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So, stuck at home for thanksgiving with nothing to do and a broken cellphone so I couldn't call any friends, I decided to check out Steam. I'm smarter than I look. I found the THQ complete pack for $49.99 and couldn't believe the deal. I probably would have bought it for $99.99 considering the insane amount of awesome games it comes with.

* Company of Heroes
* Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
* Frontlines: Fuel of War
* Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
* S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
* Titan Quest
* Titan Quest – Immortal Throne
* Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Dark Crusade
* Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Gold Edition
* Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War – Soulstorm
* Full Spectrum Warrior* and
* Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers

So, considering I ONLY played Titan Quest this weekend, I'd say I've already gotten my moneys worth. If you've ever glanced at an RTS this list is like an orgasm in jean shorts. Company of heroes is probably one of my favorite RTS of all time, and the warhammer games are solid gold - especially dark crusade, which has like 14 different factions, and most of them are amazing and well balanced. STALKER SoC has gotten positive reviews (I loved the original) and full spectrum warrior and Juiced are just icing.

Let me get to Titties Quest - it's 3D Diablo 2 with better graphics, awesome skills / classes and set in ancient Greek mythology. It kicks all kind of amazing ass, and I'm playing it right now despite having MOW2 and Assassin's Creed 2 sitting in front of me.

BUY THIS PACK

it's only $49.99 til monday

what I imagine Pachter looks like after he takes off his human clothes

Because the game is the fucking TITS. Really, all I need to tell you is that it's a excellently well-done combination of Mass Effect and Crackdown. Throw in dashes of Fallout, System Shock and Shadowrun (the original, not the modern abortion) and I think you get the idea. I got it early. and now I have a video game boner.

I know a guy©

no spoilers, I promise

Why Uncharted 2 is amazing:

It has the best, most refined animation I have ever seen in a game. I'm not even talking about the spectacular attention to modeling, texturing and lighting, but the fluidity of character movement and actor's blocking, seamless action mocap and facial expressions that has been seriously improved since the last game. An original I already considered in the top 3 games of all time. On top of that I think Naughty Dog has some of the best texture artists in the business, apart from maybe Epic or Infinity Ward - the small touches are staggering. It's the closest thing to being in a movie I have yet to experience.

The plot is excellent so far, there are tons of extras and collectibles for replay value. I haven't even touched the multiplayer yet.

oh yeah and Drake becomes a zombie

I finally beat the first one three days ago. then my dude hooked me up with this

I just made a little poopie.

Well, that one didn't turn out so good, but I 've got *very* high hopes for this. Sure it's ugly as sin, has been considered vaporware since the beginning of development over two years ago, and has little to no hype outside the hardcore pocket-gaming enthusiast, but I'm like a goddam kid two weeks before christmas thinking about this little bad boy. Behold, the open pandora. I have a pre-order for the first batch, which they SWEAR will be shipping in October. I'm not holding my breath, but it seems like the project is finally on track.



Specs

* ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
* 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
* PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
* 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours pressure-sensitive capacative touchscreen LCD
* Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
* Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
* Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* Around 10+ Hours battery life

So what does it do? a better question is what doesn't it do. Basically a netbook PC designed with the emulating gamer / hacker in mind, it's like a GP2X on steroids. With more RAM and a faster processor than the PSP, it can emulate anything from the PS1 and below, and there are rumors of a PSP game emulator in the works, with N64 support confirmed. It runs full DOSBOX for SCUMM games etc, and with a touchscreen, qwerty keyboard and finally a screen big enough to see that tiny text, makes for an amazing handheld with my intended use as a mobile Lucasarts adventure game center. oh yeah, it also runs networked Quake 3 Arena at 60FPS

On top of that, expect to see the full gamut of user-developed apps like synth trackers, drawing pads, animation (It can run Blender!), full firefox 3 support for web browsing, flash games, original apps, productivity suites, etc. It's a little pricey, but not when you consider it it's also a PMP with a bigass screen (bigger and brighter than psp) and support for all major video formats, with up to 128 GB in storage for music and videos. That's a better deal than an ipod touch, and it's way less, with more features. I will be posting a full report the instant I get my sweaty, greasy hands on it. Right after I come all over the screen from joy