Ars Technica has a great article explaining why PC gamers are rightfully upset about the server situation for MW2. In the post is this video about COD4. This video makes me sad for my PC gaming brethren. I don't play a lot of PC games, but I know where they stand, and why they love their platform of choice.

I recieved only a few entries into the contest, even though they are all great, there aren't enough of them. Remember they don't have to be Batman themed, or any specific thing, just awesome themed. Read here for the deets.

You get one week, or else.

PS3 fanboys have been losing their shit.

Some guy going by the alias Super_Secret comes to N4G forums and posts a thread that claims to explain why there is no cross game chat on the PS3 yet. Naturally it blames a big (unnamed, although claimed not to be Activision) company for pressuring sony into not adding XGC support until it works on their games.

Big companies are so easy to blame for all of societies ills aren't they? < micro rant.

It doesn't stop there, some man posted a list of all EA's corporate email addresses in a thread ON EA's FORUMS. (?) This will surely make for some interesting fanboy friday material.



SRSLY GIZE!?

Okay ladies and gents, I have a download code for the full PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum. You can win it by coming up with the most epic, badass, crazy, over-the-top PS3 friday night fights header. I will pick a top few and consult some dtoid cronies on which one should win. You CAN enter as many images as you like, the more the merrier. Beware, the download code may only work in the US, I haven't tried it.

If you want to just make an Image without text, we can add the PS3 FNF logos and what-not afterward. If you want to do that yourself, that's cool with me.

Remember, the most epic, badass, crazy, over-the-top PS3 friday night fights header gets a free PC download code for Batman Arkham Asylum. PM me with a link to your image, don't post it in the comments below plz. Deadline is: 2pm est. Saturday, Aug. 29 2009.



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I built a pc after having bought, loathed, and resold a laptop from Best Buy. I thought I got a sweet deal on a mid range laptop. I was fucking wrong, mostly because the internal wifi was incompatible with Vista and after installing XP the wifi signal was showing as extremely weak. (Thanks, whoever made the homebrew XP wifi driver) ANYWAY. Sold it, used the money to build a "portable" PC. This was a budget build which cost roughly $350 after shipping. This computer didn't need to be a total beast simply because I only really need it for World of Warcraft. My older brother is in the Air force, lives 8 hours away, doesn't play much else and my wife has recently discovered WoW as her new addiction. So I decided to commune with both my wife and my older brother (which I only see about 1x annually) while I'm at work!

I started off with a cheap case. (Why pay a lot of money for a box?) An Apevia X-Qpack "Blue"


As it turns out, the face is not actually blue but purplish. Like a metallic gamecube.



It features a nice slide out mobo tray. Although you have to disconnect every power and io cable from it to slide it out, it's still easier than trying to work inside a little cube pc case.



The motherboard is an ASRock N68-S Which will allow me to install a triple or quad core phenom later if I decide to consume more power than an electric car.

The CPU is a peppy, yet inexpensive, AMD Athlon 64x2 2.7GHz 45nm 65w
Ram: A humble 2GB of DDR2 800MHz



I originally dropped a $45 8600 GT because it works for WoW and is small. But, I can't just go small. So I transferred my PSU so I could cram this monster inside.



That's a BFG 9800GTX+OC. I had to maim the second 5.25" drive bay in order to run the 2 PCIX power cables to the power hungry device.



Almost done.





Today I took the front bezel off, sanded the purple paint down, and layed down some silver action. I also masked off and painted a little black Horde symbol for good luck. Now I drag this thing to work and back 2 days a week for non-stop questing.

Whattaya think?

Awesome sauce
or
Shit Sammich


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Kotaku has revealed a Best Buy pre order box for inFamous (pictured above) which indicates that inFamous will include access to an online multiplayer beta test phase for Uncharted 2. We knew that they were planning to announce something "electrifying", which is indeed what this must be.

I personally am very excited to see some details regarding this Uncharted 2 multiplayer. I still can't wait for Sony to drop us some deets.

I wonder if it'll be like Gears multiplayer, or just Co-op, or both....