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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: Tacticool Edition (11.11.11)

12 Nov Features Games and Gaming Hardware News Reviews Software Tech






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As is apropos on this Veteran’s Day, we spend most of this week’s podcast discussing the latest in modern military shooters, starting with our review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. I ramble for a bit about what I’d like to see in a modern military shooter game, and why the “vision video” concept for Rainbow Six – Patriots is very much not that, Call of Duty Elite is delayed and borked, Battlefield 3 loses first week traffic numbers to a Call of Duty game, Steam gets hacked, and we talk about how Ubisoft and EA will punish us for being good paying customers through DRM. Please, Share and Enjoy.

FGEC Podcast – Episode 39 (11/11/11)

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Full Glass Empty Clip Podcast: Left Behind Edition (03.04.11)

5 Mar Features Games and Gaming Hardware News Retrospectives Reviews Software Tech








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We’re giving this new, shifted schedule a try here at the FGEC Podcast, maybe it’ll work a little better. As for this podcast, we bring you tales of Battlefield 3‘s awesomeness delivered in trailer form, Valve has big plans for its Steam platform, Notch and Mojang talk about their new project and bits of the future of Minecraft, Serious Sam 3 is officially announced, Nintendo does nothing to stop the R4 ROM cartridge, LG bends Sony over a legal barrel in Europe, and Harmonix speculates about life after Rock Band. Please, share and enjoy, and shout back at us at fgecpodcast@fullglassemptyclip.com.

FGEC Podcast Episode 20 (03/04/11)

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Steam Sales

1 Jan Features Games and Gaming

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No one would call me an unreasonable person. Few people would look at me and say, “That Niteowl fellow, he’s one to go skinny dipping in a kiddie pool full Crisco, a grievously injured king cobra, and seven squirrels in the latter stages of rabies”. I have a mortgage, a real job,  and what is laughably considered a pension.

But when the Steam Holiday Sale comes around, well, I wouldn’t say all reason goes out the proverbial window, but perhaps saying “Reason gets put in in a small concrete cell, bound, along with some guy with an unidentifiable Soviet Bloc accent, a car battery, and absolutely no knowledge of the Geneva Convention” is not stretching the truth too far.

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RAGE on Steam

RAGE on Steam

Now, that’s interesting. And only 54 weeks before the scheduled release, too. But if it uses Steamworks for multiplayer, that’ll be a mighty good thing indeed. See also…

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Valve Apologises for Wrongful Modern Warfare 2 Bans

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"The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk version of a DLL and a latent memory version. This was caused by a combination of conditions occurring while Steam was updating the disk image of a game. This wasn't a game-specific mistake. Steam allows us to manage and reverse these erroneous bans (about 12,000 erroneous bans over two weeks)."

"We have reversed the ban, restoring your access to the game. In addition, we have given you a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2 to give as a gift on Steam, plus a free copy for yourself if you didn't already own the game."
-- Gabe Newell, Valve President

Valve apologise for wrongfully banning innocent players of Modern Warfare 2 over the last week, which has been a major uproar in the forums. This is also the first time valve have admitted a problem with the valve anti-cheat system and the first time they have reversed account flags that stop people who have been accused of cheating from playing online.

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