Sunday, May 26, 2013

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Microsoft officially unveiled the Xbox One, its next generation console, on Tuesday. The company is billing it as an all-in-one entertainment box, capable of switching between games and multimedia applications quickly and seamlessly.We dont have all the details yet (and some of the details we do know are downright confusing), but this hasnt stopped people on the Internet from voicing their opinions on the Xbox One. And since this is the Internet, many of those opinions are in snarky meme and animated GIF form. Here are some of the best weve seen so far:
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Game designer of Braid and now The Witness, Jonathan Blow is not very happy with the direction Microsoft is taking with the Xbox One.
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The question of whether to buy Microsoft or Sony for your home games console has never been as important. Not only are the Xbox One and PS4 launching at roughly the same time a first in the history of these series they are also to sell at a similar price.
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The next generation of console gaming is upon us. Nintendo has already launched its Wii U, Microsofts Xbox One will be launching sometime later this year, and Sony has revealed several details about its PlayStation 4.
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Microsoft's new game console Germany's top privacy advocates worried. The Xbox one is a "monitor", Peter Schaar, told SPIEGEL. Users could not control what information would be stored on it.
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The character roster size has been teased for the upcoming multiplatform video game, Super Smash Bros. 4, which will be released for the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U platforms. According to a report by the NeoGAF forum on May 24, an insider claimed that the debut trailer of the title will feature a section in which silhouettes of characters can be seen in an open space. Furthemore, he also disclosed that Nintendo will be going all out by having a big roster in order to please fans.
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As the details of the Xbox One continue to trickle out following the May 21, 2013 unveiling and the subsequent deluge of facts (some real, some not),digital trends have one more piece of information to confirm about the console: the Xbox One will still feature regional locks.
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bubblews writes As a Xbox360 gamer, I am really disappointed to see where the Microsoft is going with their next console. I still remember buying a 360 over PS3, because they showed us compelling exclusive video games, which was the sole reason we bought it. To this day, I have never bothered with other fancy stuff in 360. So, why the focus on TV this time around?
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Seller alleges to get Call of Duty: Ghosts early, sells it for $200
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The reveal of the dog that will appear in Call of Duty: Ghosts has probably been one of the most mocked parts of the Xbox One presentation, but it's unexpected to see developers jump in as well. Apparently its so ridiculous that some simply couldnt resist the temptation.
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Posted: 26 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT

I tend to get quite annoyed by pointless cinematic trailers for games, but this luxuriant CGI video for League of Legends won me over – and this is coming from someone too intimidated by LOL (or MOBAs in general) to play beyond the tutorial. Perhaps it’s because the game has already been out for quite a while – this seems like a fun thing for the fans to pick over, rather than another cog in the marketing machine. The trailer’s a battle royale of sorts between many of LOL’s now-countless heroes, and unlike the game itself it doesn’t involve too much furious clicking on stuff. Barely any, in fact. Instead, the likes of Garen, Katarina and Ryze duff each other up for our amusement. Have a watch below the break.

I’m not sure how true to the game that is, but I do admire the gall of that giant snake-thing at the end. A flaming bear is a sure-fire way to indigestion – perhaps the follow-up trailer will see him slithering to the local chemist to pick up some Rennie’s. In the meantime, here’s a ‘behind the scenes’ video about the above video.
(Ta, PCGamesN.)

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Posted: 26 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT

If Techland’s latest cowboy shooter is making you feel ill – not because of all the cowboy shooting, but due to that narrow, inflexible FOV – then we have some very good news: Techland are working on a fix. Chiming in to a Steam forums thread about the issue, developer ‘kanosek’ revealed that “our patch allowing tidy tweak of the FOV is right on the way!” They didn’t reveal how close it is to its intended destination (your hard drive), or how much we’ll be able to alter the FOV, but at least they’re working on it, and without too much of an angry backlash first.
If you missed it the first time, here’s Gunslinger’s very gunny launch trailer, in which we learn just how fond Silas Greaves is of shooting people in the face. Well, each to their own, I always say – as long as it’s not hurting anyone. Oh.
(Thanks to DSOGaming.)

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Posted: 26 May 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Reinstall invites you to join us in revisiting classics of PC gaming days gone by. This week, Richard Cobbett returns to the post-nuclear isometric wonderland of Fallout 2.
Let me tell you the story of a town called New Reno. Isolated and protected from the worst of the Great War by its mountains, it rose from the wasteland like a phoenix addicted to a deadly drug. Folks called it the capital of sin and whores, safe for tourists only while their pockets jangled with precious bottle caps. At least, that's how it was before you arrived.
While I enjoyed Fallout: New Vegas, the actual town of New Vegas—to be more exact, the Strip—was a bitter disappointment. You spend a good third of the game waiting to get into this fabled gambling utopia, only for the gates to finally open and reveal four deserted casinos squatting amongst post-apocalyptic debris. No texture, no threat, no soul. Not so in New Reno.
The New Reno of Fallout 2 is one of the most hideous, squalid hives you'll ever visit, but in the best possible way. Its corruption feels appropriate, and in true Fallout style, it's something you can exploit as easily as you can resist. You can join any of the four crime families, quickly work your way up through the ranks, and become a Made Man: at the expense of being shot at if you wander into other families' turf. And those are just some of your options. What matters is that if you can make it in New Reno, you can make it anywhere in the Wasteland, and all you have to lose is your soul. Fair trade, right?

Fallout 2 remains a divisive RPG, even among the series' notoriously rabid fans. It's much sillier than its predecessor, with references to everything from Monty Python to Star
Trek largely dropped at random. Its handling of things like sex is either more mature or more "mature," depending on your sense of humor. If you're a female character for instance, your first encounter with one potential party member—a kid named Myron—involves him trying to slip you a mickey. And then, most likely, you kicking his scabby balls up through his mouth.
The part most people remember though (if only because there can't be a single player who didn't try it) is the sleazy porn studio in bad old New Reno—the place where you can temporarily put aside your quest and (cough)make your star rise. You don't get to see any low-resolution hanky-panky, but you do get a special Reputation bonus, as well as a porn name that will haunt you for the rest of your quest. Dick Mountenjoy? Rodd Rokks? How about Ebineezer Screws or Arnold Swollenmember? All are actual choices that people in the street will start shouting at you—as are Lucy Loose, Pokeahotass, and Dominatrish for less-than-ladylike ladies.
It's actually a relatively small area, but that doesn't matter. Not only is there a lot to do and see, it's an incredibly reactive little piece of design. As a female character for instance, expect to take lots of "sugar boobs" and "hey baby" crap. Do a porn movie and most guys love you, but the hookers sniff and spit—as opposed to salivating over a male stud. Become a Made Man as either gender, though, and the guards who previously gave you trouble suddenly can't wait to suck up. Little, dynamic details like these do more for making a world feel "real" than a thousand carefully coded AI routines.

F2's real genius, though, is that there's no assumption that you have to win every fight or see every possibility. Sure, if you come to New Reno sporting stolen power armor, you'll be a force to be reckoned with. More likely, however, you'll arrive as just another schlub, easily put down if you go around starting fights with the wrong people. Not being the ultimate badass changes everything. What little power and influence you accumulate in New Reno is earned, and it's more meaningful because of it. And that's just the start.
You see, as a wanderer, you can never find home. You don't have to set foot in New Reno to finish Fallout 2, but if you do, you'll eventually have to leave. As with all the other towns you visit, however, your decisions have power. Who controls the streets? What happens to the drug trade? War may never change, but the world of Fallout 2 definitely does, and the one thing you can guarantee as the final credits roll is that however low New Reno sinks into depravity, nobody there will ever forget you—the hero or villain they only knew as Arnold Swollenmember.
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Posted: 26 May 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Welcome to Panau’s number one morning news show, “Good Morning Panau!” I’m your host, Skip Tripson! Regular viewers will know that our top story every single day for the past few years is the chaos and destruction caused by Rico Rodriguez as he battles the Panau military. This morning, however, the country seems to be in the grip of a new and unusual phenomenon. To be more precise, every single citizen driving a car, truck, motorcycle, or airplane seems to have gone completely insane!
For more on this, let’s go to our traffic reporter Brock Phosphorus in Traffic Copter One!
Brock: Thanks, Skip! As you mentioned, something has possessed the average citizen of Panau this morning. Maybe they’re protesting the mandatory speed limits imposed by the government. Perhaps they’ve been poisoned by fumes from the industrial fuel depots that appear roughly every twenty feet in our country. We don’t really know at this point. All I can tell you is, people are jumping into their vehicles and driving recklessly at top speed until they smash into something.

Skip: Sounds exciting! Brock, tell us what you’re seeing on the roads this morning.
Brock: In a word: airplanes! Several of them. I’m in Traffic Copter One, flying over the bridge between the Park District and the Dock District of Panau City, and there’s at least one citizen who has landed his or her private aircraft right the bridge. I know we’ve gotten used to seeing Rico Rodriguez pull stunts like that, landing aircraft wherever he wants, or, more typically, just jumping out and letting them crash into our homes or fields or schools. But now, random citizens are doing it as well! In fact, another plane has just flown over the first plane, hit some bridge cables, and exploded!

Skip: Traffic must be backed up for miles with planes on the bridge!
Brock: You would think so, but commuters don’t seem to be stopping. Or slowing down. They’re pretty much just driving as fast as they can and ramming directly into the planes. And each other. And anything else in their way! There’s really no traffic congestion at all, and commuters are making great time, right up until the moment they die in a mass of flames and twisted metal.
Skip: I just heard an explosion, Brock. Was a car ramming into a plane?
Brock: Good guess, Skip! But no. It was, in fact, the combined sound of a two airplanes crashing into the bridge cables while a third plane crashed into the pavement as a motorcycle smashed into a taxicab after hitting two other motorcycles that had already crashed into each other.

Skip: We’re seeing images of the destruction you’re sending in. I hate to even ask this, but you’re not contributing to this in any way, are you? You’re not firing rockets or guns at these vehicles, causing them to crash?
Brock: Absolutely not. Though I am heavily armed, this is all happening without my help.
Skip: That sounded like another explosion. More cars, I assume?
Brock: Actually, that one was mostly me. I was hovering in Traffic Copter One, trying to get a good view of cars ramming into each other, and I accidentally collided with a lamppost, and then jumped out of Traffic Copter One, which exploded and then fell on a car. Luckily, the driver was already dead from having been rammed by a speeding limousine. Still, that’s my bad.

Skip: And– sorry to break in again, Brock– what was that last sound? The one that sounded like a giant bag of meat being hit with heavy steel door.
Brock: That was me being hit by a speeding firetruck that was driving on the sidewalk.
Skip: Was the firetruck responding to the exploding Traffic Copter One?
Brock: That’s hard to say, Skip. I’d ask the driver, but the firetruck didn’t even slow down after smashing into me and sending me tumbling like a broken toy into a concrete barrier.

Skip: Is this recent behavior of our citizens– the reckless driving– limited only to the big cities?
Brock: That’s a great question. Right now, I’m on my way to Tanjung Intan, a tiny, remote coastal town that only has dirt roads. I’m keen to see what the situation is like there, away from the commuter traffic.
Skip: That sounds like it’ll take a while. Should we check in with you later?
Brock: No need, I’ve just stolen a military jet, and now I’m bailing out and parachuting to the ground here in Tanjung Intan. I’ve landed, and… yes, I can confirm this. Everyone in Tanjung Intan is driving like a bunch of angry meth-addled gorillas.
Skip: Tell us what you see.
Brock: Well, a van collided with a motorcyclist and another car sped into both of them and the van flipped and exploded and now everyone is dead.

Skip: So, it appears this is happening everywhere. Do you think this sudden recklessness has anything to do with people being inspired by the wanton destruction of Rico Rodriguez?
Brock: I wouldn’t blame Rico for this, mainly because he might get mad, and I once saw him shoot a grappling hook into some dude’s crotch and hang him from a tree. And that guy didn’t say shit to him. He was just standing around.
Skip: Brock, fine reporting work! And that’s quite a nice suit you’re wearing as well!

Brock: Why thanks, Skip! Apparently, it’s the same one Pierce Brosnan wears!
Skip: Ha ha! Snazzy! Thanks, everyone, for tuning in to “Good Morning Panau!” We’ll be right back with a four-hour list of factories that are closed today because they exploded. Drive safely!
Installation: To install the Crazy Civilian AI mod, download it here (you may need an account, but it’s free and easy to register). Navigate to your Just Cause 2 folder (it’s either in your Program Files or steamapps common folder) and dump all the files into the “dropzone” folder. If you don’t see a dropzone folder, you can just create one.
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White Nexus 4 renders reportedly surface

Posted: 25 May 2013 10:56 PM PDT

A white Nexus 4 is something the market has been waiting for since day-one. The pale phone is back in the rumors recently and, whether it will disappoint or not, it is expected to land soon with a point-update of Android. According to a recent report the white Nexus 4 you see above and below is allegedly the official press render of the device. There’s really nothing special about it except for the fact that it is, well, ...

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