It looks like the cheapest option is to pay online for an unlock code. Does anyone here know of a better way?
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So....I seriously don't get the shackhype on this movie, and I'm more than a little disappointed in you shackfags who are going to see it multiple times. What the fuck?
To clarify, I believe I am more or less in their target audience. I have been playing video games since 1984. I love movies, I love music, and hell I even worked in a comic book store for 4 years and then managed an arcade for a few years after that. However, I am not a skinny jeans hipster fucktard who updates his twitter and wears steampunk welding goggles out at night so I can take pictures of myself with my iPhone so I can masturbate to them later. (I WANT THE ONE WITH THE BIGGER GEE BEES)
So, that said.
How is this movie some sort of gamer homage? Other than Cera nabbing a "one up" and a litany of VERSUS intros to laughable fight scenes, what the fuck? I don't get the shack-spoo all over this movie. I did enjoy the music portions of the movie, but the rest of it? Shit, the only redeeming quality to this movie was looking at Mary Elizabeth Winstead and her half filled B cups the whole movie. (The redheaded drummer was kinda hot, but I have a thing for redheads so this does not count.)
Some of the comic book panel sequences were pretty ingeniously done, from a cinema perspective, but I just don't find watching an unemployed loser share a bed with a gay roommate who is having 6 way gay orgies next to you at night, while you bitch, moan and whine about your life in Canada endearing, trendy or even remotely interesting.
More than anything I found all the gamer shit to be tacked on and frankly, a little insulting from a gamer perspective. At least the "Gamer" FPS movie had some portions of shit right, even if it was laughably bad.
I guess Danny Glover said it best. "Maybe I'm too old for this shit." (I'm 33 btw)
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http://twitter.com/CallMeTasteless/status/22259292433
fucking. awesome.
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artwork looks amazing, is the film any good?
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my battery life has seriously been halved, if not reduced by 75%. wifi connectivity goes out whenever the device sleeps. i have to turn off, then back on, wireless probably four times per day.
the UI is slower, it uses more memory, and the additional features are just not worth the drawbacks.
however, i can't return to 3.1.3 or 3.1.2 because a firmware update checks in with apple and lo and behold, they don't want anyone backpedaling to a proper, solid, efficient firmware.
so i guess i have to jailbreak this right? seriously, much hate for iOS 4. and i am usually pretty lenient on these mobile interfaces.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qV13B68aH8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jss_AV7G7QQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9o7SyZQSB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLODZguPNf8
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ9lxzLbjqY
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Wonder if my iPad is safe from underscreen dust :\
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It looks neat as fuck.
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