Thanks to local stores breaking the street date of ME2 by several days, I've put about 20 hours into the sequel already.  It's a welcome reprieve from the shit I'm dealing with in the real world, and does a great many things better than its predecessor.  I feel that a lot of the RPG-centric folks will dislike it to a degree because it does lean hard on the side of shooters, doing away with the traditional inventory and being able to individually outfit crew members with armor or upgrades.Read more

In case no one noticed, the L4D2 SDK was released on time on Christmas eve.  I'm not sure what the bigger news item is: that the SDK is out, or that Valve was on time with a release.

At least we didn't have to wait 8 months this time!

Since we've got the goddamn STORM OF THE CENTURY rolling right now here in the hills of Pennsylvania, I figured this would be a good time to drop a line regarding L4D2.

For awhile now, most of us have been frequenting the fantastic 8v8 server run by Newf and co. over at No Nonsense Shenanigans which almost perfectly mirrors the kind of mod setup I would run myself.  The server's been picking up a lot of steam lately, and during primetime it can be a real bitch to get in.  That's where this post comes in.Read more

I'd like to extend a very sincere thank you to the three contributors who decided to buy me a copy of L4D2.  I'll be hosting it quite a bit, and the Sourcemod team is already hard at work putting out beta support for the game to give us admin functions and the ability to re-add crawling and other fun stuff if Valve left it in.

The modding this time around will be much more subdued.  The first L4D proved to be a cakewalk on any difficulty but expert, but this time around Valve has upped the challenge level considerably and done most of my modding work for me.

But not far from it.

TF2 server is going down, permanently, by the end of this month.  I'm not asking for donations.  Honestly it's long overdue; I should've given up on TF2 months ago.  Ventrilo hosting will be uneffected until January, I think.

The site's still a mess, no one visits it and I don't have the time to post here daily or even weekly.  It's paid for another year, but hell if I know what to do with the resources.

tl;dr - no more TF2, shit sucks.

The first couple minutes are just amazing.  And then he spawns into the level in a nanosuit and ruins it.