The_Fat_Man wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 1:55pm:


Awesome!  They should hire Dreamworks Animation to do a movie based on this idea.  They could call it Kung Fu Panda!


-b0b
(...oh, wait.)

Don't forget to back them! Only halfway there! 20 bucks gets you the game when it comes out.

Patch 1.0.4 of Diablo 3 is released today, including this pretty awesome little gem.....

The new Paragon system coming in patch 1.0.4 is designed to address Magic Find gear-swapping while providing players who’ve reached level 60 with an extended progression system.
Here’s how it works:
After you hit level 60, any further experience you earn from killing monsters will begin to count toward Paragon levels
There are 100 Paragon levels
Every Paragon level will reward you with:
Core stats such as Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Vitality in amounts similar to what you’d gain from a normal level
3% Magic Find and 3% Gold Find
In addition, a distinctive increasingly-impressive border will surround your character portrait in the in-game party frame to denote your Paragon progression, with a new frame earned after every ten levels. Your Paragon level will also be visible to other players wherever your normal level is shown
We know that a lot of you out there are level 60 -- maybe on multiple characters -- and this system provides a way to make progress every time you log in to the game.      



To support the new system, Nephalem Valor (NV) will now also provide a 15% experience bonus per stack, applicable toward Paragon levels. The first Paragon level should take about as long as it took most players to get from level 59 to 60, and the experience requirement will rise from there. The time to reach the upper Paragon levels approximates the long-term time investment required to get a level 99 character in Diablo II.

Steam finally release Star Wars - KOTR II

http://store.steampowered.com/app/208580/

Also check out this mod for the playthrough

http://knightsoftheoldrepublic.filefront.com/file/TSL_Restored_Content_Mod;11517...

Here's an article on the mod

http://swfans.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sith_Lords_Restored_Content_Mod

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b0b wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 2:44pm:



I would agree bob, if I could over look the fact that Blizzard had created the Pandarian Monks LONG before Kung Fu Panda was around...

Black Mesa, a fan-made remake of Half-Life using the Source engine, was finally released today.  I've been watching this game for nearly five years now, and I'm glad it finally made it to completion!

Here's a link to the torrent:

http://www.mediafire.com/?khmzyygg4vetko0


-b0b
(...can't wait to play!)

I feel like I've been living at work lately, but I got some time to play Borderlands 2 over the weekend.  So far, it's been a fantastic game and it improves upon several of the shortcomings of the first title.  It's very much an evolutionary title and in many ways it feels like a natural continuation on the original Borderlands.

The PC port, in particular, shows a lot more polish compared to the original Borderlands.  A lot of the key-binding issues have been taken care of and the god-awful GameSpy multi-player matchmaking system  (and the janky port forwarding requirement) has been replaced by full Steamworks integration.

Here are a couple screenshots.  The game can't compare graphically with Skyrim or Crysis, but it still manages to look absolutely beautiful at times in its own way.






-b0b
(...niiiice.)