My friend Joe over at Massive Crits has a great post about the player-remade map of Rock.
Unlike Joe, I had the chance to play a couple rounds on Rock recently. Small matches, all basically Scout rushes and one Heavy camping the warden’s office, but it was enough to see the map work beautifully. It’s […]

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My annoyingly erratic update practices continue — there’s a new entry up on Living In Oblivion.  Check out Day 19 Ampersand 20 here.
Sorry I can’t keep to a schedule, but I don’t have a schedule, because the moment I have a schedule for something I feel pressure to meet the deadlines, and when I feel […]

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With the swarm of medics dwindling and gameplay returning to more-or-less normal levels on most servers, it’s time to look ahead and speculate wildly about which class will be up next for new achievements and unlockable weapons.
According to this post over at Control Point, all signs point to Pyro. Some snooping around with GCFscape […]

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id Software has announced that they’ve begun work on Doom 4.
I didn’t play a whole lot of Doom 3, even though I was enjoying it. I just kind of stopped at some point for reasons I couldn’t remember, and never went back. But I liked the parts I played, they were scary as […]

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If you enjoyed the 2D Flash version of Portal, and believe me, you did, you might be interested to know that the people behind it, We Create Stuff, have created (or more accurately, recreated) those levels for the actual 3D Portal game.
I haven’t tried them yet so I can’t say how good they are, but […]

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The Payload gamemode seen in Goldrush is a variation on the old escort mode from the TFC days called “The Hunted” or “V.I.P.”.
One player would be the VIP, sort of a wimpy, wealthy looking dude with an umbrella, and his team (made up of heavies and soldiers and, I think, medics) would try to escort […]

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Over at Gamasutra there’s an article examining the top 20 underutilized licenses. You know, for games. Included are The Venture Brothers (I agree — I’d love to see a VB game) and Groundhog Day (I… huh?).
They leave off one that, despite my generally negative feelings about MMORPGs, I personally think is prime for […]

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True to his word, Internet celebrity Christopher Livingston today published an update to his Living In Oblivion blog.
Place your mouse over these words and click your button to view Day 18. Quick! Before he changes his mind! He’s crazy like that!

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Adventure haters rejoice:  my Living in Oblivion blog gets a write-up in the June 2008 issue PC Gamer UK!  That’s all kinds of awesome.
So, if you want to see Nondrick’s huge ugly head in print, head out to newsstands and pick up a copy, or as they say in England, hop in the lorry and […]

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Well, after a morning of meticulous meddlesome medicing on mostly public servers, I’m happy to report I’ve got the Blutsauger. Some of the achievements I got because I was specifically grinding for them, and totally ignoring the needs of my teammates. Some were just accomplished by playing the game like a non-jerkwad. […]

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