Mind of Alyxandor

 So it would seem that all of us old-school Shadowrun fans (i.e. Fans of the series before the FPS on 360) are getting one of our wishes and that’s a new game based on the cyber-punk universe we love. Only 28 hours ago there was a Kickstarter project started by the original creator of the Shadowrun universe Jordan Weisman and after that amount of time they have already raised enough money to start making the game. What’s even better is that now with the more donations they receive more features will be added such as co-op and PvP deathmatches. So open your hearts and your wallets and give, give, give! Here is the original Kickstarter project video and to visit the site CLICK HERE!

There is a broadcast in Batman Arkham City that is a numbers station repeating 9 23 9 12 12 18 5 20 21 18 14 2 1 20 13 1 14 over and over. It translates to “I WILL RETURN BATMAN” Very interesting. I wonder what it means. The broadcast frequency is about 683, 483. Check it out.

Hello this is an associate of Alyxandor’s and I am here to inform you all that he will return soon. He has been away with his family moving into a new home and getting many things taken care of. He has assured me that he will have his internet up and running within the next few weeks! Stay tuned for more info!

An interesting looking little voxel game has been in development a few weeks now and looks, well cute. 

Here is a small amount of info released by the developers…

Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew. They will have to fight to survive unspeakable horrors and their own anxieties as they chase down the truth behind a galaxy-spanning deception that places humanity at the mercy of the most murderous and deadly species in the universe. Aliens: Colonial Marines features authentic environments, such as the surface of LV-426 and Hadley’s Hope, weapons inspired by the film series and is designed to

FEATURES:

Enlist in the Marine Corps
Bringing you a true sequel to James Cameron’s classic Aliens, get tooled up with classic Marine weapons including pulse rifles, motion trackers and flamethrowers.

The most authentic Aliens experience ever!
Using authentic environments inspired by the film series including Hadley’s Hope, the Sulaco and LV-426, you will be immersed in an eerie, atmospheric world where any moment could bring your death.

Drop-in / Drop-out co-operative gameplay.
The masters of co-op bring their expertise to the Aliens universe. Xenos getting too tough? Call up your buddies so they can drop in with extra firepower. The whole campaign can be played with a squad of up to four players, dropping in and out as necessary through self-contained missions within an over-arching narrative.

Loadouts and upgrades.
Create your perfect killing machine. An extensive upgrade system allows players to customise their characters to play the way they want. Earn experience to get perks, new weapons and new looks for your squad.

And now a video:

Here are two dev diaries for a gorgeous mech combat game in development called Hawken. Check it out! 

The CDC website posted an article about the emergency preperation of a zombie apocalypse….wait what? Yep I read that right, a zombie apocalypse… hmmmm interesting. The CDC has assured us that despite it’s somewhat “fictional” nature they won’t be caught with their pants down when the dead rise and start eating us.

“There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for,” the site warns. As far as the zombie apocalypse is concerned, “You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this.”

I am glad they are taking the matter as seriously as any other outbreak. I am very prepared for the coming zombie outbreak, are you?! 

Click the picture above for the official CDC post.

Terraria Update Released

Controls

• Right clicking and holding on a crafting recipe will craft multiple of the same item to a max of the stack and/or until you run out of materials.

Items

• NEW ITEM : Sticky Bombs, Requires 5 Gel and a Bomb.
• Sand Duping bug fixed. 
• Placing a bed far from the spawn no longer causes a player who has set their spawn there to crash on join. 
• Mining stone and other hard ores make a ‘tink’ noise now.
• Hellstone and Obsidian now require at least a Demonite pick to gather.
• Sand no longer spawns within a certain distance of the spawn location, This should remove the chance of spawning in a desert with no wood to use.
• Hellstone now correctly takes as long to dig as meteor does.
• The clay pot item now has the correct size.

Performance

• Frame-skip is now correctly ON by default for new players. 
• Increased Client Side Multiplayer stability. Should resolve many crash causes. 
• Corrected a bug where players would intermittently not take falling damage. 
• The world file is now saved to a temporary file that is copied over to the actual save file. This prevents world corruption when saving is interrupted. 
• Fixed a bug that disabled some error handling. Overall game stability should be improved.

GUI

• The version number of the game now shows on the title screen. 
• Typing numbers in chat no longer changes your selected item in your hotbar.

Server

• Servers now listen to all IP addresses on the hosting PC, regardless of how many network connections are active. 
• Typing “localhost” instead of your own local IP address will connect to your own same-PC server. 
• The games default port is no longer ELEET (31337) it is now 7777.
• Client will now resolve a hostname into its IP address, for example, if randomsite.org ran a server, you could type randomsite.org as the IP address and be able to connect.

I must start out saying I am a huge Hellgate London fan as I did the beta and played it until the day it went down. I even still play the single player campaign of it just because it is that good. For those of you unfortunate enough to have not experienced this gem of a game, it was made by the same team as the Diablo series which at the time was Flagship Studios (now named Runic Games, yes the guys who made Torchlight) and was essentially a futuristic Diablo set in London with the ability to go into first person view to shoot.

It is a glorious game! Anyways, the Korean company Hanbitsoft is reviving the game as a free to play which has a beta starting up in June!!! I am eagerly awaiting the beta servers going up as I am one of the lucky chaps fortunate enough to test it. I do hope that Hanbitsoft has not ruined a beloved classic by changing too much. I have already noticed that they removed it’s DX10 capabilities and went with a lower end DX9 setup instead. I guess only time will tell.