If you love Halo 3, and would like to participate in a new style of playing, then join Halo Olympics! I just launched the site today, and we are planning a lot of exciting venues in the future.
What is Halo Olympics you ask? Well, I came up with the idea a while ago when I was taking screenshots of a multiplayer match I played online. I came across this one posted here of my character doing an arial through the air. I got the idea of creating a Halo Olympic club where we would do whacky things like Arial Jumping. It doesn’t stop there though. The amount of things we can do in Halo is only limited by our creativity, and the number of people that help.
When Blizzard and Activision merged earlier this year, they announced that they would not be continuing a couple of titles that were under development. One of them was Ghostbusters, and I weeped inside. However, the rights were bought up by Atari, and it’s back on schedule!
Hooray for voice acting from the actual actors and writing from the actual writers!
I know that a lot of those who work on and visit this little website of ours have at some point in their lives worked tech support in some capacity. That being said, last night a guy in one of my classes brought this video to my attention. It’s very funny because it’s very true but if you’re offended by language, then you may not want to watch it. Also, if you work in an environment where borderline NSFW material can get you fired, you may want to wait until you get home to push that play button.
I never played any of the Call of Duty series until number 4, Advanced Warfare. As I’ve stated on here before, it was one of the best shooters I’ve ever played; the story was entertaining, the difficulty was perfect, and the graphics were superb.
With this in mind, I happily downloaded and installed the new public beta to Call of Duty: World at War. Right off the bat I could tell there was something wrong, as Infinity Ward had nothing to do with this game. On top of that is the little issue I have with games trying to mimic the titles of other games just for popularity sake.
Now, I don’t typically believe in reviewing a beta because I don’t think its fair to judge something that isn’t finished yet. I think I’m ok with this post, however, since it’s not a true review.
Did anybody play the original Red Alert: Command & Conquer ten years ago? It had an amusing premise: Albert Einstein went back in time to eliminate Adolf Hitler. Altering the time line had unfortunate consequences however, for with Hitler removed, Stalin and the Soviet Union tried to take over the world instead.
Recently, Red Alert 3 was released; this one is even crazier than its predecessor! The Soviets were losing badly to the Allies, so three of their leaders went back in time and eliminated Albert Einstein, which had even more unforeseen consequences, namely the rising of a new Imperial Japanese power, the Rising Sun.
Here is the trailer:
This one has an all-star cast: Tim Curry as the Soviet Premier, J.K. Simmons as the American President, Jonathan Pryce as the British Field Marshal, Jenny McCarthy as Special Agent Tanya (the only recurring character), and George Takei as the Emperor of Japan (awesome)!
I know that we’ve tried to start only posting videos on Saturday mornings but this is too cool to wait its turn in line so I’m posting it now. For those who don’t know, in addition to being an amazing musician, Louis Armstrong was a great vintage gamer. This previously unreleased track is obvious proof that Nintendo had leaked a pre-pre-pre-pre-release version of Super Mario World to Satchmo before his death in 1971.
For years we’ve heard rumors about a third installment in the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series. After a while, these rumors evolved into rumors of a KOTOR MMO. Now it appears that there is starting to be some basis for these rumors. I present the following as evidence.
On July 3, 2008, Star Wars: The Old Republic,Star Wars: Sagas, and Star Wars: Legends were all registered by LucasFilm Licensing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Nothing too special in an of itself. These could relate to just about anything out there: books, comics, etc. But when combined with information that Portfolio.com is reporting, things get very intriguing.
N. Evan Van Zelfden in Los Angeles warns, watch out World of Warcraft. In an interview at E3 this week, Electronic Arts chief executive John Riccitiello said that EA is working on the next version of Star Wars game Knights of the Old Republic, and it will most certainly have a massively multiplayer online component to it.
I used to be a big Battle Tech fan. Not so big that I’d read the novels or anything (that was reserved for my friend “NightShadow”), but I’d get involved in huge map sheet battles and went absolutely giddy when the MechWarrior games came out for PC. I’m not joking when I say that I would spend hours in my room (with my mom of all people) painting and detailing my battlemech minatures.
There was a source book that my friends and I would use that detailed every rule and every stat on the battlefield. Like many tabletop games, it took forever; each full turn represented 10 seconds of actual battle, but would often take 5 minutes to actually perform. While my friends and I loved all the strategy and planning that went into a battle, we tired rather quickly of battles that would last for 4 or more hours.
Warning: This post is a little long. If you either love or hate RTS (real time strategy) games, you’ll probably want to read it all. If not, I won’t be offended if you doze off half way through. Be sure to skip to the bottom to help answer my questions though!
I watch G4 from time to time and record X-Play on my DVR. Normally I just skip through most the of the episode and only watch the segments on games that interest me, but occasionally I’ll find a new title by listening to their reviews and suggestions.
One such title was Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. SCFA is a stand alone expansion to Supreme Commander from early 2007, but evidently I was meant to play the other game first so this one could 1) make sense, 2) be playable and, 3) end my will to live. At least, that’s what I think playing through two of these games would do to me.
In any video game, you have to have a suspension of disbelief; that is, you’re willing to let certain parts of it go to the wayside, because you realize you are playing a fictional game. Here’s a good example for people who are new to the phrase:
Example 1 - You are fighting off a zombie horde. In real life, zombies don’t exist . . . and even if they did you’d most certainly die. But since it’s a game, you let it go. That’s suspension of disbelief.
However, it can only go so far. Shows, movies, and games that take it too far end up becoming painful to endure (see Battlefield Earth for what I mean . . . actually, don’t). Keep reading and I’ll give you some of the best examples, in my opinion.
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