What the hell were they thinking?

After browsing their website (use of the word tribe), hearing about some of their recent hires, and seeing the MSNBC video, I am really curious to find out what they are working on:

Whatever they are working on, its a pretty good bet its some sort of MMO.

It’s alive! It’s alive! The Nerd has created a monster!

Well look what we have here, its another Halo music video. While its not anywhere near as good as the other one, its still pretty amusing:

These games need a stake driven squarely through their hearts.

Midway’s Area 51 is now available to download and play for FREE as an ad supported game. I really like this new trend of releasing games for free. It seems like a pretty good way for publishers to get a little more money out of their old titles while giving people a second chance to check them out. I will certainly be playing Area 51 soon.

Area 51 is the only action-packed 1st person shooter set in the U.S. government’s most secret and secure military facility. The U.S. Army has received a distress signal from Area 51 where a viral outbreak has just shut down the research facility and the automated quarantine procedures have locked all scientific and military personnel inside. A small Special Forces unit led by Specialist Ethan Cole of the HAZMAT (hazardous materials) Division is sent to investigate. As Cole, players will delve into five massive levels within the confines of Area 51, discovering a deadly mutagenic side effect of the virus that controls the minds of those infected, as well as an ancient alien colony buried beneath the facility. With a multitude of human and alien weapons, players must explore chilling conspiracies such as the extraterrestrial crash at Roswell and the faked lunar landing, in order to solve the enigma of Area 51 before the viral mutagen is released and irrevocably mutates all life on Earth.

You can download Area 51 here.

Midway’s horror action game, The Suffering, has been released for free as an ad supported game. I played the game when it came out on the Xbox back in 2004, and I remember walking away really impressed. The design of the game is great, with solid horror and action elements. Overall, its one of the better horror games of the last couple of years. If you never checked it out before, now is a great time.

The player controls Torque, a man who has been sent to the fictional Abbott State Penitentiary on Carnate Island, Maryland. Torque has been convicted and sentenced to death for murdering his wife and two children, although he claims to have blacked out at the time this happened and cannot remember anything. The night Torque arrives, there is a powerful earthquake, which releases an army of monsters upon the facility. Torque’s cell door breaks and he is freed from his captivity. Starting with little more than a shiv, Torque traverses the prison in an attempt to escape Carnate Island alive.

The game was well received by critics and fans, and has sold over 1.5 million copies.

You can download The Suffering here.

The team behind Tribal Wars, the tribes-based Enemy Territory: Quake Wars mod, has released the very first bit of footage. The game is still in alpha, but it looks fantastic. The Quake Wars team always said that their game and engine would work really well for a Tribes game, and it looks like that was absolutely true. The environments are huge, and the skiing physics look perfect. For a game in such an early state, it looks like it is already a lot of fun. I will be following the development of this mod very closely.

Well, it looks like Halo 3 is going to be getting some sort of expansion that will add new singleplayer content. It is unknown what the expansion is going to contain, but rumors and speculation are flying on pretty much every gaming site (Most think something to do with the ODST). For now, all we have is this interesting teaser:

The first thing I did this morning when I woke up was buy Duke Nukem 3D on Xbox Live Arcade. I didnt even bother to download the trial. This game was the king of first person shooters when it came out back in the day, and it still holds up very well today. Even on a platform where there are tons of quality first person shooters, Duke Nukem 3D is still absolutely worth picking up. I cant wait to play co-op with some friends and then get my “dukematch” on over Live. If you are a first person shooter fan at all, you need to check out this game.