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Syndicate Announce Trailer

2012-02-09T17:23:00.003-05:00

More information here.

Awesome Portal 2 Video.

2012-02-05T19:59:00.006-05:00

Restarting Hard Reset

2012-02-05T16:16:00.007-05:00

This is what I will be doing in March, because Flying Wild Hog, the creators of this wonderful cyberpunk first-person shooter, have recently announced an expansion! Hardly surprising, given how abrupt and confusing the ending was. But then, we aren’t playing that game for a story, irrespective of any RPG-ish elements. No, we play it to smash robots (and cyborgs).

Hard Reset: Extended Edition will be out, as previously stated, in about a month, and will feature five more levels of angry robot slaughter. Albeit in a more industrialized area than before (reflecting the place in which the game ended, I suppose). That’s if these screenshots from the publisher are anything to judge by:

http://kalypsomedia.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/more-hard-reset-extended-edition-images-check-out-the-environments/

And some gameplay (again, screenshots only, sorry, there is no trailer - yet):

http://kalypsomedia.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/get-up-close-and-personal-with-hard-reset-extended-edition/

UDraw, but not from your bank account

2012-02-03T14:45:00.006-05:00

We all know THQ as a game publisher, but back in 2010, they released a unique piece of hardware.

UDraw was a slate-like controller, that served as a kind of tablet device for consoles. It was eventually released for Wii, Xbox360 and PS3. It was estimated to have opening sales numbers of over a million. However that did not happen.

UDraw was released, around a million were shipped to stores, and it flopped. No-one cared about the poor device. The sales that were made usually occured at a reduced price of 50$ rather than the regular retail prices of $70-$80.

Just recently, it was revealed that THQ is sitting on a pile of more than 1.4 million unsold UDraw tablets. The whole charade led to roughly 55 million dollar losses for the company.

I suppose every decade in history has it's major product flops. The Edsel, the Powerglove, the Pinto. Now we can make our first major entry for the 2010's: The UDraw.

Steam Weekend Deal

2012-02-03T12:01:00.000-05:00

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Ubisoft Moving Servers

2012-02-03T00:37:00.003-05:00

Remember the old days? When singleplayer games could be played offline? Ah, what a wonderful era. Now you can only play Ubisoft games whilst connected to the internet, thanks to their DRM system. Unless you *GASP* pirate the game in question.

On the 7th of February Ubisoft will be moving their servers. This would mean nothing significant to us a couple years ago. However the DRM means that we cannot play our Ubisoft games if their servers are offline. Like I said though... you could always be evil and pirate it. You awful people.

Source: http://www.unitlost.com/fail/ubisoft-games-unavailable-on-tuesday/

Have you seen The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings?

2012-02-02T23:31:00.003-05:00

I can only say this looks amazing.Check official page for more information here.

Lollipop Chainsaw

2012-02-01T21:16:00.004-05:00

Remember that movie, Cannibal Holocaust? Or perhaps Ilsa: She-Wolf of The SS?
Good old exploitation films. Well, for the most part they sucked, but that's beside the point.

Lollipop Chainsaw is a new game by Grasshopper Manufacture, published by WB Games. You are put in the role of Juliet: An innocent, blonde, highschool cheerleader who is secretly a sworn zombie killer. Hmm, sounds a bit familiar. Cheerleader, blonde, sworn to kill an undead menace... probably WB entertainment trying to make a poke at the Whedon-tastic 20th C. Fox series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Too bad they couldn't make a Buffy game. Then again, Vampires are sissies these days.

So to explain my aforementioned reference to exploitation films: that is about what this game seems to be. Western massacre-things-with-chainsaw gore action, mixed with the beautiful juxtapositioning provided by a little textbook Japanese perversion. Scantily clad blonde cheerleader, killing zombies in a highschool, with a chainsaw. Might I note, high quality Japanese perversion courtesy of Suda-51.

I can't really say much more to give you an idea of the game. And for most men out there, a quick look at the website will probably give them a good idea of what it is about. As the trailer claims: "Sex, Blood, and Rock n Roll".

Check out Lollipop Chainsaw on it's website!

Skyrim Creation Kit Trailer

2012-02-01T11:40:00.003-05:00

Gameplay: Nitronic Rush

2012-01-31T20:15:00.001-05:00

Steam Weekend Deal

2012-01-27T15:13:00.006-05:00

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Newtons Third Law, Cyberspace Style

2012-01-20T15:24:00.002-05:00

We all know it. Action and reaction between two bodies are equal. As is the case with the takedown of Megaupload by the feds. A group of nolifes from 4Chan (oops, I mean... ANONYMOUS) decided to retaliate. Using the handy and reliable Low Orbit Ion Cannon application, Anon managed perform a DDOS takedown of the DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music.

This just keeps getting more and more interesting. Let it be a lesson to the US government, you don't get between a basement-dweller and his Megaporn subscription. But lets face it, did Anon really achieve anything? What happened to the good old days when 4Chan was capable of ruining lives and reuptations? I suppose, the times they are a-changing. Perhaps these last two days have marked a change in era. It is beginning to look like we no-longer live in the wild-west of cyberspace. Not only is there a new sheriff in town, but the banditos have all gone soft.

Megaupload: Goodnight Sweet Prince

2012-01-20T15:05:00.003-05:00

Following the net-protests against the SOPA and PIPA bills, the feds leapt on file hosting service Megaupload. The Dotcom company execs have been arrested and their assets seized. Charged with a variety of copyright violations, they managed to fall into a legal Al Capone. Since they couldn't be directly charged with copyright violation, as they only hosted content and did not distribute it, the Feds opened the charges with money laundering. Supposedly the website paid distributers of their content with a "Promoter Rewards" system. Oh well, not all rackets are foolproof.

But the interesting detail I would like to raise, is the difference between this case, and the earlier Pirate Bay incidents. On 31 May 2006, Swedish police raided the Pirate Bay offices. They took servers, papers, even servers unrelated to TPB itself. The three members present were taken in for questioning, but not arrested. It was found that there was no case against them, and so the site went back up shortly afterwards. Fast forward to 2008, a legal case is brought to court by a massive alliance of media and entertainment companies against TPB. The trial is long and complex, involving some sad and some hilarious moments. However in the end, each member of the site is sentanced to roughly 1 year in jail, and the site pays about 25 million in compensation to companies involved.

There is a special difference between the TPB case and the recent Megaupload case. The TPB operators were told of their charges and warned before they were arrested. The trial and arrests were carried out by the government of Sweden, at the behest of international companies. The website domain was not seized. Damages were paid, time was served, things went back to normal. The main point is, this was a case the corporations made against the website.

In the Megaupload case, it looks like a slightly new kind of internet justice. Rather than the companies presenting a case for the government to deal with, it seems the governments made the first move. In fact, supposedly Megaupload worked alongside corporations like Universal and Paypal, in an attempt to legitimize the file-hosting industry. The US government claims this was all a fraud, to feign legitimacy. However, the emails are there to prove it.

I would agree that corporations should have the right to make legal claims against file hosting websites. After all, it is their content being "stolen". However the government should not take such matters into their own hands. They should especially not move to seize the domain in question. This is a disturbing move, and was co-ordinated across several nations.

The megaupload case is in early days yet. But simply the execution of this incident makes me worry for the future of the internet.

Just Gameplay : Dustforce

2012-01-18T15:25:00.003-05:00