Joker961
Shared on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 10:21GungalTM of the Day
I spent much of the morning alone yesterday, as my beloved wife had a training day scheduled. I spent the first half of the day catching up on my blog, prepping news links and this blog entry. I'm tinkering with setting up a 'Dead Man's Hand' kinda thing, leaving a blog entry with a future post date (that I would continually change) to post automagically if when I shuffle off this mortal coil. (Of course, regular readers here on 2Old2Play would have to head over to the HQ to read it, lol.) It's a pretty morbid thought, but it kinda pops into my head from time to time, especially when I wake up in the middle of the night, heart pounding like a trip-hammer.
Guess some hype is starting up about Halo 4. It won't be a Bungie production, per se, so it's not clear how good (or bad) it will be. My standard gripes about the Halo franchise still apply: far too slow, human weapons way under-powered, the online clientele choc-a-bloc with pre-pubsescent punks who are both boisterous and unjustifiably pleased with themselves. The latter applies to Call of Duty, as well, but CoD has the saving grace of much better gameplay mechanics. I'm usually not in a forgiving mood, and tinkering around with the bitchslap mechanics in Halo 3 killed the franchise for me for good. Moving on...
Call of Duty Links:
- Modern Warfare 3 moves Call of Duty into year-round territory. Already been there a while now...
- [Op-ed] Call of Apathy: Violent Young Men and Our Place in War.
More Gaming Links:
- [Halo 4 Previews] Covered on Halo Waypoint; ShackNews; The Guardian; Kotaku; Joystiq; Destructoid; NowGamer; 'Remaster Chief' on Eurogamer. Also featured on EuroGamer, Developer diary shows new Halo 4 footage.
- [Interview] The past, present, and future of Halo 4.
- [Feature] Is Halo 4 trying to hard to be Call of Duty? No comment...
- Valve files patent for controller. Also covered on TheVerge.
- [Op-Ed] Valve 'Steam Box' console rumor sounds like a bad idea.
- [YouTube] How to play civilian in ARMA2.
- [Op-Ed] Time to kick back against gaming bigots.
Non-Gaming Links:
- 'Galactic lobes' discovered above the poles of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Rogue star fly-by simulator.
- Study finds thickest parts of the Arctic ice cap melting faster.
- Police agencies in the US to begin using drones.
- Apple app store makes history with 25 billion downloads.
- DARPA warns: Your iPhone is a military threat.
- Windows 8 does a complete system wipe and clean reinstall to day one in 6 minutes.
- How Iron Man could exist, but at a cost.
- [YouTube] Humor: Aunt Chippy shows how to wrap a large Christmas present box.
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