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Splinter Cell: Conviction Realistic Runthrough, Plus opinions

Dylan Radcliffe
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So you have all had time to play the Splinter Cell: Conviction Demo. Well, below you will see me running through the demo on realistic in under 10 minutes (quite literally running, I tried to do it steathily… but you know… that never lasts). The opening cutscene, the interrogation, the demo, the scientist being threatened, and the ending cinematic and trailer. In my opinion that is way too short of a demo. Below the video you will find my thoughts on the demo and the gameplay mechanics.

Demo Thoughts

The demo was way to short, and required way too much memory for it’s short length. Having to watch the video and interrogation every time I wanted to play got annoying. Yeah, the interrogation is fancy and kinda cool, but it wears off very quickly.

Gameplay Thoughts

  • There are also many choices you could make towards beating the demo, but once you find the best route you hardly stray from it.
  • Even on Realistic it isn’t that hard, I messed up twice and i was still have to quickly recover before dieing. I managed to kill everyone before losing that much health.
  • With the new target system, killing people has become way too easy.
  • Tools are still completely useless, as you can see i didn’t use any in my runthrough. I could’ve but it would have been more hassle than anything.
  • I dislike the sensitivity to actions, sometimes you’ll want to do one action with ‘A’ but it will have you do something else.
  • Killing people is a much bigger focus, easier instant kills and the ability to target up to 3 people for instant kills makes the game way to easy.

Xbox 360 April 6th Update, memory management

Dylan Radcliffe
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On April 6th, we will be releasing a system update over Xbox LIVE for your Xbox 360 that will allow USB flash drives to be used for storing profiles, game saves, demos and more.  I’ve been testing this feature out for a few weeks, and I have to say it’s really great. Once you take the system update on April 6th, you’ll be able to connect your USB flash drives to your console and head over to the memory section to configure your new storage device. Once you do that, the system will conduct a one time performance and integrity check to confirm the drive is working properly. You will then be able to configure how much storage to use on the device, up to 16 GB. The remaining space on the flash drive will be accessible by your PC or Mac. USB Hard drives may work, but like flash memory, you’ll only be able to use up to 16GB of space. Since performance on flash based USB storage is usually better, I highly recommend using flash based instead of spinning media like a hard drive…it’s just going to give you a MUCH better experience.

We’ve also enhanced the memory management functions, so you’ll be able to have better control on what you want to copy or move between storage devices.

A couple of points:

  • You can have 2 devices connected to the console at a time, enabling up to 32GB of simultaneous storage.
  • The system won’t just configure the device once it is connected to the console. You’ll need to head to the memory area in system settings, select your USB Device, and choose from Configure Now (Format and Configure the Full Device), or Customize (you can choose how much memory you want configured for Xbox360 from the free space on the device.)

While any flash drive can be used, we are partnering with SanDisk to release an Xbox 360 branded USB flash drive in May that comes pre-configured out of the box and ready to go. I’ll provide links to those drives once they’re available. Until then, starting April 6th (when we release the system update) you can pop any flash drive over 1GB into your Xbox 360 and configure it as storage.”

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Limbo Xbox 360 Gameplay – Pax East 2010

Dylan Radcliffe
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the game seems quite slow paced, but interesting non the less. what does everyone else think?

Official Monday Night Combat PAX Gameplay video

Dylan Radcliffe
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This game looks quite interesting, what do you guys think?

Left 4 Dead 2 DLC pushed back, details explained and priced

Travis Bruno
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A video was broadcasted today to Xbox Live Subscribers in the U.K. by valve which stated that Left 4 Dead 2‘s DLC “The Passing” will not be ready by March 31st as stated earlier. Instead now the date has been changed to sometime during the “spring” which is much more vague and gives Valve a much wider window to release the DLC.

Not all bad news however was shown in the video. Now there is at least a price tag accompanying it, 560 MSp, or $7.

There was also news of new features being added in, such as a new weapon called the M-60 anti-personnel rifle. This gun is fearsome in firepower, however has no ability to reload, which means when it’s empty, it’s gone. You can also play golf with zombie eyeballs now as there will be a golf club included with the melee weapons with the purchase of this DLC. Not only that, but you may really want to avoid the new type of witch, this one seems to be crying because she was stood up at the altar with her wedding dress on. Plus the addition of a new special infected, described as an initial survivor who became infected that is loaded with molotov cocktails.

Well, it’s good that they provided the pricing, but it is sad news that they are pushing back this DLC. Especially so close to the initial release date they pushed it back. What does everyone think about the fact it comes with a pricetag like this? And are these new features mentioned now pretty interesting when coupled with The Passing?

Michigan Middle School Boy Suspended for having a Death Note

Travis Bruno
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The Argus Press has reported on an incident that happened today in a Michigan Middle School.

As it turns out there was a student, whose name is being withheld, at Owossa Middle School has been caught having a suspected “Death Note” with two students names written in them, with specific times for their supposed death. The times for the supposed deaths has already passed, and police state that they believe no one was ever in any actual danger.

Rich Collin’s, the principle of the school, stated that a different boy had found the notebook and gave it to a teacher, who then showed it to a school administrator. This school administrator then notified the police and they suspended the owner of the notebook until further notice.

Death Note is an anime where a Death God, or Shinigami, has dropped a notebook where a human named Light Yagami has found it. After his discovering of the Death Note and its powers he proceeds to murder hundreds of people by writing their names in the notebook, and their time of death making them die of a heart attack, or a written cause of death.

I think this is a bit ridiculous. There is literally nothing that could have happened from such a notebook, though they should still sit down and talk with the child and find out what caused him to write those two other student’s names down to die. This is still draconian though, following such cases as a student being suspended and expelled for bringing a metal butter knife in their lunch, or a toy gun two inches long.

Are schools literally going insane with these no-tolerance policies?  This isn’t the first case of a death note being seen at an American school either, there have been over five other cases reported over the past three years.  Shouldn’t they be finding the reason that these students wrote these names down in such a manner, instead of punishing them further and potentially causing more psychiatric harm? What do you think?

Game Room – Xbox 360 Review

Dylan Radcliffe
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Game Room
Publisher: Krome
Developer: Microsoft Game Studios
Platforms: Xbox 360 
Release Date: March 24th, 2010

Info

  • “Explore the world of classic arcade gaming with GameRoom’s library of favorites from Atari Inc., Intellivision, Konami Corp. and more!
  • Buy “Game Room” titles once and play them anywhere! After you’ve bought a game, it will be available on both your Xbox 360 and your Windows-based PC.
  • New games are available for download every week!

The Game Room is a user interface on the Xbox 360 that lets you play the retro arcade games that you download. These games are exact ports (or close enough to where it’s hard to catch small alterations). Microsoft plans to add a lot more games to the Game Room over the years. Microsoft says it will continue to focus on as the Game Room library expands from 30 at launch to over 1,000 in the next three years. It expects to dole out 5-7 games per week via Xbox Live Marketplace.

There is avatar support, but you can’t control it. The Game Room is more of a fancy, customizable menu system. Select the game you want to play from the menu. Go to friends arcades and play their games. The first time you play the game it is free, but after that it costs $0.50 per play. Buy the game for infinite plays for 240MSP for Xbox only license, and pay 400MSP to be able to play the games on windows live and the Xbox. If you later want to play the game on windows live, just pay the extra MSP to upgrade to a dual license.

Games available (Click a link to go to the Wikipedia page to learn more about the game)

Audio
The sounds and sights of the Game Room sound like a normal arcade which is a nice touch. From classic 8-Bit soundtracks to 8-bit sound effects. It’s all like walking into an actual arcade but one that you own in a virtual realm.

Achievements
The Game Room has 56 achievements worth a total of 1000g. You will have to buy arcade games in order to get a majority of the achievements but at least 80g can be gotten for free. I have marked the free achievements with [FREE] next to them. You’ll just need to download everything you can for free. Click Here for the Achievement List

Overview
The Game Room lets you relive classic games with friends in an online environment, but the execution of the Game Room isn’t as well done as it could have been. The Game Room is a nice addition that enables the new generation gamers to experience what a classic games truly are, and for the old generation gamers to play the games they grew up with. The Game Room is a nice environment that compiles all the ported classics but it could have been improved in many ways. I give the Game Room 7 Capsules out of 10.

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Pros

  • Play the games that started it all.
  • Challenge friends and compete on leaderboards.
  • Design your own arcade and invite your friends: they can try your games for free.

Cons

  • The inability to control your avatar is a letdown.
  • All the games are ports with medals thrown in.
  • The avatar support is more of a nuisance then an actual bonus.

 

Source

Xbox 360’s soon to be compatible with flash drives

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Xbox Live’s Larry Hyrb (better known as Major Nelson) released information on his blog saying that Microsoft has been working over the past weeks on making the 360 compatible with flash drives, and their work has paid off.

On April 6th there will be a mandatory update to all Xbox 360 owners and it will allow such users to use flash drives to store their information. Flash drives varying from 1gb to 16 gb will be supported. He also stated that some “USB hard drives” may work, you can only use 16gb maximum of the space provided.

Not only this but Microsoft has partnered with Sandisk to create a 16 gb flash drive to be released in May. Though the price of said flash drive is still unknown.

(Flash drive image courtesy of Joystiq)

This is pretty interesting, though I’m curious to see if this will support all flash drives originally, and then they will release an update forcing you to use Microsoft created flash drives only? Or if that will be the way from the start. Or if in the end they will allow you to use any flash drive. What do you guys think?

Assassin’s Creed 2 for $30 on Amazon

Dylan Radcliffe
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Assassin’s Creed 2 for the PS3 and Xbox 360 can be purchased for a low low price of $30 on amazon. Grab it now  if you haven’t already bought the game.

XBOX 360 Version

Playstation 3 Version

Amazon is most likely trying to match Gamestop’s price.

Either way, now is a very good time to be buying Assassin’s Creed 2 for the PS3 or Xbox 360, it is a very fun game and definitely worth $30.

Breach hopes to release this summer for $15

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Breach hopes to release this summer for $15

Atomic Games’ president Peter Tamte has revealed that he hopes to get Breach on XBLA this summer and that the developer is targeting to release it for $15.

Breach Details:
Atomic Games’ Breach is a first-person, multiplayer shooter that is expected to be released this summer. The game mixes a cover system with destructible environments, and allows players to see their handiwork on walls, floors, ceilings and even single bricks.

Breach features four classes (five after mastering two classes), an experience points system to purchase gadgets, four maps, four game types, 23 weapons and more.

for more information visit http://breachgame.com/

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This could be competition for BF:1943… but you could never replace that right?

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