From Klei Entertainment (guys who made Eets), they just revealed Shank at PAX09. Â Here’s the first trailer. Â This game looks very fun. Â Will probably be available for PC, and maybe XBLA and PSN (cross your fingers).
Until yesterday, I had no internet since I moved into my new apartment more than a month ago. Here’s how it began:
At first I tried to simply move my TDS DSL from my last apartment to my current one. I had been out of my 2 year contract a few months. My friends had complained about slow speed, but I always figured they were just a bit demanding. I was stuck paying $80/mo, but I was out of contract. TDS requires 2 year contracts. I called to see what promos they had and what they’d offer me.
Apparently, they had restructured their plans a year or two ago, didn’t offer my plan anymore, and downgraded my service without telling me to 1Mb/s. While still charging me the original $80/mo.
I was a tad upset about this, but I didn’t want to go with Charter as I’ve had problems with them in the past. So I was left with no alternatives, and offered them to make me a deal. They did: $45 for a 5meg plan (-$10 discount + waived install fees,…which didn’t matter since I had the modem already). We set up to cancel and move my service the day I moved. I had to be at my apartment from 1-5pm that weekday to greet the installer.
Two weeks later on the appointed day, after I had asked off of work, I call back to inform them my new apartment’s doorbell doesn’t work so they would have to call me Cell phone (not my TDS phone, which I had no phone connected to, only the dsl modem).
They told me they had canceled that appointment: hadn’t I been called? Also, they had continued to charge me $80/mo and service to my old place, since my new move order had never gone through. It would also take a few weeks to schedule another install, and they would not offer any further discount since they were at their max ($10 off a month). It was also revealed the discount was only for the first year out of the two I would be contractually bound (when originally I was told it was a total discount).
I canceled my TDS account at this point.
A while ago, I mentioned how good Trine looks. The PC version came out at $30 and only supports hotseat coop. So I waited for the PS3 or Xbox versions to be available only to find them delayed. Then, no mention of the 360 version at all.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175872
It’s still coming, perhaps a bit later than the PSN version (which is currently in Q&A). I played the PC demo single player and was impressed. Coop is probably even more enjoyable.
This is the official ESRB rating for Brutal Legend. With hope, it will appear on the back of the box, right next to the ‘M’.
Brütal Legend
Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Rating: Mature
Content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes
Rating summary: This is an action adventure/role-playing game that tells the story of Eddie Riggs, a roadie who is transported to a mythical world of heavy metal rock. Eddie is armed with a guitar and a double-headed axe, which players can use to slash and dismember enemies. Players can also perform “face-melting solos” (literally melting enemies’ faces), meet humanoid creatures dressed like dominatrixes and brandishing whips, and liberate an army of rockers from a life of oppression. Although the storyline is often irreverent and whimsical, the depictions of violence are somewhat intense: Undead humanoids are dismembered with an axe (sometimes in slow-motion); a “Steel-Quilled Blade” causes human enemies to explode into gibs that rain down; machine guns, missile launchers, and sub woofers can be used to kill druids and other fantastical creatures. Eddie can also run over dozens of enemies with his hot rod, resulting in blood effects and more heads and limbs getting chopped off. During the course of the game, characters sometimes engage in suggestive dialogue intended for comedic effect (e.g., “Maybe with all your feedback, you guys could just blow me over the gorge” and “Playtime’s over. Now let’s get back to the orgy”). Players will also encounter “Skull Rakers” clad in bondage gear and amazon-like warriors dressed in leather outfits that partially reveal buttocks and breasts. Strong profanity (e.g., “f*ck,” “sh*t,” and “d*ck”) can be heard in the dialogue.
I’ve got this pre-ordered. It’s going to rock.
I agree with most of this article.
Solution-wise: there will always be pirate cracks out there to try and enjoy these games long after their activation servers have gone down. There may even be distros like GoG.com or Steam’s recent revival of indie and old games. But the point is: I shouldn’t have to crack or rebuy the game in order to play it. As the author puts it: All of my old cd based games like Baldur’s Gate that don’t require an online activation will always work. Throw together a VM or old computer, and you are good to go. Fans make patches to get games installed and running on modern systems.
What we buy today may not.
Battlefield 2. This is the game that made me upgrade my computer back in the day (and it still was barely enough).
Now, a few years later, and a few expansions later, and they are doing a great move: making all the expansions free.
The bane of any multiplayer game is a splintered community that makes it harder to find a compatible game. Requiring DLC to get on a specific server to play with certain people limits the number of players willing to continue paying for this product, instead of simply moving on to the next, better FPS.
But now they are reforming their community, with a game that will now run on any modern system.
I’m looking forward to when it is released:
My copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum just shipped. I highly recommend checking this game out (demos are available).
PS3 (go log in on PSN)
I had a ton of fun playing through the demo a couple of times. Stealth felt rewarding, combat brutal, and had a good overall presentation.
And if you think the final screen from the NES Batman game has been photoshopped, you’d be right. But it’s not that far off.
The new G.I Joe movie is not good. But isn’t bad, either. There is as much plot as you would expect. There’s a base and it gets attacked. There are explosions. Lots of “Duke!” and “Ripcord!”, gunfire, ninja fighting, missiles, and chases.
There’s lots of fanservice. Favorite characters are here, as are a lot of vehicles.
Of course, there is a lot to criticize. There is a lot of stupidity you have to forgive. If you thought Die Hard 4 had hard-to-believe plot, then G.I. Joe will rub you the wrong way.
“We need you to weaponize the warhead.”
“What’s Scottish for ‘fire’?”
It’s not a movie I’d tell someone to go to, but if you wanted to see it I wouldn’t let other opinions stop you.
The new Gears 2 DLC comes in two flavors: 7 new maps (featuring some classic remakes) and a deleted bonus scene single-player level for $15, or all that *PLUS* all previous DLC (19 multiplayer maps total) for $20.
This is a good chance to bring together the multiplayer community. For $20 you can get everything and be up to date with everyone else.
Grim Fandango is one of the few games that simply has trouble on new machines. Â One of the first official patches helped fix puzzles that ran to quickly on anything above a 400mhz processor. Â I waited for the Lucasarts Steam announcement, but was left still needing to research this dilemma.
Upon inserting the disc you are greeted to an autoplay that *may* reject your harddisc space due to inaccurate readings, and the Setup.exe will not run under any variant of 64bit Windows. Â I am testing under Windows 7 RC, so this should work under Windows XP, Vista or 7.