Do you remember at the Humble Indie Bundle? About a half year, the guys from Wolfire started talking, because they have offered five indie games for the price of your choice. At that time, including World of Goo here. Now the Humble Indie Bundle 2 is available. And once you have the choice of the price.

This time, these games are:

• Braid
• Cortex Command
• Machinarium
• Osmos
• Revenge of the Titans

So what are you waiting for? When I'm looking for in between games, you are absolutely right! Click here for the bundle!

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Brent Wilkinson, Chief of Department Service and Production Planning for the game publisher Ubisoft sent us to a sort of little revolution now participate in the games sector. In the future we will complete at Ubisoft verzeichten the conventional copy protection mechanisms like StarForce or SecuRom and press the silver pieces without such protection can be. Even playing without an inserted medium is even possible. Everything sounds so great. What is not so great but is that devised alternative. Because without protection you want the games will not deliver it.

Ubisoft wants to use from now on the Internet. So you have to install the game to activate. Install the game but can be any number of times. But the scores are from now on no longer stored offline, but online. And while at Ubisoft's servers, which means in plain language: Do you have no internet, it looks (in the truest sense of the word) into the tube. An alternative is not expected to give. Do you live in the country, can you not play (of course, there are exceptions among the peasants).

At first when I read the news I thought, wow cool. Finally, once a dare. As I read through but the consequences of this, my mood changed again. Clearly, we need to talk about the activation does not really. Any protection to be there. And a mere activation works so quickly. You may succeed in the offline as well. But please, save games on the net?

The idea is simply simple: You have access from anywhere on the scores. But what is with the people without power? Ubisoft wants to exclude all these gamers? It is possible that the publisher had gone a little ahead of its time. It's not like that everywhere there is Internet. No, this is totally not true. Even I have (in town), only DSL 3000th Sure, that's enough. But there is no state of affairs.

To say it with Angie's words: We will see. But I hope that Ubisioft not so cut his own flesh.

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"Right next to the Stuttgart parliament they have set up a container. They collect killer games like "World of Warcraft", "Counter Strike", "Call of Duty". Games, where the sparks fly - people scraps, and more realistic in its presentation. They can deliver the Action Alliance, so they will be destroyed. "

This is the original sound of a documentary or a documentary about the horrific school shooting in Winnenden, which ran yesterday evening by 21 clock in the ARD. And it is again a good example of sloppy journalism and gamers rush. After all, would be the people of the ARD once properly informed, then they would know that in World of Warcraft is not the sparks fly. Even if one could infer from Mr. T's advertising on it. Which is not so. Dear ARD hacks: In WoW (the geeky gamer abbreviation have been World of Warcraft) is an online fantasy role-playing game in the comic book look. Fantasy comic! People there have very little search. And a comic realism is surely not really, right? Otherwise would have my favorites of the Warner Bros.-forged long ago to fall down the houses and the Meep, Meep-cattle should have been flashed already.
Aside from the fact there is not yet in Counter Strike Call of Duty tattered man. But the matter goes further.

It is claimed towards the end that the U.S. Army uses first-person shooter to lower the threshold of the soldiers. This was clearly demonstrated and therefore not at all to question. In addition, it is claimed that players who play a lot, play more aggressive games.
As you can imagine, this is utter nonsense both. Let's start with the last claim on. People who want to play a lot, mainly to play aggressive games. I can not imagine not. What about sports games, strategy or role playing? Let's take as an example Anno. In this game, a game is longer than for a first-person shooter that takes in the most laps only 5 minutes. Sure, there are also longer rounds. In general, this is not the case. In Anno, a building game, building a city can ever take several days.
Let's talk about the famous U.S. Army argument, which is taken always welcome. Supposedly the Army to use games to reduce inhibitions. This is simply utter nonsense. First time training the Army is still shooting at real shooting ranges, because they have found that it still makes a difference whether you shoot in real or virtual (yes, a normal person can distinguish between!). And secondly, there are no studies that suggest a reduction of the threshold, even some who argue against it. A statement on game studies :

Summarized here is found that the currently circulating statements on the reduction of the work is based on inhibition of killing, can withstand normal scientific criticism in any way. Here, military simulations with computer games thrown into a pot and correlations allowed causal relationships, some of which are dragged in the hair. It is quite clear this is a myth based on the Medieninkompetenz its propagators.

So you see: The ARD report, it was usual baiting of computer games. Those that we hear for months. Who wants to look at the report itself, which can here do (from minute 35 starts the horror).

[Via stigma video games ]

As I just read was, Bethesda has the second part of its grand Elder Scrolls saga free download for all parties. The whole game is measuring time 146 megabytes, can you on the official Elder Scrolls website for free download .

Since the game is several years old, it does not need much. Only a 66 Mhz processor and a bit of free hard disk space. Oh yes: And DOS box. Everything else is explained on the Elder Scrolls website.

Nostalgic for sure a good story. Sure, for today's players will certainly not be the bringer of graphics, but many older players amongst you, there is certainly a great thing. If you consider me, how much HDD space Oblivion (4.6 GB) and Morrorwind (1 GB) consumes one sees how the computer world has changed: disk space is getting cheaper and the textures getting bigger. But that is a minor matter: The main thing is what is in vain!

The sequel to the sci-fi shooter Mass Effect is planned for spring 2010 release for the PC and XBox 360. Since Mass Effect is a trilogy, a show of a third part is also very likely.

The second Part is to attract attention with a complex backstory. In addition, it is expanded weapon options and an improved combat system bieten.Der general manager Dr. Ray Muzyka said Mass Effects 2:

Mass Effect 2 is developing into an unforgettable RPG-shooter experience, full of intriguing plot twists and relentless action.

Be at E3, but for now journalists can get the game in its full splendor to admire, because the presentation is accessible only for this. All others: "Normal" will be locked. Too bad. Since organic product promises so much and then a normal person gets them with nothing. But I am sure that we get the opportunity to enjoy the game.

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Source: GameSpot