Back on the air, if not on my feet...

    Sorry about wimping out yesterday. I was feeling distinctly ill and very nauseous (which the doctor had warned me could happen with any of the meds I'm taking). I usually try to time the various pills to minimize the effect, but it just didn't work yesterday. I just laid in yesterday, feeling sickish and a bit thrashed. I got absolutely nothing accomplished, but I did rest up a bit. I hope to make up for it a bit today.
    I was thinking about my long-time interest in first person shooters. It's a weird thing. When I play TDM, I usually don't get that torqued out. It's a different thing when I play Free-for-All. I get a serious 'fight or flight' thing going in a FFA match. My heart and breathing rate go up as if I was fighting for real. It's not real, of course, but it makes me think of the field exercises from my Army days. I had a 'moment of clarity' once when I peeked out from a sandbagged bunker and saw a guy on the opfor aiming directly at my head. If it had been real life, instead of an Army field exercise, I would have been deader than Julius Caesar.  Weird, huh? Moving on...

• GameFocus previews Call of Duty: Black Ops.
• Treyarch believes 'Black Ops' will be the best Call of Duty ever.
• Cryptic 'Black Ops' poster explained.
• Interview: Activision studio head, David Strohl. 
• Analyst: Activision will eventually charge for Call of Duty online play.

• Medal of Honor beta hands on with Just Push Start.
• Medal of Honor consults with real Tier 1 operators [video].
• Medal of Honor official 'Wolfpack' desktop wallpaper. 
• Halo: Reach 'Firefight' co-op preview.
• Metro 2034 coming in 3D. 
• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC patch this week.
• Red Dead Redemption 'Outlaws to the End' hands on impressions.
• Sniper: Ghost Warrior PC demo available at Big Download.
• GlaDOS returns in Portal 2 trailer.

• Activision in talks with Hasbro on Transformers game.
• Microsoft: Project Milo 'not a game we're planning to bring to market'.
• 5 tech demos miles better than Microsoft's Project Milo.
• Is Kinect shooting itself in its invisible foot? If it could do shooting games, that is.
• Microsoft: 'Hardcore gamers' will buy Kinect first. Because all of those Natal videos of people making themselves look like idiots, flailing around with every appendage, makes Kinect looks so compelling.
• Study: 32% of UK cirizens classify themselves as 'gamers'. 
• IGN Daily Fix for 28 June 2010. No Jessica. :(

• Apple's iPhone 4 sold 1.7 million in two days.
• IGN's iPhone 4 speed test.
• An iPhone OS update may tackle iPhone 4's antenna problems.
• Use your Google Voice number as your constant prepaid phone number.
• Newly discovered code in ancient writing reveals Plato's hidden scientific philosophy.
• UGO's Babes of ComicCon 2010 - Grace Park.