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Gears of War PC Problems
IGN’s Gears of War for the PC review reveal a few interesting tid-bits… namely fuck you Microsoft *cough*, sorry I mean, namely that Microsoft has gotten EPIC to require an Windows Live Gold account ($50/year) for full multiplayer functionality, including online co-op play. So if you just sank $60 on this game and want to [...]
Continue reading...Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) Linux Support
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
How cool is this… Phoronix is reporting that Epic’s Linux/Mac guy, Ryan Gordon, has confirmed that there will infact be a Linux client for Unreal Tournament 3 at launch. It won’t be on the media in the box, but it can be downloaded from their site for free and you just pop the Windows version [...]
Continue reading...BioWare’s MMO Based on KOTOR Universe
Monday, October 22, 2007
Ok quick back story to make sense of this: BioWare, one of the greatest developers of RPGs and story-driven games for a while now. They created Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR). It’s a game based on the Star Wars universe, with things like Jedi and Sith, but not related to the movies. Using the Star Wars [...]
Continue reading...Sony Leaks Manhunt 2
Monday, October 22, 2007
In the DOH files: GamePolitics reports that an ex-employee from Sony Europe has actually leaked the Manhunt 2 preview build for the PS2 to the net (BT and Usenet I’m guessing). Rockstar and Sony both confirm the leak and… you hear that? That’s like 1000 people going to PirateBay looking for it
Continue reading...Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back is Gory!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
GameSpot has coverage on the new Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back, and word on the street is that it’s just as gory if not gorier than Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix which was probably on of the goriest war games ever made (e.g. shoot someone in the eye, see half their head blow off). A [...]
Continue reading...Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 2
Friday, October 19, 2007
Continuing from Part 1 of Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More… As I mentioned this whole topic was initiated by an email from Noah Jacobs-Andresen that discussed a core point to the issue that I hadn’t considered before and one that I think made it much easier for me to think about this subject, and [...]
Continue reading...Video Game Violence, AO, Manhunt and More, Part 1
Friday, October 19, 2007
(Part 2 is here) We covered the whole Manhunt 2 debacle (getting an AO rating, and banned in the UK) a few months back and it was an interesting topic to cover. For those that don’t know, even though the UK flat out banned Manhunt 2, the “AO” rating it was given essentially makes it [...]
Continue reading...Portal Gun in Half Life 2
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Chris Hunkele sent in this kick-ass news. It looks like there is a way to hack Half Life 2 (and any of the HL2-based games) to include the new Portal gun from Portal. Primotechnology has the scoop, here are the steps: First off, backup up your entire Portal directory in a safe place. It’s the folder marked [...]
Continue reading...Halo 3 Mini-Review
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Ok here it is… my mini-review of Halo 3. I’ll keep this short and sweet, with most sarcasm aside and just try and give you the honest low-down on it. SUCKS: It’s Halo 2 with bump mapping everwhere and some post-processing done on the image. If you want to tell me to fuck off and die [...]
Continue reading...Heavenly Sword Review
Friday, September 7, 2007
Heavenly sword looks to be pulling in roughly 7.5/10-style reviews for a few talking points that I think most people noticed from the demo: It’s beautiful It’s nothing new (God of War, minus all the entertaining gore) It’s short… SHORT (6-7hrs) It has no replay value (no multiplayer either) I think this game is a perfect example of a design [...]
Continue reading...BioShock Demo Impressions
Thursday, August 16, 2007
GameSpot Bioshock Page 1. First thought that popped into my head is that it’s hitting the 360 processor ceiling. I noticed some shitty smoke effects and the water didn’t look as incredible as I expected it to. Also the frame rate seems like a constant 30fps or lower. 2. Sound is great. Not unfathomably amazing like some reviews are saying, [...]
Continue reading...Gears of War Movie Treatment Summary
Monday, April 30, 2007
Kotaku pointed me in the direction of Latino Review’s 22 page summary of the Gears of War movie script it looks like. Does anyone else agree with GameSpot’s Brian Ekberg that Batista should play Marcus Fenix? I totally agree: Update #1: I can’t believe I never posted a comparison shot of Fenix so you could judge for [...]
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Friday, November 2, 2007
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