The teaser trailer for the 3rd movie in the Chronicles of Riddick series. I have always enjoyed these more then I should, and cannot wait to see this one as well.
Minecraft has been updated to 1.5, so I have updated the server as well. There is no official build for Bukkit yet, so we are running an early development build that supports 1.5. There might be issues, bugs, and crashes. I have backed up the server before upgrading though, so if we run into problems we can always roll back to before the update. 1.5 is a pretty huge update with a focus on redstone, so get to building guys. I am looking forward to seeing all the new awesome machines.
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I have been playing a lot of PlanetSide 2 lately, and went online to look up some weapon reviews to see what guns and upgrades I wanted to start unlocking. In the process of looking for those videos, I ran into this series called PlanetSide 2 War Correspondent. It is actually a pretty cool idea. The author of the videos plays the part of a news reporter and embeds himself with a real outfit of players on live servers. He follows them around and documents the fight as if it was a real war. With the HUD off and some solid camerawork, he manages to pull it off pretty convincingly. It certainly doesn’t hurt that PlanetSide 2 is absolutely massive in scale, providing endless footage for him to pick from. The game isn’t bad looking either. Take a look at two of the most recent videos below. I know I will be looking forward to future ones.
Unknown Worlds is releasing their biggest post-launch update yet for Natural Selection 2 today. The new update, titled “Gorgeous”, includes a number of new abilities for the Gorge, railguns for the Exo, and new map titled “Descent”. Also included are a number of engine optimizations and new rendering features such as bullet decals and reflections. There is also a new video tutorial system to help get new players into the game and first person spectating.
To celebrate, the game is also going to be 50% off on steam.
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There are very few games that I ever pre-order, and when I do it is either because I am 99% certain the end product is going to be good or that I know even if its bad I have to play it. In either case, I also only pre-order for tangible benefits, such as getting $20 store credit. Pre-order bonuses such as skin and weapon packs just don’t do it for me at all. Too many people blindly pre-order games for no real good reason, and then end up getting screwed in the end. Just look at the recent release of the abysmal Aliens Colonial Marines that only did well because of pre-orders. People don’t seem to learn their lesson either, with Bioshock Infinite on the top selling games list on Steam a month before its release. This is a digital game guys, it cant possibly “sell out”. Although honestly I can only think of one or two instances ever where physical games were difficult to pick up on release date.
I think its time to let TotalBiscuit and Jim Sterling explain why you shouldn’t pre-order games anymore: