Split / Second E3 2009 Trailer

Again - one word... Drroooool....

FUEL UP!

But got some severe weather this evening -- haven't opened the wrappin' yet. =o/

FUEL no where to be found.. =o/

Tried everywhere, and no FUEL. 06/02/09 +1. -- Hopefully tomorrow my luck improves.

I was able to sneak a peak at LIVE gameplay late last night via justin.tv - from the feed, the game looks great. I could see some glitches/artifacts from time to time -- nothing I don't think a patch or two can't fix.

But, this post is hardly a game review...

DiRT 2

It's coming - Slated for a September 2009 release. Based on the screenshots and trailers, the game looks golden! - But, in the words of Levar Burton -- Don't take my word for it.

On Facebook? Show your support - DiRT 2 Facebook Page, and check out the DiRT 2 website.

FUEL release pushed back...

Looks like it's on for June 2nd... (Whimper)....

FUEL UP - Codemasters' latest arriving soon!

For those of you, like me, that have been anticipating this release, we're are but mere days from the game's retail release!

I've added a countdown clock so we can see exactly how much torturous time we have to wait before we get our hands on this puppy!

No matter what, the date can't come soon enough.

Happy Goat: The Internet catches up to you!

So, it's around 1994-1995 or so, and the Atari Jaguar has been released. Arguably, the one game everyone remembers when someone mutters Atari Jaguar is Tempest 2000, aka T2K.

Along with the intense graphics (hey, for the time, they were incredible), and gameplay, was the screaming soundtrack compliments of Imagitec Design.

These tracks are MOD files. I then come across a DOS-based (remember DOS?) mod player... Add a mini-disc player/recorder because I couldn't record audio directly to wav/mp3 on my system via DOS. Mix the track in realtime! Playback the minidisc to record an audio file via line-in on my system. Email to a friend of mine running an Atari Jaguar related website ... and many, many years later -- it shows up on YouTube!

What's this? Good news for video games?

Action Video Games Improve Vision

According to a Livescience study.

Players became up to 58 percent better at perceiving fine contrast differences in the tests.

"If you are driving at dusk with light fog it could make the difference between seeing the car in front of you or not seeing it," study leader Daphne Bavelier told LiveScience.

The ability to discern slight differences in shades of gray, or contrast sensitivity, is the primary limiting factor in how well one sees, said Bavelier, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester.

"Normally, improving contrast sensitivity means getting glasses or eye surgery-somehow changing the optics of the eye," she said. "But we've found that action video games train the brain to process the existing visual information more efficiently, and the improvements last for months after game play stopped."

Link to the entire article.

Oh yeah!! 'Nuff said!

New Racer from Disney?

I received a video response to my "Fuel" trailer post on Youtube.

Looks interesting...



If the idea was to tease, this video succeeds.