This looks to be a cool little program. If you love video game music, you should check it out, as well as the Video Games Live website.
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Portable Gaming without the Laptop?
This seems like a better choice for portable gaming than a laptop, to me. No keyboard/mouse to mess with, just a controller! Via engadget
Why Zombie Games Hold So Much Appeal
Why do we love zombie games, and what does that say about us as a society?
(via the ever-excellent Rock Paper Shotgun)
But war? War never changes.
IGN presents a retrospective on the history of Fallout, prior to the launch of Fallout: New Vegas.
Sony facing class-action lawsuit for forced removal of linux from PS3
Sony got spooked about the DRM on the PS3 getting cracked, so unceremoniously dumped the other-OS feature of the PS3 with a mandatory firmware update. Multiple lawsuits were filed, and they’re now bundled into a single class-action suit.
Microsoft says Windows 7 Service Pack 1 due in first half 2011
Last week, Microsoft released a public beta of SP1, with a few bits of added functionality. According to technet, SP1 proper will be released in the first half of 2011.
ESRB adds irony to the Blizzard RealID saga
ESRB, while replying to people who submitted concerns over Blizzard’s RealID fiasco, revealed their e-mails by hitting ‘reply all,’ or, “people concerned with their privacy lose their privacy because of being concerned with their privacy.”
Why real names in blizzard forums is a bad thing
Nattie – a long-time WOW player – lays out precisely and in depth why RealID is such a bad idea, especially for women and minorities.
In case you think Nattie’s fears are overblown, here’s where Ryan Erickson challenges people to find out more details about him with just his name, with fairly predictable results.
A blizzard employee, Bahiok, also posted his real name to the Blizzard forum to demonstrate it was harmless, and rapidly had his facebook account, his phone number, address and many other details revealed to the world in very short order. Those posts have now been deleted, and the facebook account deleted.
2010 Blizzard Writing Contest
Blizzard has announced their 2010 writing contest. They’re looking for short prose fiction between 2,500 and 7,500 words and set in either the Diablo, Starcraft or Warcraft universe. To which I say fuck that, because I wanted to write some mustache fanfic based on the Lost Vikings. The deadline is August 23rd, which I can only assume to be in Blizzard Time so make sure to get it to them no later than February 2012.
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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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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: This Could Be Bad Edition (04.29.11)
So, there was a thing! PSN got hacked and now we’ve all been sold wholesale to Estonian hackers to work in their gold farms or whatever. Also, Nintendo confirmed that the Wii 2 is actually a thing, which conveniently distracted everyone from the massive hit their year-over-year earnings took. We take a solid half-hour to [...]
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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: A Very Special Late Live Edition (03.01.11)
There’s something special waiting for you inside this episode of the FGEC Podcast. What, you ask? Well, for one thing, we managed to actually get in the same room to record things. Will that carry over to an actual increase in quality? You decide, as we briefly cover such topics as the inevitable success of [...]
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Farting and fighting footage from Fable III
OK, it’s not *only* in-game footage of farting in a villagers face, but also a look at the updated combat system and resisting arrest. ∞
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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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