Blog entries

Crashing, lagging, and glitching to victory

Steve Burke — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:03:33 +0100

We've all been there before, especially in online driving games, where synchronization is a must: lagging to victory. Sure, lag can be the penultimate immersion destroyer, the worst enemy in a gun fight, and cause you to smash up against buildings while racing, but it also works the other way. Teleportation is a sweet thing.

If I ever decide to review APB, and I likely will, the ill-timed game and system crashes will certainly damage its score. I initially tried to deduce what was causing thRead More...

Retrospective: Morrowind

Timothy Martin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:05:08 +0100

Alright, enough blog posts about APB recently. Here's something different. This story takes place - uh... a long time ago - in Morrowind (duh) on the original Xbox (unfortunately, those loading times sucked).

I traveled north from Vos, on some long forgotten mission. As I neared the sea, a fantastic Deadric ruin appeared on the horizon. I was a spellsword, primarily a mage but often reliant on my powerful summoned dagger. I had stolen a full set of priceleRead More...

APB group composition. Part 2

Brant Armstrong — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:18:17 +0100

As stated previously this is for criminals only.

Group size:2

Player 1:

Primary weapon: OCA

Reasoning: This gun is unstoppable at close range and since many areas you fight in will be CQC this gun becomes a no-brainer. This player will probably complete most of the objectives with the other player covering him as this player will primarily be confined to low to mid range fighting.

Secondary weapon:S-AS

Reasoning: This player will bRead More...

Bored in Kentucky: APB group composition. Part 1

Brant Armstrong — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:54:00 +0100

I am extremely bored so I decided to write down some of my thoughts on the best group setups in APB from my experience. I will do this in parts due to the random family things I keep getting pulled into.

*These are all for criminal players*

One person setup:

Primary Weapon: OCA/Ntec

Reasoning: This gives you the greatest amount of versatility which is a necessity when you have to take on one person at varying locations with differing amounts of cover and at dRead More...

How I would balance A.P.B.

Brant Armstrong — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:07:49 +0100

This will all be in bullet point form and the order does not symbolize its importance. I will not mention things such as lag since I don't know to fix that :P

Gameplay changes:

-Give players called in as back up the ability to call in back up as well to counter people calling in for back up then going afk which often results in a mission loss.

-Allow the group leader to kick members of the back up squad within the first 45 seconds after they join to get rid of afk playersRead More...

My thoughts on the HVR.

Brant Armstrong — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:23:43 +0100

I just picked up the HVR a few days ago and I have been using for most of those days. I will real quickly go over its pros and cons as well as how I think it should be used.

Pros:

-Longest range

-Highest damage per a shot(2 shot kill even with hp upgrades)

-Best accuracy

Cons:

-Bolt action

-Must be reloaded before switching weapons

-Slows movement speed when equipped

-Very situational

-Poor at taking out enemies by itself dRead More...

Din's Curse on WINE

Steve Burke — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:06:59 +0100

Din's Curse is one of those indie games that you can sit down and play at any interval of time, but most importantly, it is one of those games that has minimal system requirements - all the gameplay entertainment in all the right places, including my laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

When I saw that developer Soldak Entertainment listed WINE for Linux (a Windows-type emulator) as a potential candidate to run Din's Curse, I had my doubts. Playing Windows-based games on a Read More...

My frustration with APB matchmaking.

Brant Armstrong — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:23:05 +0100

So after putting in 10 hours of APB since its release I have come to realize one thing. The matchmaking system sucks. From the very beginning I have been matched up with people that carried much more powerful upgraded weapons while I carried around a stock weapon. It makes every fight extremely hard. I mean who wants to fight against someone with a fully upgraded OCA(mp5) and stun gun when they just have a revolver and a stock sniper. It is extremely obnoxious. I can lose to players who are mRead More...

Crouching Tiny Hidden Dancer

Patrick — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:23:07 +0100

So my sister and a few of her friends started playing League a few days ago so in order to help initiate them I decided to create a new account and play along side of them; this not only allowed me to dominate newbs from a disguise but also allowed them to play people more their level and gave me 3 referrals on their way to level 10. Sounds good to me. Look for me as TheNumber2 or ShimGimmel on League and shoot a message my way. Want someone to walk you through also? All I request is your refRead More...

My Love/Hate Relationship with Norton

Steve Burke — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:46:07 +0100

Thanks to the popular gaming website Gamers Hell, I have now thoroughly infected my primary gaming and development PC with spyware, rootkits, and back-door trojans. I've tried just about everything to fix it: Avast pre-boot scan, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, SuperAntiSpyware, Spybot Search & Destroy, several diagnostic tools, and now Norton 360 4.0.

The good thing is, I have learned an incredible amount about anti-spyware and removal tools. The great guys over at Spybot's official forum hRead More...

First Post: Intro + GoDaddy Hosting Problems

Mad Panda LLC — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:59:00 +0100

Hello Gamers Nexus; my name is Michael Agosta; I am the Owner and Manager of Mad Panda, LLC. I am currently a student at North Carolina State University. My company sells self defense products and martial arts weapons such as knives, kubotans, riot batons, steel shot gloves, stun guns, pepper spray, tear gas, blowdart guns, cane swords, throwing knives, nunchaku, daggers, and more. This blog will focus on the website portion of my business as I discuss past and current websiRead More...

The Great Esteam-giveaway

Patrick — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:05:47 +0100

Alright; so if yall haven't seen the summer sale's Steam has been putting on I don't know what you've been doing. This is a gaming site after all; if all you use the internet for is youtube go away and never come back to this site. Gamers know what Steam is, so you should be checking it. Personally I've hit a roadblock in what to spend money on. I'm very fickle about how much money I pump into things and between All Points Bulletin opening up today and all these steam sales and the new World Read More...

Best 'D&D' Cameo Ever?

Steve Burke — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:20:23 +0100

Ok, so it wasn't Dungeons & Dragons, but it was a tabletop RPG. I am running a futuristic cyberpunk campaign (which you will hear more about soon) loosely based around the game Dystopia, the book 1984, and my own experience in the corporate world. We're using the Savage Worlds system. Believe me, this was the best cameo ever.

The players were trapped. They were driving through the multi-storey city - more accurately described as cities stacked on top of cities - attempting to makeRead More...

Damned Solo Queue

Patrick — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:14:45 +0100

I hate solo queue. It's that simple. You're Doing good and then all of the sudden and then the fabulous solo queue decides to stick you with people who try to go dps Taric or something equally (and probably moreso) ridiculous. I'm on about my fourth loss in a row here thanks to just awful teammates. This isn't even an excuse "oh my team's bad" this is genuine non-skilled players who have 1000 wins so they rank up with me through some flawed logic. Riot comon fix these solo queues or at least Read More...

Major patches - need help

Steve Burke — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:43:14 +0100

I just uploaded some major patches for the website, took about 4 hours to get done. Please do me a favor and click around on the site - run searches, click links (internal), view reviews, even write user reviews. All that stuff. Let me know if you find anything that is broken or leads to a 500 error.

It'll help a lot. Thanks guys!

GG no RE column coming up

Steve Burke — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100

The new GG no RE (good game, no rematch) column is in the preparatory stages. The first article is about overhype in the gaming industry and how it can obliterate a solid concept. Here's an excerpt to get you interested:

"All inputs accrue an output, and the output of hype is speculation. Gamers have a powerful tool at their fingertips; actually, it's probably under them right now. At the blink of an eye, you could have your Xfire or Steam friendslist opeRead More...

Let's start off with a little Olaf.

Patrick — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:26:31 +0100

Welcome, to my blog. TinyDancer here bringing you all the latest things that run through my head.

Artwise I've been fiddling more with the UDK and Maya then normal lately, trying to find someone to help something with on this seeing as I'm sorta just a lost little child in the vast expanse that is these two awesome tools.

League of Legends wise (from here on out it will be called LoL) I've been trying to decide if Olaf is worth my hard earned 3150 IP. Sure he's pretty awesomRead More...

I need to Slow My CPU Down [Update]

Brandon Jones — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:05:08 +0100

By downloading Prime95, opening it 4 times, running 4 tests (on max stress) on each I was able to slow my computer down to the point were I had about .75 second before the bomb went off because the game autosaves before you die I could inch across the screen and after about 15 minutes of reloading I made it to the tomb and blow it up. I did beat the game soon after.

I need to slow my CPU down

Brandon Jones — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:40:38 +0100

So I'm playing King's Quest 7, which is a 16 year old game. I'm at a part where you have to take a lit bomb and bring it to a tomb to blow it up. The thing is the timer for the bomb is based on CPU speed and since this game is 16 years old the bomb blows up with in .5 seconds. So now I am opening as many things as I can to slow my computer down. Life is weird sometimes.

On Dungeons and Dragons

Timothy Martin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:53:58 +0100

(Or: The Sun is Very Dark: Tale of a D&D N00bie)

A couple years ago, I became interested in playing dungeons and dragons. There were a few reasons for this, perhaps the first was Site Admin Lelldorianx - sorry, can't keep typing that - STEVE talking about playing D&D each week. When Wizards of the Coast released the Penny Arcade D&D podcasts (RIP Aofel) my interest peaked. Without ever having played, I was missing a key part of being a gamer. As a resRead More...