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28Jan/110

Get Quaked 3–You won’t see stuff like this in Call of Duty folks.

These videos are mainly stemming from the frustrating fact that people seem to think games like Call of Duty : Black Ops have good multiplayer. I just recently went through Black Ops’ pathetic attempt at single player and am slogging my way through the multiplayer … when I remembered there are games out there WORTH playing that are actually fast paced instead of faking it. Call of Duty and Halo fans out there, play a real game that’s actually fun to play. You don’t even need to grow a set of balls to do it, you can play this for free. And it’ll run on just about any modern computer.

22Jan/110

Hey there, you want a Anne Hathaway gallery?

Well, I've got one for you. And if she keeps up the stunning photoshoots and movies, there will definitely be more. Huge props to Egotastic! for some of the pictures.

Anne Hathaway

Disney princess to REAL actor. A lot of people gave her crap because she showed up in topless scenes after the Disney movies. Her response? "I'm an actor. I act." ... maybe not word for word, but that pretty much sums up what she said. Any way you put it, this woman is stunning.

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6Jan/110

Razer Switchblade … doesn’t look very promising to me.

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. Me personally, everything in this damn video is computer rendered except for the humans … the gameplay footage is plastered on as a result. And think about the Intel Atom processor … it’s not totally useless. I have two netbooks I absolutely love. But the little Atom isn’t a gaming processor. I honestly don’t know much about this thing, but one thing I’m going to predict, if this thing gets released it’ll more than likely tank.

It does LOOK neat though, but I think I’ll hold off until I see some real world performance results.

Ripping off of Flare from the forums again here. hehe

6Jan/111

Voxatron - Spiffy looking arena style shooter.

I haven’t seen a game quite like this in a while. The destruction in the video looks awesome and I can’t wait to play me some of this. Here’s from the site :

voxatron

Voxatron is an arena shooter that takes place in a world made of voxels (little cubes, kind of). Everything in the game is displayed in a virtual 128x128x64 voxel display, including the menus and player inventory. If you look closely, you can sometimes see the inventory (score/life/ammo) casting a shadow on some of the objects on the ground.

I've been working on voxel rendering and modeling tools for a long time now, with the ultimate goal of making a large explorey adventure game. About half a year ago it fused with work I was doing on arena shooters for Conflux, and this is the result.

It's quite a simple game at heart -- mostly just Robotron set in a 3d destructible world with goofy creatures. I'm unsure how major the implications of destructibility will be for gameplay, but it sure is fun to blast away pieces of wall. I've also added an experimental wall-building pickup you can use to construct barriers to hide from scary monsters.

The game takes place in a small set of arenas. Some of them feature rooms with set action pieces, somewhere between Knightlore and Smash TV. This is some of the original adventure based design sneaking back in, and an excuse to create thematic environments.

Features:
- Custom software rendering with soft shadows.
- Built-in sound and music synthesizer (also used to make the trailer music).
- Playback & post game recording.

Voxatron will be ready later this year, but I'll create a single-arena preview version too.

Hit the jump for a spiffy video. Thanks to Flare over on the GameGavel forums. One of these days I shall have the patience to do the type of games I want to do. Text based versions of shit I don’t play in the first place. That’s the master plan.

6Jan/110

Christina Applegate, Kirsten Dunst and a video …

Christina-Applegate-30I decided to actually do something with the gallery, something I haven’t done damn near since I started the site. I decided to add some new stuff to it. I’ve been watching a hell of a lot of Married with Children lately, so Christina Applegate was a given. I have to give that woman props because it takes a hell of a lot of intelligence to play a character THAT stupid.

So, other than the obvious, there was my reason for adding her to this site.

Kirsten-Dunst-73The other was a little bit of a harder choice. Then I remembered this movie that I watched with my girlfriend of the time (thankfully, no more) Crazy/Beautiful and later on the Spider-Man movies where the red hair only accented everything (hey, I’m a sucker for a redhead) and thought “There’s the other woman I’ll add to this.” so, I added Kirsten Dunst. Especially since she recently had a very small scene in a movie recently, which I THINK got cut from it for whatever reason, where she actually shows what she’s got (to my knowledge anyway) for once. So yeah, hit the jump. The video isn’t at all safe for work, but the galleries are okay.

Download the full out 720p video right here in MP4 format (it's about 25 seconds long) and hit up the galleries after the jump. If you want to see the rest of the galleries, just click here. I'll add the new additions one of these days.

6Jan/110

Jennifer Love Hewitt showing off her best assets … almost.

jennifer-love-hewitt-cowgirl-shoot-01This woman seems to age like a fine wine. Granted, I’ve never seen whatever show it was she was on in the 90’s, though I did see her little spot in Boy Meets World when I was younger. Yes, I used to watch TV all the time. Anyone remember that TGIF crap that was on … oh what was it … ABC? And naturally the Saturday Morning Cartoons back when they actually had shows that were worth watching.

But this isn’t about that. A lot of people say JLH reached her prime years ago. I beg to differ with this photo shoot from a magazine I can’t be bothered to remember the name of.

Everyone can thank Egotastic! for these. If you didn’t notice, I hit up that site a lot. But they’re a bit less picky than I am. I’m finally going to start doing shit on this site again, I’ll get to the gaming stuff later once I actually play them thanks to Steam and they’re god damn holiday sales.

6Jan/110

A new episode of The Wasted Seconds podcast is up.

Episode 7 - “Fran Fine was fine” … where I’m joined by Critical Failure of Tiger Claw Radio and TV, Triverse from Scenic 7 PR and Out of Print Archive and at the very end, Retrokaiser, which we’ll get more into on the next episode that’ll probably be up in the next week or two. This one is a little less about gaming because it was literally a spur of the moment recording after a catastrophic failure with my normal co-host Ian. And this is also the episode where I’m going to change the format of the show away from it being mainly gaming focused. I think I’m going to embrace the randomness, especially since the majority of modern games annoy the shit out of me.

But regardless, click right here to skip over to the podcast site where you can listen to it. If you want to subscribe on iTunes, click here and don’t forget to rate the show because none of you fuckers have done that yet. I may not have iTunes installed on my machine, but I can still tell. ;)

And if you’ve got any questions for any of us, you can shoot an email over to [email protected] whether it be an email or a voice message or whatever. Just try to keep the voice recordings 5 minutes or less. If it’s good, I’ll definitely use it on the show.

One of these days I’ll migrate the podcast itself over to THIS main site, but I’m entirely too lazy to go through the hassle right now.

Enjoy! And bear in mind, this show is HIGHLY explicit, don’t go whining and bitching at me if your kids find it, or if I offend anyone.

And for those of you who know what this is ... there's some candid "Phoenix" talk ...