Hey guys, I just wanted to link to three videos that are pretty cool, all done with the Team Fortress 2 characters and whatnot. Check ‘em out inside.

So here we go again. I recall the original Gears of War was what drew me to the Xbox 360, far more potent than the waifish gust of Perfect Dark Zero. I liked the game. What I liked more was the commercial. The one with Mad World by Gary Jules. Oh man did I like that commercial. The weirdest thing about that was the I got a lot more sentiment and emotion from that commercial than the actual game, which was somehow transferred to the actual play experience. Anyway, the same thing (more or less) happened with the second game. The commercial this time around featured How It Ends by Devotchka. Syndic and I co-opped that game into oblivion. And I have to tell you I liked the second one a lot less.

About 25% through the game someone realized the Gears series only moved through space-time with action ramping up exponentially, so you eventually fight through the inside of a beast big enough to eat cities. Wouldn’t the world have to be big enough to support that mofo? I mean, hundreds of times bigger? But I digress.

The third installment (read: commercial) looks to be just as testosterone drenched. You see the ashed bodies of Pompeii like peoples, and a dude getting shot at. You don’t know the dude of course, or maybe I just barely remember the second game. Then Locusts, Fenix… Wait a second, A WOMAN COG?!?!

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So guys, I’m going to have to put on the jerk pants for a second and give you my thoughts on the Wii. Admittedly, I was one of the few (right alongside King) who purchases a Wii at midnight opening day. About a month later I sold it for what I paid.

Yep. I don’t own a Wii anymore. And you know, when you’re trying to decide if you’re going to throw something away or donate it, and you ask yourself, “Will I miss this?” and you never think about it again. Well, that’s my Wii. I think I was disillusioned almost immediately when I purchased Red Steel and realized virtual reality was still a ways away.

Anyway, what I mean to say here is that Netflix on the Wii may be a boon to some, but how many people want to use this service? Not only do most people already own DVD players, but you can only get up to 480i on the Wii. Yeah, what?

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So this whole story has been carpet bombing teh netz for a couple of weeks now, and it just gets crazier. I was just talking to someone yesterday about this, and the concluding statement on my part was something like this: They’ll just make another company like when they split from the Medal of Honor team. Well, they did…

Not only has Valve updated their homepage, but a vague site which will obviously contain Portal 2 in the future has cropped up. Though there isn’t much to make of it, I’m surprised that Valve has…

You’ll just want to skip this text and head straight inside for the gallery of Portal 2 concept art. All the images here are taken from Gameinformer, and some of them are definitely new, while others still haven’t graced Pixel Well yet. Take a look anyway, and expect more speculation it the weeks to come.

Is Aperture Science through? Does Portal 2 and Aperture Science’s destruction tie into the discovery of the Borealis? I have a feeling we’ll find out a lot more about Episode 3 on the heels of Portal 2…

No, I don’t mean the level 30 something old-timey dungeon mini-shooter that gets put on auto farm. We’re talking full, high-level experience. Will Gnomeregan finally be taken back once and for all?

Now you can let this video that I found speak for itself and you judge, but here’s my twenty dollars on the subject.

Apparently more is more this time around for the franchise. You think someone around their whiteboard would say “no” quietly and quickly to making the “E” a 3 for the game title, but that one slipped under the radar. So I suppose the rest of the design choices were more or less given the green light when the single naysayer went out to lunch and didn’t return. What I mean, specifically, is that by the voice acting and the video content, you may assume this is Adams Family with guns.

Syndic and I have this fairly prominent issue with video games (or anything with sound, for that matter) that reuse sounds from this mysterious repository somewhere in commercialized land. Your keen ear may pick up on that scream. You know, that generic scream noise thats used for everything? I think they felt they could get away with it since its chopped off on either side, but nope. Its like that damn dragon roar noise they used in Warcraft II that has since appeared in everything with lizards in every industry. We can tell man.

Suffice to say, this does not make me want to buy the game, let alone look at any more media. You see the in game stuff at the end of the trailer, which looks a little like Doom 3. Ok, ok, I’ll ease up. We don’t know much about the game at all right now. But what they’re showing us isn’t very cool, what with games like Red Dead Redemption around.

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