This Zonbie's out to get your lulz! This member of the Liberty City Gun Club will deliver your milk in the morning, but only after he crushes a Fremen rebellion. Shouldn't everyone conquer desert worlds first thing in the morning? It leaves you feeling so refreshed for the remainder of your day and the spice does wonders for your complexion.

Why not join me in congratulating him and, while we're at it, checking out his PQ and maybe see if there's anything worth salvaging from his discards. Congrats again, Zonbie, and how about hooking it up with a job in the gaming industry some day? I have this great idea for a game... it's about a zombie uprising that starts in a little video community site on the internet and then spreads across the globe in an orgy of drugs, sex, and rock and roll! Get me Ken Levine!

From Joystiq:

From the folks who brought you Portal: the Flash Version, (We Create Stuff) this time the Flash levels have been made into a genuine Portal map pack with all 40 levels of the Flash version, and bonus levels and features. (Requires Steam with Portal and HL2 installed to play). The link to the file is in the Joystiq article, or you can just get it here.

Any other sifters going to QuakeCon? I registered tonight (#488) for the BYOC.

I can't embed from gametrailers, but this review is a must see, especially in HD. Much better than the IGN review in the Top 15.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33327.html
Maybe someone with more power can post it.

This is about the Warhammer Online Game (MMORPG) and it has embed, because of my lowly silver star I cannot post the embed - But anyone else is welcome to try


http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/herald/flash/2008-03_pp_JeffonCities.html

It may not be Top15 material, but its at least interestin to people looking for a new way to spend all their free time...

With all this anti-Uwe stuff going on, I thought fans of WoW would like to know what Blizzard told the infamous ruiner-of-good-games-by-movies:

"We will not sell the movie rights, not to you...especially not to you."
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52322

PWNAGE.

Flash games used to be God-awful, but lately I've found some genuinely brilliant and original offerings.

Magic Pen

The goal is to move a ball or a box to a given point on the screen using only physics and your trusty magic pen. More addictive then crack.

Don't watch too much of the video, because most of the fun is figuring out how to engineer a victory on each level.




You Have To Burn The Rope

Just go play it. I don't want to spoil it for you.

Desktop Tower Defense

Build a maze of guns in order to defeat increasingly more powerful enemies. Simple but addictive.


If you have any recommendations, post them below.

This is just out of curiosity, as there seems to be a lot of people directed here from Blues News. Lets see what games other members of the sift are playing and if you want, you could inclide a brief list of your favorite games of all time and maybe the game you think you've spent the most time playing.

I'll go first:

Favorite genre: First-Person Shooter

Favorite games:
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy 3 (or 6 if you want to be proper)
Max Payne 2
Team Fortress 2

I have probably spent more time playing the original quake than any other game, back when I was 12 and I thought 32 player team fortress was the be-all and end-all of gaming.

According to the folks at Joystiq, Bethesda will be releasing the special edition (for 360, PS3, and PC) for $70.00, which beside the game, includes:

Vault Boy Bobblehead (uhoh, where have I seen him before? hmm)
“The Art of Fallout 3” 100-page hardcover book with concept art/comments from the team
“Making of Fallout 3” DVD
and all packaged in a custom metal…lunchbox?!

There is also a release date of October 7, 2008 listed on Gamestop and Amazon (unconfirmed by Bethesda)

I’ve never played either of the first two, so is 3 something folks new to the franchise can jump right into, or should I find some copies on eBay?

Well, It made me think : WTF when I saw this:

I survey taken - asked Parents to identify what was the worst thing for kids to see...

And apparantly full sex and 2 men kissing are FAR worse than you child seeing a severed head.

Go figure.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/11/gay-kissing-as-bad-as-severed-head-welcome-to-america/

What does everyone else thing? I guess this is what happens when puritans grow up - Sex is EVIL!! Severed Heads are so bad...

Sorry but what... (this is a US survey btw afaik)
The results here in Europe wold be...different

I can't post this as it's not from one of the normal sites
http://gonintendo.com/?p=38261
Looks pretty fun, even if the strumming will probably suck

So I recently stumbled upon this game that is absolutely fantastic, if simple. Audiosurf (www.audio-surf.com) takes any mp3 (or similar music file) and tracks it into an F-zero sort of game... It's hard to describe, but if you like music, you must at least try this thing out. You can get it for $10 or a demo through Steam. Try it! and if you buy it, here are a few songs that are perfect for it:
Celldweller - Last Firstborn
DJ Shadow - Stem (from the 187 soundtrack) <--
Rush - YYZ
Daft Punk - One More Time <--
Witches - Broomstick - Ddauta - Sambakza <--
And generally ALL fast up-beat trance or drum'n'bass.

And if you're in for a challenge:
Tatu - All the things she said

I've been a lover of audio-visualization for the last 10-15 years and I think this is the most intelligent visual reconstruction of music ever made. If you don't believe me on my word, try the songs I listed above, especially Daft Punk and DJ Shadow... I'm sure you can use your internet savvy to find them.

Other than them, I recommend either very dynamic songs, very energetic songs (with lots of notes, not just hardcore crap), or songs with multiple tempos or better, multiple time signatures.

I'm new to sifting, but it says that this embed code is invalid:

<embed src='http://video.sanriotown.com/flaon/us/loader.swf?key=940e1da3a3e31f2d' width='400' height='300' type='application/x-shockwave-flash'></embed>

It needs to be sifted!

http://video.sanriotown.com/video/940e1da3a3e31f2d

Thought you gamers would get a kick out of this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7254078.stm

Gameplay: VideoSift gameplay primarily consists of a perpetual grind toward next level. At each level the player is rewarded with new prestige armor, new spells (but you have to pay extra for the mana to cast some of them) and, at some levels, an increased capacity to grind for more levels. Hard work is rewarded with more work.

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