The game, titled Firefall, is “a team-based action shooter that thrusts hundreds of players together into a lush, dynamic open world combining intense competitive multiplayer and large-scale cooperative gameplay”.

Firefall paints a beautifully devastating vision of Earth, 200 years in the future. The promise of a new clean energy source, Crystite, leads to the disastrous arrival of the Melding, a hostile energy storm that engulfs most of our home planet. Earth’s surviving humans must band together in the eye of the Melding storm to save our species. Unfortunately, a new danger emerges as a bloodthirsty race known as The Chosen threatens humanity’s survival.

Players of the game will be able to customize their characters through Firefall’s battleframes system, which will not only allow them to specialize in their favorite style of play, but also give them the flexibility to swap and trade their way to new configurations on-the-fly.

Firefall will feature a free-to-play model that allows players to experience every detail of the vibrant world without having to pay a single penny. Updates to the game, dynamic world events, and other content will also be offered without a price tag, while a marketplace will allow fans to purchase optional enhancements

Red 5 Studios is currently accepting applications for the beta program of Firefall. For more information, visit Firefall’s official web site at http://www.firefallthegame.com.

The price increase is pretty modest, especially if you buy in one year increments. Still, you might want to take advantage of the current discounted offer of $39.99 for one year and either renew or extend your current subscription. Want to know when your current subscription expires? Visit this page to find out.

Having fun with Halo 3 and my capture card. Made it mostly so I could learn Sony Vegas.

The great news is that the game is set to be released on Good Old Games later this week. I honestly could not be more excited. Raptor is one of the few games that I could never get working on Windows, and I lost my copy of the game ages ago. The Good Old Games version will be updated to work, and come with copies of the manual and soundtrack. Plus, the game is DRM free.  I will certainly be buying a copy later this week, and I would be ashamed if all if you don’t pick it up and give it a try for only $5.99.

As a mercenary in the not-so-distant future, flying the super-advanced Raptor space fighter, you’ll be sent on interplanetary missions to knock out your MegaCorp’s top competitors. Battle against hordes of relentless enemies. Spend the bounties claimed for their demise to expand your devastating arsenal!

Discover secrets, find bonuses and battle boss ships that appear at the end of every wave! With each ship and ground target you destroy, you’ll earn more cash to improve your ship’s already formidable technology, in preparation for the next wave. You’ll be sent out to kill and destroy… But then again, it’s in your blood.

Raptor: Call of the Shadows – GOG.com

Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series, this is an action packed short film centering around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.

The film’s website can be found at http://beyondblackmesa.com/.

The Nerd conquers an oft-requested NES classic.

Anyway, here are some random Halo 3 clips. They are not edited at all as this is just a test to see how they look after being compressed for the web. I can go a lot higher then 3000kbps, so any final video that I make will certainly have much higher quality then this.

NS2 Alpha 1 content

• One of our shipping maps (ns2_tram), plus some smaller “test” maps
• Marine, with Rifle, Pistol, SwitchAx, Grenade Launcher, and Shotgun
• Skulks, Gorges, Lerks and their basic movement abilities and weapons
• Marine armory “buy” screen for purchasing new equipment
• Alien evolution menu for choosing your lifeform and upgrades
• Basic marine and alien commander interfaces including MACs, Drifters
• Much of the final sounds, artwork, animations, etc.

Lerks, hydras and skulks, oh my!

They will be adding new weapons, upgrades, commander abilities, maps, etc. throughout our development to v1.0. Rxpect the alpha to be patched somewhere between 1-4 times per month. Sometimes they will need to tweak balance, other times they will need to take a step back and make a bigger change, but it will be a work in progress. The fact that they are shipping on Steam makes the updating progress pretty easy.

Something else you should know is that when they release alpha 1 at the end of this month, they are also discontinuing the NS2 Special Edition and all-black marine armor. It will no longer be available after this date, ever. Also, players that order NS2 after July 26th won’t be able to play in the release date alpha. Here’s an in-game shot of the limited edition black marine armor:

Limited Edition Black Marine Armor

If you’ve been on the fence about ordering the Special Edition, you now have two weeks to decide. If you have the Special Edition, you will be able to choose your armor when you play – possibly at the Armory, like the rest of your weapons and equipment!

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