Starcraft 2 Beta

Well we all know the hype with the beta, and guess what. I'm in! So it took some time but I got in and I was so excited. So I figured go online and use my skill from Company of Heroes, Warcraft 3, Red Alert 2 and 3, and Starcraft 1 to kick some butt! Well, thats what I figured anyway. Got on chose to play Terran after creating my account, joined a matchmaking practice game almost immediately. So trained some SCVs got some vespene when 20 zerglings ran into my base killed my SCVs and I lost. Woah. Rushed. I guess I really need to get better! Haha feel free to hit me up for a game on Starcraft! (Shawnsey/ MadMonkey199@gmail.com)

APB you are my bestest friend.

Well, lets just stop all obsessing over old MMOs like World of Warcraft and Everquest. Experience the new best MMO experience out there! Team up with friends and play All Points Bulletin! A new game featuring a 3rd person view on crime! Choose to play as an enforcer (Cop) or a criminal. Rule the city as you complete missions  get better weapons, cars, and clothes!

Well that pretty much sums it up but let me tell you about my experiences with my brother. We teamed up to take down some enforcers as we were hardy criminals. Me (MadMonkey) with my SMG and my bro (Lapig) was using a burst sniper rifle. So we got a mission to steal some documents. We figured we would be up against some NPCs and all of the normal stuff in a MMO. We were wrong. We hoped in our van and drove off to the building we needed to burgle. I stayed in the car leaning out ready to shoot any enforcers trying to stop us. Suddenly after my brother got the documents we were told enforcers have been dispatched out to stop us! We quickly hoped into our car to drive to the drop off point. Suddenly as we pass a road a enforcer truck flies out with a man with a gun leaning out the window! My brother swerves as I shoot back at the car! They move up to ram us and I spray across the hood of there car causing it to burst into flames and explode as they jump out!

We get to the drop off point just to learn its the wrong documents!  We need to go get the real ones from a enforcer base. We drive off towards it and get up on a highway that leads us right to the new documents. He gets out and stays up high to snipe and I jump down as he spots enforcers and guns one down. I rush up with my SMG to finish off the other one! Once we get the documents were told to hold the area. We wait watching where we expect the enforcers to come from. Yet suddenly fro behind I get gunned down. I tell my brother the areas being compromised and he watches and snipes as I rush back after I revived. I get back just in time to take back the area when the clock expires! We did it. We won. What you ask? Well some money to spend on some guns, and clothes, and even cars!

Best iPod Games?

Well, my last post was about iPods too but, heck, I don't care I'm high off my iPod so I just cant help it! So, here is my top five list of iPod and iPhone games! (In no particular order)

1. Lux DLX  (An extremely fun risk clone with many maps and settings to toy with!)

2. Warpgate ( Imagine a singleplayer EVE for iPod.)

3. Jet Car Stunts (cant help to imagine Track Mania Nations Forever here, fast car and extreme stunts.)

4.  Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars (Well, Im pretty sure you guys already know this but... Explore your bad side as you become the gangster you've always wanted to be.)

5.  Touch Grind (Like to Tech Deck, well this is for you. Like to skateboard, well this is for you. Like to impress people with your iPod, this is for you! Grind, ollie, and kickflip you're brains out!)

Ipod jailbreak

Wow, iPod touch's are fun, a jailbroken one is even better! Oh the fun of customizing with themes or the freedom of doing whatever you want. Of course not pirating apps, thats bad. Although bad completely easy with Instalous! So, how do you jailbreak your 3rd Gen iPod? Easy with Spirit Jailbreak released quite recently, you simply plug in and click a small box that says "Jailbreak"! Could it get any easier! In no times you can have a rainbow iPod or small Windows 7 look alike!

Steam

Well, any computer oriented player can skip this article if ya want, pretty much just me wanting to educate those who don't play on PC about this wonderful tool and how its WAAAAY better then PS3 Live and Xbox Live. I just get annoyed as X-Box players and the alike all tend to say "You cant talk to friends on computer" or "Achievements are not on computer" Ugh....

Anyway for my first point. Pros of using Steam.

1.Purchase any PC game through steam not just X-Box classics or anything else.

2. Free weekend games! Not just free live, the game, for FREE. (Suck on that X-Box)

3. Steam VOIP (Voice over IP)

4. Steam achievements. (Okay, not in every game but suck it up.)

5.VAC (Valve anti-cheat on some games)

6. Time in game logs. (Yes, I do want to watch my one hundredth hour in Arma II get logged!)

7. Source mods on steam! (Own a source game, your in luck... unless its for X-box....)

8. Demo's for amazing games!

9.Groups to join!

10. Its free.

11. More and more and more sweet features.

Well now to cons using steam.

1. Although there is VOIP it sucks, lagggggy.

2. The in game steam interface can interfere or cause anti-cheats to go crazy.

Thats pretty much all there is to it. It can do all the things you X-box and PS3 fanboys love, and more!

Fallout 3 and my moding experience!

Well Fallout 3 certaintly was an AMAZING game, it featured a vast wasteland to explore and many quests to fulfill! From the creators of Oblivion, Bethesda came this epic tale of defeat, sorrow, and triumph. From leaving the vault to finding the water purifier you enjoy a rich RPG experience!

So, what could possibly make this game better? Well, what makes any computer game better? Mods, mods, oh and mods. Similar to Oblivion thousands of mods are freely availible to download from entire Fallout overhaul (FOOK) to small mods to simply replace the body wich are still so popular (Type 3)! So of course like any naturaly curious person I download a couple... hundred mods. With thousands of save games and 200+ hours I constanly tried new mods! Or maybe I would want to play the game a specific way like as a stealth sniper or maybe a rocket launcher baring explosive genius! Whatever I wanted I could mod the game to play that way!

Well, I did and I played, and played until one day I had 25 GB left on my 255 GB hard drive... went and checked my Fallout 3 Data folder and clicked properties. It slowley went up, 400 MB, 1GB, 2 GB, 10 GB, 30 GB, 80 GB. Oh crap! Figured I had played enough of Fallout 3 I decided I should clear it out... Went through deleting things to return it back to vanilla Fallout 3. I was following a guide telling about how you only needed some a few folders, the others were just for mods. After finishing up I didnt play for another 2 months. I came back hoping to get some more fill of Fallout 3 the other day, some sweet RPG FPS blendeed action. I didnt. I clicked the Fallout3.exe and the window opens, the intro plays, and BOOM crash. EVERY TIME, crashed. A fatal error every time.

So, googled around, checked the Fallout 3 Nexus, and learned some bad news. I deleted a relativly important file. Fallout3.esm, the file that only just powers the entire Fallout 3 game. So, I wasnt sure where my disks were and it was against the TOS  to redownload the file anywhere. Well, lessoned learned, ALWAYS back up your games! Especially before modding!

Call of Duty: Black Ops

So, the new Call Of Duty has been officially announced. We now know the rumors and the speculation around it is true, It will be in the era of the Vietnam and Cold War. Its title will be Call of Duty: Black Ops. Personally I hate this title, seems like their trying to get people to like it due to the extreme popularity of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2's Special Operation missions or Spec Ops for short.

From the trailer there looks to be jungle combat, flying missions, snow, villages, and everything else. Altough what is quite unexpected is the clock in the hospital clearly states the year is 2010. Does this mean some modern combat or is this just for the story? Who knows!

The New Darth.

So, after Darth Andeddu, Darth Vitus , Darth Revan, Darth Revan , Darth Malak , Darth Voren , Darth Bandon, Darth Glovoc, Darth Traya, Darth Nihilus , Darth Sion, and more. We finally arive to Darth Malgus. He is the evil sith lord of the new Star Wars MMO, Star Wars the Old Republic.

This new installment in the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic series is bound to blow people away! I am currently eagerly waiting for my copy of the beta though...

Anyway, back to the point. Darth Malgus will actually be getting his own book. It is titled Deceived and will be written by Paul S. Kemp. The author behind the book Star Wars: Crosscurrent.

Warcraft 3 is Risk.

So, every gamer should know about Warcraft, whether its World Of Warcraft or the classic RTS that started it all! And to no gamer surprise people still play the classic RTS version. Although the last installment was released way back in 2003, many players still play it, including me! I love the game and have played it since 2004!

The best part for me is the custom games and maps! Sure, you can play it as a RTS or... a TD, DotA, Risk,Loap, whatever you want! Due to custom maps! The one I want to talka about now is Risk.

This great maps transforms the game into the classic Risk board game! The map, Risk Next Gen was created by PsycoMarauder and is a popular host in online custom  games. The game play is turn based. Kind of. You get income at the end of each turn and more units based on countries and cities you own. While you can control movements in real time economics, cities, and countries are based on the minute turns. This makes for some strategic game play such as taking one city in each country right before the timer ends, severely limiting your opponents income that turn.

If you dont own Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne, pick it up. No matter the price!

People care for you Halo 2.

Its so nice to see people care, especially about halo 2. Fourteen dedicated player have kept their big black xboxes connected to the internet and on, playing their favorite game. It was 12 days ago live was supposed to be shut down! Overheating and dropped internet connections are slowly eating away at the people trying to save it.

As of writing, the final 14 are: Agent Windex, APACHE N4SIR, sherlok 1, SieferSword, Rob2D, Detenn, z0mbie stench, Lord Odysseus11, xxMAKDADYxx, H2o Shoagie, xxBooker Dxx, DirtyCajun, AForeignObject and HiredN00bs.

I wish you all my personal luck!