A double XP weekend is now underway for
Call of Duty: Black Ops, which will run through Tuesday morning. Here's word:
To celebrate their 10 millionth Facebook fan milestone, Treyarch is hosting a Double XP multiplayer weekend starting now and extending it through 8:00am Pacific, Tuesday, May 10. Anyone playing in multiplayer matches of Call of Duty: Black Ops will earn double XP rewards and level up.
A new
video developer diary for
From Dust discusses the art direction of Ubisoft's upcoming sandbox simulation. The clip shows off the look of the game, while a robotic narrator discusses the art's influences and a bit about gameplay. The clip is embedded below.
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"Finally got around to playing with the OnLive microconsole. Pretty neat, at least on our office T3." --
id Software Technical Director John Carmack. And a
follow-up: "...our IT staff informed me that we have much better than T3 connectivity at our new office now..."
Happy free comic book day! One of the things I did on Cinco de Mayo was play Wolfenstein 3D in honor of the shooter's 19th(!!) anniversary. I found it for sale on the id Software website, but it was 15 bucks(!!!!), so I picked it up on
Steam for a fiver. It was interesting enough playing the game, but a couple of things bugged me, including something that grates whenever I play DOOM under Windows, which is the inability to turn off vertical mouse movement, which used to be a feature of DOS mouse drivers. I also had to play the game scaled down in a window, though this could have been overcome by changing my desktop resolution. All this makes me wonder how possible it would be to build an actual DOS machine for old school gaming. I'm guessing it might be pretty tough to work out, though I'm still thinking it would be fun to try, even if I have to admit it probably would only get used for the occasional odd nostalgia trip like my Wolfenstein session.
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