Blacklight Tango Did... I bought it...

    Made it home alive. That's nothing to sneeze looking at how people drive on the Thruway. Continued semi-improvement on the leg. Pressure stocking is working its daily magic, keeping the pain down to a dull throb. Gotta keep driving on... Which is easy to say only once you're actually improving. When you're in a holding pattern waiting for symptoms to show signs of clearing up, it just sucks... Ah, well.

    More Blacklight: Tango Down goodness today. I went to schedule download the demo for the Xbox 360 on the web, and I wound up just buying the game. I'll be downloading to the console later today to start setting up my XIM360 configs. (I'm slightly stoked at the idea of gaming, period. It's been soooo long... Hopefully, my improving physical condition will mean that Matt64, Reibo and I can start getting together on a semi-regular basis again.) In the main blog today, we have a review of Blacklight: Tango Down and an explanation of how the clan tags work by TWTHEREDDRAGON. Also linked are a brief game preview and NeoSeeker's in-depth review of the game. If I can get some gaming in today, I'll try to cobble together some comments on it for a near furture blog - meaning, before I go back up North to work on Wednesday morning. :-D Moving on...

 

• BASHandSlash's Call of Duty Hall of Fame. Recognition of the 'copious talent that exists in the Call of Duty PC gaming community'.
• Infinity Ward/Activision lawsuit update. Juicy stuff again, with Ward and Zampella accusing Activision of running a 'police state'.
• Pro surfer (There are pro surfers? Really?) Bruce Irons may love gaming a bit too much. Yeah, if the cops come to your house because you're yelling loud enough to scare the neighbors, you just might have anger management issues.

• Blacklight: Tango Down preview: Santa Rosa Press-Democrat.
• Blacklight: Tango Down review: NeoSeeker.
• Halo: Reach achievements and icons.
• Tweet Defense tower defense game free for iPhone and iPad (Sunday only). 
• Asus ARES blows away video benchmarks. If I were still building a PC every year or two I'd be all over that.
• OnLive cloud gaming review linked on Blues News. The lag issue is, well, still an issue.
• Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Rules For Games- Do & Don’t #2. 
• BASHandSlash 'Crosshairs' FPS podcast live, Sunday 11 July 2010 at 5PM EST.
• Blizzard backs down on real names for forum users. Successful troll is successful. 
• The Ten Most Irrational Video Game Endings.
• IGN Daily Fix for 9 July 2010 with the luscious Jessica Chobot. (YouTube version embedded below.)

• Liquid armor can stop bullets. I wrote something like that in an SF story 20 years ago. 'Gel armor' I called it... Shoulda finished it.
• How your iPhone spies on you. 
• Google Chome extension that steals your login details. 
• Digital Audio Broadcast only 24% of listeners in the UK.
• High tech methods for detecting student cheating. 
• China renews Google's license.
• Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money.
• Totally Freudian 'Shake Weight' exercise device ad.