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aKiNo's Yearly Check-in

Roman A. — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:41:52 GMT

It's about that time I refresh you guys on where I've been since I'm pretty sure I'm the only person still actively playing CS 1.6. With CS:GO around the corner, that might change, but then there's also that chance that it might not. We'll see how that develops in time.

But for now, I've released a few CS movies since our last check-in.

ROY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrnQPjgl9k)

Featuring myself and my friend Toy. Get it? Roman.. .To--.. I think you got it. Anyway it's a part one, part two deal, Toy opens up with a nice few frags then I finish the second half with some solid clips.

DGL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UTykvYzEUE)

Featuring me and all deagle frags. Short and to the point. YouTube audioswapped my song so I provided a DL link in the description.

DB/R (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRmQKnQPiQ)

My latest flick, featuring myself and my friend dbflip.. again creativity is just pouring at this point. Three letters is sorta becoming a signature thing here. In any case, DB starts the first half while I take the second and he finishes the flick with one last clip at the end.

One last thing.. here's my "Blast from the past."

http://raguila.multiply.com/video/item/1/akiNo_beta_test

This was made over 5 years ago.. when I was still good at this game! But really though, nostalgia kicked in pretty hard after seeing this and it made me sorta come back to my roots which is here at Paradises Garage.

Here's a few links you guys can follow my work:

http://roman-a.com - photography/videography of live music, events and portraiture.
http://spanishforeagle.com - personal blog to follow my life, travels, etc.
http://thempire.co - my personal brand used for cross promotion, nightlife, and then some.

http://youtube.com/facefirstmg - official gaming movie page
http://youtube.com/holabano - test clips, short frag clips, generally random clips go here
http://youtube.com/rpaguila - personal page that hosts stuff IRL

thanks. :)

Valve's Snack Bar

DarkAstraea — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:38:17 GMT

That is one bad ass snack bar o.o wish my work place had one.

Portal 2 ARG

DarkAstraea — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:27:50 GMT

For those of you who are most likely out of the loop in Valve's latest April fool's prank. Here are the details: [clickeh]

Note: Meaning Portal 2 may get an early release today. Gabe Newell's Email decoded: 4/19/2011_7AM=4/15/2011_9AM

[http://www.aperturescience.com/a/b/c/d/g/h/abcdgh/] [http://www.facebook.com/ApSci]

Valve: We’re not done with Gordon Freeman

DarkAstraea — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:14:12 GMT

You will ever see it, yes. We are not done with Gordon Freeman’s adventures. I have nothing other than that to tell you today, but hang in there with us.

[Mr. Freeman]

Companion Cube Case Mod

DarkAstraea — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:56:25 GMT

*droooool*

[Clickeh]

Record Breaking Portal Speed Run

DarkAstraea — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:43:20 GMT

He's so pro that he got the cake in the end!!

Reason why HL2 EP3 is taking so long

DarkAstraea — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:08:19 GMT

Why Half-Life Episode 3 is taking so long!

(Clickeh)

COD Black Ops Commercial

DarkAstraea — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:55:19 GMT

LOLOLOLOL

Gordan has Legs!!

DarkAstraea — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:07:49 GMT

And he's a lefty! Brought to you by the guy who did DANCE FORTRESS!

Portal 2 Demo Concepts

DarkAstraea — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:40:58 GMT

Amazing new concepts, i really like the vacuum one. Can't wait for it to come out

Portal 2: Co-op

Rush Retrospective — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:42:57 GMT

I'm just going to leave this teaser here

CoD: Black Ops!

DarkAstraea — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:37:14 GMT

This was announced a while back. However, recently it has been confirmed that CoD: Black Ops will get DEDICATED SERVERS for the PC version of the game.

(EMPOSSEEBLEZ!)

Makers of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 wise up!

ParaDOX — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:46:34 GMT

Finally some good news!!! For those of you who know me, you know I refuse to infect my system with SecuROM DRM. I was considering getting this game on Steam until I realized it had the dreaded SuckuROM! I was dissapointed, expecially after the massive let down that was (is) Call of Duty: Modern Warfail 2. I have been looking for a new FPS to let my frustration out on and this might be the one!

They have released a patch that removes SuckuROM from the Steam version!!!!!!!! Let me repeat that for the hard of hearing....

They have released a patch that removes SuckuROM from the Steam version!!!!!!!!

Can you believe this? this is too good to be true!

Don't believe me? Ok I'll show you:

Single Player -
Fixed: Graphical issues on some systems on SP_03 (at start and when displaying background mountains at “Up river”)
Fixed: Character voice issue during cut scenes in SP_03b (only affected Spanish)
Fixed: Hang when killed using TOW Launchers in SP_05
Fixed: Graphical issue on some systems on SP_05 (displaying background mountains)
Fixed: Voice volume in cut scenes on SP_06
Fixed: Unexpected dialog at start of SP_08 (only affected Italian)
Fixed: Random crash in SP_09 cut scenes

Multi Player -
Fixed: Server Browser - Joining a password protected server results in a connection timeout
Fixed: Server Browser auto updating server list when reopened causing a timeout issue
Fixed: Password issue during Friend invites
Fixed: Password text field issue on joining a password protected server
Fixed: “Flickering” ship on Arica Harbor
Fixed: Clan tags that use numbers in them displaying a “0” on the Select Spawn Point screen
Fixed: Display issue on long server names
Fixed: Mortar Strike icon not updating (Beta issue)
Fixed: No “Exit Game” menu option appearing at the end of some rounds.
Fixed: Flickering user rank icon (appeared as an animated gif) when user reaches rank 10.
Fixed: Flickering trees and “Red Box” on Laguna Presa
Fixed: User is logged out when failing to create a new soldier
Fixed: Zeus stationary weapon not appearing in stats
Fixed: Zu23 not appearing in stats
Fixed: BMD3 AA not appearing in stats
Fixed: Friend request displaying incorrect Veteran stats
Fixed: End of Round screen displayed incorrect “UAV_Station” – now displays correct localized text.
Fixed: K/D ratio displays in the Front End
Fixed: K/D ratio displays correctly when “comparing”
Change: Server browser now defaults to list via Ping first
Change: News Ticker font support for Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese
Change: New message for server full (reported as “I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing”)
Change: New message displayed for attempting to join a password protected server without providing a password (reported as “I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing”)
Change: Displays version number on Front End Legal Screen
Change: Display of weapon icon during loading screen
Change: All clan tags will automatically be preceeded by [ and closed off with ] to prevent impersonating other players.

STEAM
Change: The STEAM version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 will no longer have SecuROM on the exe file. Instead it will use Valves own DRM instead.

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Game update news on SteamPowered

This is very good news for the PC gaming community. The companies are wising up to the loss of sales that their DRM is costing them and I don't mean through piracy...

It's a start. However, Read on:

Now if only they had TRUE dedicated server support. Currently you have to pay to rent a server from one of the "Official" hosters... Screw that! Looks like they too dropped the Dedicated server ball...

I guess it's Anarchy Online forever for me...

Modern Warfare 2 Ruined

Troop — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:43 GMT

Check out this post:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=990468

Make sure you listen to the webcast (skip to the 1hour, 39minute mark for MW2).

If this is true, I most certainly won't be buying MW2. What a disappointment :/

Open Source FPS: Bloody Frontier

DarkAstraea — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:01:19 GMT

"The open source FPS Blood Frontier has now made their beta2 release. From the article: 'After many months of development, and massive amounts of input from the public, we are proud to present you with the new release of Blood Frontier, v0.85 (Beta 2). This new version totally redefines and improves the game in many ways, creating a whole new style that makes it almost nothing like its predecessor.'"

(Clix Meh)

Pretty good looking game if i do say so myself :D

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Crysis on Sale at Steam Store with SecuROM DRM?

ParaDOX — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:30:05 GMT

I was just about to buy Crysis while it was on sale on Steam and as I was looking at it I realized it comes with SecuROM DRM! Needless to say I closed the window as fast as I could so I didn't get infected!

From what I hear they have made some improvements to the game, but I for one will NEVER allow that spawn of evil software near my computer! This stuff is related to the DRM SOny used with the rookits that infected so many hundreds of thousands of computers several years ago.

SecuROM has been know to cause all kinds of problems in the past. Never mind the fact that they keep track of how many installations you use. 5 Max in this case. Which means that as you upgrade your computer and finally get a powerful enough machine to actually play Crysis you may not be depending on how many times you had to reinstall it on your machine! Including SecuROM defeats the whole purpose of using Steam as the distribution platform.

Tell us your SecuROM nightmare stories...

FPS with Real Guns!

DarkAstraea — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:37:09 GMT

"A group called Waterloo Labs rigged up a few accelerometers to a large wall and projected a first-person shooter onto it. Using some math, they can triangulate the position of impacts on the wall, so naturally they found someone with a gun and bought a large case of ammunition. Even cooler, this group usually posts a 'how we did it' video a few weeks after a project's debut, including source code."

(Click Me)

(Click Me For Source Codez!!)