I started playing World of Warcraft again. I've had a strange relationship with this game. It was purchased in February 2006, but after all this time I still haven't managed to get higher than level 65, five levels below the cap. It's been on-again-off-again, where I played to a milestone and just stop playing for months at a time only to start up again when I feel the addiction kick back in (you never quit WoW. You just take an extended break.) This time when I started playing again I was at level 61 with around 80% progression to 62. The great thing about starting up again is the double Experience you get the first days. This usually lasts 1.5 levels, but somehow I still have rested XP even on level 65.

Oh, and when I was going to install WoW again, I figured I'd be sitting all night just installing (CDs? Man, this is retro!), and patching. After laborously inserting and removing all the 10 or so CDs from my disc drive, I ran the Blizzard Patcher. 7 hours until the 1.1 GB patch was downloaded, it said. 'Fuck...', I said. But then it dawned on me: Perhaps someone had put the patch file up on good old Usenet, and sure enough there it was in all its one-point-one-gig glory. I had it down within 17 minutes. Usenet, you are the best! Installation started at six in the evening, and now it was a quarter past midnight. 'I can get a few hours in, atleast', I thought as I re-activated my account. The game started and I was about to put in my username and password when I read this in the sidebar: "World of Warcraft will undergo extended maintenance, starting from 00:00 and ending at 7:00."

It was then that I truly stopped believeing in a just universe.

That night I picked up Team Fortress 2 again after a long hiatus. I usually only play it if I can get some of my friends to play it with me. It's great to talk with friends over VoIP while killing strangers on the internets. We become combat-buddies, like in real war, only without the trauma and nightmares and years of psychological issues.

The Sniper is my favorite class. It's a ton of fun to snipe unsuspecting players, and I can't even describe the great feeling of headshotting a Scout running straight towards you. It's simply glorious! I have about five times the hours played with Sniper then the other classes. Nearly all my top scores are with the Sniper, and all those are from the same match. It was this one singular time when the Gods smiled upon me and allowed me to kick everyones ass, shooting up the charts from the midpoint to the top in one spawn. After that match half of the opposing team quit the server. I wish I had a screenshot of that exodus. That one moment of brilliance has never repeated itself, but that was the event that made Sniper my favorite class.

Some days ago I found an all-Sniper server, where the two teams stand on opposite sides of the map and snipe each other. When I first joined the server, I noticed that one of the players had an absurd amount of points. He was miles ahead of everyone else. Then I saw that there was no time limit on this map so I just figured he had been playing for a long time. All the other players were getting serious nerd-boners for this guy, always stroking his ego over his massive E-penis. But then, straight out of nowhere, an admin came online and banned his ass for wallhacking. It was awesome to witness the shock and disbelief of the other players as their Great Angel was cast down from the Heavenly Sniper Server, his wings burning as he fell towards Sniper Hell, where all the opposing players are Spies and Scouts, and your team consists of you and one Medic played by a Russian eight year old with ADHD. The admin said he had the demo of him cheating, but I haven't been able to track it down. Bummer.

I continued playing on through the night, but stopped when a couple of idiots came on and started arguing. The bitching was so inane that I won't go into detail in fear of losing precious brain cells. Suffice to say, one of them had a problem with people using machine guns, even though the rules doesn't disallow them, as he claimed. The other guy must've been something wrong with, because he took serious offense if people shot him in the torso instead of the head. He would bitch endlessly about it, calling us 'noobs' and asking for apologies. Sometimes a body shot is the only shot you can get, and it's better to kill someone by hitting the torso than to not kill someone at all. Points are better than no points. I disconnected soon after The Douchebag Duo joined. Their bickering had ruined my fun.

Anyway, Team Fortress 2 is excellent if you disregard the idiots. The action is frantic, the gameplay is excellent, and it has boatloads of charm and style. I should play it more.

Lastly, I played Eternity's Child ... For three minutes. In a nutshell: Visual style? Great. Everything else? Ass. And that's all I'm gonna say about it.

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John Carmack, na conferência da EA, revelou que Rage, jogo que sofria ameaças de ficar pior no Xbox 360 em termos gráficos, não ficará mais. Ambas versões serão idênticas. Não sabemos se a Microsoft deixou a id colocar 3 DVDs sem taxas ou a qualidade da versão do PS3 diminuiu. Particularmente, eu apostaria na primeira. E vocês?

A new replay editor will allow players to edit and save the last 30 seconds of gameplay. Filters, cutting, and camera angles will be supported. The separate 30-second clips can then be edited together into a longer work using the "montage editor." The complete work can then be shared on the Rockstar Social Club.

The game will also receive some changes to its multiplayer modes. Though few details have been released on this point, it was hinted that the overall player count--Grand Theft Auto 4 supported 16 player servers--may be increased for the PC edition. Confirmed are a robust set of server filters, which will enable users to find matches with specific settings much easier.

The graphics engine has also been improved, with more realistic lighting and a higher level of character and environment detail, according to Eurogamer. Resolutions up to 2560x1600 will be supported.

Grand Theft Auto 4 is set to hit PC on November 18.

In addition to the gameplay shots above, screenshots of the map editor from both the PC version and console editions were provided, along with some new artwork.

Left, PC Map Editor. Right, Console Map Editor

Bioshock Xbox 360 Review

Liked:

1. Great graphic design, and fantastic environment/atmosphere.

2. Good shooting and combat mechanics.

3. Good voice acting.

4. Lots of interesting plasmids to play with. (almost too many to be honest)

Disliked:

1. Boring "hunt and fetch it" quests.

2. Endings didn't feel worth the effort of beating the game.

3. Failed to keep me interested.  I had the game for an entire year before I finally got through it.

FINAL BS RATING: +1ALRIGHT

Closing Statement: Next to Portal and Mario Galaxy, Bioshock has to be the most over-hyped game of 2007.  Don't get me wrong, it's well made and a quality game, but in my opinion doesn't deserve quite as much "worship" as it has received.  Lesser rated and less popular shooters like The Darkness earned a spot closer to my heart than Bioshock.

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I have always dismissed the usual complaints of World War II oversaturation. After all, without more games based on The War, we wouldn't have something like Company of Heroes. Who cares what the setting is, as long as the game is solid?

But do we really need a new version of Stalingrad every two years? How many times can we plant the same charges on anti-aircraft guns, and fire the same bazookas at scripted tanks, before we give up and start to root for the Nazis? Even the Hollywood cycle allows some time between genre exploitation. Sometimes you need a little Blackhawk Down between your Private Ryans.

Treyarch had the same thought. After finishing Call of Duty 3, the studio didn't want to do another World War II game. But after seeing the success of Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4, and admiring the level of polish, Treyarch wanted another crack at the genre--a chance to prove that it could take the Modern Warfare mold, fill it with Thompsons and Nazis, and justify the purchase of another trip to Berlin for burned out gamers.

And after getting my hands on the game, I have to admit--the designers... Read more

A 2K Games, produtora de BioShock, confirmou hoje a data oficial de lançamento do jogo para o PlayStation 3: 21 de Outubro. O jogo, que já foi lançado para PC e Xbox 360 em Agosto de 2007, ganhou vários prêmios, incluindo alguns de "Jogo do Ano".

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A Capcom lançou um novo trailer de Resident Evil 5. De certa forma, é o trailer que vimos na E3, com cenas inéditas e com aproximadamente 2 minutos de duração. Clique aqui para ver.

A 3D Realms confirmou em seu site oficial que a produção de Duke Nukem 3D, jogo exclusivo para a Xbox Live Arcade, foi terminado na sexta passada. Agora o trabalho é da Microsoft, que vai lançar o jogo na Live. Não sabemos o preço do jogo ainda, mas imaginamos algo entre 800 e 1500 MS Points.

(Ruben) Ein weiterer Trailer zu "FarCry 2" ist aufgetaucht. Hier seht Ihr eher den wirklichen Stand des Games und keinen hochgepushten und bearbeiteten Trailer wie zuvor.

"Ubisoft" besuchte hier das "DreamHack Computer Festival" in Schweden und präsentierte einige Missionen zu "FarCry 2". Das Video ist über 20 Minuten lang und gewährt  echte und realitische Einblicke in die Landschaft und das Gameplay. Hier sieht man eher den wirklichen Stand des Games und keinen bearbeiteten Trailer wie den "GC" Trailer von gestern. Unserer Meinung nach eher enttäuschend. Hier merkt man eindeutig die Abwesenheit von "CryTek", der Spieleschmiede hinter "FarCry".

Für Fans dennoch ein Leckerbissen, immerhin gibt es hier 23 Minuten (WHOOOT????) neues Augenfutter.

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Internetpräsenz von “FarCry 2″: Link

Bildernachweis: Ubisoft
Quelle: "Youtube"

Como lo prometió, Sega anunció hoy un nuevo juego para Wii. Se trata de The House of the Dead: Overkill, que está siendo desarrollado por el estudio Headstrong Games y saldrá a la venta durante el 2009.

Sega anuncia en un comunicado de prensa que The House of the Dead: Overkill nos hará descubrir los horribles secretos que se esconden detrás de The House of the Dead, "el padre de todos los shooters".

Overkill tendrá el mismo gameplay que ha hecho conocida a la serie, aunque ahora en un ambiente retro y una banda sonora que complementará a la perfección la acción en pantalla, para darnos una experiencia verdaderamente terrorífica.

Los protagonistas serán el agente especial G y el detective Washington, que serán enviados al pequeño pueblo de Louisiana para investigar algunas extrañas desapariciones (hmmm...). Pero "ellos no saben aún lo que les espera en las calles y pantanos de Bayou City...".

Pues suena bien, no? Y la verdad es que por las imágenes, podemos esperar bastante de este juego, que promete ser para hardcore gamers, y también para mayores de edad.

Fuente: Gamekyo

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