Nuclear Monster

  • Speaking of which, here’s the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare announcement trailer. It features the worst cover of a David Bowie song I’ve ever heard. In the year he died, why not pay out the bucks and license the real thing instead? Awful.

    At least it has something closer to gameplay footage, but the Modern Warfare remastered footage at the end looks more interesting than Infinite Warfare. But you’ll have to buy the special $80 version of Infinite Warfare (“Legacy Edition”) to get a crack at the remake of MW on November 4th for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Windows.

    I’m not expecting much at all from Infinity Ward after the mediocre Ghosts. Thank goodness it’s Raven working on the Modern Warfare remaster, even though it’ll only contain 10 of the multiplayer maps and the single-player campaign I’m definitely looking forward to playing that again.

    Also note the VTOL jet flying clipping through the building as it comes in for a landing at 1:14. They must have noticed it late in production of this trailer and added the lens-flare to cover it up.


  • It’s difficult to write about today’s Battlefield 1 announcement. What DICE showed today was a completely computer-generated trailer. It does promise new biplanes, airships, sea ships, horses, multi-position bombers, flamethrowers, swords, and slap flights with shovels. But without any gameplay footage, it’s hard to say what we can actually expect from the finished product when it arrives this October 21st for Playstation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.

    That said, I enjoyed watching this trailer more than the new Call of Duty trailer.

  • The Graphite iMac in Profile

    Stephen Hackett has this incredible collection of every color of iMac G3 in photo and video. Above is my favorite, the graphite color. I had the Bondi blue version and it was my first Mac. Great computer.

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIG_QjoUooo

    Burnout was an amazing series, I recently went back and tried some of the older games on Playstation 2. They’re still so good and it’s surprising that Burnout: Paradise was missing one of the best modes, crash mode. That was where you would attempt to cause as much vehicular damage as possible by driving your car into a busy intersection. You could cause a chain reaction by slamming your sedan into a van that hits a bus and so on. Super fun, the sequels added crash breakers (small explosions to cause more destruction) and other additions to spice up the gameplay.

    The creators of Burnout are back as Three Fields Entertainment, and while I wish they had the rights to make another Burnout (with crash mode) they’ve gone ahead and basically made the exact same crash mode except indoors and with golf balls destroying palatial estates, kitchens, gas stations and more. Crash breakers are now smash breakers, and you now tee off instead of getting your motor running.

    All this destruction on June 3rd for Xbox One, Playstation 4, and Steam. Most likely just for Windows but I’ve asked the developers if there is any hope for Mac and SteamOS/Linux and will let you know if that changes.

  • Austin Walker has the scoop on the recent rumors regarding a new half-step Playstation 4 upgrade console:

    The NEO will feature a higher clock speed than the original PS4, an improved GPU, and higher bandwidth on the memory. The documents we’ve received note that the HDD in the NEO is the same as that in the original PlayStation 4, but it’s not clear if that means in terms of capacity or connection speed. Starting in October, every PS4 game is required to ship with both a “Base Mode” which will run on the currently available PS4 and a “NEO Mode” for use on the new console.

    The article has many more details regarding the upgraded console and what Sony will require of developers, but it really doesn’t read like a huge upgrade to me, and it certainly won’t be true 4K. Even a high-end gaming computer can’t hit 4K at a good framerate for big 3D games.

    For now, original PS4 purchasers are good, but I would be surprised if a year into the release of this new console the original “base” PS4 isn’t discontinued in favor of the NEO, and then soon after the requirement that developers target both consoles is dropped as well. Either way, don’t buy a Playstation 4 until you hear Sony give plans publicly at E3.