Coffee and Video Games Go Together

May 2011 Xbox Games for Cheap Bastards #xbox360 #xbox

2011-05-08T21:53:00.001-05:00

Well the following bargain bin (less than $20) games are recommended games for the Xbox 360 if you have not already purchased them. Mass Effect 2 The block buster RPG/Shooter hybrid from last year, if you have not gotten it it’s time to purchase it now! Alan Wake Great Thriller/Survival horror story game. The story is great, I just hope they make a sequel to this one as it did

NoDo released for some AT&T Windows Phones

2011-04-27T23:51:00.001-05:00

Have not written much recently, AT&T finally released NoDo on April 19th for the Samsung Focus and LG Quantum … HTC Surround owners are still out in the cold. It’s a nice update and fixes some shortcomings like long app switching times, cut & paste and the horrible Marketplace search. Other features for AT&T customers is WISPr support so that you can connect automatically to an AT&T WiFi hotspot

I love my Windows Phone, but where’s the %!$& updates? #WP7 #windowsphone

2011-03-16T00:11:00.001-05:00

I love my windows phone, I think the UI is wonderful the live tiles are a great way of presenting information and the people & media hubs are great ideas. The only thing that has tarnished the Phone in my opinion is slow updates that is compounded by the fact that MS can’t get it straight as to when the first updates are going to be released … first it was January, then February then early

Winter Themed Wallpapers for Windows Phone 7

2011-01-18T22:49:00.003-06:00

I’ve made up some winter wallpapers for Windows Phone 7 from some pictures I took last January. You can download them and copy them to the phone using the Zune player. Windows Phone Winter Wallpapers

My Xbox Video Game picks for the 2010 Holiday Season

2010-12-13T22:35:00.002-06:00

My list of what games would be great gifts for someone special that is into playing video games on the Xbox 360. Most are Adult/Mature rated titles so keep that in mind when giving. Mass Effect 2 In my opinion one of the best shooter/RPG games out this year, you can play it as a shooter or you can play it more as a RPG it’s up to you based on the class you pick. Alan Wake Great

Alan Wake: The Writer DLC, good but short

2010-11-18T19:37:00.006-06:00

I've been meaning to write about "The Writer" DLC for Alan Wake, I bought it shortly after it was released, but been sinking alot of time into Halo: Reach multi-player that i have not gotten around to writing about it.The quality of the DLC is really good and it wraps up many (but not all) of the loose ends left by the ending of the game and "The Signal" DLC and definitely sets things up for Alan

I can’t wait for Alan Wake: The Writer DLC

2010-09-29T17:42:00.002-05:00

October 12th the DLC for Alan Wake “The Writer” is scheduled for release. This DLC will wrap up the Alan Wake story for now and there are no further plans for DLC. I plan on purchasing this DLC as soon as it’s released and will pray that a sequel/prequel will be release to continue the story.

I love Halo: Reach

2010-09-20T18:32:00.002-05:00

I’ve finished the single player Halo: Reach and am impressed with the good combination of solid game play and good story telling moments and some decent characters. The controls are responsive for a console game, I’ve been primarily a PC gamer, and the fact it takes a while to whittle down an opponent helps keep the frustration down. I especially liked the space combat portion, being an old

Well Halo: Reach will be released tomorrow!!

2010-09-13T22:06:00.002-05:00

Well the first Halo game I’ve purchased will be released tomorrow and it’s supposed to be waiting on my doorstep tomorrow. I’ve played the original Halo on the Xbox and was not impressed. I also have played co-op on Halo 3 on a friends copy, it was significantly better with somewhat sane controls and much improved graphics & environment. I’m was impressed by previews and pre-release reviews of

Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC for Mass Effect 2

2010-09-08T21:55:00.002-05:00

Downloaded the “Lair of the Shadow Broker” DLC for the 360, at 800 MSP it was a pretty pricy download, but it was a big DLC at 1.5GB. The game play was really good, there are two big bosses in the game. The big highlight to this DLC is having Liara as a squad mate and being able to continue a relationship if you had her as a Love Interest in the first game. The story elements fills in the

Alan Wake “The Signal” a great DLC

2010-08-10T21:56:00.001-05:00

I recently finished the first DLC for Alan Wake, titled “The Signal”. The DLC starts off shortly after defeating the dark presence where you find yourself in back in Bright Falls, but it’s a strangely distorted Bright Falls. It starts off like original game at the diner, but the situation veers off and your task is finding out what’s going on. Along the way Thomas Zane helps you out with clues

Next Mass Effect to get Multi-Player??

2010-06-02T18:15:00.003-05:00

According to this story on Gamespy BioWare Montreal is looking for a Lead Multiplayer Programmer “working on BioWare's top franchises”. Many people have interpreted the posting to indicate that Mass Effect 3 will have a multi-player component. Reading it it could be any one of BioWare’s franchises and not necessarily Mass Effect. It could be a game in the Mass Effect universe or one of BioWare’

Battlefield Bad Company 2, had promise failed on server browser and Content #BFBC2PC

2010-06-01T19:32:00.001-05:00

I was playing alot of BFBC2 on my PC, but between the constant server updates resetting servers to defaults, lack of content for Squad Death Match and the browser never quite seeming to work right on Windows 7 64bit I’ve mostly given up playing it. The game had much promise, but it gets boring playing the same handful of SDM maps over and over and over. I would be happy to play non-ranked if

Mass Effect 2: Those Minerals Rap Video #ME2

2010-04-19T19:18:00.001-05:00

One of the most boring parts of Mass Effect 2 ... searching for minerals

Major Nelson confirms USB Memory Support for Xbox 360

2010-03-26T08:31:00.002-05:00

Well Major Nelson officially confirms the USB Memory device support for storing profiles, save-games etc. 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. Still no confirmation on

Microsoft finally releases 250GB Hard Drive for #Xbox360 #xbox

2010-03-23T18:58:00.001-05:00

According to USA Today (and my Xbox dash board) MS has finally released a stand-alone 250GB hard drive for the 360. Well looks like the reason 120GB hard drives have been hard to find the past couple months is that MS was trying to clear out retailer stock and create some pent up demand for the 250GB hard drive. No the next question is when will MS release the update to enable the use of

Interesting option of Tali and Shepard romance option in #MassEffect2

2010-02-27T14:18:00.001-06:00

Just commenting on my prior blog post on Asharan’s Tali and Shepard – Space Age Fairytale video. First comment I have to reiterate is that it’s a really well and put together fan made video and the choice of Tori Amos’ “A Sorta Fairytale” for the music is perfect and doubly good choice of the simpler demo version (A Piano: The Collection – Disk 5 track 14). I find it interesting as to the

Terrific #MassEffect2 Music Video Tali & Shepard – Space Age Fairytale

2010-02-26T18:58:00.002-06:00

Asharan has made a terrific music video of Tali and Shepard. I’ve always been a great Tali fan since the original Mass Effect and bringing her and Garrus back was a great idea.

I’m counting the Hours till Mass Effect 2 is released #ME2 #MassEffect #xbox360 #PC

2010-01-16T13:35:00.001-06:00

I have not written much lately because things have been so busy with the holidays and also with a follow-on to one of my favorite games Mass Effect coming out in just a few days now I’ve been trying to get two more play-thoughs of Mass Effect and finish up some of the other games I’ve started so I can concentrate on Mass Effect 2. The SyFy channel will start airing Sci vs. Fi: Mass Effect 2

Unlike MW2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will not block Xbox Live party chat #BFBC2 #XboxLive

2009-12-09T19:39:00.001-06:00

Gamespy has and article up on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and how it won’t block Xbox Live Party Chat like Modern Warfare 2 does. I know there were a group of people that cheered the move by Infinity Ward as stopping cheating. Frankly never saw Party Chat cheating as an issue and I love taunting my friends when they are on the other team. Well I’m glad to see that another game is giving

Intel Larabee silicon won’t be coming

2009-12-06T11:21:00.001-06:00

According to this CNET article while Intel has not outright killed Larabee and will be releasing a SKD for Larabee sometime next year, there is no word if or when actual silicon will be released. Larabee was Intel’s take on creating a GPU with functional units based on a modified x86 core with a vector unit attached for doing graphics and other FPU intensive applications. On paper the

I like the updated 1 vs 100 on the #xbox360 on #xboxlive

2009-11-20T14:45:00.001-06:00

Played the new 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live last night, was happily supprised at the changes that I saw as I expected it to be more or less exactly the same as last seasons. The changes that I personally notice were You can now get Achievements and Gamerscore for playing the game. You unlock new avatar dances as you level up based on your score for the season. Improved how the scoring when

Been playing Borderlands for #xbox360 on #xboxlive

2009-11-20T09:07:00.001-06:00

I have not posted anything lately because I’ve been busy using all my free time playing Borderlands. I did not buy it immediately when it came out as I was not sure that I would like the game, but after looking at some of the playthroughs and official reviews I decided to do something I don’t often do and that is to buy it at full released price rather than waiting a year for the price to drop

Microsoft raises the ban hammer on Memory Units #xbox360 #xboxlive #datel

2009-10-27T19:41:00.001-05:00

A few weeks ago I had almost bought a Datel 2GB unit so I could keep copies of my game saves after accidentally deleting them for a game I was playing off the hard drive. Finding the official memory units, for me at least is kinda hard. I live in a small town and the two nearest Wallmarts don't have them, heck they don’t even have places for them with the xbox accessories anymore. The

Most PC gamers don’t understand Servers #MW2 #PC #infinityward #modernwarefare2

2009-10-23T21:40:00.002-05:00

I was on the forums of somebody that runs a server and they were talking to one of their friends on steam and they did not care if Modern Warfare 2 servers were dedicated or not and all that they cared about was "Hey, I don't care if the servers are dedicated or not as long as I can play on your sniper server" That surprised some people on the forums, but from first hand experience I can state

No reprieve for #ModernWarfare2 for the PC #IW #MW2 #COD

2009-10-20T20:16:00.001-05:00

Well reading this article with an official response and this blog posting by FourZeroTwo it looks PC gamers wanting dedicated server support are not going to get it. Reading both of the articles it I'm starting to think that they see what they are doing as being the savior of PC gaming by making it more console like. It’s cutting off your nose to spite your face, destroying what makes PC gaming

No dedicated servers or mod tools for COD:MW2 #MW2 #COD #ModernWarfare2 #IW

2009-10-19T23:13:00.001-05:00

Well this week is becoming replete with gaming companies doing things to piss-off their users. First it’s Microsoft readying a mandatory update to kill non-Microsoft memory units, now Activision and Infinity Ward is basically trying to kill off the existing PC gaming community and replacing it with something different. The news was broken to PC gamers by FourZeroTwo at Bash & Slash that there

Next #XBOX360 update to disable unauthorized storage devices I may go #PS3

2009-10-16T22:31:00.001-05:00

According to this tweet.. majornelson Using an unauthorized memory unit in your #Xbox360? You'll want to read my latest blog post: http://bit.ly/3QhY3D The blog post then goes on to say.. Don’t use unauthorized Xbox 360 Storage Devices When Preview Program members start receiving the Xbox 360 system update next week, one of the changes is that unauthorized Memory Units will no longer

hmpf PC troubles have me down

2009-09-30T16:11:00.000-05:00

PC troubles have got me down as of late. I have an updated video card, but I'm still having issues, just different issues than I had before. I've gotten way behind on my twitter and blog posts, don't know when I'll be able to get back to them as I've yet to determine if it's a software issue or hardware issue that is causing the problems. I restored an image back to August, before I had

HOWTO: Fix for Pinnacle Station for Mass Effect Platinum Edition now available on Xbox Live

2009-09-23T12:33:00.002-05:00

The title update to fix the issue with Pinnacle Station on the Platinum Hits version of Mass Effect is now on Xbox Live. What has people confused is it's not a title update for the game, but the Bonus Content disk, so people that are checking the game to see if there are updates are not seeing the updates. The steps needed to activate the fix that I figured out myself. Go into system

I’m tempted to purchase an Antec Mini P180 from Newegg with #freeshipping

2009-09-22T20:34:00.001-05:00

Newegg has free shipping on an Antec Mini P180 MicroATX case. It’s looks like a pretty sweet case and I’ve been tempted to start building a new gaming rig seeing mine is 2 1/2 years old now. I’ve been planning on building a MicroATX based system for my next rig as it’s getting to the point you don’t need as many slots (unless you want to run Crossfire or SLI) as everything except video is built

Xbox 360 ODST “Prepare to Drop” Premium Theme free for Xbox Live Gold Members #xbox360 #halo #xboxlive #halo

2009-09-22T19:46:00.001-05:00

Well according to the following tweet … @majornelson Gold Members can download the #FREE Halo 3: #ODST theme for their #Xbox360 this week only. Grab it now: http://bit.ly/YfSTU from @majornelson an ODST premium theme is available for download for free for all Xbox Live Gold members. I’ve downloaded it and installed it and it’s better than most free themes in that it’s more than a

Halo 3: ODST hmmmmm $60??? don’t think so. #xbox360 #halo

2009-09-21T21:52:00.001-05:00

Listening/reading of the reviews of ODST and thinking I’ll keep my $60 as I’m not a Halo fanboi and the shortness of the single player campaign I’m going to pass on this till the price drops down to what is reasonable for a add-on pack as it seams to be. Gamespot gives a pretty glowing review of the game, does not mention the shortness of the single player campaign and primarily focuses on the

Wedl’s Hamburger Stand in Jefferson Wisconsin

2009-09-18T13:32:00.005-05:00

I was traveling through Jefferson today and was getting a bit hungry for something to eat. I remembered that I used to stop in at a hamburger stand on the corner of Racine& & Center streets called Armstrong’s that had some of the most delicious burgers I’ve tasted. The stand is there but it’s changed hands and is now Wedl's Hamburger Stand, but other than that not much has changed. View

Pinnacle Station patch for Mass Effect on Xbox 360 finally passed certification for Xbox Live

2009-09-17T19:42:00.003-05:00

According to this post on the BioWare forums Mass Effect Platinum Hits owners will FINALLY be able to play the Pinnacle Station with their existing characters that they have played Bring Down the Sky with. Now for the downside, the patch probably won’t be available till Sept 21. The reason given on the BioWare forum is that Xbox Live only schedules certain update types at certain times and the

Purchased a Chatpad for my Xbox 360

2009-09-17T19:26:00.003-05:00

Just purchased the Xbox Live, Project Gotham Racing and Chatpad combo. I mostly purchased it for the Chatpad and the Xbox Live 12 months. As far as the chatpad goes, I think it’s pretty sweet. I do like the feedback of the buttons, they are spaced far enough apart so I don’t have problems hitting multiple buttons at the same time. The backlight is pretty nice along with the messenger button

Yeah GoTY edition of Fallout 3 coming for Xbox 360

2009-09-17T17:53:00.002-05:00

According to Gamespot Bethesda Softworks will be releasing the Game of The Year edition of Fallout 3 on October 13th!! I’ve been holding out buying the game and DLC till the GoTY edition comes out as I can get the whole shebang for a heck of a lot less than I would have if I purchased it when it first came out … I’m really cheap!! Multi-player games are a bit different as if you don’t join in

Game play footage of Modern Warfare 2 posted on Gametailers.com

2009-09-16T22:09:00.003-05:00

Gametrailers.com has posted some new game play footage from Tuesday night’s press event showing off Modern Warfare 2 multi-player game play. All looks pretty good to me!!!

Looks like no 250GB drive for Xbox 360 owners for now

2009-09-16T21:56:00.004-05:00

According to Gamespot and Joystiq Microsoft has no immediate plans on selling a 250GB add-on drive for 360 owners. A bit of a disappointment, but eventually they will have to offer larger upgrade drives if they expect their Games on Demand and other DLC to keep moving forward.

A Modern Warfare 2 edition of the 360 will be released November with ME2

2009-09-15T22:20:00.001-05:00

According to @majornelson and @IGNcom Microsoft will be releasing Limited Edition Xbox 360 Modern Warfare themed and will include the game for $399, features include… Modern Warfare 2 themed appearance 250GB Hard Drive Two Controllers Of course the Modern Warfare 2 game Not sure if I’m crazy for the price, but the hard drive size has me interested along with the paint job (silk

Xbox Live hawking Mass Effect Pinnacle Station content to people who already purchased it.

2009-09-12T11:54:00.002-05:00

Well to add insult to injury to people who purchased the Mass Effect Pinnacle Station DLC are receiving marketing emails from Xbox Live trying to sell them the new content. This is really a slap to us who can’t play it because they have the Platinum Hits Edition of Mass Effect Come on Microsoft, you use my gamertag to send the message and so your *should* already know that I purchased the

New Intel Core i5 750 Pushes AMD out of mid-range Systems

2009-09-11T19:02:00.002-05:00

Looking at the benchmarks on Tom’s Hardware of the new Intel LGA 1156 processors it looks like AMD’s top of the line Phenom II X4 965 BE can’t keep up with the i5 750 and currently costs significantly more. With the new Intel CPUs it looks like AMD CPUs will be relegated to the low (sub $700) end of the gaming PC market and the $800 on up gaming PC market is dominated in the new i5 & i7 in the

After 2 1/2 weeks no Resolution for the Mass Effect Platinum Hits and Pinnacle Station Problem

2009-09-11T13:19:00.002-05:00

Actually it’s gotten rather ridiculous that after more than two weeks there still is no resolution for the the conflict in the Platinum Hits version of Bring Down the Sky and Pinnacle Station from Xbox Live. What is really bad is that supposedly there is a fix that the Xbox Live Support people can give out and apparently they are not doing for whatever reason. The real kicker is that there is

Blog Consolidation

2009-09-04T17:44:00.002-05:00

I've consolidated a couple blogs I used to run into this and now I have content going back to 2003 if you really wish to read it. The biggest headache was importing the posts from a custom blogging application I wrote back to 2003 when I was running game servers and I wanted to post gaming clan news. The clan's site is The Fragaholic now run by Goatboy and while nobody plays together much

Still waiting on fix for Pinnacle Station

2009-09-02T23:19:00.001-05:00

Well over a week on and still no fix for Pinnacle Station purchasers that want to use it with the Bring Down the Sky in the Platinum Hits version of the game. Apparently there is a fix that is being qualified by Microsoft so the issue may be resolved soon, but it’s been a very frustrating time for people on the forums, especially the Xbox Live forums where there has been no official word

Still No Pinnacle Station Joy for Platinum Owners

2009-08-28T18:33:00.001-05:00

On the BioWare forums a message was issued that a fix has been released a fix for the PC version and that Xbox Live support should have a work around for the Platinum Hits edition owners. Well apparently Xbox Live support knows nothing of the fix to the consternation of the BioWare support people and it still appears to be a major mess that will not be resolved for a few days at least because of

XBOX 360 Price Drops

2009-08-27T10:14:00.001-05:00

Microsoft has posted a $100 price drop on the Elite system, bringing the cost down to $299. The price on the Pro system will be dropping to $249 “while supplies last” that indicates to me that they will be dropping the Pro system and just have the Arcade & Elite systems going forward. With the new pricing it makes little sense for the Pro system to exist and 60GB gets used up pretty quickly

No Pinnacle Station joy for Mass Effect Platinum Hits owners

2009-08-25T21:36:00.001-05:00

Pinnacle Station DLC was just released for Xbox 360 and being a Mass Effect Fan (I’ve played through 3 times on PC and just started on Xbox) I purchased it. Now starts my tale of woe as apparently the add-on is not compatible with the version of Bring Down the Sky add on that is included with the Platinum Hits version of Mass Effect and the only fix currently is to pay for and download the

August 11, 2009 Xbox 360 Dashboard Update

2009-08-11T22:06:00.001-05:00

Well just got done looking at the new dashboard update to the 360 and about the only things that interest me currently are the following… User Ratings It’s nice that people can rate the games and other content on the Marketplace and you can get an idea if the game (especially Indy Games, formerly known as Community Games) is worth spending money on. Games on Demand This could be a

Finished Gears & Gears 2

2009-08-09T16:23:00.001-05:00

I liked both games … they had a decent story line to go with what you were doing unlike some other UE3 Epic game I will not name. The only part I felt let down was the ending of taking the Brumak into the hollow and later blowing it up was way too easy. It has been confirmed that a Gears base movie is in the works, Hopefully it fares better than most game based movies. Gears has several good

I’ve Recently Gotten an XBOX 360

2009-07-25T16:51:00.001-05:00

I have a confession, while I’ve been a PC gamer for most my life, my wife recently purchased an XBOX for me. Now I’ve owned other consoles, the last I really put any significant time into was a Sega Genesis. I started out in PC gaming way back in ‘78 playing rip-offs of arcade games. My PC gaming went though several computer generations Ohio Scientific Challenger, C64, Turbo XT, Turbo AT, etc

No Unreal Tournament “For Several Years”

2009-07-25T16:17:00.001-05:00

I’m a bit disappointed by Tim Sweeney’s remark in an interview with G4tv that there are no plans to release a new version of Unreal Tournament in the near future. While I was not a big fan of the original Unreal Tournament (I was into Decent 3 and Quake II online at the time), I did like UT2K3 and UT2K4, and think they messed it up in UT3 when they toned down the game play and seriously messed

Wow, long time no post

2009-07-24T09:53:00.000-05:00

It’s been almost a year since I’ve last posted on my blog … apparently nothing has made me really want to post. I’ve been playing a lot of games (WaW, COD4, Gears, Plants vs Zombies). My favorite game and a great time sink every time I try it is Plants vs Zombies … simple but addictive. Other things I’ve been playing with is Windows 7, I’ve actually been fairly well impressed, and I am using

The new Microsoft commercials WTF???

2008-09-20T08:47:00.000-05:00

I guest I don't get it or I'm not cool or something but I don't get the Microsoft commercials with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld ... all I can say is WTF??The newer "I'm a PC" commercials are not much better, but at least the message they are trying to project is fairly clear.Microsoft has done much better in the past with their commercial from about a year and a half ago.That one gives me the

CoD4 Rocks

2008-06-14T10:41:00.000-05:00

Well Unreal Tournament 3 seems to be going down the tubes, at least the PC version. There is a major lack of players and really the UT99 players don't like it because it's not UT99 and the UT2K4 players don't like it because it's too different as far as weapons balance goes. I personally like it, but there is nobody I know playing it so the network effect is pulling me to CoD4 where people I

OMFG - UMG SUCKS!!!

2008-05-23T22:12:00.000-05:00

Edited June 14th, Weezer is not getting any more free advertisement because UMG has blocked embedding the video, so they suck.

Raptor's Editorial about the future of Unreal Tournament

2008-03-28T19:28:00.000-05:00

Raptor over at planetunreal has posted an editorial about the future of Unreal Tournament.His points are all valid in that the main point being how Epic has failed to deliver on the game that they were hyping when they started development. Gone was the Conquest mode and many of the cool features the game was supposed to have and the in depth single player mode. He does not really give much of

WOW some time since I've posted last

2008-03-27T13:24:00.000-05:00

Been a long time since I've posted last ... part of that is I've been busy playing UT3 and ET:QW. UT3 is still my favorite game to play, I love the pace and action of both VCTF and WAR game styles. Quake Wars is also a good game and nice for a change now and then. I've been considering playing COD4 and it probably will replace my alternative to UT3 when I want something slower paced.On the

Unreal Tournament 3

2007-12-08T10:22:00.000-06:00

Well between the demo version and the final version I've played about 100 hours of UT3 ... over-all I think its a good game and most the changes are for the positive. Of the things that they are fixing is increasing the amount of damage that shock, rockets and flak do to Mantas & Vipers. This is a seriously needed change as if you are on foot you are pretty defenseless against both vehicles,

nVidia 8800GT is out in stores now

2007-10-29T21:49:00.000-05:00

Well the 8800GT 512MB is officially out now and looking at benchmarks from respectable sources it looks like the 8800GT is about 20% or faster than the 8800GTS and in some benchmarks almost matches the 8800GTX because of the faster stock shader speed than either the GTS or GTX combined with a price of about $250 dollars is incredible bang for the buck right now.The only time the 8800GT start to

UT3 Demo on Friday

2007-10-10T21:55:00.000-05:00

According to Robert at Voodoo Extreme the Unreal Tournament Demo will be released Friday. I know I can hardly wait!Also it sounds like a demo for UT3 is in the works too according to Icculus' finger.Icculus' finger also indicates that there may be a Linux version for GoW also ... extremely cool.

Still waiting for UT3

2007-10-09T23:10:00.000-05:00

Well the estimated release date for the game is Nov 12th now and Epic is releasing a Beta Demo somewhere from two day to the infamous "two weeks". All I know is I'm chomping at the bit for the demo to be released!I've been playing the ET:QW demo for the past few weeks to kill time, but it won't be getting any more of my time once the UT3 demo is released.

Online Product Activation gone Wrong

2007-08-29T21:12:00.000-05:00

Well it looks like we have recently had a spat of troubles with people being able to validate and install to major products online ... the new game BioShock and Microsoft Office & Windows.Of the two problems the most troubling is the issue with Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage server flagging systems as being invalid installs that had were genuine and had validated in the past. Many

Still Waiting for UT3

2007-07-24T22:59:00.000-05:00

Still waiting for Unreal Tournament 3 to show up ... Epic is saying the PC version will be released November. I guess only being one year after your expected release date is not so bad ... just look at Duke Nuke-Em Forever.

What to do if your bored and playing UT2004

2006-09-07T17:30:00.001-05:00

I guess this is what you do when your bored of playing ut2004.

New UT2007 Trailer Video

2006-09-04T16:48:00.001-05:00

The following is the latest video released by Epic for the upcomming PC/PS3/360 title.

No Unreal Trournament 2007 till 2007

2006-08-05T11:55:00.002-05:00

Well it looks like 2K7 won`t be delivered till the first half of 2007 according to this article. Now it appears that this year, Unreal fans will be feeling a sense of déjà vu vis-à-vis the latest installment in the series. Today, representatives for Midway Games, which took over Unreal publishing duties from Atari in July 2004, announced that Unreal Tournament 2007 will not be released in time

How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All

2006-07-08T04:28:00.001-05:00

Somebodyrecently pointed out this little article and it strikes me as being right on so I decided to post it here Unplugged: How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All By Robert X. Cringely OCTOBER 23, 2003 This week, speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said some fascinating things about Linux and about Open Source software in

New UT2004 Linux Patch Available

2005-12-03T04:35:00.001-06:00

From: Ryan C. Gordon Reply-To: ut2004servers@udn.epicgames.comTo: ut2004servers@udn.epicgames.comSubject: [ut2004servers] Official Linux 3369 patch...Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:33:12 -0500 (00:33 CST) x86 and amd64 Linux binaries, client and server: http://treefort.icculus.org/ut2004/ut2004-lnxpatch3369.tar.bz2 Go get 'em. Please mirror, but that URL can be posted publically as well.

Software List for Better Computing

2005-09-18T16:13:00.001-05:00

The following is from http://ehoffmann.blogsome.com/2005/09/13/sofware-list-for-a-better-computing/ I'm making a copy of it here since the site appears to have disappeared. Sofware List for a Better Computing September 13, 2005 7-Zip - File archiver (Open Source). Ad-Aware - Deletes unwanted Software ATnotes - Stickies for your Desktop (Freeware) Avast Anti-Virus - One of the best Virus

Tech Shows for FREE!!!

2005-09-12T12:19:00.001-05:00

Following is a list of tech shows available for free download.... http://www.filefarmer.com/techshows/

CentOS 4 Released

2005-03-02T15:10:00.001-06:00

Well my current favorite Linux distro for server just released CentOS 4 see http://www.centos.org/. In case you don't know CentOS is based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is compatible with packages and applications built for RHEL. I'm not affilated with CentOS or the developers, I just use and really like their OS.

I'm still alive

2004-12-05T14:24:00.001-06:00

Just a note that I'm still alive ... just have not posted anything recently

UT2004 Patch 3323 is official

2004-09-13T14:39:00.001-05:00

From: Steve Polge Subject: [ut2004servers] UT2004 Patch 3323 is official Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:43:27 -0400 Epic Games is releasing patch version 3323 as the fourth official patch for Unreal Tournament.com. This is identical to the beta 3323 we released earlier. You can download the windows version from ----------- url withheld ----------- Please mirror it, and don't provide public links to

Better Late than Never

2004-08-31T07:48:00.001-05:00

Ryan Gordon has posted the fixed UT2004 linux 3270 patch. Initial reports are good that this fixes the instagib bug on the client side.From: Ryan C. Gordon To: ut2004@icculus.orgSubject: [ut2004] 3270.1 PatchDate: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:48:44 -0400Hey, better late than never.http://0day.icculus.org/ut2004/ut2004lnxpatch3270-1.tar.bz2x86 and amd64 binaries included.--ryan. Mirrors available are:

Well what now?

2004-07-26T11:49:00.001-05:00

Well the new server has been running rather well so far ::knocks on wood::. I guess the next this is to update the code and add features to it. This little news bulletin is nice, but having a links section and a real stories section would be wonderful heh?

Move finally complete WOOHOO!!!

2004-06-25T16:28:00.001-05:00

Finally have a server in place and running!! This was a much more painful transition than I imagined it could be. I ended up rebuilding the hardware and part of the problems I found after much research was that the model of network card we were using in the server was less than totally reliable (issues with early 3c59x and 3c90x cards). That is finally figured out so hopefully things are

UT2003.SUBSOLAR.COM moving

2004-05-19T16:02:00.001-05:00

This web page will be moving to a new home shortly and the new address will be http://unreal.subsolar.com/.

Two new server added to server list.

2004-05-18T14:53:00.001-05:00

I've added two new servers to the server list on this site. ut2004://205.206.12.134:7777/ {SBD} Goat's UT2004 Server - Edmonton, AB ut2004://24.170.25.23:8410/ <::>MiSSiPPi_ROADKILL

Some news and links to UT2004 Downloads

2004-03-27T04:40:00.001-06:00

Well some new news and to sum up some useful information . . . Epic Games has announced that they will be merging with Scion Studios, whose founder was lead designer for America's Army which used the unreal engine. The press release can be found here. Does anybody besides me remember when they were known as "Epic Mega Games"? I've still have copies of Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball. Links

Links for UT2004 Admins

2004-03-19T14:30:00.001-06:00

Server INI reference: http://www.unrealadmin.org/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=37 Command Line options: http://www.unrealadmin.org/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=38 Also of note is the fact that ATARI will start renting servers on a month to month basis starting 3/22 according to this article. -subsolar

UT2004 Retail On the Way

2004-03-15T14:41:00.001-06:00

UT2004 Full version has been released along with the retail dedicated server. I'm downloading the server as I type this on this server and will install it as soon as I get my copy!! Pretty hefty download of 777MB!!! Should take me a 8 hours to download at 30-40KB a second. Download your copy by following the link in this story. If you have bittorrent installed you can download it and spread

UT2004 Gone Gold!!

2004-03-05T04:34:00.002-06:00

According to this story, UT2004 is going gold ... can't wait for my pre-order to arrive!! LOS ANGELES – March 4, 2004 – Atari and Epic Games are pleased to announce that development is complete on Unreal® Tournament 2004, the highly anticipated follow-up to last year’s smash Unreal Tournament 2003 and the third installment in the mega-selling Unreal Tournament franchise. The game is expected

TDM results

2004-02-23T12:14:00.001-06:00

Well, our first competitive TDM went off without a hitch (we won).The HTM hosted server had plenty of bandwidth to allow 6 spectators...a very cool thing.We hope to have a rematch soon!

Upcoming TDM - THIS SUNDAY!!

2004-02-17T07:00:00.001-06:00

From Steve's Message..... Hello ladies and gentlemen, As you know we have a TDM game this Sunday (2/22) versus the HTM clan.They're much like us: very varied in skill and out to have fun. Anyway, I have made a couple of decisions I hope will make this an easyexperience. 1) We will play ALL of our games on one server: the HTM server(unreal://215.15.144.29:7777)2) Whoever can play will play;

UT2004 Demo Game server

2004-02-11T16:52:00.001-06:00

I've setup a UT2004 Game Demo server at 67.39.230.157:6666 try it out and let me know. This server is running on the same box as my regular UT2003 server, so hopefully I won't get too many players on both at the same time. sub Updated Feb 12, 2004 13:03:I've just added it to the server list so you can see who's there and enabled built-in voice chat support for anybody that wants to try it.

Our first competitive match!!!

2004-02-10T10:18:00.001-06:00

We have a Team Deathmatch game setup for Sunday, February 22nd versus the fellas at the {HTM} clan. We've never played competitively before nor have we practiced TDM before, so this should be interesting ;-) If you have questions about playing or scheduling e-mail me at steve dot denver at comcast dot net.More information is located here. SJAndrew

STNY Permanently offline :^(

2004-02-06T14:30:00.001-06:00

Well unfortunately for the UT2003 gaming community stny appears to be permanently off line, apparently due to unthoughtful people complaining about the service. Taken from http://ut2k3maps.gaming.stny.com/: I have had to take down the UT2k3 Map redirection service. I do not have the time to maintain it. And no one has stepped forward to volunteer to help code what needed to be done. And I

Teamspeak Server Address Change

2003-12-31T12:53:00.001-06:00

I have discontinued the Teamspeak server that was hosted at Online Stomping Grounds and have setup a new one I am hosting myself. The new server address is at teamspeak.subsolar.com:9999 with the same anonymous access password as the old one. Because the server uses a newer audio compression format than the OSG one you may need to upgrade your client to connect to it. You can download the new

Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, Whatever!!

2003-12-24T15:10:00.001-06:00

Merry Newtonsday / Christmas / Midwinter / Winter Solstice / Yule to all UT2003 players and their families. Oh, and for those who are really computer geeks and sometimes forget what radix to work in, Happy Halloween too (DEC 25 = OCT 31, of course :-))

Changing the look of the website slightly

2003-12-24T10:07:00.001-06:00

I've just finished my initial update of the website and switching from the mixed html table & cascading style sheet layout to one that is based on just cascading style sheets. There still is some cruft on a couple of the pages like the server list. Since I'm planning on updating the code so that there are less bits to cause issues, I'll be working on that next. I'm planning on doing some more

{SBD}Marius's web site is online

2003-12-22T06:58:00.001-06:00

Marius' web site is now online, you can reach it by http://users.adelphia.net/~vamhks1/, check it out once you get a chance. You should also check out SJ's site at http://home.comcast.net/~steve.denver/.

Hap's Server is Very popular

2003-12-17T18:04:00.001-06:00

Check out here: http://www.ut2003server.com/ It appears to be a list of popular servers. Hap's server made it! Oh, to have a commercial connection too ;-)

DOOM is 10 years old

2003-12-17T17:30:00.001-06:00

Well for all you that started playing the game that started the multi-player first person shooter DOOM is 10 years old! Ten years ago last week, id Software released version 1.0 of DOOM Episode 1: Knee Deep in the Dead. I remember playing this with a null-modem cable at work with a buddy since at that time did not have a network at work but we wanted to try it out. The graphics (just bloops from