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Weighing in at 534MB and 323MB, the single and multiplayer demos of Pacific Assault came out yesterday, but I'm posting about them now because I just finishing downloading them now. Well, not really, but wow. That's a lot of WW II. If you don't see the single player demo, scroll down the page a bit.
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Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault Demos
Weighing in at 534MB and 323MB, the single and multiplayer demos of Pacific Assault came out yesterday, but I'm posting about them now because I just finishing downloading them now. Well, not really, but wow. That's a lot of WW II. If you don't see the single player demo, scroll down the page a bit.
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The Flop Bin
Today's flop is not a flop flop. It's fairly lackluster and a sales disappointment, sure, but what puts Oni in the Flop Bin is more of a relative flop-ness. Oni was the game Bungie Software made before they made Halo, you see.
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The Flop Bin - Oni
Today's flop is not a flop flop. It's fairly lackluster and a sales disappointment, sure, but what puts Oni in the Flop Bin is more of a relative flop-ness. Oni was the game Bungie Software made before they made Halo, you see.
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What with all the in-game items and money of massively multiplayer games being auctioned off for real money, lawyers have to meet and discuss the pro nolo and habeas absentia dictums and whatnot. There are ramifications involved here that require precedents and majority opinions. So all that is being worked out this weekend at the second annual State of Play conference at the New York Law School in Tribeca. Stop in and say hi, and maybe visit panels on "Virtual World Governance and Democracy" and "Dispute Resolution and Trust Building in Virtual Worlds".
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State of Play II
What with all the in-game items and money of massively multiplayer games being auctioned off for real money, lawyers have to meet and discuss the pro nolo and habeas absentia dictums and whatnot. There are ramifications involved here that require precedents and majority opinions. So all that is being worked out this weekend at the second annual State of Play conference at the New York Law School in Tribeca. Stop in and say hi, and maybe visit panels on "Virtual World Governance and Democracy" and "Dispute Resolution and Trust Building in Virtual Worlds".
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Gossip
Things have progressed since we reported on UK developer Argonaut's financial troubles two weeks ago, and word comes to us today that the employees have been sent home and to expect an official announcement next week that the studio is no more.
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Argonaut Sunk
Things have progressed since we reported on UK developer Argonaut's financial troubles two weeks ago, and word comes to us today that the employees have been sent home and to expect an official announcement next week that the studio is no more.
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PC
The brave Canadians at Digital Extremes are trying to muscle into Halo's territory with their own sci-fi first person shooter for the Xbox named Pariah. They also have a PC version planned. GameSpot has the game's official trailer, released today.
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Pariah Trailer
The brave Canadians at Digital Extremes are trying to muscle into Halo's territory with their own sci-fi first person shooter for the Xbox named Pariah. They also have a PC version planned. GameSpot has the game's official trailer, released today.
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Playstation 2
1988's Narc was one of the first games to make even non-reactionary parents a little concerned. You were supposed to arrest the throngs of drug dealers and sexually deviant clowns by just moving your cop character over them. But they liked to throw stuff at you like hypodermic needles, so the better option was to thin their numbers a bit with your machine gun. The best option was to fire a rocket-propelled grenade into a large crowd of them and blow them all up off of the top of the screen, and then watch them return only as a rain of disembodied arms and legs. The website for next year's sequel is live now.
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Narc Website
1988's Narc was one of the first games to make even non-reactionary parents a little concerned. You were supposed to arrest the throngs of drug dealers and sexually deviant clowns by just moving your cop character over them. But they liked to throw stuff at you like hypodermic needles, so the better option was to thin their numbers a bit with your machine gun. The best option was to fire a rocket-propelled grenade into a large crowd of them and blow them all up off of the top of the screen, and then watch them return only as a rain of disembodied arms and legs. The website for next year's sequel is live now.
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Gamecube
GameSpot got the Japanese version of Mario Power Tennis, and has made some videos of the gameplay for your previewing enjoyment until the game is released here a week and a half from now. There's also a preview that details a few more of the twists that the game adds to your average tennis game. They're all a lot more benign than the only thing real tennis has managed to add over the years though, that of course being knife-wielding obsessed Monica Seles fans. Except for maybe the ass-biting alligators. More »
Mario Power Tennis Videos
GameSpot got the Japanese version of Mario Power Tennis, and has made some videos of the gameplay for your previewing enjoyment until the game is released here a week and a half from now. There's also a preview that details a few more of the twists that the game adds to your average tennis game. They're all a lot more benign than the only thing real tennis has managed to add over the years though, that of course being knife-wielding obsessed Monica Seles fans. Except for maybe the ass-biting alligators. More »
PC
Players of the superpowered MMG City of Heroes will find Paragon City in perpetual darkness all weekend, as a mysterious power descends on the city, and spooks and spectres menace the streets. Players who get involved with literally (well, literally virtually, being just a game) saving the day may get special loot from defeated spirits.
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City of Heroes Halloween Fun
Players of the superpowered MMG City of Heroes will find Paragon City in perpetual darkness all weekend, as a mysterious power descends on the city, and spooks and spectres menace the streets. Players who get involved with literally (well, literally virtually, being just a game) saving the day may get special loot from defeated spirits.
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Oddities
Video-fenky rescues Friday with a find: the CGW museum, a collection of the front and back covers, along with the table of contents, for issues of Computer Gaming World from its start in late '81 until 1992— the first 100 issues. Apparently they stopped being interesting after that. A lot of them are real fine-looking, in my took-two-art-courses-in-college opinion.
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Computer Gaming World Cover Art Gallery
Video-fenky rescues Friday with a find: the CGW museum, a collection of the front and back covers, along with the table of contents, for issues of Computer Gaming World from its start in late '81 until 1992— the first 100 issues. Apparently they stopped being interesting after that. A lot of them are real fine-looking, in my took-two-art-courses-in-college opinion.
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Business
Free games for everyone! For mistakenly threatening to sue the Suicide Girls porn site because one of their members mentioned the names of Nintendo games in his user profile, Nintendo is deeply, deeply sorry. Nintendo has offered both the Suicide Girls website and the "offending" user a Nintendo game system and a free game.
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Nintendo Makes Good
Free games for everyone! For mistakenly threatening to sue the Suicide Girls porn site because one of their members mentioned the names of Nintendo games in his user profile, Nintendo is deeply, deeply sorry. Nintendo has offered both the Suicide Girls website and the "offending" user a Nintendo game system and a free game.
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PC
Wideload founder Alex Seropian gives GameSpot an exclusive interview to talk about his company's just-announced zombie action-comedy game, Rebel without a Pulse. Or is it Stubbs the Zombie? Alex calls it Stubbs the Zombie in the interview. There's some small amounts of info in the interview including the revelation that the game is going to allow you to throw your zombie hand at people and possess them. This is how they will wimp out of making a real zombie game and let you shoot machine guns and rocket launchers. Sell. Out.
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Rebel without a Pulse Interview
Wideload founder Alex Seropian gives GameSpot an exclusive interview to talk about his company's just-announced zombie action-comedy game, Rebel without a Pulse. Or is it Stubbs the Zombie? Alex calls it Stubbs the Zombie in the interview. There's some small amounts of info in the interview including the revelation that the game is going to allow you to throw your zombie hand at people and possess them. This is how they will wimp out of making a real zombie game and let you shoot machine guns and rocket launchers. Sell. Out.
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PC
I'm a little confused here; Atari says this game isn't coming out until the 2nd, but every online retailer I can think of claims they're shipping it now. I'll have to check out some stores today to see what's what.
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Roller Coaster Tycoon 3
I'm a little confused here; Atari says this game isn't coming out until the 2nd, but every online retailer I can think of claims they're shipping it now. I'll have to check out some stores today to see what's what.
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PC
EA hasn't really impressed upon me what makes Armies of Exigo so special, and I don't have the RTS appetite to download 450MB for what looks like a generic three-faction RTS. But maybe it is. If one of you less ornery types gives it a try, let me know what's up with it.
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Armies of Exigo Multiplayer Demo
EA hasn't really impressed upon me what makes Armies of Exigo so special, and I don't have the RTS appetite to download 450MB for what looks like a generic three-faction RTS. But maybe it is. If one of you less ornery types gives it a try, let me know what's up with it.
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Events
Halo 2 developers Bungie are having a little party to celebrate: 11/8— that's the day before Halo 2's release— from 1PM to 5PM at the Experience Music Project (pictured in all its architectural sweetness) in downtown Seattle. They'll be giving away free copies of Halo 2, and raffling off a piece of fine statuary.
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Halo 2 FanFest in Seattle
Halo 2 developers Bungie are having a little party to celebrate: 11/8— that's the day before Halo 2's release— from 1PM to 5PM at the Experience Music Project (pictured in all its architectural sweetness) in downtown Seattle. They'll be giving away free copies of Halo 2, and raffling off a piece of fine statuary.
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Hardware
The $6,077 Alienware SLI ALX X2: for when you like games and have a lot of money. The ALX X2 uses two $400 graphics cards together to render scenes nearly twice as fast, has two hard drives that spin at 10,000 RPM, a gig of memory, a liquid-cooled server-class Xeon processor, and...no monitor. More »
How Can I Be Broke? I Got Six Thousand Dollars in the Bank: The Alienware ALX X2
The $6,077 Alienware SLI ALX X2: for when you like games and have a lot of money. The ALX X2 uses two $400 graphics cards together to render scenes nearly twice as fast, has two hard drives that spin at 10,000 RPM, a gig of memory, a liquid-cooled server-class Xeon processor, and...no monitor. More »
Ds
I've never seen Wildboyz before, but I might try and catch it now. OK, probably not. But now that I'm initiated, for all those that remain uninitiated: Wildboyz is a show on MTV that puts Steve-O and Chris Pontius from Jackass into exotic natural locales so they can interact with wild animals and get bitten by them. This commercial is the same thing, only Steve-O and Chris are holding DSs whilst engaging in their zoological buffoonery. It's no great shakes until the end, when Steve-O gets nibbled on by a lioness, whereupon it becomes great.
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Wildboyz Nintendo DS Commerical
I've never seen Wildboyz before, but I might try and catch it now. OK, probably not. But now that I'm initiated, for all those that remain uninitiated: Wildboyz is a show on MTV that puts Steve-O and Chris Pontius from Jackass into exotic natural locales so they can interact with wild animals and get bitten by them. This commercial is the same thing, only Steve-O and Chris are holding DSs whilst engaging in their zoological buffoonery. It's no great shakes until the end, when Steve-O gets nibbled on by a lioness, whereupon it becomes great.
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