new update

for those of you who are out there and are wondering what is going on with the blog and see nothing new. here is the reason why:

Mark is busy with his youth group and does not have internet at home quite yet.

I have not seen nor heard of Justin and his current endeavors in several months now.

And last of all, the reason I have not really heard from Justin is the fact that I am currently working on deployment. Yes we finally leave country in a few weeks. (we have been in training since mid Oct.)

so there you go.

Free Money? 10 million dollars?

For those of you who don't know the principle, you can make a 10 million in 30 steps from just one penny. Start with one penny, and double it. Then Double it again, and again, 30 times. When you are done you will have $10,737,418.24. Too hard? Not really, thanks to moola.com you could do it possible even sooner than 30 days. moola.com is an ad supported page where you quietly sit through an ad and answer a question about the short video then play a head to head match with somebody, you win, you get their money. Simple. WAIT!! What happens when i run out of money? moola.com generously gives you one more penny to build your empire on. Getting a nice bank and are not willing to risk it for another round? Cash out at any time.

Well, the only draw back is that it is only in beta testing right now, so you have to have somebody on the inside give you an invite. Visit the website to find out how to get one.

Zombie

Didn't I Predict This Pt.2

Firefox OS

New/Old Halo 2 Maps

Hang Em High is finally available for Halo 2, along with Derelict. The catch? The pack is $4 and you have to download it on Xbox Live. You also have to wait until April 17. Check out the announcement on Bungie.net

Didn't I predict this?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C1895%2C2109401%2C00.asp

New version of PSP Video 9

PSP was updated to 3.30 and now there is the ability to play larger video files on the PSP. Hence, better quality videos for your PSP. PSP Video 9 is the best free video converter program out there for PSP and I use it whenever I convert my DVDs to watch on my PSP. Check out the developers website. http://www.redkawa.com/blog/#0

Great Games for under $4

I have never been one to rush out and buy a video game the first week it is out. Frankly I have never been one to buy a game till it drops to about 50% of its original price. That is if it's a PC game. Xbox or Nintendo or Sony I'll just play on your system. So I got to thinking about how to get games for the cheapest possible (legally). I think I may have found it.

So Valve's Steam has been given a lot of flack in the past, but is currently on the good side of most gamers. If you don't know what Steam is I'll tell you. Its a content distribution system, and additionally a piracy deterrent. Say you want to buy Halflife. Well normally you would drive to the store buy the product, get taxed on it and return with a CD and a serial code. You install from the CD and enter the serial code and go. Well with Steam all you have to do is log on with your free account and purchase the game. Its is downloaded to your computer and you never have to worry about loosing that serial key or cd. Its always yours. If you buy a new computer just re-download it. If you are on someone else's computer you can download it there. The real jewel to this is the sheer amount of content it offers. I defy you to find a new copy of the original Counter-Strike. You're not going to find it anywhere, but on valve you can buy it for $10. If you don't mind old graphics its a great game and lots of people are still playing it online.

Now one of the offerings is a complete Valve package. For $80. Now thats alot of money for games that aren't very new, but its still a bargain if you don't have these games. This includes Halflife, HL2, Counter-strike and CS:S, Day of Defeat and DoD:S, HL2 Ep:1, HL2 Deathmatch, and some other junk. There are about 17 games there. Not all are worth playing, I'm looking at you Ricochet. By my estimate about 8-12 are really worth playing depending on your personal style.

But there is more.

I'm talking mods. Source was designed to be modded. And there are dozens of HL mods that are already established. Valve lists quite a few of these on Steam.

Here are a list of mod that you can play with this pack that are worth it:

Hidden:Source - Very scary not many people on at any one time. Beta 4 is very playable.
Source Forts - Clever mod of Deathmatch. Seems difficult for new players.
Natural Selection - Like playing Starcraft in FPS. Source version in production.
Digital Paintball -If you are a fan of paintball I guess. Source version in Alpha
Dystopia- Source mod. Bizarre and hard to get into. Think Tron meets Quake
Gary's Mod Version 9 - HL2 sandbox. Wanna see who will win against Zombies and Combine?
HL2 Capture the Flag - Interesting mod of Deathmatch. Includes new weapons and Parkour.
Minerva - Adam Foster didn't think Valve did a good job on map design and did his own. 2/3 parts done.
Pirates Knights Vikings II - HL2 mod. Will be testing this one out.
Plan of Attack - Tactical game the way Counter-Strike should have been.
Zombie Panic - Its like resident evil only the zombies are real people. Now you can kill the teammates that let you down.
The Trenches - Sort of DoD for WW1

This is just a quick overview of some of the mods for the above pack. Most of these games are worth playing and almost all are multiplayer. All are worth something. So theres about 20 games there that I mentioned. At $80 that comes out to about $4 a game. Not to mention the other mods that are out there. Many of these will play on an older computer. All will play on my laptop. So if I left off any HL or Source mods send them my way I'd like to try them.

Remember just say no to $60 games!