Sonograms and Such...

I'm pleased to report that the vascular specialist found no blood clots in the sonograms of my leg yesterday. He theorized that the painful swelling and redness might be from damaged small, superficial blood vessels. The infection I had might have caused it. His prescribed remedy was to wear a pressure stocking, which I'm going to get today. I'm really hoping this is the fix. Being laid up has sucked balls, no joke. I wound up sitting in the waiting room for over 4 hours due to scheduling problems with the sonogram technician. All was good, tho. I was relieved beyond words when both the technician and the doctor told me there were no clots. It was huge load off my mind...
In the main blog, I've included two short clips of Blacklight: Tango Down gameplay. It's still rather amazing that the game will sell for only $15 on Xbox Live, PSNet and as a presumably downloadable Games for Windows PC game. For your viewing enjoyment, there's SeaNanner's confounding the enemy in a World at War Wii Free-for-all game. Finally, Woody explains how to win at Modern Warfare 2 Capture-the-Flag. I almost unsubscribed to Woody's YouTube channel when he revealed he joined a hacked lobby to max out his levels prior to joining organized MW2 play. I'm glad I didn't, tho. He's a good YouTube director and doesn't act like a dick.

From time to time, the copypasta from my personal blog doesn't work here. When a lot of links get cut due to the ever-dreaded ' The HTML tag you are using is not allowed' message, I'll mention it here so you can pursue the links on my blog. Moving on...

• Merch: Call of Duty: Black Ops getting Mad Catz 'Precision Aim' controllers. According to CVG, Mad Catz will make 'nine peripherals' linked to the game.
• Activision Call of Duty Endowment delivers $25K to 'Swords to Plowshares' charity.

• GameTrailers: Blacklight: Tango Down Exclusive Game Modes Trailer.
• IGN 'Homefront' Interview: The realities of a US invasion.
• Xbox Live Medal of Honor beta delayed - again. EA promises to extend the beta on Xbox Live to give per-ordered subscribers a chance to participate and give feedback.
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC after the patch.
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 'Onslaught' Final Impressions.
• BASHandSlash Overclocked 1 podcast discusses E3 from the PC perspective.
• Aliens vs. Predator 'Bughunt' DLC trailer.
• First Bioshock 2 single player DLC is 'Little Sister Defense'.
• Bioshock 2 'Protector Trials' DLC trailer.
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC scheduled for New Year's Eve release.
• Microsoft hiring for the next Halo game.
• NPD charts: Red Dead Redemption sold 1.5 million units in March.
• Intel's Project Offset game canceled.
• GamesRadar's iPhone Game of the Day: Rock Band.
• Xbox 360 Slim paying off for Microsoft.
• THQ: No Kinect price 'this late is surprising'. Hmmm, What price on looking stupid?
• Destructoid contest: Win a Sniper: Ghost Warrior themed iPad and games!
• NBC planning prime time gaming show.
• How collectibles nearly destroyed Alan Wake.
• Jaffe: Multiplayer ranks 'f*** up game design'.
• In defense of the cut scene.
• IGN Daily Fix for 1 July 2010. No Jessica.

• Very Scary Light Show: Exploding an H-Bomb in outer space.
• Don't be subtle: Nuke that asteroid.
• NASA sets dates for two final space shuttle missions.
• In UK, CompSci graduates are the 'least employable'.
• The Decline and Fall of Dell. How scumbag is a company that knowingly sells defective equipment and then conspires to conceal that from its customers? Seriously.
• Darius' 'Failwhale' dreadnought full of awesome.