Home again, home again! Jiggity-jigg!

    Spoke with Mom for a bit today. She's continuing to show steady progress with more standing and a bit of shuffling back and forth today. The prospective release date for Mom is 22 September; the Bath-Fitter folks are scheduled to come in on 21 September, I believe, to put in a shower stall in place of the current bathtub. It's going to be a tight schedule.
    It's a Call of Duty: Black Ops day today... A lotta YouTube links with gamer perspectives on what Black Ops multiplayer will be like. In the meantime, I'm scheduled to do some gaming tomorrow night. Matt64 is coming over, and we're going to do some FPSing. Right now, I'm inclined to do some World at War co-op, but I might give the newly patched Blacklight: Tango Down another spin, too.

    Today's featured Call of Duty: Black Ops (Yes, it's teh awesome to be able to write that!) vid is Part 1 of 3 of actual Black Ops multiplayer gameplay and commentary by Hutch. Hutch was given a couple of hours to test-drive the current build of Black Ops multiplayer. The YouTube links to Parts 2 and 3 are below the vid. Also included today is Woody's kinda sketchy analysis of the Black Ops killstreaks and perks. Still a lot of info lacking, but with the prospect of a beta still in play, we might all get a chance to try it out ourselves! Fingers crossed and moving on...

 

• Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer overview from Xbox Live on YouTube.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops preview: GamesOnNet;
• Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer preview (YouTube): GoldGlove.
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Wager' video discussions on YouTube: iBash and B3ndro; PyroPuncher.

• Popular Half-life Source mod Sven-coop has a new version out.
• Update: Duke Nukem Forever release scheduled for next year.
• Gearbox confirmed on Duke Nukem Forever development. The game is in the 'polishing' stage, but no release date yet. But here's some 'over the shoulder cam' Duke Nukem Forever gameplay footage from Joystiq and from Kotaku.
• New Crackdown 2 DLC includes new console-crashing bugs.
• New Xbox 360 controller hands-on: Joystiq.

• Cool Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera pics of Red Planet Mars.
• Kari Byron gets her own science-related show aimed at middle-school aged kids (YouTube video). Not aimed at me, or she'd been hosting in a thong and ankle-strap pumps.
• What's next for Dell? More class action suits, maybe?
• Facebook blocks API access to Ping; Apple retaliates by pulling Facebook support off Ping social network after launch. Can't we all just get along?
• Apple's new social network, Ping, overrun with spammers and scammers within hours of launch. And the surprise here is, what, exactly?
• Ars Technica: Apple's trouble with TV.
• Ancient IBM 5150 PC (the first PC) running pixilated but smooth full motion video with sound. 
• Hurt Locker 'John Doe' subpoenas begin for anonymous file-sharer IP numbers. "I am not an IP number! I am a free man!" Hahahahahahahaahhaha!