Ah, one of my favourite movies of all time. Batman The Movie, released in 1989 with a fabulous Danny Elfman soundtrack. Videogame metal band Powerglove covered the main theme tune and put a crazy video game behind it.
Here’s the original theme, much shorter. Powerglove added bits of their own. Metal fans will love it!
And here’s an excellent cover by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel.
Now, when’s the next Batman movie coming out? (via)
The “meet the ” videos for Team Fortress 2 are legendary. So much so that I had heard of them but nobody ever linked to them. The first one I saw was the recently released “Meet the Medic” (check out the out takes from that video, hilarious!)
So, here they are for your viewing pleasure. All the TF2 character videos so far produced! Go visit the TeamFortress Youtube channel for these and more!
Meet the Medic
Meet the Sniper
Meet the Spy
Meet the Soldier
Meet the Engineer
Meet the Demoman
Meet the Scout
Meet the Heavy
This is how you play the spy in TF2. I don’t have the patience to do it and I reappear behind my victim only for them to turn around and blast me because they heard me.
Good work with the replay editor! Check out the Gamestunts post on the video with more background detail on what’s going on.
You should watch this video on Youtube as cvnmcvnmcvnm1234 has posted annotations to it which I don’t think appear here. Great set of tips to go along with hectic gameplay. Via this post on Reddit. If you’re new to Team Fortress 2 then you’ll want to visit NewToTF2!
Here’s a great scout gameplay commentary that appeared on Pixelenemy so some of you may have seen it already.
Here’s a big list of video guides to TF2 for your viewing pleasure. So much! Brain Overload!
I just found out about a new mod for Minecraft, Kataminey Damacraft or Katamari Damacy for Minecraft. I have to be honest and admit I’ve never played that game but I have played “The Wonderful End of the World”, the same sort of game on PC. Basically you’re a little ball and have to collect as much of the world as possible.
I’m not going to install it on my Minecraft server but I will give it a go on a local world. (via)
A recent game I had with Gavin and ThrashHMG against a very tough attacking team. Somehow we kept them off, and I think they were just unlucky not to get the 3rd base as they flanked behind us and were picking off defenders at their leisure!
Well done team, and great to see Bravo 2 Company do well! 🙂
Chances are you’ve seen this already because 15,459,413 people on Youtube have already watched it. What the hell, if you haven’t, take a minute out of your busy day to hit play. (via)
This is Stunt Car Racer, the first racing game I ever obsessed about. There were others that interested me, Pitstop II and Buggy Boy among them but I really loved Stunt Car Racer. So much so, that when I got a C64 emulator working on a Nokia 7650, this game was the first and only game I put on it! (And eventually wore down the joystick nipple on it from so much playing!)
I’d dabbled with other racers over the last few years, first with NFS Underground (quite enjoyed), Dirt 2 (meh, got boring), then Blur (ARGH!), and finally to NFS Hot Pursuit (barely played). Not a good track record eh? What possessed me to buy Trackmania United Forever? Well, it was 75% off but then this tweet convinced me!
https://twitter.com/#!/retroremakes/status/73470101822779392
What can I say? It is as close as you’ll get to Stunt Car Racer in a modern racing game. That’s not surprising as the developer was a fan of Stunt Car when he was all of 12 years old!
It looks great, and beyond the “time attack” racing mode it also offers other more unusual modes. I love the platform mode in particular.
As a modern game it of course does online play, and that can be a mixed bag. I’ve only played a few servers and the borders of the screen can at times be littered with a huge amount of difficult to read information. There’s a web browser of sorts too where you can check out the mods, skins and maps other players have made. They’ll cost you though. Those “online stores” really let the game down. The ones I saw were garish and ugly and very slow to load. Often most of the page would load but important action buttons didn’t. AFAIR there’s no “loading bar” to tell you something is happening either.
The game has a currency, “coppers” which I’m still learning about. Here’s a great article about them. Not sure I like how you have to bet on getting an official time on a track.
This isn’t what a normal game of Trackmania looks like. This is what happens when you render 1,000 races all at once!
Next September the next installment in the Trackmania series will be released: Trackmania 2 Canyon. The developer is also going to be branching out, Shootmania is a version for FPS players. I can’t wait to see what that brings! Joystiq has a preview of it, and the latest issue of Edge also has an extensive article on the game which I’ll be reading later.
Want a new car? Check out Trackmania Carpark. Kinda disappointed nobody created an Alfa Romeo 147. I wonder how hard that’d be?
Finally, don’t forget the Steam forum for the game. Plenty of help there if you need it.
It’s gone back to full price now, $39.99 in the US and probably the same numeric price everywhere else (grrr) but there’s plenty of fun to be had in this game. Recommended.
Hilarious breakdown of the Battlefield 3 trailer that you’ve probably seen already judging by the views it got on Youtube but just in case …
“That was my car”
Just a short clip of me as a brazen spy flanking a hulking heavy, iTimoleagueDuck who was ripping my team apart.
We had some great games tonight though both of us are still noobs at it. We still managed to score highly on the leaderboards and I refuse to credit the fact we were playing with a few bots for that achievement. We rocked! (As much as any noobs will!)