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Faliszek revealed a new downloadable content pack, dubbed "The Sacrifice," is coming to both the original Left 4 Dead and its sequel, Left 4 Dead 2. A precursor to the previous DLC "The Passing," the upcoming pack will tell the story of how the original Left 4 Dead team lost one of its team members to the zombie outbreak. Since Valve was already busy bringing the original team to Left 4 Dead 2 in order to tell the story in "Sacrifice," Faliszek said the team decided to bring a fan favorite campaign from the original game into its sequel. "No Mercy" will be included in the upcoming DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 players, adding the sequel's game mechanics to the popular or…

Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance which has seen three different designs since it’s release in 2001 is officially on it’s way out as Gamestop announces that they will no longer be accepting Game Boy Advance handheld devices or games. According to Joystiq, on April 2 the gaming retail giant will no longer be taking anything that has to do with the 11 year old handheld. Whether or not this will change prices of the handheld remains to be seen as Gamestop’s current prices for a Game Boy Advance are ranging from $44.99 to $24.99 and have not adjusted yet. via Joystiq Tweet This Post View the full article

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For gamers who are looking to save a few dollars or just looking to up their gamerscore without having to go to their local game store to buy a game, now is the time to check out Sega’s collection of Xbox Live Arcade games. Gamers will have until April 25th to buy as many of Sega’s games for an extremely low discounted price. This includes every title on the Xbox Live Arcade. For the complete list and prices, please check out Sega. via Sega Europe Blog Tweet This Post View the full article

All this hacking crap is really starting to get old. Got this email last night... --- An important message about your BioWare account. Aaryn Flynn GM BioWare Edmonton <bioware@em.ea.com> Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:25 PM To: skylark95@live.com We recently learned that hackers gained unauthorized access to the decade-old BioWare server system supporting the Neverwinter Nights forums. We immediately took appropriate steps to protect our consumers’ data and launched a thorough ongoing evaluation of the breach. We have determined that no credit card data was compromised from the servers, nor did we ever have or store sensitive data like social security numbers. Our invest…

An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe. Antonio Ereditato, spokesman for the researchers, told Reuters that measurements taken over three years showed neutrinos pumped from CERN near Geneva to Gran Sasso in Italy had arrived 60 nanoseconds quicker than light would have done. "We have high confidence in our results. We have checked and rechecked for anything that could have distorted our measurements but we found nothing," he said. "We now want colleagues to check them independently." If confirmed…

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/security-experts-cispa-not-needed-would-do-more-harm-than-good.html Not even going to quote any of it. Want you to go to the link and read it. Also, I'm in favor of Gamercide going black tomorrow for the CISPA blackout. A day without the forums would keep CISPA in my thoughts all day. I lied. Here's a short quip from the article. But most of the web giants like Google and Facebook which opposed SOPA are now supporting CISPA. Why? Probably because SOPA would have held them responsible for their users’ actions, while CISPA won’t make the web giants responsible. In other words, they don’t have skin in the game this time around.…

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 have been authenticated as the lost work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/27/garage-sale-buyer-gets-million-ansel-adams-photos/?test=latestnews

<br> <br> Developed by: X10 Studios <br> Players: 1 <br> Platforms: PC (Available through Gamer’s Gate, Desura, Steam, Direct2Drive, and directly from X10) <br> <br> Drawing from various classics such as Metroid and Mega Man X, A.R.E.S. Exinction Agenda is the first chapter in an episodic side-scrolling shooter. Set in the 21st Century, Earch is over polluted and we are facing extinction. A processing station is sent in to Earth orbit to help with this problem, but is overrun by “zytron” that kills the station’s systems and turns all the machines hostile. ARES is a robot tasked with clearing out the station, rescuing the hostages, a…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc Show this to everyone. Friends, family, social media, etc. This is bullshit at the highest level.

Here's a live stream from NASA talking about their findings with Messenger. http://www.nasa.gov/...satv/index.html Twitter for Messenger https://twitter.com/MESSENGER2011

Internal government documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have revealed that the US Department of Justice is secretly helping AT&T and other service providers evade wiretapping laws so that the US government can conduct surveillance on parts of their networks. The legal immunity comes from authorizations granted by the Justice Department through special "2511" letters that absolve carriers in the event that the surveillance is found to run afoul of federal law. The authorization program began as a narrow cybersecurity effort to monitor government defense contractors, but has been expanded to cover critical infrastructure like energy, financ…

Nintendo is dropping the price of the Wii to $149.99 as of May 15th. The black or white colored console will now come bundled with Mario Kart Wii and the Wii wheel accessory instead of Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort. The Wii wheel accessory can purchased seperately for $9.99. Also announced is the “Nintendo Selects” lineup of games that include Animal Crossing: City Folks, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Mario Super Sluggers. These games will be priced at $19.99 and will feature a red cover with a gold seal in the upper left corner. via Nintendo Press Release Tweet This Post View the full article

Happy Birthday, Binkie! AKA Jarlan

A week ago, a UK couple were detained by TSA agents A young couple from across the pond was detained at a Los Angeles airport after Homeland Security agents mistook a couple Twitter quips for threats against the U.S., the two told British media today. Friends Irishman Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and British citizen Emily Bunting, 24, were reportedly interrogated and spent 12 hours locked up under armed guard after going through customs in Los Angeles International Airport last week. According to several British outlets, the couple was taken into custody by U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents because of the slang in Bryan's tweets. "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep b…

In what will go down in history as one of the biggest ****-moves in the video game industry, THQ has fired its San Diego team right when E3 was going on. According to Kristan Reed from Pocket Gamer, they hoped that with all this E3 news going on, the recent sacking of an entire team would get buried under it. Let’s hope it doesn’t. “THQ fired everyone at THQ San Diego today Dan. They did it on an E3 day to bury the news. Bad form.” Sources here Here

Apple wants to patent a sensor that would detect when people use their phone cameras, and give corporations the power to shut them down. Apple says this new technology was designed to stop concertgoers from taking unofficial video at live events. http://act2.freepress.net/sign/stop_apple_camera/?akid=2589.9820564.zdA08d&rd=1&t=3

Monday Night Combat Developed by: Uber Entertainment Published by: Microsoft Games Studios Platforms: Xbox 360 exclusive (Xbox Live Arcade) Players: Singleplayer, On & Offline Co-op (up to 4 players), Online Multiplayer (up to 12 players) Rated T for Teen by the ESRB The Breakdown Bacon makes everything better, and gives this outstanding and genre bending class based third person shooter from Uber Entertainment that extra special sizzle! View the full review on the main site

Edward Snowden email host Lavabit shuts down rather than continuing to comply with secret US gag orders. https://lavabit.com/ My Fellow Users, I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say…

Ever wanted to know what some of the world’s most popular artists sound like speaking “Simlish”, the native tongue for the PC’s mega successful life simulator, The Sims 3? You are about to find out when The Sims 3 releases on your favorite consoles in Fall 2010 and when The Sims Late Night expansion for The Sims 3 releases on the PC. View the full article

As ghouls, ghosts, and goblins are preparing for their adventures on everyone’s favorite undead holiday Halloween, I am counting down my list for bone chilling games that terrified me so bad, I had to keep glancing over my shoulder everytime I heard the wind blow. Alan Wake In May 2010, Remedy and Microsoft finally released long awaited and very overdue survival horror title, Alan Wake. You take control of Alan Wake who is a best selling author. Unfortunately he has been suffering from writer’s block and has been unsuccessful in writing another novel. Alan and his wife, Alice travel to the small, but beautfiul town of Bright Falls to help him reopen his mind and let …

I found this article and found it a very interesting read. To summarize, 200 students in a Strategic management class at the University of Central Florida were accused of cheating by their professor since they used online materials (a test bank) provided by the publisher to study and/or cheat on the exam. It is unknown to me if this was publicly available on the website (article seems to claim it was), but reguardless of that, would you consider this a form of cheating? Is the professor right in the action that he is taking? If you have time, be sure and take a look at the article, it explains it much better along with the videos than I do. http://www.techdirt.com/arti…

Al Williamson died last night .. it was announced today. Tamara actually got to meet and hang out with his daughter in a very strange set of coincidences. Al Williamson

Woohoo! Happy birthday to Isabel! I hope you have a wonderful day with Rincon & Fam. Go pamper yourself! I'm sure you deserve it!!!!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/extremetech/~3/TJeMrfDsQRI/0,2845,2370200,00.asp I use to enjoy some of these. As a matter of fact I made a few pick a path type batch files when I was younger. I'd like to watch the film, but the guy wants 40 for it.