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Great deal over on Impulse. The game is half off right now. You can buy it for under $12. A great deal and well worth the money. So what are you waiting for, go and pick it up!

So today is the big day.  BFBC2 Beta is live and kicking… well sort off. The developers have been very clear that this is a REAL beta. That means that they are heavily squashing bugs and that one should expect them. Hey at least they are setting the expectations right.

I figured we do something interesting and make our Beta expiriance a running update with a dedicated page.

So go here and see the running thread:

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Beta Page

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We had the great pleasure to have MarkeeDragon (Marcus Eikenberry) as special guest for this edition of the podcast. We made this a special feature talking especially about Star Trek Online and MMO’s in general. Thanks again to Marcus for joining us and talking about your passion for Star Trek, your insight into the MMO world and raising a couple good issues in the MMO market. If you play MMO’s you will like the special insight Marcus has into what is happening in the industry… you will also discover that he LOVES StarTrek

Please visit MarkeeDragons Website and take a look at his Youtube channel, you will find some great and varied information.

Here are the major talking points we touched on:

• StarTrek talk
• How to get your Dad banned from a game
• MMO botting
• What killed AION
• Gold farming in StarTrek Online
• Power leveling Services
• Things to like in StarTrek Online
• Micro transactions in StarTrek Online
• Where is the shine?
• A look at Eve Online in the MMO market
• The long way StarTrek Online has come
• Things not so cool in StarTrek Online
• Lifetime Subscriptions
• The Borg and the coming surprise… maybe
• A look back at the time spent playing MMO’s
• Social aspects of Online Gaming Friends found and lost
• A dream MMO Markee Dragon would create
• WoW style
• 20h per week game time makes you hardcore?!
• Beta… a real Beta or a Demo in disguise?
• Blizzard and other MMO’s, where is it going?
• Bioware and Star Wars

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I just tried out the Eastern Front Mod for CoH. I have to admit I am impressed. Not only does it give you a whole other side to play (Russians) but it adds plenty of new Maps.

The Game mechanics will need a little tweaking but for a free community based mod this is plain awesome. Show me these kind of things on the console…

This still just so surprises me that Relic has not continued to do a little modding on their own game. I be paying for DLC that gives us a few more maps. Come on guys… make my day!

Here are the files you need to expiriance this great mod:

Game Client

Launcher App

If you have any issues or problems head over to the official website and get more info. If you enjoyed CoH at any time you should not miss out on this!

http://easternfront.org/

So about 6 month ago I purchased the G35 headphones after reading reviews and trying to find a replacement for my trusty Sennheisers.

I have to admit I was happy with them. They don’t squash my ears but fir around them. The sound is great and clear…. not to mention 7.1. But yesterday I found the real weakness of the headphones. It’s workmanship. Let me point out that I never once dropped them, I don’t throw my stuff around but they stay pretty much in the same place.

So I was finishing up edeting episode 4 of our podcast, take them of my head and I see plastic pices flying off the headphones. Next thing I knew, I had one of the ear parts in my hand.

Needless to say that at over $100 I would expect them to last a little longer then 6 month!

I will contact Logitech the next couple days and see what they have to say about it. I will of course talk about my experience here on the blog and in our podcast.

Back to my dusty Sennheisers for now…

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Welcome to the fourth episode of the PCPCGAMES Podcast. As always we chat about the things that are fun to us. As you can imagine we let Tim share plenty about his Eyefinity goodness. So if you are interested make sure you listen:

• Bioshock 2
• Stalker
• What we play this week – Stalker, Dirt2, CoH
• Eyefinity 30″ x 3
• Games that work and don’t with Eyefinity
• If Eyefinity… what should we shoot for?
• Most anticiapted games of 2010
  http://www.techspot.com/guides/239-hot-pc-games-for-2010/
• Battlefield Bad Company 2
• Most anticipated Games of 2010
• Supreme Commander 2
• StarTrek Online
• Assassin’s Creed 2
• Bioshock now on MAC?

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Welcome to our third episode of the PCPCGAMES Podcast. I hope you have as much fun listening as we had creating it. This week we talked about these items:

• Why Filezz plays with HAWX
• Lord of the Ring Online
• Mass Effect 2
• Torchlight
• Age of Conan silliness
• Maturity of MMO releases
• Startrek Online Beta
• Bad Company 2 News
• Curlens XBOX360  died
• H50 Watercooling
• Classic Watercooling
• Modern Warefare 2 Patch
• Wings of Prey
• Dirt 2
• Company of Heroes
• 90+ Hours Dragon Age
• EA + Microsoft ?
• ATI 5670
• Steam Top 10 Sales
• Atlanta Lan Party
• SSD Solid State Drive
• Another look at Pirated Games
  Does the install base make a difference?
• Farmville
• Watch this movie: The Gamers: Dorkness Rising Trailer

Now this on the other hand is commitment to PC Gaming…. hats off Gentleman, wherever in the world you are!

Here is more footage of the StarTrek Online Beta. I focused a little more on the ground combat with this one. As you can see things are really jumpy. So much so that playing is not a whole lot of fun. Using your ability’s takes a lot of time and the lag makes it a bit of a lottery of when a shot will fire or a heal will land.  This will be the last video about StarTrek online from me since the game is neither fun, entertaining or recomendable.

Being just 2 weeks from release this is a bad bad showing. Right now I can’t recommend you get this game. Save your money and wait a couple month… maybe they can turn things around, but from what I have seen so far things don’t look good.

Today marks a new height of pisstivity for me…  My raggedy 360 finally quit.

I *would* get the error not covered by the extended warranty…….

Yep, thats right… now matter how many times I tried the q-tip trick…  It wouldn’t come back alive.

My Paw sez you kan fix anythang wit a hammar…

But not this raggedy POS…

More evidence

You know, I’m really NOT a console hater….  but this still bothers me to no end.  This machine is 25 months old, hasn’t seen a lot of use by any stretch of the imagination, and now craps out because of crappy manufacturing and workmanship.  Totally unacceptable.  I mean…   I game quite a bit, but on PC not Xbox.  So for something thats 2 years old to go kaput outtta blue just urks me to no end…  I mean when you pay a couple hundred bux for something, you expect it to last…. at least longer than 2 years…  To top it off, Microsoft won’t cover this under warranty because its the wrong error.  If I had gotten the 3 ring, E74 error, I would have been golden.   Since I don’t, they want to charge me $99 to fix it….   WTF??

So….  ”Now me and the mad scientist gotta rip appart the block, and replace the Piston rings you fried……”.

Audi 5

ChangWizzle

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This is our second podcast. As always we just chat what is near and dear to us… gaming on a PC. This week we talk about quite a few items:

• Hardware Upgrades – Curlen’s CASE SWAP
• Video Card and Monitor Size
• 30″ LCD power and what video card Tim is running
• Benchmark “Haven” DX10 vs DX11
• What is a Tessellation?
• Dirt2
• Steam sales
• World of Goo
• Mass Effect
• Burnout Paradise
• Modern Warfare 2
• Gratuitous Space Battles
• More Mass Effect
• Torchlight
• ATI vs NVIDIA Eyfinity vs the new Nvidia Spec
• Duke Nukem Forever
• Global Agenda
• HDR upgrade to Half Life
• Modern Warfare 2 DLC
• Console piracy and modding
• Corsair water cooling
• PC Gaming Myths and Miss-information
• Let Crysis DIE (as THE game on a PC example)
• EB game trades… good deal?
• Fixing the red ring of death X360
• Planet XBOX360 why Consoles are better
• Next Console generation

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First of all, I love Duke Nukem, there has been countless LAN party hours spent owning friends in the game. Everything from modifying jibs and writing out names in blood to out running rockets just to kill ourselves with our own missiles and see blood and body parts spray everywhere, all while falling out of our chairs while laughing hysterically.

“The voice of Duke Nukem, Jon St. John, says “Read between the lines…” in reference to his inability to provide specifics on the state of Duke Nukem Forever during his panel discussion at the Music and Games Festival (MAGFest) that took place January 1 – 4 in Alexandria, Virginia.”

Full article at pixelenemy.

I, for one, am excited to see Duke Nukem Forever still being talked about and possibly still being worked on, hopefully one day we’ll be able to hear our favorite FPS character mutter these words again, “It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I’m all out of gum.”

Magfest Jon St. John Panel from Peter Hirschberg on Vimeo.

Magfest Jon St. John Panel – Part 2 from Peter Hirschberg on Vimeo.