Category Archives: Gaming

Internet Spaceships Bring The Aid

“All this means that in a very real sense, the industrial barons of EVE who made their fortunes mining virtual asteroids and moons are turning their virtual wealth into physical life-saving supplies in Haiti.
Truly, we live in strange times.”
via EVE ISK for Haiti..

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I’ll just leave this here: Dust 514

In a Massively post, CCP outlines their plan for console gamers: Dust 514, wherein console mercs kill each other on planets for the amusement and strategy of their pod pilot overlords.

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Linkdump!

Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]

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Yet more link dumpage.

More link dump:

Winterblades history of SB – NC is in there, hidden amongst references to TAO.  Thanks, Oly.  SB ruled.
Cheap, self adjustable liquid lenses – For all.
More reasons not to vacation in Mexico.
GM plants are safe, says Monsanto.
Cheap fusion?  Save the world?  You decide.

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Some fantastic OP-ED.

From various sources, but mostly Dolphin.
- Can Americans handle the truth?
- Abuse of executive orders is not enough. Now we can ignore all process? Grr.
- You bet I’m bitter. Sign me up. Bitter as hell here.
- Savages in Caves.  Perhaps we overestimate al Queda?
- NearlyFreeSpeech.net.  Web hosting in terms of pennies.
- [...]

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Link Dump. Yes, indeed.

Er, the Pan American Highway is broken. The Darién Gap is quite an interesting place. Murky information much?
Trance. Yes, I ended up downloading most of this thread to my Zune. Bless you, all you can eat 19.95 sub!
Cyborg Bunny Eye. Cyberpunk is now, and I just reserved my set of [...]

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MMO Real World Ransoming GONE WILD!!

You know you are badass when you get kidnapped for your RPG account.   Sadly, the kidnappers lacked the pvp and ransoming experience to make a quick buck.     Back to the tutorials for them
FULL ARTICLE HERE

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What the hell?

Dungeons and Dragons leprechauns… (the odd camera work is the work of a Logitech tracking cam…)

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Debacle : First EVE post.

I misidentified a Slepneir as a Cyclone tonight.
Same class of ship and different tech. In my defense, There were a good 4 other people than the Slep in sector, MHC – in fact on the gate as I warped in.   I tried to identify them during the next 30 seconds as they died [...]

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At Least They are Getting Excercise. . .

http://videogames.yahoo.com/ongoingfeature?eid=494785&page=0

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Teh Internets – The icon set.

I can see some of these showing up on certain people’s inconography in the forums soon.
Check out the full set.   via boingboing

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Manual Blocking FTW

More DF Goodness…
We’ve known for a while that Darkfall intends to give us a very FPS like experience, with aimed spells, arrows, and even controlled melee combat. But it turns out there is more. In addition to this style of combat, the offensive side of things.. We now get the defensive arm too. Previously cast [...]

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Clans in Darkfall

A decent update from the long  awaited jewel… Darkfall.  
There are clan management tools to satisfy even the most demanding control freak while simultaneously allowing leaders to delegate authority without losing their peace of mind. Our goal for these tools is that you won’t need anything further to run a successful clan other than what [...]

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Toribash – physics based fighting

Toribash

This is bad-ass.
Wonder if dreamhost will let us host a server.
I can literally rip Taark’s arm off and BEAT HIM TO DEATH WITH IT!

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C(CP)rack, The EVE Addiction

Top Ten ways you know you are addicted to EVE Crack:
10. You forget to eat because you are too busy PvPing.
9. When you do eat it is a microwaved “Cup-o-Noodles” with a beer.
8. You care more about your EVE wallet then your real one.
7. You read the EVE Forums more often then any newspaper or [...]

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Halo director chosen

Halo director chosen, movie out summer ‘08 – Joystiq
- Loved this guy’s Alive in Joburg… Hope this rocks.   (Even though I don’t particularly love Halo, I did play through the first one.   Not the second).   Alive is embedded in the link.

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Google Maps based ‘flight sim’

I admit it.   I love this little thing, which does nothing useful, but… YEAH!
Biplane madness!

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Pwned

Someone ever post something stupid and you just want to let them know it?   Can’t figure out how to say it right?   Here is your chance. . .
http://emooranges.ytmnd.com/

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I am root!

A Mac/PC advert takes an unexpected turn.

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Things that have happened since Duke Nukem Forever was Announced

The Duke Nukem Forever List : scroll down… Note, they are still saying they are going to release this thing.

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As if it needed to be proven again… I am a geek.

Yes, I understood and laughed at almost every single one of these RPG Motivational Posters.   On top of that, the chick with the missile tits?   Yeah.   She stole that from Tank Girl.  

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I loved all these games…

…And I was frequently on the losing end.   Still, the occasional revenge moment made it all worthwhile.   Red Rover, Red Rover, send Reuser right over!
 On a related note, we’ve gotten way, way too damn careful as a society.   As a parent, I want to protect my child, but not at the [...]

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Thinking with Portals makes my head hurt.

Of course all preview videos make all FPS games look like the next paradigm shift in gaming. I think the boys at valve are at least onto something refreshing here. Take a look for yourself here. It looks mindbending to me in the way that half life was originally, just imagine the PVP or squad [...]

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Related to that earlier post about the PS3…

Sony seems to be in deep shit.   Blu Ray is behind and way over budget, now this…

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Finally a worthy Darkfall Article

“As you can probably understand, all these sensory cues and mechanics supporting them add real-world stealth capabilities to the game. Darkfall has some stealth-related skills that enhance the player’s tactics, but you won’t go invisible because you don’t need to. You can effectively perform stealth activities by using tactics such as knowing your terrain, moving [...]

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