You'd heard what I have, what everybody has - the first release candidate of Half-Life 2 has been sent to Vivendi Universal. At this point, they'll test the shit out of it and determine if it's ready for retail release. From what I've seen, any other company would have released it already. They're perfectionists is all. Locals have been playtesting it for months.
The penultimate entry.
Enter... the Obsidian Spur.
I don’t think that Penny Arcade is a webcomic. I’m honestly not sure it’s ever been one. For me PA is a diary, and so I hope you’ll all forgive me if I spend this morning recounting a particularly incredible day I had recently.
The saga continues.
It is a very good thing that we had the foresight to produce today's comic on Wednesday, as I am typing this newspost from the Goddamn maternity ward while Gabriel paces out there in the hallway.
They have it over at 3D Gamers now, I'll probably hop on that torrent. This DLX thing is taking Goddamn forever.
I just saw this go up over at Gamespot's download site, DLX - here you go. It has a single player level, as well as a skirmish mode.
You might be wondering how we can turn this into a storyline. I guess you'll just have to wait and see. We have a lot to discuss, so let's move forward.
Here is a pretty awesome picture of the line out in front of the convention center before PAX. Click on the thumbnail for the full picture.
Gabe's list is already a serious indictment, but there are some things that didn't end up on there just because he and I have different tastes - particularly where PC titles are concerned. Please append the following to create a Master List. Every one of these is a game that I actively follow and am interested in purchasing, or at least I would, in a universe where polysyllabic words are a form of currency. Also, the links all go to EB, but that's just where I got the ship dates. They aren't links of the "Affiliate/I Get Money If You Buy It" variety.
This was the other explanation I heard a few times. I’ve gone ahead and removed the name of the developer again.
I’ve got a great letter here from a developer. I’m not going to say where he works but you’ve probably played his games.
During the entire summer I purchased maybe three or four games tops. I was in an EB yesterday looking at all the coming soon boxes and it got me thinking. I went home and compiled a list of all the games coming out just in September that I really want to play. Take a fucking look at this:
In Tycho’s post above he says, “since the betas apparently go out to people who aren't familiar with the fucking Tribes universe while I'm at home jacking off to the Starsiege manual,”
Robert was about 15 hours into the new Star Ocean when I left him yesterday, and he was pulling off some pretty cool shit - inventing items and securing patents on them for sale across the galaxy, pulling off hot combos and hanging out with nymphs. He and Gabriel do agree on one thing: it begins with nearly three hours of merciless boredom, after which point you probably deserve whatever great game might exist beyond that bleak expanse. One of them said things really start to look up around hour fifteen, and one of them began to roar and paw at the air. I'll let you guess which is which.