Blacklight: Tango Down Multiplayer - It's pretty damn good.

 
    Up in Albany for a 4 banger work week. Won't be home again till Sunday some time, so posting may be a bit less than usual.

    I was going to take my digital camera with me on this trip up North, but I decided against it. I'm resisting the temptation to carry too much stuff. Instead, I found the YouTube video ad for the rental company which owns the apartments where I'm staying. The apartment in the vid, a studio, is almost exactly like the one I'm haunting. Check it out:

    I managed to get online for one match on Blacklight: Tango Down yesterday. I played deathmatch, placed 3rd, going 18 for 18. Although I only had time for the one match, I can state that Blacklight: Tango Down multiplayer is immense fun. It's a fast-paced multiplayer FPS with balanced weaponry and gameplay that delivers all the fun the single player fails to deliver. There are still connection issues. I timed out a few times trying to join other matches after my initial lobby broke up. When I finally found a matched game, the connection to the host dropped. I had to move to real life stuff then, but I actually was sorry to have to go. The last few times I played Modern Warfare 2, any calamity that stopped me from playing was greeted with a sigh of relief. Playing MW2 - with all the cheating, glitches, and douchebags - had become more a chore than a pastime. Mind you, deathmatch - the purest FPS flavor - is a different animal than team games. But it's a flavor that I'm going to try to indulge in more with Blacklight: Tango Down.
    In the main blog today, we have a clip of top 10 MW2 killcams. To satisfy my current Blacklight: Tango Down fixation, we have another YouTube review and a couple of review links for you to check out, plus some other links of gamer and general interest. Moving on...

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops has its sights set on Modern Warfare 2. 
• Merch: Mad Catz Black Ops controllers look awesome.

• Halo: Reach Legendary packaging is, well, Legendary.
• Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days trailer linked on Blues News. Also on Blues News is a report that Kane and Lynch 2 will be released a week earlier than anticipated.
• Ad man responsible for Sony's fake 'Exec Hero' gets hired by Activision. 
• InstantAction CEO: Game retail 'headed for disaster'.
• GameStop claims it 'doesn't like' being in the used game business. Guess all that Ch-ching! of cash registers really bothers 'em.
• Merch: American McGee's 10th Anniversary Alice Vorpal Blade replica. I can't believe it's been 10 years since Alice was released!

• Solar activity captured by Solar Dynamic Observatory. 
• Oldest written document ever found - from 1400 BCE.
• Microsoft extends XP downgrade rights to 2020. Why? Maybe because Microsoft says 74% of PCs are still running XP.
• Judge approves iPhone class action suit versus Apple.
• Consumer Reports won't recommend the iPhone due to reception issues. Maybe they should hold off until the iPhone 'bursts into flames' reports are cleared up.
• Credit card skimmers targeting gas station gas pumps.
• How the RIAA rips off musicians. Downloading a song on the internet is chump change crime compared to the accounting sneakthievery going on. 
• Cracked: The nine stupidest superhero secret identities.