tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41911025096138145332010-01-29T16:21:43.060-06:00Sphinx talks about games, computers, consoles, and general tech shenanigans. Timely posts not guaranteed.Sphinxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353679238107345653noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4191102509613814533.post-64309052960787469582010-01-25T22:08:00.003-06:002010-01-29T16:21:43.065-06:00

Some choice quotes from the Kotaku review of Serious Sam HD."Plot-wise..."Plot?  Really?  Huh, okay let's just stop there. "Back, Back, Strafe, Strafe, Shooting: That pretty much what you do all game." Your point is? "Why not modernize some of the gameplay as well?" Oh for Christ sake, we're done here people.

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Buy the game early and test their product for them before it finally releases!!  What a deal!! "Reserve Battlefield Bad Company 2 and receive access to the PC multiplayer beta. Beta begins January 28th, 2010 and ends February 25, 2010. Available for online customers only while supplies last. Not available for in-store or in-store pickup orders. Online Customers: A beta activation code and

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As if best of lists for last year weren't bad enough, MSN put out a list of the top 10 games for 2010 that should be released. Let's be reasonable here: Starcraft 2 is never coming out so long as Blizzard is milking WoW. Bioshock was garbage (Bioschlock AMIRITE?!) Mass Effect 2 -- I never thought I'd want to kick a kitten or puppy out of anger, but then I played Mass Effect. The inventory

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People Can Fly gaming studio made the fantastic shooter Painkiller back in 2004.  Now Gamespy reports that with Epic Studios buying People Can Fly, that their next project might be released in 2010 with the project title of Bulletstorm.  I can get behind a game with a title denoting copious amounts of lead and limbs flying across the screen.

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YES, YES, HELL YES.  I lost my copy of Serious Sam years ago so when Croteam announced that they were re-releasing Serious Sam with new graphics onto Steam, I knew what had to be done: play the hell out of this and then write a review. If Serious Sam was a porn, it'd be composed of Ron Jeremy and John Holmes tag teaming some virgin.  In this case, the virgin consists of your coddled and pampered

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My Borderlands review generated enough comments (a whopping two people commented) that it garnered the attention of spammers who tried to put some spam in the comment section.  Movin' on up to the deeeeluxe apartment in the sky.

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When I finished Borderlands and considered the experience I realized that this game really didn't offer too many new and exciting innovations in terms of gameplay mechanics that I had not seen before in the past decade.  But, considering that they have merged two genres of gaming together almost flawlessly and made it a better experience then most games that try to give you *one* genre of

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Has Valve lost their shit?  I think they have as they are trying to introduce a crafting mechanic into this manly of all manly games.  If I wanted g'damn crafting you know what I'd go play again? Everquest 2 where crafting makes a little bit of sense but in a first person shooter?? No I won't go back to that.  Clean nine months, no track marks either.

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This is the first clip from the game that has actually gotten me interested in this game. The only problem is that after quitting EQ2 and being off that crack for six months now I'd rather not relapse.  But, well, look at that! Space battles, ships go kabloowie!  It honestly looks like StarFleet Command series which, at least in the first two games, was fantastic fun.

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The government is buying up as many old-style PS3s that they can in order to use them to crack the encryption on pedophiles computers.  Apparently the new slim line PS3s are locked down so you can't add Linux or do any other neat things that modders love.  I find this interesting and am tempted to see if the FBI will buy my PS3 for what I paid. Then I could buy a new slim line one and make a

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If any other blogger can help me here I'd appreciate it. The width of this template I use isn't wide enough. I think it is limted to 660 pixels and I want it wider, like near 800.  Where in the heck do I change this is the Edit HTML option?  If that's not possible then can I setup a banner ad on the left hand side. Might as well fill up this dead space.

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So the big thing that interested me this week was some news from The Carmack that as it stands right now they're not really looking into making a dedicated server component for their upcoming shooting/racer Rage. In fact The Carmack stated that he was rather glad that Modern Warfare announced it first so they could gauge how people would react. So what we'll see then is a peer to peer hosting

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This thread on a forum discusses tweaking Borderlands for those inclined to still play games on PCs, myself included. I've been able to play about the first 15 minutes of the game and it is a bit of fun so far even though I'm not very good at it yet.

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Why ya gotta be a jerk like this, Steam? All I want is to start pre-loading Borderlands and you gotta go and do a thing like this. I thought we were cool. Didn't I always start you before playing TF2? Didn't I add my game shortcuts to your in-game browser? Why the hate? I got a ridiculously fast internet connection so I won't even be long to download this. Was teaming up with four others to

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So my computer is starting to push the 2.5 year mark now which means at this point about the only thing to do to keep it a viable gaming rig for another 18 months or so is to put band-aids on it via patches, maybe a new vid card, and other tricks.Fortunately, one of the oldest Windows tricks is still the best, even under Vista. The trick? Slap in another hard drive, format it, and move your

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It's safe to say that if you ask anyone who knows me and those who may only know me from the dying last gasp of their friends after I pummel them, that this clip for Serious Sam is pretty much my own autobiography.

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So what's the problem with most RTS games these days, not much really unless you're pressed for time and have gotten laid in your lifetime and realize there's more to life than watching villagers build huts. For people like that the big issue with RTS games is all the micro managing and building of shit all day. Fortunately, some people realized what we all really want in RTS games is to blow

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Okay, so I tried to keep an open mind and remain optimistic about the multiplayer but given what I've seen online and from the rumblings about staff layoffs and no future Linux support for Wolfenstein, and the pitiful number of people on servers at any given time, there's really no point in slogging through the Wolfenstein multiplayer anymore at it seems to me that the publisher is giving up on

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I won't even try to explain this one but Steam has it on sale and there's a demo. It appears to be a no brainer though.

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Given my love, adoration, and manly crush on all previous Wolfenstein iterations, the review of the newest Wolfenstein will come in two parts, one for single player and another for multiplayer. What this really means is that I'm older and damn busy with real life stuff so I'll get to the multiplayer when I have more time to play it.If you're looking for a quick review of the single player and

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Capcom is trying to kill us. They want to make PC-lead games meaning that we'll all die from lead poisoning if we buy their games. I guess the EPA is getting lax if they don't stop this sort of thing.Oh, I guess I should read the articles before posting. They just want to make games focused on the PC and then ported over to consoles rather than vice versa like a certain multiplayer shooter we

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I would imagine that most people who played the RtCW and Enemy Territory back in 2001-2004 are about or a little under my age. So if I'm close to my mid 30s that means most people playing that game are late 20s or early 30s. Well, if you decide to read the forums on wolfenstein.com you'd think they were all about 12 years old now."The new Wolfenstein is not like RtCW, or Enemy Territory, or blah

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There's probably no better way to do this but to just throw the link up and let you get excited. I swear that when I saw this my left hand immediately moved to the WASD keys to prepare for the circle strafing slaughterhouse that is Serious Sam. Still the finest co-op shooter ever created by mankind. You want plot, a moral message, class based fighting? You all can suck it cause all Sam wants is

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If you're not too busy this weekend, giving the demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum is worth your time either on PC, PS3, or XBox360. While I never got into the FPS type games where stealth is often more important than clearing out a room of bad guys with heavy weapons, it is a safe assumption that if you are going to go bust some heads as Batman you'll need to rely more on stealth and surprise then

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So we finally (FINALLY) have some Wolfenstein multiplayer information. While this interview was given about the Xbox360 version it would be safe to say this would apply to the PC version as well. Let's go over the highlights. 1. Three classes (Medic, Engineer, Soldier)2. Veil powers will complement the main goal of the class so having people run around like they're Neo while in Veil won't be

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