Ah yes, finally. Man, it was driving me crazy trying to remember, LOL.

I was talking to a friend about old gaming sites like Shacknews, etc. What was the gaming site that came out a little before BluesNews way back in the day, something like RedsNews? I can't for the life of me remember.

ha ha?

God, I love that video. Those daft dancers have some hawt bods.

Technically, this is a standalone game, not an expansion of any sort. I've been playing the beta, but am not impressed by the new units. There are serious balance issues that will need to be patched. I still play COH online a lot, and while there are balance issues on it, it's nothing compared to OF's problems.

Armed Assault, aka ArmA: Combat Operations is great if you love Coop and wide-open worlds. I suppose Stalker might be interesting with coop, but I liked it just fine in SP since everything is heavily scripted anyway.

I purchased the German version online back in November and used a user-made English patch. So I've been playing it in English for a while now.

Any idea if they ship to the US?

As for the German version, I have a few regs who play on my OFP server that live in Germany. I may work with them to bulk-order some copies for those on my server who wish to get it. Supposedly, the German version will have English in it, it'll just need some adjusting to activate it.

There's also this website: http://www.buyarma.com/ but I don't know if they're legit.

I want to port my RTS mod over to ArmA before the general NA release, plus it'll give me time to test out any new scripting features they've hopefully put in it.

The Czech version does have Starforce, unfortunately. I hope the German version doesn't.

There are several localized versions coming out this month. Czech, Polish, Slovak, German and Russian. BIS/IDEA are publishing the first 3; Morphicon.de and Akella.ru are publishing the latter two.

505 Games is doing a general Eurpean release with rights to the English (UK) version but theirs won't be out until Feb '07 at the earliest. Unfortunately BIS won't even put an online version into the works until 505 publishes and they don't have a NA publisher since I guess Codemasters sucked them dry with OFP.

Damn, if only there were a way to get the Czech version. It already has English in it, you just have to do a couple of small hacks to have it use English instead of Czech. I may try to get the German version coming out on the 30th.

I've never bought a BF game and don't intend to. I did play BF1942 on a friend's PC a couple of times but hated it. Operation Flashpoint is still more fun to me.

Anyway, can't you guys just find out the DNS to whatever server is collecting this info and just edit your host file to redirect it to 127.0.0.1, i.e. local host? It's a quick, simple fix.

If they're running this test ad thing, should everyone playing it be getting paid for essentially working for EA? If they get away with this, I shudder to think what's in store in the future.

"Hah, these idiots playing don't even care! For BF 2142 Vietnam II, let's track everything on their hard drive!"
-evil EA Executive

Ever since I started playing Quake TF I had this as my homepage. Seems like that was in '97 sometime. It's remained my 'morning coffee' website for years and with the 'Into the Black' became my afternoon respite once I got home from work.

So by the time I finish reading most of the news postings, etc. I get in an hour of work and then go home.

I remember during the Internet crash days and wasn't sure if the site would survive. Glad to see how hard work and perserverance paid off.

Congrats on succeeding where so many have failed!

Me neither!

They've got publishers in several countries with release dates in November, but as of yet, no publisher for North America. They may make online distribution available, but with whom is a mystery.

And of course I already have a 570-base mobo.

LOL--bagged spinach. I didn't think to use that as an excuse to get out of work...

I played Tribes 1 & 2, but for me, nothing has thus far beaten Operation Flashpoint for MP. Extremely flexible scripting and addons has kept this game fresh for years. Can't wait for Armed Assault.

I don't know which one was used, but you could ask the guy who made it by posting in this thread:

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?s=8e1cdcbfce350bff3b486eeb90a63237;act=ST;f=4;t=53529

His nick is deanosbeanos.

That TTS is what I found the funniest, especially the last statement.

I guess the only way to counter it is to have an alarm system, so even if they manage to open the door, the alarm will go off. A couple of rottweilers might also help.

Is anyone else getting a party poker ad? I have 'Launch Links' checked and whenever I click on it, this party poker ad pops up instead and the page doesn't. If I click on the link again, then the story comes up. If I close the party poker ad then it returns each time a launch a link, but if I leave it up, then the links launch properly...

I find it kind of strange how Olbermann devotes all that time to focus on another opinionist. I don't watch O'Reilly or Olbermann, but this seems like some kind of jealousy thing on Olbermann's part. Do their shows compete or something? The whole thing just seems hypocritical anyway.

Live-action in the US. It must not have run for long, but agh, it's driving me crazy not to remember the name.