Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 19 July 2010

[Abbreviated blog today, as I have Mom in the hospital, was there most of last night, and have to be there again today]

    Call of Duty Links:

• BASHandSlash coverage of the CoD4 PC mod Frontlines R3L04D.

    More Gaming Links:

Blacklight: Tango Down: Videogame Review - Hutch (8.5/10)

Uploaded 17 July 2010 on MachinimaRespawn

• New Left 4 Dead 2 mutation 'Hard Eight' more like just 'Hard'. 
• How Xbox Live Achievements work.
• Xbox Live 'Achievement Unlocked' sound almost never happened.
• The helmets, visors, and Masterchiefs of Halo: Reach. Variety is the spice of game lives!
• Electronic Arts selling off 15% of Ubisoft. 
• Multiplayer gaming at fault for June game sales decline. Apparently, some of you are merely playing the games you bought and liked instead of doing your job and buying new games you don't give a shit about. 
• Pach-Attack, Episode 124. Pachter poses on his pulpit proposing his point of views on gaming.
• Gaming Without a Safety Net. Extra Lives author Tom Bissell discusses the difficulty of communicating the gaming experience to non-gamers.
• GameArt: New Bayonetta figure captures the essence of Bayonetta.

Natural Selection 2 Teaser

Uploaded 27 May 2009 by TheRealFlayra

• BASHandSlash Bash 157 podcast covers the UnknownWorlds' Alienesque-looking PC FPS/RTS hybrid Natural Selection 2, a stand-alone spin-off of the Natural Selection Half-life 2 mod. The FAQ page for Natural Selection 2 is here.
  

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Second SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arrives at Canaveral.
• Dark energy sheds new light on universe's expansion.
• 'Heat wave' weapon deployed in Afghanistan. Zaaappppp!
• Cracked: Six days undercover as a Justin Bieber fan.

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