In The Wordpress? Muti-Post

Alright, so to start off I know a lot of us wanted to switch the blog over to wordpress after our KILN usage. I thought we should wait until Crow was done with school and has the time to learn a couple new tricks and I think that time is upon us. So if Lorigga has the time/knowledge to pull this feat off I think we should make the change. Thoughts on this?

Just read today on Kotaku that Fantasy IV: The After Years is now available on WiiWare as of today for 800pts. It was previously a Japan only cell phone game. I have my points ready and I'm awaiting a review or two until I jump into the download.

E3 has started and already there's been some pretty crazy stuff ranging from 360's new motion control technology to the Left 4 Dead: 2 announcement. I have a feeling this is going to be a nutty expo with a buttload of new games coming out. Can't wait until the other major conferences from Sony and Nintendo!

And last, but not least, here's Bill Maher and his Real Time New Rules for May 29, 2009. Of course he throws in a joke about the pope. When doesn't he?

RUN!!! and shoot!

Hey all, how are things? Life treating you well? I'm here in my batcave writing me a program to blink some LEDs...sure, it's not fabulous, but still kind of amazing in and of itself.

Anyways, been keeping up with my gaming news and one in particular has come under my radar...

LEFT 4 DEAD

It's quite simple, you're one of four people who find themselves in a zombie apocalypse! I believe there are a series of four missions with different objectives in which you have to consistently beat the onrush of zombies.

Things become more hectic in that there exists this somewhat enigmatic figure called "The Director" which I'm not quite sure weather or not has an in game avatar...or if it's just an AI. Regardless, it dictates when / where the zombie rush will come and seems to know the right time to hit you and quite unexpectidely.

To add to the craziness, there are four types of "boss" zombies, which are playable in a 4 vs. 4 match where teams take turns playing as survivors or infected. Even while playing only as survivors these badies come up. Apparently, the infected act as griefers, dashing the hopes and dreams of the survivors. For example, when all is quiet and you've strayed a little to the left of your team, BAM! you get pounced on by "the Hunter."

Here's the intro clip:

Left 4 Dead 'Intro' clip

Left 4 Dead 'Tank' clip

If any are interested, the demo is up on steam.

I've been following the game via Rock, Paper, Shotgun (RPS). Here are some articles that really perked my interest in the game:

Walkthrough of the Left 4 Dead Dead Air campaign.
A narrative of the RPS team's adventures in versus mode.
Some first impressions of the game.

I'm planning on trying the demo out first, because I don't know if my hardware will take much of a liking to a zombie apocalypse. Luckily, the game is developed using the source engine which as we all know, works fairly well on some older hardware. Now let's see if def was able to download it, LOL!