Meet the Pyro: now in video form!

So, Valve actually managed to release "Meet the Pyro" on due time. Congratulations are in place.

So, Pyromania-updates have rolled to TF2 and now here's this vid, see below or view from YouTube via this link.

Elder Scrolls MMO to be announced in May?

Oh my.

It seems Tom's Guide has some exclusive information from "industry source" that there will be an Elder Scrolls MMO, taking place a millenium before Skyrim, which sold a boatload of copies.

Also, according to the source, "Elder Scrolls Online will have three playable factions". Read the full article from here: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ZeniMax-Bethesda-Elder-Scrolls-Online-MMO,news-14481.html

What do I think about the likelyhood of this happening? Let's consult Futurama.

Silent Hill: Book of Memories (Vita) GamesCom video

A video featuring some gameplay and background for an upcoming Silent Hill-game for the upcoming PlayStation Vita-handheld console. Now, Silent Hill is my one favourite game series, so I'm just going to list things the game will apparently have, judging from the trailer. You know, to save you the horror of watching it, or many angry words I have.

• Co-op action dungeon crawling action
• "Scare rooms"
• No psychological horror
• You create your own character
• Puzzle-solving

Dark Souls: Bartholomew Trailer (PS3/X360)

So, apparently they released a new trailer for Dark Souls at Gamescom. Looking good there. I've already got it preordered.

Lollipop Chainsaw announced (PS3, X360)

Okay, this has to be one of the weirdest ideas for games I've seen in a long time. Then again, it's Suda 51, which explains a lot.

Extra Credits quits Escapist Magazine

Apparently there is some drama going on in Escapist Magazine, considering the show Extra Credits which discussed all sorts of interesting topics. It would seem that Escapist has failed repeatedly to pay Extra Credits (puntastic!), and as such Extra Credits will leave Escapist Magazine.

Here is a thread to forums, which has quite good summary on what has been going on. I'm going to quote both sides here, so... walls of text inbound. You have been warned.

Edit:/ link got broken during the night, should be fixed now.

Team Fortress 2 will be free to play "forever" + Meet the Medic

So, apparently the super-duper-mega-hyper-popular shooter TF2 will be f2p from now on, supported by micro-payments only (if you wish to call 7,5€ for a hat "micro"), according to pcgamer.com and Develop. Interesting turn of events, but this was speculated for some time already.

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Also, Meet the Medic is out now, and I guess F2P is now officially confirmed. See the clip below or from YouTube straight.

CDP Summer Days - EA + GOG, Witcher 2 on Xbox 360

CDP Summer Days stream is on (not anymore!), I'll keep notes what is coming up. And pictures, of course.

TW2 gets all the pre-order bonus DLC released... for free.
Five new hairstyles for Geralt.
TW2 will be released for Xbox 360. End of this year

GOG:
EA is the new publisher, Wing Commander: Privateer, Dungeon Keeper, Ultima underworld. No Syndicate now, though. :(

Nor System Shocks. Shame.

For some reason GIMP wont let print out anything else than this, so, well, here you go. I'll try to get the other screenshots working.

Screenshots 'fixed', now you'll get a glimpse of my everything oh no.

Metro: Last Light Announcement Trailer

So, Metro 2033's sequel has now an announcement trailer. Quite artsy, but hey, why not. I'm looking forwards to Last Light, how about you?

And the song in the trailer is Portishead, btw. Nice choice.

Amnesia - Justine general release

Amnesia: The Dark Descent received a free DLC called "Justine" during Valve's Portal 2-ARG. Now, it is released for everyone. Yay!

"On April 18 Frictional Games joined Valve to celebrate the release of Portal 2 and wrap up our collaboration which has spanned the last few months. During this period we have worked with not only Valve, but an entire range of talented independent developers, to give gamers a unique gaming experience. Together we created a massive Alternate Reality Game which spanned 13 Steam games, as well as plenty of internet forums and publications, and the real world. Frictional Games' main contribution to this game was a DLC called Justine and truth be told, it plays pretty damn well even without the other stuff.

Justine has now been repackaged to survive in the outside world and we are happy to announce that we are giving it away to all owners of Amnesia for free. Turn off the lights, put the headphones on and play another story produced by the original team, the multiple IGF award winning, Frictional Games.
But, there is more..."

Read the rest from their site - preorderers of Amnesia receive the soundtrack for free, and there is also some short-stories included in the update. Hurray! 

Mass Effect 3 Screenshots

So, a Russian website has posted some new Mass Effect 3 screenshots. Looking pretty nice there. I haven't yet finished ME2, because I'm still waiting for GOTY-edition with DLC. But still, one of the big names in current RPGs.

Personal data stolen from PSN

Bad new, I'm afraid. It seems that hackers have stealed your personal information from PSN, though your credit card information may be safe. Seems as if things are going from bad to worse for Sony.

Minecraft modding API

As it seems, Minecraft Modding API will be free of cost, but instead of API in the sense I understand it, it is access to the very source code. This will of course be way better than the current situation, but I can't help feeling that this is the lazy way out and does not really help that much when it comes to mods breaking down every update. But, I may be wrong, we'll see.

Nintendo's new console

So, it seems that Nintendo will present a new console at E3, which should be more powerful than Xbox360 or PS3. Seems a little weird direction, as lately Nintendo's consoles haven't been real powerhouses when it comes to specs. Might turn out interesting. As long as it has lots of good games, I'm all for it.

And hey, Amnesia got a little expansion pack on Steam the other day, I've completed it. I'll post my short thoughts later.