Do note this song is not impressive by todays standards or my hundreds of dollars in sound equipment. The bass is a little tinnier than it should be but I remember this song coming out of my Performa while I did my pre-game dance. After the first minute of the song, there is a transition into a more industrial theme. This was usually the song which played while I was creating/editing my starting town. I'm spent sooo many hours creating cities and unleashing disasters as well as building

At 2:53, this is the music I believe plays when a newspaper headline appears or the game prompts you with a llama related joke as was the style at the time. Will Wright loves his llamas. He failed by not creating a llama in Spore or at least have them as the number one downloaded character. The rest of the song shows off the other musical pieces from the game.

Sim City 2000 Remix Vs Original DOS version

Let's continue on to a remix of this main theme. Here's what the Sim City 2000 main theme would sound like in a modern game. Then compare with the inferior PC/DOS version:

To wrap this up, enjoy a YouTube user's Sim City 2000 theme on piano. His piano sounds retro enough to make me feel like its coming from my mac while the sound quality is crisp enough to know it's a real piano. Following up is the PSX version I use as my phone ringtone. It is named Downtown Dance and can be downloaded here: http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/simcity-2000-psx-rip-

I already told you I used to dance to this music so hopefully you don't see me dancing down the street to my own phone:

Sim City 2000 Intro Video

Updated to Include Easter Egg Music
I've added the secret easter egg music from Sim City 4. You can hear it from the ice cream truck driving around your city. There is also the secret Sim City 2000 theme hidden within Sim City 3000 hidden as the SC2KBUG.XA file. The next question is does Sim City Societies have throwback music?

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by BlueZero

Ok, so the first Starcraft is all about corrupt Terran forces (the humans) killing each other in the name of harvesting resources from other planets. So the criminals create mechs and other toys to do battle for control. There is always a ruling class, here the Confederency founded by criminals. Arcturus Mengsk creates a type of gurilla/terrorist group to overthrow this government. Our main man Raynor joins forces because he didn't like being arrested for shooting up an infested terran command center.

Enter the Zerg who are a formabile force and the Terrans are badly weakened. Arcturus Mengsk uses the Psi emitters to draw the Zerg to planets like a terrorist weapon to wipe out the opposing Terran forces of the Confederacy. The Protoss are the garbage men of the universe and totally Ion Cannon the planets with the gathering Zerg, causing human causalties in the process.Raynor starts to feel upset about using the Zerg for genocide and sees Mengsk leave his girlfriend Kerrigan behind on a planet to die. Raynor says "Oh no you didn't" and leaves Mengsk. Arcturus Mengsk becomes the new ruler and keeps the status quo of corruption.

Fast forward to the Zerg campaign where Kerrigan becomes uber powerful and infested. She does major work on behalf of the Zerg Overmind, who ends up discovering the Protross homeworld and decides to stop by for a visit. The Overmind embeds itself to the surface like the video to this page. The Protoss discover dark energy is the only way to destroy Zerg Cerebrates (the commanding officers). The Protoss leaders defy their Conclave's (Ruling Leadership Body) as well as their religion by seeking out the Dark Protoss on behalf of the honorable Tassadar.

Tassadar is one of the few Protoss who understands the Zerg will wipe their race out unless quick action is taken. Instead, the Protoss race bickers with itself and totally needs additional pylons. Tassadar leads the group, including the now allied Raynor, to the Dark Protoss area and becomes further enlightened. Skipping ahead beyond the Protoss civil war, Tassadar and Co. discover if they kill enough Cerebrates with their dark energy, then they temporarly disrupt the Overminds control. During this time, Tassadar infuses his giant ship with dark energy and suicide rams the Overmind.

The Overmind totally gets knifed in the back and disolves into a void in the sky, effectively dead. The Protoss world is a mess from the battle and everyone is going to rebuild. Kerrigan disappears and Raynor still feels guilt. The story basically ends without much celebration and the expansion pack Brood War is filled with tons of deception by Kerrigan and Duran.


I turned down an early copy of Starcraft 2 because I am crazy and don't want to spend all morning playing the game when I have other responsibilities. Fear not as I will pick up the game Tuesday evening and am especially looking forward to the single player and custom map settings online. I can't wait for all my favorite Starcraft 1 custom map types to be updated with new graphics and gameplay complexity. Starcraft 2, here I come!

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by BlueZero

It's been a while since this years Anime Expo 2010 and I've been lazy to upload the pictures online. Anime Expo is the place to test your cosplaying skills against the best. Biased Video Gamer Blog was present to bear witness to the realm of intricate and last-minute costumes playing homage to favorite video games and anime/manga series.

I only attended the event on Saturday. My friends went on Friday and were able to get a lot more pictures. Please forgive me for not getting a ton of pictures since there were so many good cosplay costumes that I took pictures of my personal interests . Follow along with the easy to navigate categories and enjoy my brief costume battle for video game characters. The full gallery is at the bottom.

Video Game Cosplay:

Assassins Creed Altair and Ezio

The Ezio costume is immaculate. The attention to detail to impressive; the assassin's symbol is there along with the wrist daggers. The Altair is overshadowed by his descendant because the Ezio costume stole the show.

Kefka

Maniacal laughter and handheld theme music. I wasn't the one who took this picture but I can see how evil the Final Fantasy villain can be.

Nintendo Gathering

My Video Game Cosplay Battle:

Tira Vs. Zangief

This matchup can only be determined by sex appeal vs manliness.
I unfortunately did not get to encounter Tira but did run into the Zangief. The Tira costume looks authentic and the hulu hoop weapon doesn't look like it is made of cardboard.

Here, Zangief is confused by Pikachu. Earlier in the day, I heard he did his signature crotch pile-driver move with another person. Looking at his barely there costume, that would be very awkward for both people. Therefore, Tira wins because I can feel comfortable with her costume while I start sweating about Zangief pile-drivers.


Eggman (Dr. Robotnik) Vs. Brain Age Man (Dr. Ryuta Kawashima)

The ultimate showdown between two doctors. Eggman is a genius without a formal doctorate while the Brain Age doctor Kawashima can only lower your brain age down to age 20. So IQ of 300 compared with Brain Age of 20 years old. I'll have to say Dr. Eggman won because his shoes and red beard were close enough. Also Dr. Kawashima's head wasn't floaty enough.

Warcraft Character Vs. Giant Prinny

Two really tall and large costumed characters. The one on the left I believe is the winner of the Blizzcon costume contest from last year while the Prinny is an official costume from the developer booth (I think it was Atlas). I am not a fan of either series so I'll say the hand made Warcraft costume trumps the official Prinny costume. Either way, both were impressive.

Obligatory Team Fortress 2 Cosplay

Anime/Manga/Comics Character Cosplay:

One Piece

Power Rangers and Robots

It's too bad I didn't get a picture of the Red Power Ranger who started break dancing in the buyers hall. He was wearing a kind of bike helmet which allowed him to spin his body around using his head. We captured a short video and it will be uploaded soon. Kudos man, you could have taken on the expo security who shut you down and kept dancing.

Super Heroes and Villains

The other anime and manga is in the gallery since I am again not well versed in this realm.

Land of Chocolate and Fast Food Cosplay:

Everyone loves sweet and delicious food. Starting off is Count Chocula, creator of one of my favorite cereals. Next, we have an Oompa Loompa who somehow escaped from Wonka's factory. You know it is packing chocolate in its bag. Finally, we have the results of the fast food war. My picture came out a little blurry but Ronald McDonald is holding the King's head. He is joined by other favorites including Jack, the Panda from Panda Express, Colonel Sanders, Wendy and the Carl's Star. I have to agree the portrayal is accurate as Burger King died after stealing Ronald's breakfast recipies.

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by BlueZero

After some unacceptable delays due to E3 and six hours of press conferences, I've finally had some time to upload the rest of the Fanime 2010 cosplay images. As promised, here are the rest of the video game as well as anime costumes. Take a deep breath and enjoy the second part of our gallery.

I've finally uploaded 50 images in this post from the Fanime convention! This post took a long time to create because Wikidot's image uploader was always encountering an error when I upload more than one file at a time. Please fix this Wikidot, both Firefox and Internet Explorer have this issue. The current unsorted gallery is at the bottom. The images will be sorted in the following categories:

Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead:

No wonder the Blu Team lost, it was composed entirely of Scouts and Spys! I can't comprehend the power of the left Scout's hat since I am getting a Scribblenauts vibe from it. I was taking a picture of someone behind him and he said "If you are going to take a picture, do it right." So then I said "Ok, then the other two Scouts get over here." Thus, this picture was created.

Now for two characters who were destined to meet surrounding the sandwich.

Enter the Burger King and the Team Fortress 2 Heavy. The King lives on providing burgers to people by force and the Heavy brings the heat. The Heavy will trade in his Sandvich for the Burger King Whopper. This is a marketing move made in heaven.

The Reenactment of Bill's Death

The best part about this pic is that normally cosplayers count down so people know when they are going to walk away or change poses. With L4D, it's ironic here because the other people counted down from 30 and it made me thing of the bleedout in the game when your character is about to die. These people were on top of their characterization with pill bottles, first aid supplies and more.

Fighting Games:

Mmm, Bison is taking on the double team while standing firm.

Final Fantasy:

Anime Collection:

The Teen Titans are here except for Cyborg. Of course you can always click on these pictures for the super high resolution versions!

Valkryia Chronicles:

FAIL?:

Star Wars:

There is still tons of extra pictures to see since this post is too long as it is. Please check out the rest of the pictures in our Gallery!

*Some images provided by my friend MrBiggMan66

The Nintendo cosplay images are in my prior post. Visit for a partially warped view of our favorite characters. Fanime 2010 was a lot of fun and I look forward to future anime conventions. Leave comments and feel free to identify cosplay I missed or mislabeled.

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by BlueZero

It's difficult to organize the absolute splendor surrounding the Fanime convention in San Jose which went on May 28th to 31. With this being the first anime convention I attended, (I grew up with the censored Pokemon and Yugi-oh style cartoons) I did not know what to expect. My rationale for going was I wanted to see which video games were going to be represented since I have always assumed anime converges into video games. The Fanime crowd really knows how to do cosplay justice!

Enter the Fanime 2010 Video Game Cosplay: Nintendo Pictures

The Legend of Zelda:

Introducing Captain Falcon:

Captain Falcon gets his own category due to being such an epic character. Gaze at the true glory of the one and only Douglas Jay Falcon.

This man is truly the stuff of legends. It was difficult to believe this seems to be the same person who set the precedent for Captain Falcon cosplaying. I didn't take a photo of the back of his costume but take my word it is authentic with the number "7" and the right icon.

My friend was able to take pictures of what I call "Child Captain Falcon". He stayed in character and only spoke with Captain Falcon's sayings like "Yes", "Show me Ya Moves".

Smash Brothers:

These costumes were created using a range of detail levels. The other Smash Brothers characters were represented above. (Toad isn't in Smash but the person was wearing a g-string if that's a consolation price). Speaking of revealing clothing, Zero Suit Samus and Pikachu have teamed up to prevent Solid Snake from completing his mission. Wait until I post the other Snake pictures.

Misc.:

There is so much more to show. Continue to the rest of the Fanime 2010 Cosplay Media. It includes Street Fighter, Team Fortress 2, anime characters and much more!

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by BlueZero

What you will notice from the video is that this challenge appears extremely easy when you hear about it. It's not easy at all and many failed attempts are chronicled on YouTube and other viral websites. I consider the Cinnamon Challenge a video game in its own right as first it was recorded on video and any challenge is a game.

Thinking back on the video, I am reminded of Smash TV where there is ""Big…money! Big…prizes! I love it!". While the person in the video didn't get free toasters (he was next to a toaster oven if that counts), he did successfully battle with the horrible tongue burning monster created by cinnamon. The victor is now able to say he completed one of the Internet challenges after not being able to finish the Saltine Challenge minutes before. (6 Saltines swallowed under 1 minutes). The Cinnamon Challenge would never work in game form because it would turn into having to push a button really fast similar to where Mario Party 1 destroyed people's palms for the "rotate the controller" mini-games.

Now you will never know what is going to pop up on a gaming blog. We have officially raised the bar with entertaining content. We'll just have to see how we are going to top this when we go back to our virtual electronic gaming.

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by BlueZero

A Heavy Burden

Soldier Style

Only the soldier can fire a rocket with flair even after his target was destroyed. If only I were the Blu Soldier who dodged the rockets where I did not.

Halloween Hats

Here are some quick screenshots of the brown bag hats. While not active unless it's near Halloween, I for some reason have some to show. Yes, you are handsome and groovy!

Celebrity Kills

Here is a few of the famous people who have taken me down in Team Fortress 2. With the ability to have multiple aliases in Steam, people have developed some creative names for just humiliating players. These images have not been photo edited to add names, these are taken from me being mercilessly killed.

Strange Death Cams

For some reason, this next image makes no sense. Why is my head in the Scout's hand when it clearly isn't?

Slow-mo Demoman explosion. Shouldn't play with explosives when you only have one eye and are drunk. I bet there are tons of these kinds of death cams as I am constantly playing Payload and there are always tons of Demomen.



The rest of the gallery is below for your browsing convenience:

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by BlueZero

Everyone has hopefully played Crysis on PC or at the very least seen the original trailers to know that the game is a beast. As my friend recently said, "Will Crysis 2 run Crysis??" The technology behind the graphical, physics and other game engines are awesome. What happens when we push the limits of the physics engine by using the power of modern machines. Continue on and see how well Crysis can display thousands of objects and effects:

Unfortunately, I don't have the modding knowledge to even know where to look for the Crysis sandbox, so I'm going to be showing other people's videos. To start, here are 10,000 barrels (signature red to indicate they are explosive of course)

Notice at about :27 seconds into the film, the falling barrels seems in the middle seem to be hovering. Either the engine can not process that many physics calculations of the coefficient of gravitational attraction between objects is too high to keep them briefly suspended. At 28 seconds in, Crysis just gives up calculating the physics and has the top level far apart randomly. Then of course the player gets hit by a barrel and is not really effected probably because they are in "god mode".

At 1:07, a huge explosion occurs! The author and other mod people say looking directly at the explosion results in crashing or I assume really really poor framerates. Yeah, the game would probably crash from trying to render many explosions. 1:12 on appears to be too bright of a white to see the yellow of the blast. It's similar to Modern Warfare's white fallout and radiation.

A little before 2 minutes, we see a green tree is surviving the onslaught because it is too small to have destructible limbs. Skip ahead to 2:25 to see mini explosions on either side of the player. 3:05 shows the wasteland after 10,000 barrels ignited. The best part of the video is skydiving through the middle of the 10,000 barrels to Spin My Head Right Round - Primetime.

This other video shows what happens when you launch a nuke tank shell. You can just feel the atoms building while the fired round is just revolving on the tank turret. Watch out for that instant shockwave which shows off just how powerful the blast should be. The only problem is the tanks are still in one piece and the player is barely pushed back. I wanted to see him go flying really far away with ragdoll physics. Overall, nothing really exciting. So let's take it up a notch with this better Crysis Nuke video:

At the moment of impact at :38, we seem every single object get pushed with equal force towards the camera. The truck spinning out of control is pretty cool.

At 1:02, we seem the ragdoll physics of the person limited on the ability to show the amount of force. The best he can do is have his neck break and slide away. If the game had skeletal physics, I would want to see multiple fractures and bones breaking from that tremendous force. The trees are much more impressive although the tree trucks really should have been fragmented because the technology is already in the game. Perhaps the modder disabled tree destruction.

My favorite shot is at 1:16, where everything is normal with the man standing next to his car. 2 seconds later, the house and car are moving vertically. That man got crushed between his house and his car before getting skewered by trees. Strangely enough after the two minute mark, I can actually see that the tree trunks were splintered. There are also random fire effects coming from nowhere.

It is good fortune this video makes the nuke more potent, as it should be, compared to the first nuke video. Next on the modders list should be having a nuke take out a small village before moving onto skyscrapers being knocked over. When there is a physics engine, there is always a will and a way. Let's hope Crysis 2 doesn't settle for an adapted Crysis 1 engine to get it to run on consoles.

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by BlueZero

First, note the reference to the TF2 Fan video featuring the Engineer and addictive toast song.Engineer Toast Video. You can never get enough toast. At 1:46 in the video, the pressure reads an interesting level. Some might say the PSI was OVER 9000, because it was! When you get to 2:22, the Spy's face has traveled to anime land.

Moving ahead to 2:41 shows the amazing wedding being performed by the crazy priest from Half Life 2. Maybe since the Soldier won the Soldier-Demo war of 09, he was decorated enough to be the Spy's Best Man. The Pyro appears to be related to Chell's sister and the Witch from Left4Dead2. In this scene, we notice that all the Red Team are related to the Half Life and Portal (aka other Valve games) while the Blue team only has a Vortigaunt from HL2. At 2:47, we notice the Blue Engineer is recovering from being toasted, Chell proves the Cake is Not a Lie, and the cake has the flamethrower and spy gun united. The cake is also blue, red, and pink! At 2:52, the author has high hopes for Alyx and Dr. Freeman to tie the knot. This is impossible because Gordon Freeman doesn't say anything so he has no way to say "I do". They drive off and kill Frogger; they reference Frogger in the credits, otherwise I wasn't sure what it was.

The Honeymoon speaks for itself. The Pyro is dark skinned and is somehow huge even with her small stature. I was expecting the author to reveal the Pyro being male. Achievement Unlocked: Love Machine with a screw, haha, how clever.

The pregnancy section is the best part. We hear some of the best fitting music; it is both uplifting and cartoony. The gravity gun and the plunger were enough to deliver the baby. At 4:28, we get the reference to the awesome pic of the Spy having far too many cigarettes in his mouth. I believe the first appearance of this was from this Mock Meet the Spy Flash. I really though I posted this video on the blog but I couldn't find it. Anyway, 4:52 explains the entire creation of Spyro, the merging of a Spy and Pryo. There are now officially 4 teams: Blue, Red, Purple and Pink (Cupid who won the game).

There should have been one more plot twist at the end like the Red Pyro is actually a Red Spy. There is plenty of time to extend the story but it really did all it needed in 6 minutes. Overall, really enjoyed the work that went into this Flash video. After watching it, I am left satisfied and desire to post this last video:

Scout Goes to the Doctor NSFW Video

The art and audio speak for themselves!

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by BlueZero

If you have been living under a rock, this would be the episode where Ash gets Pikachu and really no action happens. Pikachu was just being an independent rat until a small boy decides to drive a bike really fast to a pet hospital. After a harsh crash, Pikachu decides it's time to save the day with a already super-effective thunder against the Sparrow.

First off, the voice of John Freeman is just as annoying, yet perfect, as the voice of Ash. This is an important first step to recreating the annoying first episode from the cartoon. Second, the overdramatic Kleiner (aka Professor Oak) really adds some great humor into the video. We all know he is making out with Ash's mother since Ash really doesn't have a father. This means Ash's mother is a gold digger as who wouldn't want to log some time with Professor Oak's Pokedex. "Gotta Catch Them All" Kleiner (that's hot). Third, the Gabe-dex has been in development for many years just like all of Valve's game commentaries. The voice actor for Gabe Newell is also spot on. I had to do a double take because my ears were fooling me.

Even if you never watched the original Pokemon episode, most of the horrible puns are still intact (shocking isn't it?). The creator has even captured the original music from the show and used it in the right places. 4:40 to 4:55 is just amazing. Alyx as Misty is a little disturbing as for some reason her face is very contorted for her brief time on screen. This is even true at 10:50 where she appears again. Also here, I glad that Barney, aka Brock, has no eyes visible. The Team Rocket with Breen and Judith must be explored in another episode. There is a lot of potential here with random purple Ekans, Koffing and blue Meowth.

Original Pokemon Episode 1

Overall, I really got a laugh out of this video. I look forward to future episodes which keep the same humor while doing the really uninspired first season of Pokemon justice. The moral of the story is when you pair either Gary's Mod or Team Fortress 2 with successful video games, amazingness always happens. Look forward to my next post to prove my point!

Update: Here is the Epic TF2 Fan Video proof you need.

Here is a random video I decided to add to this post:

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by BlueZero

I never get tired of seeing the Donkey Kong versus Samus fight. I got a good laugh out of Donkey Kong's eyes when he was hit with the charged shot. At the end, Captain Falcon also has an epic pose.

MALRWiiStation360 on YouTube, creator of the awesome Smash Brothers video stories, has also remake the intro to Smash Brothers 64 using footage he captured from Smash Brothers Brawl. If you know anything about the original intro, the Donkey Kong versus Samus fight has always been hard to pull off in the remakes. Here, the Brawl engine still has the same character moves to allow for an almost perfect reenactment.

Finally, I like this interpretation of the intro movie. Imagine if the Brawl universe where sucked into a cartoon and it was much better than the Mario, Link and Kirby ones. Watch as Mario and Samus once again do battle in space:

Link is so useless in this video. He just stands around holding his bombs. Fox looks bored in his ship and gets scared off later by Pikachu. Donkey Kong finally looks imposing to the other characters. At least Samus has the upper hand since only she can really breathe in space.

I've posted the Team Fortress 2 Smash Brothers Opening in the past. Check it out as I can tell a lot of time has gone into its creation.

There need to be more interpretations of video game opening movies. I would love to see a modern version of Mario Power Tennis with Wario and Waluigi being chased around by strange police robots. Oh yeah, this is a real intro, I'm not exaggerating it. If anything I'm under-representing how great it is. Anyway, the Smash Brothers intro is still one of my favorites.

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by BlueZero

The HD version can be found here:Dr. Mario Lyrics HD YouTube. The extremely high resolution flash can at NewGrounds Dr. Mario Lyrics Flash.

I did not embed it here since the thumbnail would have been Wario's posterior. Highlights of the video is Mario watching TV, Mario throwing tons of blue and red pills to cure fever and chills and Mario diagnosing crabs with Princess Peach. The voice actor of Mario sounds a little Indian or Middle Eastern rather than the traditional Italian. It works and the animation is spot on for their goal. There is also a lot of details in the background like Mario's Certificate of Pasta

My reaction to the video is we need more parodies of Nintendo's favorite plumber. Next, we need to have a very catchy Zelda theme lyrics by the same people. I mean, Mario already has a Triforce tattoo in the video so hopefully this is foreshadowing.

Bonus Dr. Mario Lyrics Movie

Wow, just try and count how many times the phrase "Dr. Mario" is spoken. For some reason, I am enjoying the parodies more than the original parody. "For Theeee Chills" = 4D Chills from the awesome video effects. The word around 22 seconds into the video says "Lol Three Gloves" for those like me who wanted to know.

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by BlueZero

Ok, so on 360, people can use their Xbox Live party to eventually setup a public, yet customizable private match. This means that random people join the game but the person can kick people and tweak the server settings like maps and points. I can't find the YouTube video I watched in which people showed it off, but I remember seeing it posted in the comments of a recent Joystiq or Kotaku article.

As a part of this glitch, people are able to start the round with unlimited ammo. This means they never have to reload and for some reason this works on the AC-130. That's why this guy gets more than 200 kills with only a few deaths. Obviously with SMGs and gernade launchers, this means you have no chance for a fair fight.


As a partial aside, I think you guys should check out the Modern Warfare 2 Mythbusters video that answers questions I wish I had. You will be amazed at some of the things that people try to do with the weapons and killstreaks.

With more and more glitches/exploits being found in the game, it looks like Infinity Ward is not going to have time to make downloadable content ready for early next year. Then again, I wasn't looking forward to paying $15 for 3 maps where one of them is probably from a prior game.

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by BlueZero

Valve is once again doing an amazing job with marketing Team Fortress 2 way beyond the shelf date. In the past, people looked to Criterion Games as the go to company for DLC. Valve again shows that class updates, hats, and new content keep a game fresh. There was recent stirrings of new voices added to the Announcer (her real title is the Administrator) of the game regarding "Friendships" (you know that lady that yells at you during the game). Today Valve posted a super sweet comic strip actually showing what she looks like while paving the way for possible class updates!

First, you MUST go check out this official Team Fortress 2 Administrator Comic if you play Team Fortress 2. I'll wait while you digest the pure win of the comic.


Ok, now do you realize according to the mythos of the game, the Administrator decided to alert the Blue Soldier about the "A Red Spy is in the Base" yet she knew who he was disguised as the Scout all along. That's because she puts the "traitor" in Administra(i)tor. Anyway, she doesn't want the mercenaries to know about her and her associate Miss Pauling to be discovered. My money is on the Red Scout eventually discovering her hidden location and then the huge reveal that the Administrator is the mother of the Scout, aged well by cigarette smoke and yelling at the top of her lungs. The TF2Wiki.net has a better explanation with the Administrator being Elizabeth, the maidservant of the deceased Zepheniah Mann (the hats we got for with the Halloween map)

Valve seems to have gobbled up an independent artist name Makani who created a excellent concept of the Administrator. Amazing Team Fortress 2 Fan Art She has a Two-Face kind of feel with half of her being red and the other half blue. The artist posted on their blog that Valve requested an interview with them and he or she went. It seems they have contracted Makani's artistic skills and now can use the Announcer concept as they well did. This artist has a lot of potential and will go far with Valve's artistic direction.

The biggest thing to take out of the comic is that the Blue Soldier and the Red Demoman have been secretly best friendly. Both guys somehow defy vision with Demo's perfect vision with one eye and the Soldier's lack of vision with his helmet. I liked how they met at a gun projectile convention. Also pointing toward class updates for the Demo and Soldier is that the Administrator is contacting Mister Hale. You know when we see his catelogue, there are always great weapons added to the game. We will find out tomorrow or very soon. Perhaps everyone's speculation is off and the Friendship turns out to be just the voice samples played when either a Soldier or Demo kill each other. Either way, Valve has made the TF2 Announcer/Administrator even cooler because I can now picture her face veins tensed as she puffs a cigarette and yells "You are all failures!".

Official Administrator come from the Official Team Fortress 2 Blog. Concept Art Credit to Makani

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by BlueZero

So as I was writing my Racist Review of Resident Evil 5, decided to write a better story for the game. This improved version tries to fix all the flaws with the original story like generic bosses and uninspiring narrative. Again like my review, Resident Evil 5 SPOILERS coming up. Do note that I am discussing culturally sensitive subjects and more use of the African culture in the game would have been better for the game overall:

As you can see from this early E3 video, the game looked pretty vicious. There were tons of villagers attacking Chris with throwing hatchets and pushing him violently around. Also notice that there were women in the crowd!

New Resident Evil 5 Story

If I had to tweak the African elements, I wouldn’t be afraid to head toward the cultural heritage. I would probably include some blood diamond plot as a cover for mining operations for more advanced Plagas. The white terrorist selling guy would be portrayed as very racist and brutal. He could smack a few people around and attempt to conquer a few cities/tribes/part of Africa. You know the part at the beginning where the guard guy feels up Sheva? Yeah, real storytelling would actually show it. He would naturally be killed by Africans after they harness the new Plagas and infect themselves as a form of control which would be an interesting way for Africans to reclaim their homeland and pride after years of enslaving Imperialism. Then, you introduce a strong African leader (male or female), like Kirk, who needs to correct the injustice against his people. (Sheva never really feels powerful, which I’ll explain later) This leader would face off with the white people (Weskar, the terrorist guy, and the BSAA) as well as the Africans who would betray their country for profit. I would be okay if Kirk later got a virus similar to Weskar which would raise the stakes. I mean, if Kirk became arrogant like Weskar and his powers didn’t become teleporting like Weskar, then he would be a believable new villain/anti-hero.

The outcome of the both storylines remains the same with Weskar dead except he doesn’t die in magma, he is overcome by the power of teamwork with the knife teamup scene ending his life. Jill is actually part of the final battle against Weskar instead idiotically leaving it to a mini hulk and a proper English woman. Weskar dies with the combat knives stuck in his body, going through his exposed body cores. He is dead except Weskar never dies because he had injected himself with another serum on the bomber to only feign death like always. Perhaps the volcano decides this is the right time to start exploding due to Uroboros being absorbed.

Enemies
On the enemy side, I would remove the stupid “bat/scorpion” boss since it poorly designed and very boring. Plus the music is really annoying for the lackluster boss Only Uroboros (on the ship deck) and Weskar were original, exciting boss fights. There were too many variations of Uroboros in the boss fights. Uroboros are just black worms that can control humans; I only need to fight it once. I hated how you had to fight the recycled boss El Gigante on the car turrets; this made the fight less dynamic compared to dodging trees in Resident Evil 4. Replace him with an African shaman woman who controls a human looking boss made of shrunken heads and different patches of skin. Expect to see a golem creature made of dirt as well as a throwback to the Legion boss from Castlevania or the golem could be similar to El Gigante if you can actually move around. You would first have to defeat her “human” corpse animated by the Plagas/Uroboros before you fight her next creature. I want to see a lot of corpse animation (resurrection) made possible by Las Plagas and blood diamonds. I would be fine if she showed up during the course of the game with new “magicks” aka bosses. Therefore, Excella should have been a shaman/elder but still have a scientific background mixing the two cultures.

If the game threw in children who were infected, like an diary article alludes that they were, then the game would get so much criticism but it would be more realistic. If the game included infected babies, I don’t think there would be much backlash since Dead Space was able to do it (I got a laugh out of Issac drop kicking the baby aliens). It worked for Dead Space, I don’t think it would work for Resident Evil. If the designers included pregnant women who were infected, this game would be boycotted internationally and reach a level of infamy beyond of ManHunt 2 and GTA San Andreas’ Hot Coffee. I personally don’t see a reason to push the envelope by including pregnant women, but I could see it being a memorable boss fight, perhaps optional so Chris can actually show some emotion.

Racial or Gene Superiority?
Resident Evil has always been about human surgery and experiments gone wrong with a virus as the catalyst. If there truly were no bounds on story, the AIDS epidemic in Africa would play a fitting role for pharmaceutical companies like Tricell to deploy supposed AIDS vaccines. Therefore as part of an experiment, some people would die as test subjects, some would be cured from AIDS, and some would gain extraordinary strength/abilities. Capcom decided to shirk away from the cultural history in the development of the game. In doing so, they made the story all about Weskar and his worldwide cleansing of non-infected creatures. This racial agenda alone should raise the political correct (PC) flags more than a white Chris shooting African zombies.

Lack of Emotion
Chris should also feel a little bit of morality choosing a side that will hurt the African population in the process of healing it from the biological terrorism. If not Chris, then Sheva should be saying SOMETHING about how she has to kill her fellow people in order to justify her losing her family to a biological outbreak. In my game, there needs to be some buildup for Sheva’s loss by having her as a playable character at the start of the game futilely trying to save her family from white invaders instead of a biological outbreak instigated by the white Tricell corporation. Maybe even if you beat the game, then Sheva can save her family with the New Game+ due to her increased strength and moveset. In this case, she saves her family only to have Kirk die. There always has to be a tradeoff. Then Kirk is replaced with her brother if she has one, setting up a slightly different story line. Either that or we get Jill as Chris’ partner for this extra mode.

New Exciting Elements
The new game could take more inspirations from Hotel Rhawanda and less from Black Hawk Down. It’s just a passé trend now that a helicopter in Resident Evil is going to be shot down. If your main heroes are in there, it is invincible. If a no name person, sans Mike, is in there, it’s going down from a little tap of anything, biological or otherwise. Regardless, I wanted more violence in the game that would make me cringe in the same way that the acid death in Resident Evil 4 made me feel. It makes you feel mortal like Leon instead of a superhero Chris pumped up on steroids who can’t even be bothered to show his head being chainsawed off.

*Image from Official RE5 Site

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by BlueZero

Now, Let me tell you all the reasons that this video is better than the actual game that came from it.

1. The main character has some kind of face. He is actually a person that matters in the game.
2. The graphics are kind of simple, but although simplistic they still carry points for having more detailed environments than the actual game.
3. Crushing sound of the guy's fingers sounds like it hurts. In the actual game it is a soft, fwamp, that sounds like kicking a football, not breaking bone.
4. This guy is EVIL. He throws a guy into fire! Not only does that guy break his legs from the fall, but the he burns to death. Furthermore, the guy looks like James Bond! When do I get to kick James Bond's butt in the game? It certainly isn't during the helicopter scene, since he dies anyways (and yells if you shoot him down). This mysterious character also punches a guy into a shark tank. When did the game have an awesome shark tank? I mean, the game had a shark tank level, but there weren't any man eating sharks in it, removing the prestigious badge of "awesome". The enemies in this video take friendlies hostage, or so it looks. In the game they only take enemies hostage. Wow, smart move, take a guy hostage who I as the player was going to kill anyways. Atleast in the video it makes it seem like the player doesn't even care about the friendly, and decides to shoot him anyways.[This picture seems to confirm]
5. Rarely anything good explodes in the game during gameplay. I certainly wish I could have exploded a helicopter by lighting a fuel trail. I could feel like Wolverine from Xmen Origins.
6. The player can absorb a boatload of bullets with his goldeneye power. In game if he took even a second of that fire, he'd be dead.
7. In Air Fragmentation grenade? Where can I sign? Unless he is blowing up a guy with explosives attached. Then kudos. Unless that is a hostage with explosives attached. Then especially evil kudos!
8. Guys have wicked sunglasses.

What sucks about this video which the game got right:

1. Simple graphics and textures are better in game.
2. The main character during the first part facing M has his head jerk weirdly. I believe it was green-screened in. I don't recall it during the actual game cutscene being that way.
3. Better shooting animation, and better shooting sounds.

Anyways check out a screenshot gallery here:http://www.mi6.co.uk/media/gallery/index.php3?subdir=gra_screenshots/&view=gal&offset=1

Notice how a lot of the pictures appear to be in-production photos. This is especially apparent by the shadows and texturing. The texturing is very poor, but the shadows are soft, and resource intensive. This means that the photos were likely taken in an unfinished/ overly expectant rendering engine.

Also, you got to actually fight Oddjob.

Try and find one photo that doesn't look more exciting than the actual game, I dare you. Post a comment with the offending photo.

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by Zott820

Moving alone is the OC remix named Malevolent Mansion by remixer: Audix, Nekofrog. The pace of the song is much faster than what one would expect from a halloween song. The electric tone and beat add to the original.

The would also like to embed the Mad Monster Mansion Theme OC but embedding is disabled on this song. Thus, check out this Banjo Kazooie OC Remix. This remix takes a huge departure from the original by really slowing down the tempo, adding a little woman vocal background sound, and by making each chord have more emphasis.

Kingdom Hearts Nightmare Before Christmas Music

I'm not impressed with the way that Kingdom Hearts did the Nightmare Before Christmas music. They should have made it vocalized and not made it background music.

I only watched my roommate play the game a few years ago. It's pretty bad that I like the Disney characters more than I like the Final Fantasy characters. At least they had most of the original voice actors doing the Disney characters!

NOW WE ARE TALKING! Here is a pretty epic battle between Jack and Oogie Boogie. Mmm, original voice actor for Oogie Boogie singing a variation of the original Oogie Boogie song. I really enjoyed watching this video and I just discovered it after I made the post. I really don't understand how Jack does damage with music but it fits nevertheless.

In conclusion, this Halloween post is a little too short for what I wanted to do but hey, it's Halloween and we all have things to do. My new favorite song is the variation of the Oogie Boogie song. I'll be looking more into this later.

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by BlueZero

For reference, Bobby Kotick is some high ranking Activision guy. AKA the CEO.

The reason for the PC backlash is that we as a elitist crowd are legion and are able to get our way. Some PC gamers have been denied being right in life and the Internet and video games are the only places where they have some power. You tell these people that they can't run their own server and thus can't be superior, you tell these people to boycott and flame your game.

Another part of the anger is that FourZeroTwo basically had to play the role of Marketing PR by saying that this matchmaking only system is better and an evolution for PC gaming. Hmm, taking away an option is never a step in the right direction. Moreover, this setup is bad if IW ever took down their servers (unlikely when compared with similar systems like BattleNet and Steam). I personally want to see mods on the PC platform and dedicated servers are always better than a few servers.

I understand that Infinity Ward is making this move to combat piracy on the PC. They saw the high number of people playing without a cd key on servers and they want to get a piece of that pie. The catalyst was Activision, a company that has been reducing the range of PC Internet gameplay with their no LAN for Starcraft II. Thus, I hope that gamers are able to cope with less for their money. With MW2's price of $59.99 on PC, an increase of $10, PC gamers better make their money do the talking.

Here is a video of the now famous Hitler scenes for any huge paradigm shift in the gaming world.

So anyway, this recent announcement which I first read on Kotaku a few days doesn't change my standpoint about the game. I am still getting the PS3 version because I feel I can dominate the players where on PC I will get possibly destroyed. Maybe nowadays with my new Core i7 and gaming mouse, I can compete, but I don't want to pay $60 for a PC game. For PS3, still a day one purchase. For PC, I would wait a couple months for the price drop. For 360, I hope you enjoy paying $50 a year to play the same game online. Oh, what's that? You are correct, this is my bias! If you are a Wii gamer, enjoy a badly made port of Call of Duty 4, which I doubt few people haven't played this Game of the Year.

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by BlueZero

Leon sure knows how to be epic. Lasers are no problem for him. I remember this room for the sheer awesomeness of Leon's moves. He is able to air dodge the lasers with precision. The only way to top this performance would be if Leon took out his knife and sliced through the lasers. I didn't realize that the chair is a homage to Castlevania. This would have been more apparent if Leon wondered "what is a man doing resting here?"

Now it's time for a suplex done right! Who would have thought this would have been possible?

Ashley attended one hour of the Secret Service Elite Course while Leon took an entire week to get up to speed for his trip to Spain. Ashley can now defend herself with some hands on "overtime".

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by BlueZero

I remember seeing this guy from Kotaku or Joystiq's best cosplay of PAX 2009. I was amazed at the details of the minigun (not pictured in the video) as it was a spot on recreation of the one from the game. Sasha being stolen by the spy is such great humor. This guy really knows how to portray the Heavy and has spent a lot of time practicing and creating the perfect costume. I think the only way to counter the epicness of this Heavy is to link to other awesome Team Fortress 2 videos. Thus, I will only include one here since there are soo many funny videos:

"May I borrow your earpiece? This is Scout, rainbows make me cry! [Over]". When I had first heard this sound file, I cracked up. I just found this video and it goes so well for a spy dominating a scout. A spy shouldn't be able to kill a Scout, Spy or a Pyro, it's just dishonorable for people playing those classes.

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by BlueZero