By Craig Lloyd on Aug 29th, 2010 at 6:11PM
The past week’s best news and featured content…
Mini Review: Razer DeathAdder Left-Hand Edition
- I’ve been waiting for the day when big-name peripheral manufacturers would start making left-handed products for the few and the proud. Logitech was first with a left-handed version of the MX 610. Now, Razer is wanting in on the left-handed action with their new DeathAdder Left-Hand Edition.
By Craig Lloyd on Aug 28th, 2010 at 7:53PM
I kept wondering why the past couple days my favorite image hoster has been down. I simply just figured they were having server issues and would be back up soon. Several days pass with still no sign of a return. Finally, we remember their Twitter account and this is where we received the bad news. Our favorite image hoster has deceased due to insufficient funds necessary to keep the site up and running.
RIP PiC.LEECH.iT! You were great!
By Craig Lloyd on Aug 26th, 2010 at 10:18PM
This might come at a surprise to you (or not), but paying $10 a month for Hulu Plus is only getting you 14% more content over the free Hulu, according to research firm One Touch. However, you also get iOS, TV, and console streaming capabilities, but if the selection is the most important factor in your decision, then you might want to ask yourself if only 14% more content is worth the $10/month fee.
[One Touch via Business Insider]
By Tim Hage on Aug 24th, 2010 at 6:05PM
As Steam’s Midweek Madness this week, they’ve discounted the indie multiplayer game Plain Sight by 80-percent. Without going into too much detail and wasting your valuable time, Plain Sight is a multiplayer game where — as a suicidal ninja robot — you battle other suicidal ninja robots…with katanas…in space. There’s also Team Fortress 2-style wearing of hats involved. Seriously, it’s $2 and you’ve got no reason to not own it. Alternatively, you can save even more cash by purchasing the four pack at $6 with a couple friends.
By Craig Lloyd on Aug 24th, 2010 at 4:29PM
The day was August 24th, 1995. Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public. It changed the way we do…well…things. It’s pretty crazy to think that up until Vista, the layout really didn’t change much. That’s not a bad thing, really. There’s a lot of technology that hasn’t changed for quite some time. The workings of a CRT monitor have been roughly the same for about 100 years now.
Anyway, we salute you, Windows 95. You’re almost old enough to drive.
By Craig Lloyd on Aug 23rd, 2010 at 12:21PM
It looks like all the anxious Linux gamers won’t be getting Steam anytime soon. Even though there was a slight possibly that Steam would be heading over to the open source OS, Valve’s VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi said in an interview with Gamesindustry.biz that “there’s no Linux version that we’re working on right now.”
So much for penguin power, but who knows, maybe it’ll come sooner or later. After all, Lombardi simply just mentioned, “right now.”
via [Download Squad]
By Craig Lloyd on Aug 22nd, 2010 at 7:43PM
The past week’s best news and featured content…
Game Informer: Portal 2 Arriving February 9th, 2011
- Since its reveal at E3 this past June, all there was left to do was simply wait for a Portal 2 release date from Valve, but even that was a game in itself for some reason (we should have known). However, Game Informer, who wrote a 12-page cover story in their April 2010 issue, has reported that Valve told them at Gamescom that Portal 2 will be arriving February 9th, 2011.
By Tim Hage on Aug 21st, 2010 at 2:46PM
Valve released some tasty information on GameTrailers TV last night. Firstly being a teaser trailer for Portal 2‘s co-op (which you can view after the break) but, more interestingly, we got details of a new campaign coming to Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. Releasing October 5th, the new three-level campaign will be titled The Sacrifice and will focus on the events of the original survivors’ struggle just before the meet up with Left 4 Dead 2‘s survivors in the previous DLC campaign, The Passing. And of course, the DLC will come to PC gamers at no charge.
The content doesn’t end there! L4D2 will also be getting L4D1‘s No Mercy campaign and Valve will start releasing a massive 150-page online comic this September. The comic will tie up the two Left 4 Dead storylines and the events leading up to The Sacrifice.
By Tim Hage on Aug 20th, 2010 at 11:56AM
At GamesCom, Ubisoft detailed that Driver: San Francisco’s Q1 2011 PC release will include a special edition that gamers can pre-order. The “Collector’s Pack” will not only come with a real-life model of the game’s infamous yellow Dodge Charger, but it also comes with two exclusive in-game cars, a “Mass Chase” challenge that has yet to be explained, and a physical map of the game’s city. Unfortunately, pricing was not mentioned, but expect a price tag of around $90.
Hit the break to see the Collector’s Pack reveal trailer!
By Tim Hage on Aug 20th, 2010 at 11:54AM
Treyarch confirmed today via their community forums that gamers would be getting modding tools for Black Ops shortly after the game’s release. Also, the developer console is confirmed. We may not be getting any Collector’s Editions of the game, but this news is far better than any special helmet or R/C car included in the over-priced packaging.
“We plan to open the game up for modding sometime post-launch. We do not know yet to what extent you will be able to mod the game. There are some purely technical issues related to engine and internal tool enhancements that do not easily fit the modtools paradigm. We have looked at it close enough to see that it is non-trivial and we will have to pick it up again post-launch. Right now we are completely focused on finishing the game.
And, dev console: confirmed.”