Thats my computer. To be more specific, my family computer, which is why I can't have a bunch of games or movies on it one time, or it slows down alot. It's a slow peice of crap anyway. So I need a gaming computer so I could finally get Steam, and maybe even WoW. All those games up there are from when Atari left my Dad's office building, and he raided one of their closets. They are all crap, and I have yet to use any of them.



I was eating Pops right then, which is why that cereal bowl is there. And the expansion bay cover got broken off when my sister put a statuette of the virgin mary in there, and I had to fish it out. My sister is a year older than me btw.

And this, while purely for the lulz, is almost entirely true.

As you guyses can see, I just updated my blog banner and icon. They've been the same since I joined Dtoid in June, and I felt they needed a change. The blog banner will most likely stay until I get something cooler to fill it with, my icon, might change more in the future.

My old banner was made by my friend Xavier, because he's the only person I know that had photoshop at the time, which was before I've heard of Dtoid. Or even before it was created. He was supposed to make me a new one, but he's a lazy afro-hippie and hasn't made it yet. So I had to stick the four horsemen in mspaint and screw around. Concerning my icon, it is a mii, but I made it at another friends house a few months ago. He said it looked like a serial killer.

Also, some have you may have noticed I've been on IRC as of late. Unlike Vexed Alex, I first hopped in a few weeks ago but haven't been on since. But now I hope to be a regular on there, I heard the lulz are epic.

Dylan Jobe has updated his blog, and it reveals A TON of new information about the upcoming patch. While the last two patches were mainly to fix server problems and other glitches, this patch actually includes TWO new ground pick-ups, along with some other really cool features. ALOT of Copypasta to follow.



#1 Mechanic’s Field Wrench:
As you might expect, this piece of equipment is used to repair vehicles. Once you get the pickup, you swing it just like the combat blade. Then, just walk up to, or onto an allied vehicle and “whack” it with the wrench. It repairs wicked fast so it’s very effectively during combat. On the offensive side, not only is it still a one-hit-kill against troops, but it can be used to damage enemy vehicles as well!



#2 Bio-Field Generator:
To use a Bio-Field, grab the pick up and throw it down like a proximity mine. It sticks to walls, ceilings, anything…including vehicles. Then, if any ally stands within its bio-reactive field, his health will quickly regen. Alternatively, and this is where some neat tactics emerge, if an enemy walks into the bio-field (yes, bio-fields are color coded), they’ll take damage – their lungs sizzling like bacon….mmmmm bacon.



This new equipment makes life as a ground troop more balanced, and we’re really looking forward to seeing how the battlefield changes once the patch is released!



#3 HOME Game Launching:
Yeah Baby…So our HOME integration is coming along nicely and this update includes a great, and much needed feature for Warhawk. With the release of v1.3 patch, players will be able to form groups, meet in their apartments, discuss tactics, and then launch a game of Warhawk…all together!

When you’re in your apartment, all you do is whip-out your virtual PSP, select ‘create game’ and pick Warhawk. From there, you get to start your own player server, pick a game rotation, set server options and then…BAM !! Launch Warhawk with all of your friends!! You can also pick to not make your game viewable to the other Warhawk players around the world, or you can make it a ‘public’ game that puts all of your friends into the server together, and leaves open slots for other global Warhawk players join.

Games launched from HOME show up in the global games list in an attactive gold color.



Now this is just the beginning of what we’re gonna to be doing with HOME and there’s some really neat stuff on the horizon. I’d love to show you more of the cool HOME stuff that we’re working on but I suspect I’d get a PR-shank to the spine…or possibly a lung.

So I gotta say that I’m actually super relieved that we’re putting in *REAL* legit value for players and *NOT* making HOME a portal for SONY to jam branding and marketing schwag down player’s throats!

As a gamer, I’m excited *and* relieved to see the direction HOME is taking.

#4 New VOIP Options:
We have also received a lot of feedback about VOIP stuff. There were a couple of features that players really wanted, and hopefully this gives them a big chunk of their crazy, crazy VOIP desires.

We now allow players to select between PTT and Open-Mic. Players can also tune the voice-activation level so they don’t accidentally broadcast their girlfriend or boyfriend blabbering-on in the background. Players also now get to more clearly see who’s talking. It’s displayed on the right side of the screen. And yes, the picture below is correct. We also now support an “all-talk” server option so that you can enable cross-team trash talk.



What else…oh yeah, we now display which player is speaking at the score screen too. And…we let you pick players from the score screen to mute/un-mute their VOIP

#5 New Paint Schemes & Insignias:
If you’re an avid Warhawk player and/or read this blog with any regularity, then you know that we are sponsoring a contest that allows players to submit their own, custom, paint schemes for the Nemesis and Warhawk. We’re also allowing players to submit custom insignias too. We’ll be picking the winners and including these new customizations with the v1.3 patch.

Now I’m not posting these because they have already won…but these are some neat designs and I wanted the blog readers to see some of the great paint schemes that have been coming in.





And one last thing…we want insignias too. Send us your insignias…and please DO NOT just scan something out of a magazine. Seriously!

Well that’s it for now, there are some other features in the new patch too, like some new server options, but we’re not sure if we’re going to ship them or not. They need more play testing.

So this patch is a big update for Warhawk: New troop equipment, HOME Game Launching, VOIP updates and player-created customizations!

~guy in back of room yells “yeah, yeah….but when’s it coming out”~

We’re testing the Warhawk v1.3 patch right now and we’ll update you on timing in another post. Sorry I can’t be more specific…you know how it goes. As soon as I have the “official” release date, I’ll let everyone know.

So, what do you guys think? Pretty cool huh?

Via PlayStation Blog

No...not Billy Elliot...wtf...fuck you google image search...

No, in fact it waaaaaaaaaas....NihonTiger90

Yep, Nihon won with his guess of 33. I ran up stairs to my pantry, looked at the nutrional facts of a box of hot chocolate, and the first number I saw was 28. Nihon, I will be sending you a PM of the code, redeemable for $5 off a preorder of the game at Amazon.

To the rest of you who entered, you're all pathetic losers, you were adopted and your parents don't love you.

You all remember how our good buddy Samit, formerly known as BronxBombr21 had that contest, where he gave away a $5 coupon code of a preorder on Amazon? Well I have another code similar to his (but not the same) and because I could care less about this peice of shiny wonder, I'm going to do the same, and give away my coupon in a contest exactly like Samit's.



Pick ONE number from 1 to 100, and put it in the comments below. At 5 AM EST, which is in six hours, the contest will end, and the person who has posted the number that is closest to (or exactly) the one I have in my head will win. Guess more than once, or guess more than one number, and you will be disqualified. Sadly, the contest is only open to U.S. residents — Amazon says that the game “can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses.”

I will reveal the winner tomorrow, after I wake up from my beauty sleep. But because I know I'm posting this rather late, If I don't get enough entries, I will decide the winner at a delayed time.

Scouring digg for the first time since I joined Dtoid, I found this awesome UT3 Lego Mod. The mod features an all-lego enviroment, and everything is destructible. It's a damn shame I just found this, it's another place for my father/Mr Sadistic to kick my ass in.



Although, there is a catch. You can't exactly download the mod. Yup, the account on which the file is hosted has been suspended. So this video showcasing the mod will have to suffice. So just take a few hits off the meth pipe I know you all own, and pretend you're in a lag-filled blood orgy of violence, blowing my head off with a flak cannon.



And, in a probably futile atempt to make this blog less suck, I give you the musical stylings of Tiny Tim put to videos of random crap.



Super crazy update- As my abusive father pointed out, there is another place to download the map. Here be it.