The Coop

http://twitter.com/egmnow After a bit of silence and minor updates, we've been told a few things. First, the "lost" issue of EGM (remember that tidbit in a past thread here?) is going to be available on EGM's new website when it goes live. Second, that new website is pretty much done, and should be up and running in the not too distant future. This site should finally reveal info about EGM's resurrection that was expected back during E3 (when the first issue comes out, etc.). Not a lot, but at least we're getting closer to having a concrete date.

Reminds me of what EA did with their much promised 1.03 patch that was going to fix the many, many issues with the C&C: The First Decade compilation. That patch was "coming" for so long, that eventually users had to go and fix the things EA said they would, but never did. This is patch is being done for different reasons obviously. But two months having gone by, and only a "we're working on it" comment from the company, made me think of the EA stuff. And thus ends my off topic comment.

An now that I'm done eating up the remaining two characters, here's the next review... inFamous

The drama rolls on until OCR can officially take the "We Know Drama" tagline from TNT.

So the characters are being kept secret, eh? Well, if any new one's should happen to be from the Darkstalkers saga, I'd be happy to tackle it.

So is this project forgotten about, or just simply abandoned?

I for one, am happy to see this game coming over here. With Raiden Fighters Aces already out on the 360, this is a welcome dose of shmupping love from a classic series that I've always enjoyed. The big question is, will we get the soundtrack CD packed with it like it was in Japan?

Bionic Commando

A touch late, but...

1- WALL-E 2- The Incredibles 3- Cars 4- Ratatouille 5- A Bug's Life The first slot was filled easily. WALL-E has to be one of the best movies I've seen in recent years. It was cute, funny, touching, and did all this with no dialogue half the time, and no gross out or kiddie level toilet humor. It's easy to see why it won the Best Animated Feature Film Oscar last year, and why people felt it should have been nominated for the Best Picture category.

Says the guy who didn't mention goat

http://www.egmnow.com/press1.html So, after nearly twenty years, EGM was unceremoniously canned out of the blue. The "final" issue, February 2009, still has yet to be released via PDF as it was promised to be by James Mielke back in January. Everyone thought the magazine was dead and gone. Think again. Steve Harris has made a deal with Ziff Davis to re-acquire the trademarks and publishing rights. You remember Harris. The one who created EGM back in '89? He's got his magazine back, and has apparently decided to bring the magazine back some time in the second half of this year. There are plans to make an announcement at E3. For a bit more info, read Mielke's blog post here. Is this just a joke? Will it fall through? I don't know. But the idea of EGM being back on the shelves does put a smile on my face.

Why would I use a browser that plays my gifs too slowly (last time I checked, both use a down throttling setup like IE does)? Besides, it has something to do with FireFox 3. Various interactive things simply don't work, like the play buttons on that site, or the newer interactive radar on weather.com. They work fine on the final versions of FireFox 2, so I just downgraded.

Shame I can't hear the comparisons I'm not familiar with. Even with Adblock disabled, and NoScript allowing everything, not one music link works.

Duke Nukem Forever No, that's not a typo.

Did you ever get over the mental scars made by all the comparisons to the Dell guy?

I just got done trying a few things. Here's what I did. I made a bin/cue file of my MechWarrior 2 disc, and saved it to my desktop. I then mounted the cue file in Alcohol 52% (which has a free version here), and ran the DOS install. For me, the virtual drive is drive F, and in DOSBox, I have it mounted as N (for reasons I explained earlier). So, I fired up DOSBox, changed the drive letter to N, and typed "install". This brings up the DOS v1.1 for Mech2 on my disc. I did a full install (very important), and then went to the page on Vogons that I linked to earlier. I grabbed the crack for the two executables from the link on that page, and pasted them over the original executable files. Once that was done, I unmounted the disc image, started up the game, and everything's peachy keen. If you have the DOS v1.0 of Mech2, you need to upgrade it to v1.1. There's a link to the patch on that Vogons page that has the cracks (yes, the links all still work). Install the patch (I believe it must be run from within the Mech2 folder), and then paste the two cracked executables over the original ones. It has to be v1.1 of the DOS game for Mech2 to run in DOSBox. Even if you have a cracked version, get those executables from the Vogos page, and paste them in anyway. This way, you're sure to have the executables that run fine in DOSBox. So my suggestion is, delete the current Mech2 folder, to do a fresh full install of your game through DOSBox, make sure it's v1.1, and use those two cracked files from the Vogons page.

Try changing what you're calling the CD-Rom in DOSBox. I've had issues with CD-Roms being mounted as "E". Instead, mount your CD-Rom as a higher letter. As an example, my CD-Rom drive's letter is "F", so in DOSBox I have... mount n f:\ -t cdrom "N" is what DOSBox will think the drive letter is, while "F" is what my drive's letter actually is. See if that helps.

Velvet Assassin