Nuclear Dawn Website now offers a new
teaser trailer from this upcoming Source-engine shooter. The trailer concludes saying the game is due in September, with the accompanying update saying: "Nuclear Dawn will be released in September 2011. Which date, you ask? When it’s done, we say." They also say preorders of the game will commence as soon as July, and that pre-purchasers will gain closed beta access as soon as August. Thanks
Voodoo Extreme.
A new patch is now available for the Windows edition of
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, updating the game to version 1.040. Here's word on the fourth patch for the racing sequel: "This fixes a further 30% of the crashes that we have identified, which now brings us to a total of around 77% of known crashes fixed." The patch is available on the
Need for Speed Website, and it's mirrored on
GamePron,
Gamer's Hell, and
The Patches Scrolls. The full change list follows.
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The
Kali Website has word that the Kali tracker has moved to a non-standard port, and users of this old-school server tracker should configure it to look for "tracker.kali.net:2213." You hear so little about Kali these days that one would suspect this is an April Fools' joke, but the post is actually from a few weeks ago. Thanks
Ant.
There's a
Hawken interview on IGN talking with Khang Le and Jon Kreuzer of Adhesive Games about Hawken, their upcoming mech-themed shooter. They discuss the origins of the project, its visual inspirations, the story, mech types, mech upgrades, unlocks, keeping mechs operational, and more.
Here's Valve's report of the ten bestselling titles on their
Steam service for the week:
- Crysis 2
- Portal 2
- Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike Content Pack
- Total War: SHOGUN 2
- The Potato Sack
- Shift 2 Unleashed
- RIFT
- Darkspore
- Dragon Age II
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
As I mentioned when my hash browns did not come out right last week I Googled recipes to see what I did wrong, which is where I learned the shredded potatoes needed to be dried better. The tip I found said to use something called a potato ricer, which prompted me to ask Mrs Blue, "who on earth owns a potato ricer?" Her answer was that we do, and she proceeded to produce what looks like a giant garlic press. Properly equipped, I used this to squeeze the excess water from the potatoes as the recipe advises, and sure enough that made all the difference, and we enjoyed crispy hash browns with our eggs this morning. Potato ricer FTW.
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