Seeing you nuts, er, folks talk about L4D and Killing Floor made me think
of the Ravenholm bit of HL2 and then I remembered They Hunger - the mod
for HL1.  Anyone know whatever happened to that game?  They said they were
working on another They Hunger title but that must have been ...

what a waste on top of being third person,I was thinking about the
terminator universe and how rich it is. you have all the robots with
different variations, water ones, land ones,air ones,exoskeloton,the
sort of goulish looking half human looking ones.

The latest unofficial patch version 6.2 is available from its home at The
Patches Scrolls: http://www.patches-scrolls.de/vampire_bloodlines.php
Finally the Dragon's Breath has been restored with help of Lenuska. It
replaces the flaming crossbow, but of course is plus patch only. ...

"Rock, Paper, Shotgun" is carrying an article based on an interview
with Oleg Yavorsky of GSC.
It's quite a decent read and I personally found the comments about the
modding community to be rather interesting.

More quick thoughts...
* Cryostasis (new)
I want to give the developers of Cryostasis kudos for trying something
different. Cryostasis may be the first avant garde computer game made

* Land of the Dead - Road to Fiddler's Green (replay)
By all measurements, Land of the Dead is a terrible game. It has
unspectacular gameplay coupled with an aging engine and is based on a
terrible movie. And yet... there's something about this game that

I'd never heard of 'The Escapist' until ten minutes ago, but I just watched this
(watch the wrap)...
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/748-Duke-Nukem-Forever
http://tinyurl.com/pv7u25

G'day mates, how's it goin?  I saw the other day that the makers of
Duke Nukem were being sued by some money grubbin mob.  Those lawyers
all need to be bloody well strung up and gutted.  Just ask me mate
Merv.  He was down the rub a dub dub knockin back a few with some

Interested in the new Wolfenstein reboot?

Has anybody else downloaded an evaluation copy of Windows 7?
So far I'm extremely impressed. I like the look and feel of it. I
realise that it's just Vista with some changes, but I didn't like
Vista and yet I've taken an instant liking to Windows 7.

Spring, as they say, has sprung; the air is clear, the grass is green,
the flowers are blooming. Go outside and enjoy the nice weather? Hell
no; play video games! But what video games are we playing? That's what
this thread is all about.

Just 45 mins. into this 3rd person shooter and find it to be quite
interesting.
Everything is a bit different including the graphics and gun play.
So far I have a good looking pistol,acquired a neat submachine gun,

if you are going to take the time to create these wonderfully
large,detailed and immersive enviroments....at least consider doing me
and many others a favor.it shouldnt create that much of a hassle.
at least offer a first person view.