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Any MMO-Playing Sifters Out There?

littledragon_79 (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/littledragon_79) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:17:46 -0700

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I'm sure there are plenty, but I was wondering who out there plays MMOs and what you are playing?

I've been playing Vanguard lately and BF2 every once in a while.

- littledragon_79

Do you play WoW?

UsesProzac (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/UsesProzac) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:12:45 -0700

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Gwiz665 and I are playing Horde on Lightning Hoof, US! We'd love for any Sifters to join us.

I've got a fancy guild with fancy bank tabs and fancy mats for your leveling pleasure.

I would be willing to help you out with my fancy level 80!

My main's name is Lallu. She's a lonely troll priest looking for someone to hold hands with and take long walks on the beaches of Darkshore, admiring the corpses of newly dead night elves.

See you there, hopefully!

[WoW=World of Warcraft, but if you didn't know that, chances are this Sift Talk isn't for you.]

- UsesProzac

Buy World of Goo for $0.01

gwiz665 (http://gwiz665.videosift.com) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:46:46 -0700

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The developer of the game World of Goo has made an offer that games shouldn't refuse. In honor of the 1 year anniversary of the game, they are selling it for donations until Oct 19th - you can donate what you feel is right and get a free license for the game.

The game is very amusing and I recommend it for everyone. I've bought it for $5, what will you give?

http://www.videosift.com/video/World-of-Goo-new-crazy-cool-indie-game-trailer

http://www.videosift.com/video/At-the-core-of-the-World-of-Goo

Get it at: http://2dboy.com/games.php

- gwiz665

AWESOME GAME--- The Tropico 3 Demo

marinara (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/marinara) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:37:55 -0700

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I've recently bought sins of a solar empire... damn thing took hours to play a map.
Then Dawn of War 2, which was much better, but had some weak spots with the AI and the maps, and the campaign can be beat in a coffee break (slight exaggeration)

However, tropico 3, with a slower pace, is the BOMB. Anyhow don't listen to me, download the demo. I got mine off steam.

- marinara

10 Fanmade Trailers (Embedded YouTube Videos) to Video Games

ant (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/ant) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:23:32 -0700

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Digg shares an Unreality article on ten fan-made trailers, with their embedded YouTube videos to video game movies -- "It's pretty obvious that pretty much every movie that has ever been based on a video game has been utter crap. When the best of the genre are Silent Hill and the Resident Evil series, you know you're in trouble. Quite simply, movie producers and directors don't 'get' the games they turn into movies, and if they do, those games should have never been adapted into movies to begin with. Video game fans, it seems, have a much better idea about what the genre should be -- if it's bad arse, make it bad arse, and if it's silly, well, make it silly. After the jump, take a look at the work of said fans, and enjoy ten awesome trailers to fan-made video game movies..."

- ant

The evolution of Japanese's TV game ads.

ant (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/ant) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:04:51 -0700

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Digg shares a four pages GameRadar article, with embedded YouTube videos, on "the evolution of Japanese game commercials. 30 years of daft, brilliant and disturbingly odd television/TV/telly skits. Japan has a well-earned reputation for daft, brilliant and disturbingly odd TV game commercials, but it took a long (sometimes painful) evolution along a course signposted by geeky TV celebs in bad jumpers during the 1980s and PlayStation-sophistication in the 1990s, for that rep to be won and maintained.

Back at the end of the 1970s, Japanese gamecorps started trying to convince their public that games were not something to be afraid of; that they were a perfectly reasonable, legitimate form of entertainment, like shogi or fishing. Once the Famicom Era kicked off, those same softcos dropped their polite, civilised image and began to go berserk all over Japan's telly screens with "CMs" (as the Japanese refer to "adverts" or "commercials") that were powerful enough to rip a viewer's mind open and sew it back together within the space of 15 seconds, discreetly lodging a MUST SHOP! impulse somewhere in the frontal lobe before the skit was over.

The evolution was televised, so join us as we trace its path from 1979 to 2009..."

- ant

The Colbert Report's FTWiest Gaming Moments

ant (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/ant) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:57:49 -0700

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http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2009/08/31/the-colbert-reports-ftwiest-gaming-moments/ from http://digg.com/television/Colbert_s_Best_Gaming_Moments

- ant

Electro-Mechanical Arcade Games

ant (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/ant) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:13:33 -0700

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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/31/electro-mechanical-a.html

- ant

A Crazy / Brilliant Idea

Fjnbk (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/Fjnbk) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:38:17 -0700

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As I was lost in my world of delusions the other day, I thought of this.

As has been well-documented, nobody likes the rockish Zero Punctuation theme that is grafted onto the beginning and end of those otherwise stellar videos.

It would be pretty cool if someone with the time, creativity, and comprehensive knowledge of music (i.e. not me) edited the theme out of the videos and replaced that hideous noise with relevant opening and closing music, a la the old videos. A bad example...

Prince of Persia
Opener: Lawrence of Arabia Main Theme
Closer: No Idea

Gar, I meant to post some excellent examples of possible changes, but I can't think of any right now, and I probably won't be able to think of any for quite some time. Leave your better ideas (or edited videos) in the comments.

- Fjnbk

Yahtzee's Prototype vs. InFamous challenge

thegrimsleeper (http://videogames.videosift.com/member/thegrimsleeper) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:35 -0700

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Anybody remember the challenge from Yahtzee's Prototype vs. InFamous video? Well we have the results: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/op-ed/6228-Yahtzees-Prototype-vs-InFamous-Challenge

- thegrimsleeper