I found these guys while scouring 8bitpeoples for good chiptunes.

The Depreciation Guild are a Brooklyn based band made up of Kurt & Christoph. I guess you could call them shoegaze if you want to but here's what makes this VGR. They use the sound chip from the NES in their music and this makes for a really interesting mix of guitar-heavy shoegaze and crisp 8-bit melodies. Managing to do it without going totally overboard thus making it sound forced. To me the two styles blend together perfectly The result is amazing! I found their sound really unique and refreshing.



They've even put up their debut album for free on their website.
I read some reviews and people seem to think the 8-bit sound is frustrating or stressful but I don't agree. I'm guessing they're just not used to distinct character of chip-music

So this is my third post about Deus Ex 3. Big whoop wanna fight about it? Seriously, I'm a huge fan of Deus Ex that's why. The first details are now released, and I'm worried. Head over to CVG to check it out. There are some things that sound good but others are just horrible. As the title says there will be nitpicking here. Nitpicking only a fanboy can justify. Fairly warned be ye!

"Augmentations have been bumped up and sound fantastic. 20 have been promised for the final game, ranging from 'bungee jump' tentacles that shoot from your back and anchor to a wall when you jump off a building, and the ability to punch through walls to grab enemies in neighboring rooms."



Seriously? Sprouting tentacles? Wouldn't it make sense for the older augmentations to be more primitive than the newer ones? This game is supposed to take place before Deus Ex you know. And not to mention it sounds totally insane. I have to admit it's a little bit awesome though but really out of place.

It seems like they want it be even more of an action game than Invisible War was. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it turns out

P.S:
Thanks to everyone who commented on the Samus mural, I love you Destructoid!
Also, I was going to start my Castle Crashers mural this weekend but the damn bulb in the projector blew as I was about to draw it up on the wall. So that's on hold for a while :(.

And it's done. I'm quite happy with it myself. Probably took me about 12-15 hours to finish. So here's how I did it: first of all I printed the image out on transparent plastic. I then used an overhead projector to project it onto the wall and penciled the outlines. The projector was a bit old and blurry so it made things a bit harder. Using a fine brush I traced the lines and filled in the rest with a bigger brush.

Thinking of doing another one with the knights from Castle Crashers. I'm going to the hobby shop on Friday to try and find the appropriate colors.

I was just thinking about how there hasn't been any news on Deus Ex 3 in a while. I thought of it as a good sign, that Eidos wasn't rushing to hype their game up. We'll have to see if I was right next month.


Picture proof.

In next month's PC Zone the "conspiracy is revealed", whatever that means. I'm cautiously optimistic about. Let's hope for some scans to surface soon

Brand new artwork from Deus Ex 3. It's not much but it's something. I really loved the first Deus Ex. Probably the best PC game ever in my opinion. Can't help but look forward to this even though Invisible War wasn't that great. It was still a good game but nowhere near as good as the first one. I believe it would have done better on it's own without the name of Deus Ex holding it down


Not much to say about it. But still nice to see something apart from that cryptic teaser a few months ago.

I'm a huge Battlefield 2 fan and I've been playing it for about 3 years. Under the time I've racked up around 260 hours playtime. During these years I've picked up a couple of tweaks that make the game more enjoyable because honestly it's not perfect. It might be interesting for anyone still playing it.

#3
Remove the intro movies
Since you will be starting the game up countless times these things get really annoying. Getting rid of them is really easy and will not set off Punkbuster either. Go into your install directory. In my case "C:\Program\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Movies". The files you will be changing are:

Dice.bik
EA.bik
Intro.bik
Legal.bik

Don't change any other files because might stop your game from starting properly. First you might want to check if you have "hide file extensions for known file types" turned off. Create a new folder, name it whatever your want and move the four files there. Go back to your "Movies" folder. Right click and create a new text document and name it "Dice.Bik" for example. Do this with all four files and their respective name.

#2
Get rid of the music
This might only be me but I fucking hate the music in Battlefield 2 because I have heard it to death. You might think dragging the music volume slider to zero would help, but no. This only mutes the music in the menu but it will still play during the loading. Since you will spend a lot of time looking at the loading screen it gets annoying. The folder you will be fiddling about in this time is "C:\Program\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\Levels" In this folder you will find a folder for all ranked maps in the game.

Open one, "Strike_at_Karkand" for example. In here open the folder "info" and the open "Strike_at_Karkand.desc" in a texteditor. Look for the line:
<music> common/sound/menu/music/load_MEC_music.ogg </music>
change it to:
<music> common/sound/menu/music1/load_MEC_music.ogg </music>
So what you will be doing is adding a "1" after music in every .desc file. You have to do this for all the maps or you will still hear it.

#1
Get Xfire!
The browser in BF2 is horrible, period. Get an account for Xfire and download it at http://www.xfire.com/. It's so much easier to find the servers you want using Xfire. A bonus is you can jump into a server where your friends are playing without any hassle.

PROTIP:
Check out http://bf2s.com/ for all your stats and diagram needs.