Let out all your STEAM

Hey, for all of you who may own an ATI Radeon graphics card, Valve is offering a free games deal. What happened for me was that when I downloaded the newest driver for my graphics card, a free games offer came with it and I decided to check it out later. When you click on the offer you download Steam (if you don't already have it) and then start dowlaoding two games, Half Life 2:Lost Coast and Half Life 2: Deathmatch for free. Now these aren't exactly "full games" but cool nonetheles.

Lost Coast is an additional level of Half Life 2 that valve created as a showcase of their engine and packaged it with another one of their games. However you do not have to own HL2 to play this... it launches spereately. Deathmatch is online multiplayer, with the obvious HL2 theme. For those who didn't know, Steam itself is Valve's digital distribution method and it is also partnered up with many other companies as well. You can make purchases on steam and dowload them directly to your computer. Games such as Bioshock, Company of Heroes and many other are availible as well as demos and videos for many games. Steam is a free dowload no matter if you have ATI or not, its just that you won't get those extra 2 games unless you follow through with the special offer.

If you would like to download STEAM at their website click here

GC 2007 in Leipzig, Germany update

As many of you may know one of the biggest gaming conferences was in Leipzig this past week, and I would like to mention some of the more notable things happening.

First off, IGN got a chance to play SPORE for an entire hour. Wow, that games been delayed quite a lot, but no release date for the game. However, they did do an awesome preview of the game, and talked about their entire play session. A lot of the stuff they mentioned hadn't been previously realeased, so if you want to check out some of the new SPORE stuff coming out of Leipzig, click on this link

Also, Far Cry's true successor has been announced as Far Cry 2 (what a surprise) except this isn't like any of the junky offshoot games for the xbox or wii. This game awas announced before GC, however, it was demoed at the conference. This time Far Cry 2 has an African setting although not too much is known about the story. Click here for the first look. However, it seems that the game is being developed by Ubisoft themselves, using a brand new engine,instead of being made by Crytek like the original Far Cry. Crytek is currently making Crysis, both games look to be awesome

Other than that, uhh, well Supreme Commander is getting an expansion called SC: Forged Alliance, Manhunt 2 went from AO to Mature, and is now being realeased on Halloween, and finally, in the ongoing penny arcade expo, IGN did a live demo blog of Assasins creed. That's it for now

iPhone is unlocked

Did you want to get the iPhone, but didn't want to switch over to AT&T? Well, apparently, neither did this kid. Major haxxor

"George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J., spent his last summer before college figuring
out how to "unlock" the iPhone, freeing it from being restricted to a single
carrier, AT&T Inc. "

Link to the article.

Summer is coming to an end

Ah... 3 months of blissful summer comes down to the last few weeks of August. The looming feeling of school is now approaching us all, and before we know it we are back.

No worries, It will be like any other year... except with a hell of a lot more pressure. So many classes. But not to worry lunch will always be our gap in the day to laugh and get back in it again.

Annnnnyway... this is the first blog post... the content of this blog will be of whatever I feel like putting... whether its news, or something funny I heard, a good video on youtube perhaps. but visit freely and I will try to update as much as I can. By the way... that picture is to put on my profile... so don't worry about it