Friday, February 26th, 2010
Despite my exaggerated reports of its death as a multiplayer game , I've been playing a lot of Bioshock 2 multiplayer. This is a game where I see myself actually hitting the level cap, and then some »
Tags: are-fulfilled, been-playing, bioshock, extreme computing, latest games, level, magic-bullet, pretty-sure, see-myself, seriously-epic, shooter, shooter-needs, shooters, xbox
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
Kotaku has managed to connect some awfully weird dots relating to the killer whale that drowned a trainer at the Orlando Sea World this week. You might have heard that the killer whale had been involved in two previous fatalities »
Tags: killer, kotaku-the-man, man-presumably, mental-disorder, night, orlando, park, tank-the-next, undeterred-even
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The naval simulation site Subsim has posted an extended hands-on preview with Silent Hunter 5 , Ubisoft's upcoming World War II U-boat game. The preview has a lot of the exhaustive detail-oriented fussing that only a hardcore simulation nerd would appreciate. But it's also got some good stuff about the new approach to... »
Tags: bonus-abilities, cook, exhaustive, game, hunter, latest games, more-proficient, motor-officer, silent-hunter, strategy games, such-as-cartoon, using-the-alt, wetting-realism
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Okay, if you're still holding out against buying Darksiders , now is your chance to play a bit fat chunk of the actual game to see what you're missing. The demo is live now on Xbox Live and the Playstation Store. This robust demo contains the entire first dungeon from the game, the... »
Tags: action games, cook, exhaustive, hunter, robot-ostrich, silent-hunter, twilight-cathedral, wetting-realism
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Capcom changed their minds about the pre-order bonus for Lost Planet 2 , their latest attempt at a Gears of War style shooter. The original plan was that pre-orders would get an exclusive Albert Wesker playable character who will look really weird to anyone who hasn't played the Resident Evil games. "Why am... »
Tags: albert, albert-wesker, development, friends, latest games, maps, mining-facility, resident-evil
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The Supreme Commander 2 demo is available on Steam. However, I'm afraid it's not going to be a very good representation of the full game. The full game is based on using a tech tree to unlock the various massive robots and giant artillery guns and nuclear strikes that make Supreme Commander Supreme... »
Tags: albert, doling-out-one, graphics, latest games, make-it-more, maps, steam-however, strategy games, various-massive
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
We Got Served has the scoop on a new software update for users of HP's previous generation (EX470 and EX480) Windows Home Server-based MediaSmart Servers. It will bring them up to the 3.0 software level, providing them with the capabilities HP previously provided to users of the current generation (EX490 and EX495) MediaSmart... »
Tags: capabilities, chris-waters, differences, dvd, follow-the-path, interesting, media, mediasmart, previously, servers, smart-servers, windows home server, windows-home
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I wrote about this about two weeks ago in WinInfo , but Microsoft is again warning users about the end of support for some legacy Windows versions. Here's the heads-up »
Tags: ending-support, mainstream, over-the-next, reach-the-end, servers, vista, windows home server, windows-home, windows-vista
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Microsoft today announced a new member of the Windows Server team called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010. Aimed at educational institutions, MultiPoint appears to be, in many ways, a successor to Windows SteadyState, which won't be made available in a Windows 7 version. Here's the news »
Tags: classroom, microsoft, multiple-people, multipoint, point-server, shared-resource, today-announced, windows-server, windows-steady
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Now that so many videogames support Facebook spamming, Twitter is falling behind as a way to bug your friends about what you're playing. »
Tags: activision, doing-their, extreme computing, facebook, falling-behind, game, send-challenges, text-message, tweet
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