Happy Independence Day!!

     Today is July 4th, Independence Day. My Pretty Gal and I are enjoying a rare whole day together, so everything is just awesome and wonderful!!

       I played a teensy bit of ARMA 2 Free the other day, and it may be that my laptop just lacks the firepower to run it, despite the game being 2 years old. My MSI X600 is an excellent notebook, but it's not a gaming rig. I think, too, that the mouse I use on it (a wireless) has too much input lag on it. We'll see what happens, but I'm not holding my breath, lol. I bought UT 2K4 some time ago, but I've been way too lazy to install it on my laptop, lol. Moving on...

• [YouTube] Interview on Call of Duty XP.
• [YouTube] CoD 4 Galactic Warfare mod 1.0.

• Devs: Battlefield 3 will have team deathmatch.
• Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad screenies.
• [Rumor] Gears of War 3 leaked for JTAG hacked Xbox 360s. Cue the banhammer in 3, 2, 1....
• Zelda: Skyward Sword to explain Ganondorf's origin.
• [Video] Deus Ex: Human Revolution 'The World' trailer on ActionTrip.
• Behind the scenes at Id Software and Rage.
• Valve's Source software developer kit to go free.
• Mass Effect 3 not the end of the franchise.
• [EuroGamer Op-ed] Pre-owned mercenaries. (On the Capcom Resident Evil: Mercenaries 3DS 'no data reset' issue.)
• Top five games to celebrate the 4th of July.
• [Video] Xbox hacker hoax sends SWAT to home.
• [Video] Why female armor sucks.
• Why every Zelda game is the best and the worst in the series.
• [YouTube] The Top Ten Weirdest Zelda characters.
• [YouTube] Zelda 'Song of Storms' cello ensemble.

 

Reddit Gaming's attitude toward console fags...

(Credit: notwist on Reddit Gaming)

 

• [Feature] A history of the space shuttle.
• After 40 years, Cygnus X-1 is confirmed to be a black hole.
• The Universe is made out of nothing? Fiat lux!
• Do comets contribute the elements for life on Earth? Mebbe.
• Nine weird things NASA flew on shuttle missions.
• How love can reduce pain. Before it causes it, presumably...
• [YouTube] Man struck by lightning for the sixth time.
• Women really have 'gaydar', scientists say. Not that there's anything wrong with that... 
• GoDaddy sold for 2.5 billion dollars.