The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review
Voodoo Extreme Lays Down The Facts
Skyrim PC
In-House Impressions
Modern Warfare 3 PC MP
In-House Gallery
Anno 2010 Gallery
Some In-House Demo Love
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I decided that buying Skyrim could effectively end my degree, so I'm avoiding it entirely. There's already a mod out (to increase the detailing on the faces of human and elven races), so it can only improve the longer I unwillingly shun it. Jube's PC Impressions highlighted some of the janky stuff; what do you think needs the most work?
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Aside from that, I've belatedly realised the existence of British Pathe's Youtube. It's amazing. Reassuring sounds of clipped condescension from 1940s gentlemen overlaying videos of a ten stone baby getting teased with chocolate, an escape act gone awry and other assorted ridiculous weirdities. Here's one of the videos; taxidermied animals doing people-things. I wish this museum still existed.
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IGN is giving away Star Wars: The Old Republic closed beta codes today. For a guaranteed entry into the beta you need to head over to IGN Prime. But they are also giving away 100 codes at each of the following IGN Facebook accounts:
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One suggestion in the mean time to avoid the filter is to post a very short message first, then make an edit to that message with what you really want to say. This seems to work, and it prevents you from losing the epic post that took you 30 minutes to write. Also, CTRL-A and CTRL-C does wonders before you hit submit!
If one or more of your comments have gotten rejected by the system in recent times please do us a favor by chiming in here with a comment. We'd like to know what you were trying to post, and how you felt about having your comment scrapped by the system.
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Guardian--The sheer size of the adventure, both in terms of its environment and in the amount of activities available to the player, is mind-blowing.
Giant Bomb--It's one thing when a game offers dozens of hours of gameplay; it's quite another when that gameplay is good enough you'll want to live in its world for that long.
IGN--…playing Skyrim is a rare kind of intensely personal, deeply rewarding experience, and one of the best role-playing games yet produced.
PCGamer Uk--The games we normally call open worlds – the locked off cities and level-restricted grinding grounds – don’t compare to this. While everyone else is faffing around with how to control and restrict the player, Bethesda just put a fucking country in a box. It’s the best open world game I’ve ever played, the most liberating RPG I’ve ever played, and one of my favourite places in this or any other world.
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MP Supply Pack Charlie is the third official multiplayer DLC for Men of War: Assault Squad and features 5 new competitive multiplayer maps for various numbers of players. Each map has its own unique setting and battle landscape. The 5 new multiplayer maps are for the gamemodes Assault Zones and Combat, as well as for the DLC exclusive Day of Victory gamemode.
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I missed out on Trine, but I like the sequel’s visual aesthetic. What did you all think of the first one? Are any of you excited about Trine 2?
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There is a Mass Effect themed silent auction going on right now to benefit Child’s Play. One of the cooler prizes involves Garrus’s voice actor crafting a voice mail message for you.
We’re not going to lie here … this is pretty much one of the coolest things ever. Brandon Keener, whom you may know as the voice actor for Garrus Vakarian, has agreed to be a part of Mass Effect Marathon 2. The winner of this silent auction will have the opportunity to have Brandon Keener leave you a voice mail, or even craft your voice mail message for you. When you win this, we’ll ask you what you would like him to say to you / for you and we’ll go from there! This is a once in a life time opportunity so good luck!
The Auction runs until 10:00 AM ET on Saturday, November 26, 2011.
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Valve continues to churn out frequent Dota 2 beta updates, with consistent new heroes, extra functionality, and numerous fixes. Today's update in particular really interests me, because it adds a new enforcement system which takes action against trash talkers automatically. This is on top of the already implemented leaver punishment system, which I've heard is working great.
Today’s update adds Warlock, a master of the Dark Arts and the only hero capable of summoning a mighty flaming golem.I'm seriously loving the effort that Valve is putting into building a friendlier community this early. The biggest complaint I hear from folks that are new to the MOBA genre is that the community is full of tremendously huge buttholes. Here's hoping that the system works well enough to deter personal attacks, rage, and the like.Among a variety of other fixes and additions, today’s update also adds another step in our ongoing work to tackle community health. A couple of updates ago we released a report and commendation system. This has given us a bunch of data about the various ways that some players are helping or hurting the fun of other players. One theme we noticed was that there are some players out there who reduce other people’s fun through the communication channels, but at the same time receive commendations in other games for being good players to play with or against. So with this update we’re adding a system that detects players who are clearly reducing the fun of other players specifically through text and voice chat – and temporarily removes their ability to use those chat systems. Once they return to being additive to the community, they can re-earn that functionality. As usual, we’ll be paying careful attention to whether this makes the Dota world a better place, and you can send us your thoughts after seeing it in action.
You can read Today’s changelog here.
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The time has come to announce the winners of our Supreme Ruler Giveaway . Thank you to all of the participants for either informing me of games I need to try or allowing me to indulge in some much needed nostalgia.
A random numbers generator was used to pick the winners. I closed my eyes and hit the generate button ten times before noting the individual winning post. Obviously, I wasn’t going to give multiple copies to one individual, so I ignored it when the same number was spit out twice.
The winning numbers were 11,15,5,24,19 which corresponds to: Malvokian, DanSez123, Hardtarget, Kristijonas, and Risa-Chan. To claim your prize, please send me an email with “cold war” in the subject line. Also, please confirm that you’ve sent the email by commenting in this thread. This giveaway will use the gamersgate service, so if you don’t actually want the game, or are allergic to digital distribution services other than Steam, then please let me know here so I may generate another winner.
Once you’ve emailed me, I’ll send you a code. Use the instructions below to redeem it.
How to claim your game! / Gamersgate
- Go to www.gamersgate.com
- Click Register to create an account, or login if you already have an existing account
- Go to www.gamersgate.com/digitalcopy
- Enter your serial code
- The game is now added to My Games
Congrats to all the winners. Hopefully, you'll enjoy the game. :)
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So I get up, start reading up on the comments in the Skryim review that Jube kindly published at embargo lift, and got to making some replies. Despite the major setback from the internet outage I was still happy with what went live. I was actually running a little short on time, but nothing to panic about. That is, until I received an urgent IM notification. Yep, she forgot to take out the garbage.
Normally I'd just wait until next week, but we had some serious nastiness brewing. I'm talking a whole chicken carcass from rotisserie night, some leftover apple cider which was bubbling up something f'ing nasty (the one gallon container was literally about to burst), and of course the special little presents our dog creates every morning which we collect in scooper bags that can never seem to just keep the smell locked away. So I scramble my ass to get everything out as quick as I can, only to see the garbage truck rolling away from our neighborhood.
Given the risk of leaving such vile funk in our garage for another week I decided chased the truck on foot, garbage toter dragging behind me. I'm running at a pace that would make my old high school wrestler self proud, and I'm waving my free arm like a freak while barking out to the truck which is obviously several times louder than my voice. The neighbors must have thought I was a madman, but damnit I was determined to get rid of my trash.
Once I realized the foot chase was futile I made the trek back home as quickly as possible, and managed to find the truck in another neighborhood by car. Talk about a nice guy, he agreed to come back! Now I think I finally understand why some folks give presents to those guys around the holidays, I think I might start doing it myself.
Random video for you guys today, Jube and I were having a laugh at this.
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