Packing up and stepping out...

    A four night work cycle starts up Wednesday night, so forgive me if the blogs get a bit skimpy. I have to decide this week, no later than mid-week about the high school reunion, coming up for the end of November.

    I got my Jeep back, $838 later. I still have another repair ordeal to go, but that'll be in November when I have a week's vacation scheduled for Thanksgiving.

    I finished my Medal of Honor single player review; there were far fewer complaints on my part than on a lot of other shooters I've played, including every Call of Duty, ever. The game was really short, tho, and it left me seriously craving more. The action was so well done, the resolution of the ground missions so satisfying, that it sucked to have to stop. In the PC world, that itch for more used to be scratched by folks making custom maps. On many of the PC shooters I used to play, even the original Call of Duty, there were user-made single player missions to download and install. Nothing comparable on consoles, sad to say. Ah, well, there's always multiplayer... Moving on...

• Ripten reports on the Call of Duty: Black Ops PC system requirements. 
• Jeep sends 'Call of Duty' Wrangler into battle.

 

    More Gaming Links:

 

IGN Daily Fix for 19 October 2010

 

Does Jessica Chobot know where the best spot is for her microphone?

• Medal of Honor reviews: CrunchGear; Crave Online; T3; Hollywood Chicago; Coventry Telegraph; Joker961's HQ (single player).
• Medal of Honor tops all format sales charts.
• Halo: Reach campaign match-making goes live.

• Halo: Reach level cap increase coming in November.
• HD remake for Halo: Combat Evolved in the works? Which would be interesting since none of the Halo games, like most console games, are true HD. 
• Flowchart graphic: Every RPG, ever.
• In-browser avatar editing coming to Xbox Live.

 

The Best Halo: Reach Kill You'll See Today

 

• Legislation Setting NASA's New Direction Finally Clears Congress. One more shuttle flight in 2011. 
• [Image] Space shuttle docked with ISS.
• The habitability of Gliese 581d. First 'g', now 'd'. 
• The Zero-G coffee cup.
• Functional nerve cells generated from adult skin cells.
• Laptop Thief Mails Victim His Data On a USB Stick.
• More questions for Facebook.
• Be like Han.
• Blastr: Nineteen pics from Matt Smith's Sarah Jane Adventures episode, also starring Katy Manning (Jo Grant),
• Reddit: Five rules for men to follow to live a happy life.