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Comment Re:Call me a fanboi or whatever but... (Score 1) 563

Not true. This is from a twitter chat with the devs just a few weeks ago, on April 30:

Q: For several Australian players at a LAN, who have logged into a custom Battle.net game, will the game be local once initiated?

A: You'll be connected through Battle.net. However, we're locating game servers more strategically to allow the best possible game experience from where you play. For Australia we are by default routing games through the Oceanic region which should provide a much lower latency experience.

Google

Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup 44

notthatwillsmith writes "If you're a fan of Left 4 Dead and you've ever wanted to build a zombie-filled map of your hometown, office or grocery store, Maximum PC just posted a how-to that shows you how to convert photos of real-world locations into ready-to-play L4D 1 or 2 maps. It's everything you need to know in order to kill zombies with your friends — in the comfort of your own backyard."

Comment Re:Why pay more? (Score 1) 216

Troll?or just a Dick?-- You are the reasons [evil] corporations act the way they do.

If VW offered jettas for 100$ and you only gave them that, they would be out of business and then noone would ever offer a car that low again.

So how much did you donate to your dealer above the minimum asking price last time you bought a car?

I feel tremendously bad if you teach your kids the same sentiment: "lie/cheat/steal/abuse/take/copy do what ever it takes to get what you want in life w/o regard for others"

I feel tremendously bad if you teach your kids "if you think a price for something is too low, pay more!"

Comment Re:I felt totally disappointed with HL2 (Score 1) 113

It may have just been a matter of timing, but I was totally disappointed in HL2. All that hype and anticipation during that long wait

And the long wait continues. It's been nearly 2 years since Episode 2 came out and they haven't released a single iota of information about Episode 3 yet. I can only assume because they don't have anything to show. And to think that they went with the episodic format to make releases faster.

Comment Re:I loved this (Score 1) 52

Eclipsed in the fact that Valve keeps releasing updates for TF2 and not CS:S, but not eclipsed at all with player base size. CS:S still has the most players of any Steam game by far. If you add up the people playing CS:S and the original CS, it has more players than all the other Steam games combined. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
PC Games (Games)

Great Games To Put On a Free PC? 634

Lumpy writes "I am giving several new PC's to a local charity that will be giving them to needy kids this Xmas. They are not powerful, basically baseline Dells that have Intel graphics and Celeron, but more than enough to do homework and other studies on. They are going out with XP on them, an Ubuntu CD, and a bunch of OSS software like OO.o and the others. I would like to include some games for the kids. Strategy, fun, etc. Great freeware games that are fun to play. What would be the best games that a 13-16 year old will like to play that are free and legal to give away, and will run on this lower-end hardware?"
Government

Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax 63

Mearlus writes "A Wisconsin lawmaker is proposing a law to add an additional tax on video games and equipment in order to help cover the costs of moving 17-year-old criminals back into the juvenile system." (According to the article, 17-year-olds are at present treated as adults by Wisconsin courts.)

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