Beyond Black Mesa, the twelve-minute live-action fan-made film based on the Half-Life universe has been released, and it’s pretty damn good.
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Bulletstorm System Requirements Revealed
Looks like it’s won’t be too resource-hungry. Steam release was also confirmed via Twitter.
Razer Prototype Gaming Mini-Netbook
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Sierra Adventures In Browser
Classic Sierra games, playable in-browser. Mmmm, that’s some tasty nostalgia right there!
Really Polyphony Digital, really?!
I suppose it shouldn’t be a total shock, but come ON!
Dance Fortress 2
After several months of teasers, it’s done, and it’s very amusing indeed. You may want to go the site of the Tubes to watch it in all its HD glory — there’s a lot going on!
GOG says they were just kidding.
Good Old Games has decided that their shutdown was just a joke, and will be up and running and out of beta soon. “We are working hard to provide users with much fun, so do expect some great surprises until Christmas.” What’s their next joke going to be, installing a trojan that fries my motherboard? No thanks!
In(sert) Soviet Russia(n coin) …
A fascinating and lengthy blog post (made in January but it’s making the rounds now) about a visit to a museum of Soviet-era arcade games. There are many pictures. And I am very glad I was not a child of the Soviet 80s.
Web Game: Solipskier
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More web game goodness: this one’s heaps of fun once you get the speed ratcheted up (hint: go through the blue tunnel marker thingies). Paint landscape, whiz crash woohoo. You know the drill.
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Deus Ex: Boomin’ Revolution
New trailer with some actual in-game footage of Deus Ex 3: Electric Boogaloo in between the cutscenery.
Two observations: 1) man, that’s some rumbly and expensive-sounding audio design, and 2) hopefully they got those strippers from Mass Effect at a discount!
QuakeCon Steam Sale
Just in case you hadn’t noticed: all of id’s and Bethesda’s games, currently on sale. If you want to play Rocket Arena 3 with us, or any of the hundreds of Doom maps and mods here, now’s the time!
Kill Screen Magazine
Kill Screen is the natural extension of a maturing games industry. Far from the sensationalist juvenilia that dots the web and more accessible than the lofty rhetoric and gamespeak of academics, we’re approaching a beloved medium on its own terms as fans and as critics.
Ludicrously expensive, but at least it’s aimed at thinking adults who also play games, and they may be right that the ‘premium product’ model is the way forward for print publications. [via]
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Living First Person
It’s 1977. I’m 12 years old. It’s a gorgeous Northern BC summer day, one of those glorious fleeting perfect days that are all the sweeter in the frozen north, because the memories of mud and slush barely fade before the leaves have already begun to turn again. Utterly pure blue sky, sun warm on the skin, grass a deep impatient green, a light breeze off the lake that is so invigoratingly packed with oxygen and piney perfume it might as well be cocaine. I’m playing third base, it’s what we’d call little league if we called it that in Canada back then, I’m just beginning to feel the awkwardness of adolescence, but the sheer pleasure of being alive and standing on that dirt under that gigantic bowl of sky on that day is more than enough to let me ignore my self-consciousness. I’m a big, strong kid, and even if I’m more bookworm than jock, I enjoy sports.
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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: Technical Peccadilloes Edition
We return after holidays, work, and the inevitable technical breakdowns, but we persevere to bring you another podcast! This week, we discuss the impossible: Minecraft goes 1.0, the unfortunate: GSC Game Studios and GamePro fold, and the stupid: EA continues their über-ban policy, parents name their kid after a character in Skyrim, Telltale gets caught [...]
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I Hate You So Much Right Now
Making video game characters with whom I can fall in love takes a cocktail of hard work, genius, luck and Jennifer Hale. It turns out that making video game characters I can hate takes practically no effort at all. In this short series of articles a small collection of pixels, logic and random events will [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Week 3.5
To get myself back in the groove, I will make this short and (hopefully) sweet. I have 3 Steam copies of Worms Reloaded to give away. All you have to do is comment below, and I will randomly pick 3 winners. No stories needed! I will pick the winners Thursday night, and announce them sometime [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Portal 2 Edition!
Well, hell, it’s been a long time. I’m sorry for the disruption in service. To make up for it, I’m giving away 2 copies of Portal 2. You might have heard of Portal, it helped launch the Orange box, made TF2 a household name (at least in my circle of friends) So, here is the [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: CIV V Edition
Welcome back to the feature formerly known as Do You Like Free Stuff. This time around, I am offering up one pre-order Direct2Drive copy of Civilization V. The contest will run til 8:00 P.M. Eastern Thursday September 2nd. How do you enter? Just leave a comment below. I will randomly choose one winner this week [...]
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Failure. Okay.
There’s nothing more to this post than an image I found amusing. Would that we could all just click an “okay” button when we fail.
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: CIV V Edition
Welcome back to the feature formerly known as Do You Like Free Stuff. This time around, I am offering up one pre-order Direct2Drive copy of Civilization V. The contest will run til 8:00 P.M. Eastern Thursday September 2nd. How do you enter? Just leave a comment below. I will randomly choose one winner this week [...]
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For those about to ROCK BAND 3
Rock Band 3 is out! I’ve had the game for about a week (thanks Newegg!) so I have some early impressions….
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Portal 2 Edition, Winners!
Sorry for the announcement delay, it was a long and busy weekend. The winners are: SpacePope NiceGuyMike Congratz to the winners! Sorry to all that did not win, but check back soon for more fun and exciting contests.
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L4D2 NPC’s and Infected Rejected Out Of Hand
Oil Derrick Worker You never see them, because, well, they’re kinda isolated, but you hear reports about them, and they sound terrifying. Tai Chi Master If you ever swing that ax faster than an heavily sedated sea sponge, he goes down immediately. But should you go slower, HOO EEEEE!. Hipsters You only ever encounter their [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet: Portal 2 Edition!
Well, hell, it’s been a long time. I’m sorry for the disruption in service. To make up for it, I’m giving away 2 copies of Portal 2. You might have heard of Portal, it helped launch the Orange box, made TF2 a household name (at least in my circle of friends) So, here is the [...]
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Full Glass Empty Wallet:Poker Night at the Inventory Edition-Winners!
Thanks to everyone who typed some letters and then hit the “Submit Comment” button! The 5 lucky winners are: Timothy beardlace Lawton27 gamegeneral Gemmy check your email, or steam popups. Enjoy your prizes! Stay tuned for our next event.
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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: An Auspicious Start (11.18.10)
Hello, Full Glass Empty Clip readers! We’ve received a literal trickle of emails complaining about the lack of sensory stimulation that our humble blog provides. Here’s an example letter: “Dear Full Glass Empty Clip: Your website is wondrous to behold, a treat for the eyes, both in design and the uniformly high quality of the [...]
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