is awesome…

Ok, so there’s nothing groundbreaking with the gameplay or graphic or technology…  but Fist of The North Star!!! If you don’t know this title (Hokuto Musou!!!) then you can skip the whole post, really.

But for all of you that do know, and enjoy the comic (or even Anime, yikes!), you owe it to yourself to play this extremely over the top fighting game……… Man I love those comics.

Ken: you feel lucky, punk?
punk1: huuuuuh?
punk2: and who the **** are you, eeeeeh?
Ken: YATATATATATATATATA!!!!
*punks’ heads start to get swollen*
punk1&2: what the? thats the best you can do?? hahahah…errrk* 
*heads exploded*

It’s like a trip down memory lane… while riding on a bike, swinging spiked chains, running over evil punks, blowing their heads off with your punches.

I was never big on reading other people’s blog (so sue me… ) but the few I’ve read, they latched on me for life a long time.

Here’s a good example. A mathmetician’s blog with puzzles: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/

On another news, I’m still waiting for a chance to stop by EBgames to get a copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I was a huge BF2 maniac (and a wee bit of BF2142) and been missing a solid online FPS frag fest (no, Call of Duty is not one of them – solid Single Player, sure… but kiddies MP). Hopefully this game can finally cure it. Well the following video helped….

Sure, us gamers on the east side of the Pacific Ocean can get excited over Yakuza 3 game. But over across the pond, them Japs are getting ready for Yakuza 4.

Check out the link for the super-awesome game trailer LOL

http://kotaku.com/5476999/yakuza-4-will-pick-up-a-scooter-and-smash-you-in-the-face

Funny how both CTRLALTDEL and PennyArcade had similar comic today… maybe I missed some big announcement…. hmmm…

Happy Weekend!

Gaming post today! (yeah, didn’t see that one coming from the title, eh?)

I just read Ars Technica’s most wanted games for 2010 list, and although I’m generally not impressed (weird games, missing games), I found a little gem called APB.

But before that, let’s start with what I’m personally waiting for: Aliens Versus Predator. This is simply one of the easiest pick for me. Although I don’t buy alot of game (actually, very very selected few), I tried a lot of them. And, given enough time, I would love to try even more. But only a selected few I can call a “good game” and worthy of my dollars. AvP is one of them. I’ve been waiting for a good, solid, game for over a year now after I dropped LOTRO, and judging from its predecessor and previews, this is one game with a solid story, exciting gameplay, and intense multiplayer.

So, onto All Post Bulletin. After trying out a few different MMO (and wasted a good few hundred/thousand hours on them) in the past, I’m now looking into another one. Afterall, if I’m to summarize the kind of games I played, it’ll be mostly MMO and multiplayer-heavy FPS. The thing with MMO, since most of them comes with a monthly fee, the quality standard is even higher for me. LOTRO, for example, has excellent storyline and great gameplay and immersive world. Coupled with good community, it’s easy to rank it my #2 MMO of all time (#1 is old Star Wars Galaxy before the NGE).  Then comes Star Trek Online (lame actions), StarWars Old Republic (nice voice, crappy graphic?), and an onslaught of others (no, I won’t touch WoW). But nothing really hits the spot (I even spend over 6 months on Eve, and I had to let that one go too) that could push me over to pay a monthly bills.

Until I saw this trailer.

Here’s the link to the site and more videos/screens/info: APB.com

Guess it’s time to start saving…

First off, Happy Holiday! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

Now that I’m back (for abit) I like to post one cute news… and words just escaped me to explain this… so just watch the video.

Article: EndGadGet

No, seriously. Cat brain. Apparently IBM has managed to reverse-engineered and simulate the complexity of a feline’s brain. The team also mentioned that it’s a very huge step towards opening the pandora box of Artifical Inteligence: the human brain. And the scariest part? According to one of the scientest, Darmendhra Modha, following the advancement of processing power, they will have enough firepower to simulate our brain by 2019. That’s, uh… barely 10 years from now.  Ten, short years. Better rewatch my Terminators DVD collection…
Read more: Popular Mechanics, MercuryNews, Gizmodo

On less scarier news, Square-Trade – an after-trade warranties company – released the analysis of their research of the most robust brand of laptop, based on the frequency of their warranty-claimed over 3 years and 30,000 laptops. If you think Apple is top-spot, then think again.
Read the full article: InfoWorld

Last but not least, Nvidia’s latest offering to the gaming industry, the Geforce100 – codename Fermi – is getting ready to be released. There’s only speculation and rumours so far, but apparently one of the staff twitted (I really should have a twitter)(no I don’t) a picture of a running card. Dx11 capable? Oh yes please. Picture below.
Read here: Endgadget

And here’s something to cap everything off: new Mario games for Wii. Man, now I really wish I have a Wii. Old school FTW!! This game is sooo full of win
Wired Article

O yeah, here we go… I haven’t done this in a while….. Music post!!

Coz Borderlands [PC Game] is so darn cool…

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Soundtrack music lovers? Check this out:

http://soundtracks-mp3.blogspot.com/

Rawr. Awesome site.

To begin with, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is out on PC. It’s one of the most anticipated FPS of the year, with the prequel (Modern Warfare 1) scoring multitude of awards last year, massing thousands of twitchy-finger addict gamers blasting each other through the net…. myself included. The single-player content was worthy of the awards alone, but the multiplayer was the pinnacle of the game. No, the whole Call Of Duty series. And thus, continuing its legacy, MW2’s multiplayer was one of the most anticipated fragfest of the year.

Or was it? With Infinity Ward removing a dedicated server altogether, many players are actually boycotting the game (yes, again, myself included), since it takes away the capabilities to schedule matches and playing favourites on certain servers. That being said, early reports been saying MW2 copies are flying off the shelves… they flew so fast that certain “sites” already made it available online. Anybody willing to download over 11Gb of illegal content in order to save $60CAD and missing the multiplayer altogether? I know I won’t.

Moving on from MW2, I still can’t get enough time to grab myself a copy of it since I’m still stuck enjoying Borderland thoroughly. I posted some videos a couple days ago, and it *IS* as fun as the trailer. For full review, click here.

The last game that definitely grab my attention is Shattered Horizon. If you’re a true PC gamer, than you would’ve heard the name Futuremark; the company that created the famous 3dMark benchmark series. Well, it’s the same company.

So is it just another FPS? Actually, yes. With one glaringly obvious unique touch: zero-gravity. For more info, check out the trailer below, or read here for a review. Yummy.

So Turbine (developer of the MMORPG game, LordOfTheRingsOnline) threw a LOTRO-themed pumpkin carving contest. Read on the link to see the full gallery… but darn, those are some nice carvings!

Gallery Link

Could it be? Finally, a decent game-to-movie adaptation?

Well, the trailer seems to make my mouth drool just fine………

Looks very interesting… hmmm…. I like the visual style and music approach, but of course, until I get my hand on a copy, no one really knows

Trailer:

Trailer/Behind the scene clip1:

Trailer/Behind the scene clip2:

Well here’s something interesting for the future of gaming………….

If you think Crysis is good, guess what they got for you in store later this year………..

AI in the gaming industry is one of the most basic form of AI found, but that’s not to say a basic form can’t have a (very) complex augmentation. It’s like saying a tweaked 4-cyl Honda can outrun a v8 Porsche. It’s possible and it’s wise not to underestimate it.

As mentioned in the beginning of the article, a true AI requires a remarkable number of CPU and some ridicolous amount of memory as it require to compute more than a decision-making-path-finding obstacles, it need to LEARN and improve it’s logic thinking. Basic AI in games are more “static”, as it doesn’t learn new ways. It may simulate learning, but it’s not true learning, as it’s only branching out to another set of path-tree instead of assimilating the current values as it learn. Again, it can still be complex by substituting the values from an action to a goal… but I’ll leave you with this article I found. It’s a great read if you’re into these stuff

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2009/03/05/how-ai-in-games-works/1