Politics in the future is a tad different then they are now. Just be a good shot and remember to keep your weapons repaired and your head down.

Steam, for those of you that don’t know, is a digital distribution service for computer games. It is ran by the company Valve, makers of Half-life and other fine games.

Here are a couple of deals they are running right now.

Fallout 3 is half priced, so if you have 25 dollars and haven’t bought this game, now is the time. It is a great role playing game that does a great job of bring the atmospheric traditions of the first and second games in to a new era and play style. Worth the money, believe me.

Click here for that deal.

Also Steam is selling the whole 2k library (or at least a good chucnk of it) for $60 dollars. This includes Civilization III and IV as well as Bioshock (among many others.) Very good deal, has a lot of really good games for sale here. Lot of good strategy and a couple of awesome FPS games in this pack.

For a full list of games, click here.

Good shopping

- Warren

You know..we haven’t had any cosplay stuff on this site for a long, long time. Unfortunately I am not goign to show you cute Asian girls in cat ears and a tail, but it instead a bad *A* dood in a Brotherhood of Steel Outfit.

You know..from Fallout.

I would love one of those…

You can see the complete outfit and pieces of it by clicking here.

Very very cool. Two thumbs up.

- Warren

Over at Gizmondo, there is a nice break down of how to buy a graphics card for your PC and what to look for. Sometimes it can be a bit confusing, with all the names and numbers associated with buying a new graphics card. They do a good job on breaking this down and explaining what the heck you are looking at anyway:

Whether you’re buying a new computer, building your own or upgrading an old one, the process of choosing a new graphics card can be daunting. Integrated graphics solutions—the kind that come standard with many PCs—have trouble playing games from three years ago, let alone today, and will put you at a disadvantage when future technologies like GPGPU computing, which essentially uses your graphics card as an additional processor, finally take hold. On top of all this, we’re in the middle of a price dip—it’s objectively a great time to buy. (Assuming you’re settled on a desktop. Ahem.) The point is, you’ll want to make the right choice. But how?

They have a lot of good advice. Basically it boils down to you probably don’t need the most expensive card out there and make sure you know what your getting in to before you go and make a purchase.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

- Warren

I was sent both of these on twitter today and thought I’d share them.

The first up is just a bunch of ducks walking up an escalator. You know…trying to go up the down one. You have to root for the duck family I think.

The second is a Cadbury commercial the are showing in Hong Kong (it seems.) I hadn’t seen this one before but I thought it was funny and cute It reminds me of what my brother and I used to do as kids (yeah..kids…) to music.

Hope you enjoyed them!

- Warren

Welcome a new sister site to the web www.mydeadheroes.com.  My Dead Heroes is a site devoted to spiritual development and personal growth presented in hardcore fashion.  It’s a place for misfits, rejects and those that may not feel like they fit into mainstream Christianity.  MDH will not shy away from tough subjects or back down from stupid dogma. It’s about a real relationship with a real God, no holds barred. Death is celebrated here! Death to self, death to stale religion and a place where our heroes are dead.

Just wanted to point out the official Final Fantasy XIV site is live.

They don’t have much, a trailer, some awesome artwork, registration…but keep your eye on it for future news. The game is set to come out in 2010 and that is not far away at all. Click here to go to it.

Also the best FFXIV related news site i can find (at the moment) is ZAM’s Final Fantasy XIV area. They have translations from Japenese magazines, interviews with people involved, and other such stuff. There isn’t a *whole* lot, but there is more then you might think.

Click here for the ZAM site.

FFXIV is a game I am really looking forward to, so we’ll be posting info as it comes up.

- Warren

First up is Lux-Pain seems like an interesting adventure game on the surface but deep down it is a flawed work that will kill that interest wholly and completely.  The art looks good and the premise reminds you of one of those weird but enjoyable anime plots where you tap into the spiritual world to fight off the denizens of the night.  The only issue is that the appearance is about all it’s got.  The gameplay is so dull, unforgiving and nonsensical that you realize there is little here to push through. The name lets you know what the result of playing is…pain.

The next game is Steal Princess from Atlus. It’s a 3D casual play platformer that will have you jumping, swinging, fighting and swapping out items to use on the battlefield so you can try to go onto the next level. Steal Princess has a light hearted story, good art and lots of dialog. All in all it’s an average game. One cool feature is the ability to build your own levels which is one thing I loved about the Advances War series. That helps in replay value of any game. I wouldn’t pay full price for it so if you can find it on the cheap and in need of some casual game play then it may be a good find.

The final Nintendo DS game I’d like to talk about is called From The Abyss. It’s an action game in the vein of the old SNES Zelda genre. The graphics are ok, character creation is so-so but the gameplay is below average. They try to offer some hooks in your special attacks but I thought is was more frustrating and dull than fun. A low end game overall and a definite pass.

-Wes

Just a video showing all the currently known In Game Footage for The Old Republic.

Probably the MMO I am most looking forward to.

Source

- Warren

Massively is doing another beta key giveway. This time it is for the really adorably saccrine cute Wonderking Online.

Click here to go to the site to get the key. Just leave a comment about why you want in the closed beta.

Here is a video of it:

Man there are a *ton* of Free to Play MMo’s coming out. Free Realms, Neo Steam, and Runes of Magic are still at the top of the heap for F2P ones. We’ll see if any of the new games can do better.

- Warren

I am *so* down with this:

Croatian developer Croteam is bringing an HD remake of the first Serious Sam game to Xbox Live later this summer.

First released in 2002, Serious Sam: First Encounter remains one of the most manic first person shooters ever committed to silicon, with the PC game providing a masterclass in crowd control and over the top action that gunned its way to a 9.2 way back when.

Eurogamer is reporting that the remake will be called Serious Sam HD – and that suffix suggests it will be landing with enhanced visuals to complement the all-new four player co-op. It’s priced at a not-too-disagreeable 1,200 Microsoft Points.

There were murmurings earlier this year of a third installment in the series, and this timely reboot may well be paving the way for an all-new game.

This is from the IGN Article..actually it *is* the IGN article. Go over there anyway and give them a holla’.

I like this game because it basically throws many enemies at you at once. It doesn’t try to be anything else, just a game where you shoot many things with big guns. Sometimes you just want a game like that, you know?

- Warren