Wintertime and Games
Filed under Entertainment, Games, Thoughts.
The wintertime is strategically planned by the gaming industry to release their most valuable videogames for the holiday shopping frenzy to begin.
While I don’t play videogames like I used to, this is the time where I can really enjoy sitting in on a cold winter night killing some terrorists or sneak-attack an unsuspecting bystander.
Since I don’t have the time or the money to play the next-gen console games, I do sporadically play quite a bit of pc games.
I’ve always been a longtime fan of Counter-Strike Source. When I’m feeling competitive, I like to pwn and flame a few clan members with my moderate skills in leetspeak.
I also bought Steam’s Orange Box for the revolutionary Portal, which I had a blast playing, a little short though. Team Fortress 2 is a nice addition.
Call of Duty 4 is my current favorite. The single player is a roller coaster ride from start to finish and the multiplayer part is extremely fun.
I was really looking forward to playing Crysis, from the creators of Far Cry, but my fairly decent 2 year old pc chokes and barely meets the minimum requirements, so that’s out.
…Oh well, less wasted time I guess.
AmonTobin.com launching Feb. 26th
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This is a teaser for Amon Tobin’s new website, which launches on February 26th.
A designer said:
I’m from Notice Bureau, we were in charge of creative and art direction on this project, and we’ve been working on this for over a year. Don’t know if it exactly applies to your blog, but it sure is fun, and we created more that 30mns of animations and videos for the final site.
Meanwhile watch this unofficial music video of Amon Tobin’s Slowly that some guy made with a video game called Gary’s Mod.
BTW I also bought Gary’s Mod and I’m having way to much fun with it, very addictive. It isn’t exactly a game, it’s an application that gives you all kinds of tools to play around with Half-Life ’s physics engine. You can make movies and do all kinds of crazy shit, just check out the site.
DOOM 3: Project Mars City Mod
Filed under Entertainment, Games, Technology.
[H]ard|Forum - DOOM 3: Project Mars City Mod
I’m not into casemodding and tuning or whatever, but this is pretty cool.
It’s based on Doom3, it has a smoke machine, motorized doors, all custom painted to match the game. I think this is more modelling than casemodding, it took this guy 2 years and a lot of time to complete, amazing, very detailed.
Check the link for a walktrough.
YouTube - Valve’s Portal
Filed under Entertainment, Games, Technology, Video.
Valve just released this first trailer of Portal, their very experimental first person puzzle game announced with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Half Life 2/Team Fortress 2. Clearly Prey gave the Valve developers some very nice ideas about how use this cool technology.
This game looks awesome.
Sadly this game seems like it is being developed for the XBox 360 and the PS3. Lets hope it comes out for the PC…if so, I’m buying it :)
Check out the youtube trailer…
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I totally pwned last night
Filed under Entertainment, Games, Technology, Thoughts.
I hate to brag but a 19-0 score on cs:s is pretty good, and I wasn’t on a n00b server. I was pwning them all up, then the fucker kidney-stone shot me in the back.
Counterstrike: source and Day of defeat are about the only online games I play and I’m lovin’ it.
Sorry for the l33t talk , it’s addictive.
