If for no other reason Matrix Dude by Dan Egorov deserves mention simply for it’s title screen. Sure, it may not be a perfect depiction of Keanu Reeves, we all know he’s not that good looking, but it does have a wonderful frankenstein-ish charm. This simple platform shooter suffers from mindless enemies, zero level design, and problematic player collision detection, but the music and sound effects are pretty good and that’s really the most important part of any game. If he had thrown in some RPG elements and micro transactions this thing would have been perfect!

Ever wonder what would happen if through the magic of science Napoleon Dynamite and Dr Steve Brule could have a baby? Neither have I, but if it was somehow possible the result (if at all comprehensible) would probably be very similar to Keith Apicary. His show on Game Trailers dot com titled Talking Classics is a fairly entertaining piece of work, even if I don’t understand why he loves classic video games when he’s so terrible at them, but who doesn’t enjoy public pranks in the style of Mega64.

However, with the main focus now on that project I’ve found myself with even less time to finish my other projects and I still feel kind of bad about this. Here’s hoping I can do something about it soon. In the mean time I would suggest checking out my favorite video game journalist of all time Jeff Gerstmann in all his classic awesomeness in the video below. It’s basically like watching me every time I play a game.

How in Gabe’s name can the TF2 team just change direction right when the money starts pouring in to focus on such ridiculous and unimportant ideas as balancing and improving actual gameplay? Team Fortress 2 isn’t about all that crap. Look, the money is always right, right? And Team Fortress 2 is the greatest hat simulator slash money milking machine the world has ever known. So what exactly is it with all this Beta nonsense? I’m hoping it’s all just a really bad joke.

Part 2: Maintaining an Open Dialogue
Part 3: Keeping Eyes to Yourself
Part 4: Playing with Others
Part 5: Healing Old Wounds

EA is right now running a free public multiplayer beta for Medal of Honor until October 7th. After playing around with it for an hour or so all I can say is that it’s pretty much exactly what I thought it was going to be, and I don’t mean that in a good way.

I really don’t feel like this new Medal of Honor brings anything fresh or worth wild to the genre. It just feels like another product trying to imitate a hugely successful one for money, but without knowing what exactly made the original so successful in the first place, and thus ends up creating something that feels familiar, but in a inferior way.

For someone that craves new game experiences this is just another let down in my very long list of disappointments for this year in gaming. The only light I see is in the fact that the single player experience could be quite different and possibly better. Oh well, just have to wait and see.

But enough of what I think. Anyone can try out the multiplayer beta right now so don’t take my word for it. Go try it out for yourself. Who knows you may actually love it.

Each episode features footage from the game Half-Life, but as you watch it you get to hear Gordon Freeman (played by Ross Scott) talking to himself about everything from strange level design choices to personal ambitions and feelings about working at Black Mesa.

At the time of this writing the series is at episode 29 of season 1 and contains such classics as Gordon Freeman pretending to be a pirate. I’m now eagerly awaiting episode 30. I just pray that he’s faster at putting out content then me.

You can do that with a cell phone, but you can get you’re ass killed over a DS, man.

Here at Valve we’ve created something of a new tradition that we do every time we start trolling TF2 fans with tidbits of information about a major new update. After delaying the daily reveals for as long as humanly possible, to generate maximum site traffic and publicity, we all get together behind Valve headquarters for a good old fashion weenie roast (using hot dogs) over the massive flames coming out of the server computer that hosted the TF2 blog before it’s glorious death by means of a billion fanatical fingers hammering the F5 key until something broke (usually the finger). So if you ever wonder why the blog is taking an eternity to load, now you know. STOP emailing me about it or I will DELETE all your backpack items!

So with that In mind I Just thought I would share with you a few tips & tricks when it comes to checking the blog for updates and hidden pages. First of all, If you don’t already have Firefox go download & install it from the Mozilla website now.

To find hidden pages more easily install the Web Developer add-on for Firefox.  Then after restarting Firefox go up to the newly installed toolbar under the address bar and click on “Information” and then “Display Link Details” in the drop down menu.

This will display a yellow text box next to each link on the page  allowing you to easily see any hidden links.

If you would like to be automatically notified whenever a page is updated simply install the Update Scanner add-on for Firefox. Then restart Firefox again and right click on the page you wish to check for updates on and select “Scan Page For Updates.”

This will bring up an options box where you can adjust different setting.

Then whenever the page is updated you will be notified with a small pop up box and sound effect.

I’ve also been busy working on a few other website projects lately, and I’ve been exploring possible improvements I could bring to N00bicial.com.
It turns out blogging on a regular basis is a lot harder then one might think. At least for those that have difficulty getting their thoughts together and hate everything they write. ;) Maybe in the meantime I could try to dig up some of my old custom TF2 sprays to share with you all..