Team Fortress 2 is on sale for 2 dollars and 50 cents until 4pm CST today. If you don’t have a steam account, go get one for this. You won’t regret it. When you upgrade your computer later, you’ll be happy to have this game, and access to all of the HL2 mods available.
The trailer is poorly directed and piece-mealed together. Especially when compared to the original trailer for the first game. Still, I think I’ll loop it a few times. It looks like it’ll be amazing fun.
Death Race, remade for modern PCs, is now available for free from Remedy’s (Max Payne) website.
http://www.remedygames.com/games/death_rally.html
Here’s hoping porting this was a nice mental break for the team from their next project, Alan Wake.
Thanks, Evil Avatar
Finally.
WordPress.com has added a Mobile page when viewed from a Mobile device.
I highly recommend checking it out. It’s very slick, automatic, and based on what type of device you use.
I was a loyal Verizon customer for years. They always get the best ratings for network, customer service, and have the best Network Maps. However, their phone selection has always been incredibly poor. My Razr was one of the best phones they offered and it was locked down. I couldn’t set a custom Ringtone unless I bought it through the Verizon Store, unlike other carrier’s Razrs. I couldn’t run .jre apps, only the limited Verizon proprietary game store. I couldn’t customize any of the options other carriers let their Razrs change. VERIZON WIRELESS was plastered over every screen.
AT&T is their main competitor and the only reason anyone goes with AT&T is the iPhone. Their Cellular and Customer Service are generally ranked as either low or poor in comparison. When my Verizon contract expired a year and a half ago, I wanted to stay with the Verizon network; I went to the store and asked: “What do you have that competes with the iPhone?”
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Found here: http://www.djhero.com/
Waltz with Bashir is a very well done look into war and what people do to cope with what they have seen and done. Ari, the filmmaker, uses the movie as a means to investigate his own lost memories of his time served in the early 80′s during the War in Lebanon. As he interviews others trying to find people who remember, he discovers he is not alone. Many comrades have also blocked memories of the events, while others simply deny what occurred. The movie asks: “Am I a good person? Or do I simply not remember the evils I have committed upon others?” Twenty years later, it is only a conversation with a fellow friend plagued by nightmares that Ari’s memories begin to return.
Zombieland is a good zombie comedy with a bit more gore than Shaun of the Dead. Woody Harrelson makes a great fearless zombie killing machine. It is just plain fun and believable to watch him slaughter the undead and deliver one-liners. Several running gags, a surprise cameo, and “the little things” can bring a smile to your face even with certain death and violence around the corner.
The movie’s logic is not altogether sound, but if you can forgive this in any other Zombie film you can forgive it here. A small group of humans band together to survive the apocalypse, narrated by one of the cast: a shut-in scared of germs, heights, etc. His paranoia teamed with Woody Harrelson’s temper and violence makes them the perfect odd couple to tackle the dangerous landscape. Throw in a couple more to the cast including the girl from Little Miss Sunshine and you have a fun band of humans to observe.
I’d recommended Zombieland to zombie and horror fans who can stand the gore of the Dawn of the Dead remakes, but for them to go in expecting a more light-hearted and comedic take on the downfall of mankind.
I liked Assassin’s Creed. I posted my impressions upon beating it. I do note, however, I left out a very large point in that article. I hated the flag collecting.
There are 100 flags in each city. Completely optional to gameplay, completely required to get some Gamerscore. I had the guide. I used the checklist. I waited until near the end of the game to go around and collect them all so I’d be familiar with controls and have all the powers necessary to get them.
And I failed.
Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-men is, overall, a good comic. Yup, that guy (Buffy and Firefly).
The strength of the comic is easily the characterization and realization of each of the X-men as a personality and a person. From Beast’s struggle with the inner-creature, to Cyclops actually being charismatic and cool enough for anyone to follow, to Wolverine’s love of beer: each X-men is interesting on their own and in any interactions they have with each other.
Sadly, the same cannot be said for the overall plot and villains. Both are pretty weak. There are a few main story arcs throughout and none of them are noteworthy.
That doesn’t matter as much. The bulk of the book is about the charming cast’s journey and their dialog with each other; the plot and villains are just something the characters can talk about.
The point that sold me on the series: a friend told me that it made Cyclops cool.
I called bullshit. There is no way anyone could do that.
Joss Whedon can.
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hintzilla 12:37 pm on October 19, 2009 Permalink |
I’ve been reading about Android constantly for the last few months while trying to figure out what to do when my current AT&T contract ends this December. I currently have a Blackberry that I’m happy with, but will be switching to an Android device. My current choice would be Sprint’s Hero, but there are a lot of Android phones coming out in the next few months, spread across multiple carriers.
The device that Verizon is teasing in the iDon’t commercials is this one: http://www.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-captured-high-quality-pictures
It has a beefier processor than any previously released Android device, a 16:9 capacitive touch screen, and will run Android 2.0 out of the box.
I don’t think that this phone will do much to upset the iPhone market, but I do think that it will at least get people talking about Android. Since not much has been released about Android 2.0 yet, I’m still sticking with the Hero if only for HTC’s amazing Sense UI which not only looks great, but adds a lot of really smart functionality on top of the standard Android OS.
If you want to at least play around with Android a bit, the Sprint store in Greenway Station has a Hero on display that I went and toyed around with for about an hour last week. I suggest checking it out, even if you’re not going to switch any time soon.
mglamb 6:50 pm on October 20, 2009 Permalink |
I disagree with a few of your points.
1). The reason I haven’t switched to an iPhone isn’t the data plan cost… I prefer CDMA technology (since I live in the states), and I prefer Windows Mobile, where I can get almost anything for free, and if I wanted to, I could write my own apps, and tinker to my heart’s delight.
2). In markets where Alltel users were of sufficient numbers to survey, Consumer Reports reported a higher customer satisfaction of wireless network, and customer service than the other companies (I seem to remember it was a pretty significant difference, say as much as 10% higher, but I could be wrong, while VZW and AT&T were neck and neck…).
Also keep in mind, bars mean nothing, so unless you’re judging by your own ear as a means for quality of network coverage you’ve got no proof… (Since you haven’t unlocked your iPhone, I doubt you can get into the diagnostics to see the actual signal strengths — bars are misrepresentative measures because manufacturers don’t use standards for depicting signal strength, if you want facts you’ve got to read the signal strength and error-ratio/interference off the radio, usually in a phone’s diagnostic mode).
It hasn’t just taken Verizon that long to launch some sort of rebuttal to the iPhone… it’s taken a lot of companies that long… Microsoft, HTC (and the other WM handset companies), and the other carriers.
I think you’re exaggerating about the size of WM phones from the time you were up for renewal — as I recall, my HTC Touch is slightly thicker than your iPhone, slightly shorter, and the same width.
Hacking a WM phone is pretty easy, building your own firmware is pretty easy, there IS a risk of bricking your device, but that risk is present on any device when flashing firmware. Granted, I might be more impressed with the iPhone if I saw one unlocked.
As for the future?
WM 6.5 has not impressed me greatly thus far (admittedly, my phone was not designed for it, and the ROM I am using is a poor implementation where everything works, but somethings do not work as I like).
Android hasn’t impressed me much either – again, running android on my old HTC which isn’t likewise wasn’t designed for android, and the implementation isn’t the greatest either.
I anticipate evaluating both platforms more fully when my contract runs up in March (I think).
Leaning towards a Touch Pro2 (or better) or some sort of Android phone similar (or better) in specs to the Hero but with a keyboard built in. It will likely be an HTC phone though.
mglamb 6:55 pm on October 20, 2009 Permalink |
I must admit that I really like their advertisement on “droiddoes.com”
“DON’T YOU WISH YOU HAD A ROBOT SIDEKICK THAT MOVED AT LIGHT SPEED, COULD GET YOU OUT OF ANY PROBLEM AND LIVED IN YOUR POCKET?
SOON YOU WILL.”