***UPDATE*** 12:57:59 AM Seems we have been put on hold…for about THREE MONTHS…
From the #portal chatroom:
<mib_d258ix>:”The hex converted to decimal: 226 228 226 : 215 197 213 196 228 213 227 ( 201 ) + 211 197 197 197 If it’s ASCII it’s extended ASCII. Could it be EBCDIC (common mainframe encoding)? Edit: It IS EBCDIC. It spells: S U S : P E N D … U N T ( I ) L … E E E (colon, dots for spacing, and parens added to roughly locate them in the source image.) Hey, being QSECO
Today at QDC Gabe Newell was awarded the Pioneer Award, and in his speech he talked about the industry and its interaction with the customers. Then at the end of his presentation he got a Blue Screen of Death. However this was no ordinary BSoD as you can see in this screenshot it contains the words “flood the facility with deadly neurotoxins.” Sounds oddly familiar…Oh yeah…Portal. It seems this is little more than a clever segway to the second part of the last Portal ARG which I covered here. So stay tuned as I cover the second part of this amazing adventure.
“Moral Kombat” is a 90 min. documentary on violence and graphic situations in video games. It provides a thorough view of both sides of the coin, so if you’ve got 90 minutes….
Also, the video contains a bit of explicit content here and there. You’ve been warned.
Thoughts? Comments?
On a lighter note, how many of the games either featured or used in clips have you played/heard of?
By the way, two of them have shown up as past reviews.
If I told you that a team somewhere was working on a new way to display graphics with unlimited detail on even the most limited hardware, you’d think I was crazy. Right? Actually, wrong. This will blow your mind. Hit the jump and let’s commence the mind blowing.
…actually, it has been for eight days now. TAGJ’s very own form, The Astringent Gaming Community, is right here! Or you can just click “Forums” at the top of this very page! We have sections dedicated to BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, Monster Hunter, Starcraft, Starcraft II, Super Smash Brothers, Super Street Fighter IV, and Team Fortress 2 already.
Got a group or clan, but want more people to play with? Just start a thread!
If you play a game we don’t currently have support for, just ask for it!
We’re doing this so everyone can have more fun, so hop on over to the forum and get to posting! The community is small, but we’re all having a great time so far. We look forward to meeting you!
I’ve been wanting to write an article for some time now about why I have such enormous respect for Valve. It’s more the quality of their games. More than the fact that Steam is in my startup folder. Valve is recognizable as a force of good in the universe. So let’s discuss, shall we?
It feel so soon, but here we are already at the second Monday of March! It was really difficult to select games for this month, since I’ve almost exclusively been playing the Starcraft II beta. Anyway: I”ll be reviewing Aliens vs. Predator, Shattered Horizon, and the demo for Supreme Commander 2. Let’s kick this pig!
Hello again! It’s the first Saturday of March so that means another round of Indie games! Today I have some quick reviews for: Eversion, The Company of Myself, and Tower of Heaven! Read the rest of this entry
***UPDATE*** MAR 5th 1:33:08 PM These Images come from a program given by the old BBS pass/user combo plus a new pass/user combo found by the underlined text in the Steam News. It seems like it is over for now.
