CS:S Nostalgia Night
Someone set up us the bomb!
To celebrate the release of more sourcey update fun to that old favourite Counter-Strike: Source, we’ve gone ahead and dusted off our old server (i.e. reinstalled it) after many years’ absence. Currently a fairly vanilla set up, some admin rights for Red Army members, some stats enabled for—well, for the hell of it really—and a regular map cycle.
Feel free to join us for a laugh this weekend, as we relive some of the good old times… and doubtless plenty of the bad! Things should get hotting up on Saturday night, after the USA take on Ghana in the World Cup, and may continue on Sunday night where they left off.
Also, don’t forget to have your say about our potential random MOD night in the coming weeks! Have your say for the choice of MOD here.
Red Army |#2| CSS Fun Server |HLStatsX| IP: 94.76.241.67:27020
Mortal Kombat: Rebirth
This viral is currently doing the rounds like typhoid fever in a prison camp. You’d be forgiven for thinking this is a trailer for an upcoming movie, or possibly even a new game release, but it is in fact just a pitch to the Warner Brothers studios, after they acquired the rights along with the Midway company last year. Far grittier in content than the earlier Mortal Kombat incarnations, the short was produced on a short budget using largely donated time, money and equipment, and shot over the period of a couple of days. You can read a fuller interview with the director Kevin Tachareon, whose previous work is pretty much limited to the remake of FAME, over on this site.
For whatever reasons I have some fond memories of the first film: maybe it was the fact that I was a big fan of the games at the time, or perhaps the Enter the Dragon nod of the plot, or perhaps just watching Christopher Lambert trying to be funny. Whatever the case may be, on the basis of that preview Tachareon certainly deserves to be given the reboot reins, if indeed Warner Brothers have any plans in that regard.
Super Mario Bros Crossover
You might already be familiar with Super Mario Bros. Crossover, a flash game created by Jay Pavlina over at Exploding Rabbit, that allows you to play Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo, with many other famous characters from classic games. These excellent little demo videos made by the developer show off what it’s all about, but are worth watching for the comical play-acting of the creator.
TeamSpeak 3 vs. Mumble
TeamSpeak 3
At the Red Army, we’d been using TeamSpeak 2 as our communications software of choice for some years. In fact, aside from sitting in the same room as one another, I can’t really remember ever seriously using anything else. For whatever reason, we’d made our decision over using Ventrilo and there wasn’t really anything else which came into question. When Skype first became popular, a few of us moved over to making Skype-to-Skype calls and occasionally attempting to hold conference calls, but whilst the quality was a big improvement, the galloping bandwidth usage and the difficulty of using it in conjunction with gaming soon drove us back onto our TeamSpeak server.
Over winter, however, we decided it was finally time to move forwards. Someone suggested we give Mumble a try, an open source, low latency and high quality piece of software, specifically designed with gaming in mind. Personally I’d been using it with a Day of Defeat: Source clan, and could easily tell the difference and note the advantages over our trusted TeamSpeak. The latter had essentially given up producing updates, and their website continually advertised their all-new TeamSpeak 3 version to be ‘coming soon.’ Curiously enough, however, TS3 was released as an open beta almost as soon as we installed and tested out our own Mumble server for the first time. Here’s a quick summary of our tribulations with them both, and why we finally chose TeamSpeak 3 as our successor.
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The 8-bit Armageddon
Fitting in with the apparent retro 8-bit feel around here, this is a pretty creative little video, featuring the city of New York under attack from the best of the 80s!
http://www.dailymotion.com/videoxcv6dv