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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
If Haggis were a zombie...
For the past couple of months, the Red Army has been playing a weekly versus campaign on Left 4 Dead 2 against their arch-rivals of old, Lowstress. It was a tough, hard slog, and the Red Army picked up the bit exactly where they left off in playing clan matches, typically failing to impress at every turn. Nevertheless, it was for the most part a close-run thing and often a very tight affair, with everything to play for going into the finale.
The first campaign started with some early surprise victories for the Red Army, but eventually we lost on cans in the finale round. And despite technically levelling the series after the second campaign, our victory was only thanks to some splendid play by two temporary allies in the struggle. In the following weeks Lowstress trampled all over us to romp home very easy victories on Swamp Fever and Hard Rain, a combination of our disorganisation and their fielding a strong team. However, things returned to their original tight, tense equilibrium for the final original campaign, The Parish, which was again decided on The Bridge finale, albeit in spectacular style.
Whilst there are still a couple more campaigns to run through, the series has already been taken by Lowstress, so I’m popping this post up now before I forget about it (and whilst I have time on my hands!)
Thanks to Luth, Lütte, P, Rez, [CzR] Dave and [=LS=) Talarin for playing for the Red Army. Many thanks and fair play to our nemeses for keeping the gaming ever fun and friendly, and offering up sacrificial lambs to the slaughter (i.e. mercs) for when we were down a man. Finally, thanks again to Talarin and the rest for helping to organise the matches, and congratulations to all on the well-deserved series victory! We’re pulling the Iron Curtain down for now, but it’ll be up again for you to kick us in the goolies before too long!
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Tags: left 4 dead 2, versus, video
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Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The old usually gets ported to the new—here we have the new ported to the old. This mod for Doom allows you to run around this old shooter with weapons and sounds from COD: Modern Warfare 2.
If you want to try it out for yourself, you’ll need the original Doom/Doom 2 WAD files, a copy of Skulltag and the requisite MW2 WAD files.
Download links:
[Via FPSTime]
Tags: cod, doom, modern warfare 2
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Friday, November 26th, 2010
Woo! It’s finally over. 354 days or 11 months, 19 days ago, we started out on this long adventure, the third long distance PBEM in Civ III, and today I got confirmation of the final move of the final piece, the first of our three epic games to come to a conclusive end. The final two-horse race was a long time in finishing, that last furlong turned into a long hard slog to the finishing line, but in the end a very easy and crushing victory for Horse #4, Tesh of the Downtrodden, over Horse #2, Chez of Outer Chezgolia. Sadly the final savegame is somehow corrupt, and the little animation of cities rising and razing isn’t visible, but Tesh made some screenshots which you can find posted below.
In other news, PBEM2 has recently crawled to a seemingly complete halt, and may disappear the way of PBEM1. Given the current lack of PBEM capability in the new Civilization V, and the gradually dissipating interest in PBEM for earlier Civs, these may well be our last.
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Tags: Civilization, pbem
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Monday, November 8th, 2010
Valve's Dark Carnival
Ever wondered where to get your inspiration for the apocalypse? There are plenty of abandoned places out there to choose from, but none perhaps so mordantly fitting as Six Flags, New Orleans. Check out the gorgeously shot video with its excellent background theme by Godspeed You! Black Emperor below.
Opened in 2000 under the name Jazzland, the park was taken over by Six Flags in 2002, only to be closed before the oncoming storm Katrina in 2005. The park was flooded, with damage to the majority of the buildings, much of it beyond repair. The only ride to truly escape the rising waters was the Batman rollercoaster, later removed to another site by its owners. Various plans and offers have come through to redevelop the site, but as things stand the park remains a closed reminder.
This is truly the real Dark Carnival!
Tags: dark carnival, left 4 dead 2, valve, video
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Part of a possible forthcoming clip montage for the Red Army, here’s a funny little scene from our recent The Hidden: Source MOD night. Watch it on the higher quality settings for a hope of spotting Subject 617 dodging in and out!
Note: I should probably point out that The Hidden during this scene was being played by someone who actually knew what they were doing, i.e. not one of us.
Tags: gaming, the hidden, valve, video
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