GTA:IV now has a release date 2008-04-29 !!

/me cant wait :biggrin:

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SourDough2.0 - With Strawberry Jam

I can't really decide whether or not I like the street fighter IV style, somehow I think it's cool because it really looks like a 3d version of the old games, but then again, there's just something ugly about it.

Also: large feet.

Anyway, I've been playing a beta version of this indie game called Audiosurf over the past weekends, it's probably one of the best game experiences I've ever had.
Basically, the game creates a track from mp3 files, then you race on it in some sort of spaceship looking car, beats, pace, type of instrument and other things affect how the track will come out.

There are a couple of different game modes, but the overall goal in all of them is to collect colered "traffic", which is colored squares that appear on different beats, and then allign them in clusters, larger clusters give more points and so on.
Another game mode is more about avoiding obstacles while trying to collect as many colored traffic, you don't have to think about colors here, just avoid all the grey ones.

The different game modes give you different abbilities, that can help you create clusters of traffic.

Game site

And some videos.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1-z6YK92otg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aTOFdPY9I9E
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPaCQOXgvRY&feature=related

The game is said to be released in February, and will cost $10-20

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Boo f**king Hoo

just installed crysis last night and it is beautiful, i'll be able to enlighten you with my oppinion of its gameplay as soon as i get some more time on it

Isn't the gameplay rather unique to the player?

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

i gotta say L4D i don't know wtf is happening to it but they are taking their sweet time telling us more about it.

There's plenty of info on L4D on the interwebs. Videos on youtube, detailed previews on various gaming websites.

I like the idea of making coop-play mainstream for FPS games. I can hardly think of any popular online FPS having a focus on coop-gameplay (with the exception of certain mods like Sven Coop - which I never liked).

But some of the latest videos and articles look underwhelming. I feel like they're ruining everything with realism-gimmicks (i.e. lying down wounded waiting for team colleagues, only one weapon, one-bite-one-kill, etc... ). And those comic-book-style, playable zombies look like a last-minute idea they put in to make it possible for two human teams to play against each other.

In fact, I feel like the Zombie Master mod is better than L4D. Based on early previews, though. Now that L4D is produced completely in-house at Valve (I think?) things could improve for the summer release.

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Why snark works.

Links! Must have links! pleaaasseee

Here is a few

The Crossing (VALVe, Arkane Studios)

http://pc.qj.net/The-Crossing/cid/3290

Spore (MAXIS)

http://www.spore.com/

any L4D vids i didn't watch (like the web page) please post i would love to see them

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YeaY! Fer MesPehling WerDs

The expression for success is
(energy x enthusiasm)

~Zein

Really, just google that kind of stuff, it's mostly that easy:

http://www.left4dead411.com/

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Why snark works.

I was looking at those links above, like the one for 'The Crossing' which I hadn't heard of, and I have a question. What the hell is 'Valve Studios'? Did I miss a namechange, the creation of a whole new division/company, or is it just a misprint?

I think people are calling it that now because Valve is buying other developers and making them internal teams, like Turtle Rock.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

hmm maybe 'studios' is just a fancy name, or they just wanted to be nice.

NEVER EVER GOT TO USE THIS SMILEY, so here it goes:

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YeaY! Fer MesPehling WerDs

The expression for success is
(energy x enthusiasm)

~Zein

It's a misprint, it should be "Arkane Studios' The Crossing" since Valve are not the ones developing it. As a side note I sent an application to Arkane for their Austin studio, not that anyone cares :razz:

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? quote:As a side note I sent an application to Arkane for their Austin studio, not that anyone cares :razz:

Working with Viktor Antonov... would be quite cool!

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Why snark works.

Arkane Studios are pretty much French right? cause when I was looking at Dark Messiah's credits I saw lots of French names.

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YeaY! Fer MesPehling WerDs

The expression for success is
(energy x enthusiasm)

~Zein

They're opening an Austin studio me thinks. Well, Baron should know the details anyway...

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Why snark works.

Arkane's Austin studio has been around since 2006, they worked on finishing Dark Messiah there, I assume so the Lyon studio could focus on their next project (the crossing). AFAIK there's no other project that's been announced so my guess is the guys in Austin are working on The Crossing now too (I could be wrong!)

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