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I happen to stumble upon this, don't know if any of you guys know about it. But this is the animation they use for games like, Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption etc. You can download the learning edition for free, and it comes with pretty much everything you need to have to start doing cool ****. It's really interesting to mess around with, when you're bored. You can create bullets to come flying at the dummies, and pillars to crush them. Click here to go download it.

RIP Frank .. . LINK

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

http://www.woot.com/ On woot today they have a Dazzle Video Creator Plus HD for only $29.99 (refurb). It sells new for around $70-75.

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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

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ok, the dude that killed all those folks at that beer plant......they're arresting people. one lady is charged with sixth degree larson for taking beer off his truck, but he gave it to her. in fact, that's why he was fired and shot the place up. this other guy is arrested for undermining the peace or something. he said he understands why the guy did what he did. true, that's a messed up thing to say, but arresting him? i'm confused.... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/06/police-man-arrested-conn-company-saying-understood-mindset-shooter-killed/?test=latestnews

With the newest rhythm games edging closer and closer to released, Harmonix has released the full set list for the game. When the game comes out we will get the standard guitar, drum, and vocal parts but we will also have the new keyboard instrument as well. Not only that, but the 3 part vocals that were first introduced in Beatles Rock Band are also present. There are quite a few tweaks that Harmonix has made to the game as well, but most of that is window dressing for the set list. Head over to the main page and let us know what you think. View the full article

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Okay so I know I should have put this in the 360 or PS3 thread but I've never been one to follow the rules. .. Anyways .. as many of you know I'm Canadian and what that means I like my food covered with Brown Gravy, fries and gravy are an adequate lunch, the best potato chip flavor is Ketchup, I don't know Bob from Saskatchewan or Sue from Newfound Land, I prefer Canadian beer over most other countries, I like my women sexy and American and I like my Rock & Roll from The Tragically Hip ... AND FINALLY .. there is a Tragically Hip song up on Rock Band!!! WOOT WOOT .. it's Blow at High Dough .. and earlier tune but still a good one. Check it out guys!

On September 14, 2010 one of the most successful series on a video game console will sing it’s swan song. We here at Gamercide would like to thank the people behind the Halo franchise for the memories, t-bags, and plasma nades that landed in the wrong place causing us to laugh for hours. How can you participate? It is this simple. Send an email to siren@gamercide.org with the subject being, “Remember Halo”. You can talk about the first time you ever played Halo, your online experience, etc… Make sure to include your gamertag in the message. The deadline for Remember Halo is September 11, 2010. Anything received after that day will not be included. If you have alre…

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero Developed by: Blue Castle, Capcom Published by: Capcom Players: 1 Rated M (Mature) by the ESRB The Breakdown Are you a bad enough dude to save your daughter from turning into a zombie? The zombie outbreak that started in Dead Rising has spread beyond Willamette, Colorado, and Chuck Greene, a former motocross champion, finds himself in search of a temporary cure called Zombrex for his infected daughter. Is Dead Rising 2: Case Zero able to stand on it’s own as a good game, or is little more than a paid demo? Read on to find out. View the full review on the main page.

Fans waiting to get their hands on Gears of 3 in April 2011, will just have to wait a little bit longer. Epic Games and Microsoft announced that Gears of War 3 has been delayed by 5 months pushing it into the 2011 holiday season. Read the full article

Video taken at the Firstlook gaming convention in Germany. Watch it and have a very very happy Monday. OH! By the way, not safe for work or small ears language and some sexual content, but it’s Duke, what do you expect? View the video on the front page.

Anybody other than me going? .. I know it's short notice but Tam and I have an extra bed if some one wants to crash with us here in Jersey for the weekend. I love comic con!!

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/extremetech/~3/erPTpnIHlfk/0,2845,2371136,00.asp This is a pretty awesome thing to come to DOSBox. This should allow some of the older late 90s games to stay alive. I love technology that keeps us playing our games. Classics and all!

Remember when Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light released before the promised co-op was added and the game was rendered useless? Gamers rejoice, because the co-op addition is coming to your Xbox 360 on October 27 for free via a title update. View the full article

Read an article over at CVG this morning. If you got a couple minutes, read it and maybe some of the comments. I was pretty surprised not only at the article, but also the comments. Not sure if they moderated out any comments, but it looks like a well behaved discussion about console exclusives. Nary a fanboy in sight. Take a gander and discuss what you feel, here. http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=276561

Developed by: Mercury Steam / Kojima Productions Published by: Konami Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3 Players: 1 Rated M (Mature) by the ESRB There aren’t many games these days that can boast a history spanning 26 years and more than 30 seperate releases across multiple platforms. The Castlevania series is one of them. Konami has continually reinvented the gameplay of the Castlevania series over the years from the simple two buttons mechanics of the brutally difficult original side scrolling 1986 title. Some highlights include RPG-Lite entries such as Simons Quest and Symphony of the Night, slick touchscreen mechanics from the Nintendo DS titles like Portrait of…

A new video of the much talked about Playstation Phone from Sony has surfaced and this time it looks very clear. The phone which looks to be about as wide and thick as a feminine napkin, features Playstation Buttons and at about 13 seconds you can spy an app that has Playstation under it fueling rumors that there will be some kind of Playstation game support. via YoutubeView the full article

Just found this: http://www.telltalegames.com/bttf

So I finally got my beastly new system yesterday. Here are the full specs: http://www.ibuypower...aspx?eid=122969 So far I've been able to play Just Cause 2 at max settings at a 1920x1080 resolution at 45 frames per second. It's... beautiful. :') Here are some images. The next thing I need to get is a nice chair, and eventually a new desk. Also a UPS (Uninterrubtable Power Supply) would be good. This monster makes my Xbox and Wii look pitiful. I barely even have space for it, so this setup is mostly temporary. Being very sick, with a bad headache, painfully sore throat, and lack of energy, has exacerbated my lethargy so I haven't bothered cleaning up, there's just …

PS3 owners are outraged over the recent patch that was put out for Call of Duty Black Ops which was suppose to improve the problems that gamers were having connecting to mulitplayer matches. Instead, the patch which went out on Monday has made the problems much worse and PS3 owners want the game fixed and they want it fixed now. Found by Eurogamer on the official website for Call of Duty Black Ops is a thread that was started in the forum for the PS3 version that has been named, “the retard 1.04 patch“. The majority of the complaints seem to be that since this patch was released, the multiplayer is pretty much unplayable with the game freezing within 5 minutes and some …

We at Gamercide had a chance to talk to the guys over at Nice Technology about their upcoming free to play MMO, Picaroon. It’s supposed to be a sort of semi-futuristic piratey MMO RTS, but isn’t as complicated as it sounds. Just read on to see what Nice Tech had to say. Q – Can you give us a brief history of Nice Technology? Nice Technology was formed in 2009 when it got together with Toby Simpson the developer of AliceServer the MMOG engine (unique, we believe, in having an agent based architecture) to develop the software further and self publish games made with it. Nice Technology has worked on two titles, one Tronji an MMOG for children developed for BBCW and Ra…