Late Sunday Update...

Camouflage GungalTM hides her naughty bits...

    Sunday is one of my all-time favorite days of the week now, as I almost always have the day with my beloved Effie!! We've been pretty spoiled lately, as we've had a lot of time together, and we're hoping to continue spoiling each other for years and years to come. 

    So, what's on the horizon for the HQ, gaming-wise? I will certainly buy the upcoming Red Dawn-inspired shooter, Homefront, despite their badly failed publicity stunt at GDC 2011. If nothing else, I'll like the single player campaign. Battlefield 3 also looks pretty likely, if I like the game mechanics. I tried to play the Xbox flavor of Battlefield, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, and I was consistently stumped by the mission objectives. Frankly, I like straight up combat the best, with enough realism to make it exciting and enough game-like elements to make it less of a drag to play. So, I actually liked the single player games for the other EA titles Battlefield: Bad Company, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Medal of Honor.
    Playing the games will likely be in smaller increments than before. I have a real life now, and a gal who deserves as much of my attention as I can muster, so gaming is strictly secondary. And I don't feel like I'm giving anything up, either. On the contrary, sometimes gaming feels like a chore when it takes away time from being with the woman I love more than anything in the world. Moving on...

• [YouTube] ExplicitGamerz tutorial on using Call of Duty: Black Ops dolly camera function on clips.
• World of Warcraft developer praises Call of Duty's customization. 
• [YouTube] How to Annoy People: Hardcore.

• Bungie confirms next game is massively multiplayer. 
• Battlefield 3 preview from Co-optimus.
• Battlefield 3 day-night transition screenshots.
• Details on Homefront's multiplayer servers.
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D screenshots.
• Nintendo 3DS: Portable gaming will never be the same again.
• Then, again, maybe not: Why I stopped playing the 3DS in 3D. 
• Sony NGP getting 'augmented reality' games.
• Sony NGP hand-held to use proprietary flash memory cards. 
• Nintendo chief slams iPhone, Android for devaluing games.
• ActionTrip: iPad 2, What You Need to Know. PC Mag's iPad hands on preview.
• Epic 'would love' to put Gears of War 3 on the PS3.
• GDC 2011: Romero and Hall on creating Doom.

• NASA Glory mission ends in failure. 
• First artificial partial lung transplant 'a success'.
• Real-life Hal 9000: Computers reacting to human emotions. 'I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave.'
• Verizon to end unlimited data plans.
• ATT's less than transparent 4G coverage map.
• Verizon and ATT iPad 2's will be different models.
• Steve Jobs: The tablet PC 'crashed and burned'. Steve, the iPad is a tablet PC.
• [Image] The two billion year old nuclear reactor fossil.