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pLayday: 9/2 – Castle Crashers

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This has inherit limits: only 4 players.  Of course, we could easily start up multiple games if we have more than 4 people.  I can easily see this being a combination of Phokal, Ztynzo, Boramis, Hintzilla or Chue.  If others want to play, but don’t want to plop down the cash for Castle Crashers,

come on over.

We/You could play a local game on the big TV, and I could setup an online match on the office box.  If you’re reading this and it sounds good to you, post and let me know so I can figure out how many empty player slots we’ve got.

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Castle Crashers can delete your save game.

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Well, for as good of a game as it is, Castle Crashers has one glaring flaw: you can lose ALL of your progress.  This occurs when you play the game on multiple consoles, and when you load the 2nd console you find your characters aren’t there.  Loading the game up and exiting will then Save, wiping out any chance of getting them back.  Since this game is mostly about collecting characters, weapons, and animals, this is a huge deal.  Odd problem to have, since it is apparently all stored via your Gamertag (ala Halo 3, Gears of War, and Alien Hominid).

Also, it only happens under certain (unknown) circumstances.  Possibly tied to owning Alien Hominid HD in various states (trial, full, full but not original xbox, own full but not downloaded on current Xbox).

And this isn’t just a rumor: It happened to me :(

But, there are apparently a couple of workarounds…

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Yahtzee reviews Braid

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Here’s the review, Adrian.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/203-Braid

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pLayday: 8/25 – Soul Calibur IV

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I think we could go for another round of some SC IV.  Matt and I both have all the characters unlocked, and some more create-a-fighter pieces for the more creative amongst us.  I’ve got a 2 stick arcade setup that is pretty fun to use.

Instead of a tournament, last time we just played Braid.  We could get a bit more competative this time.  Anyone know how to set one of those ladders up (rather than just a winner stays…which is kinda of lame).

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go buy: Audiosurf – $5

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The basics: you drive around a track collecting gems into columns or rows of 3, and then scoring.  The cool aspect?  These tracks are dynamically created visualizations of any song you want.

Rough two-player co-op (one person uses mouse to control, one uses keyboard) also available.

Certainly worth it as the price of a McD’s meal.

Available through Steam.  Sale ends sometime today.  Possibly with the Heavy Update/Free TF2 weekend at 3pm CST.

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I finally beat: The Force Unleashed demo

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I downloaded and beat The Force Unleashed demo last night, and a couple more times today.  The game is quite fun, though certainly suffers from some problems.  Despite the issues, the game demo is incredibly fun and I can see why the Penny-arcade guys would play it through 7 times.  The first time is throw away.  You are learning the controls and environment.  After that, you begin to learn enemy timing, dodge moves, when to attack and when to be defensive.  Your badassness begins to show through.

**The game is challenging while making you look unstoppable.**

Let’s hope it continues throughout like that.  There are a few other points to cover…

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I’m beginning to undig this layout of the site. You may see it reworked again over the weekend.

Get hyped for: Prince of Persia

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There’s a great gameplay (in-engine) trailer available online and on Live.  I recommend checking it out.

Also, they just released this 5 minutes of gameplay footage that looks great.  The Banter could use a little work, and I was more off put by the Prince’s Voice acting until I learned it’s the same actor as Nathan Drake (Uncharted for PS3).  And he did an excellent job there.

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Microsoft releases Photosynth

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This is kind of neat.  It will let you upload pictures and then stitch them together as a 3d viewable object.  The trick is it apparently does this really fast.  Since I only have an iPhone camera, this may be a bit trickier for me to test, but certainly looks interesting.

http://www.photosynth.net/

Thanks, cnet for the article of their impressions.

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