I don’t want to repeat everything I said in my review of the Left 4 Dead 2 demo, but there’s a lot to talk about. The weather effects in the Hard Rain campaign are quite well done, and the hotel fire at the beginning of the first campaign actually makes you feel like you’re in… Read More: Left 4 Dead 2 – now with more zombies »
The official release time of L4D2 is 2.5 hours from now, but Valve intended to release it 3 hours early; at least, that’s true if you go by Pacific time. So technically it’s 30 minutes late but 2.5 hours early still. I think someone’s having trouble configuring the release: At least, I’m pretty sure there… Read More: L4D2 Launch woes »
I’m watching the second episode of V right now. There are some things that don’t make sense. The Visitors have all this advanced technology, but the only photos they have of the resistance cell from the first episode are blurry. If you can travel interstellar space, create holograms, make human skin suits… you can definitely… Read More: V: There Is No Normal Anymore »
Cory Doctorow is a popular blogger. xkcd refers to him often (usually wearing goggles and a cape and riding a hot-air balloon in the blogosphere). He’s fairly intelligent when it comes to technology, or so I am led to believe… … but I’m beginning to wonder. Today, he posted a blog entry in which he… Read More: Why can’t people fact-check their posts? »
I was just looking at the pricing for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition. As it turns out, there are two pricing options: – Full version ($299) – Upgrade version ($199) Alright. You see that and you realize “Ok, self, if I have a previous version of Visual Studio, they’ll give me a discount for… Read More: Visual Studio 2008 pricing »