Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 13 May 2012

Featured Sandy Ravage MW2 Video

Uploaded 6 May 2012 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Activision tops views on Call of Duty; outlook misses.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Preview] Hybrid: Turning the shooter upside down.
• [PC Preview] Iron Front: Liberation 1944 on Violent Gamer.
• Al Lowe fleshing out Leisure Suit Larry remake.
• Lottery-based game mechanic made illegal in Japan. Does that mean Call of Duty spawning is now illegal in Japan?
• Zynga sues French developer over -ville suffix.
• Understanding the legal implications of publishing your game.
• [Feature] The future of games could look a lot like television.
• The $99 Xbox 360: Could it change the industry or fail miserably? Could be either...
• [Image] Old Hulk (2003) meet new Hulk (2012). Amazing how far movie CGI has come in just 9 years... (Original image link credit: tomhagen on Reddit Movies.)

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Research suggests babies' brains benefit from music lessons.
• One in six cancers caused by treatable infections.
• [Everyone panic!] Melting glaciers could release ancient microbes.
• Quantum dot lighting could be just around the corner. Right after the $60 LED light bulb...
• Comparison of ink in Hewlett-Packard cartridges over the years.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 27 December 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 10 December 2011 on Sandy Ravage

    Call of Duty Links:

• [Preview] Modern Warfare 3 DLC on game bandits.
• Study: Modern Warfare 2 the most addictive console video game.
• [Legal News] Activision accuses Electronic Arts into goading former Call of Duty developers into insubordination.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Review in progress] Star Wars: The Old Republic on IGN. 
• Gears of War 3 'Fenix Rising' DLC due out in January.
• Playstation Vita hits the shelves with 20 games. 
• Nintendo fixing Skyward Sword glitch with whole new channel. 
• OnLive's Android app updated, now friendly with Xperia PLAY. 
• Top ten most disappointing games of 2011.
• [Feature] The best title screens of the year.
• Portal Christmas tree was absolute genius.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Galaxy from the 'dawn of time' photographed. 
• Enigmatic fossils are neither animals nor bacteria.
• 'Too late' to contain research into lab-grown bird flu. Hmmmm. How long before it's too late to contain the flu itself?
• Scientists won't reveal details of lab-grown bird flu.
• [Nano-news] Scientists developing paint-on solar cells. Also covered on Science Daily.
• Cheating spreads like infections in online multiplayer games. No kidding...

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 8 December 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 27 November 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Den Kirson: Modern Warfare 3's Ballistic Vest equals +70, not +30 health.
• Modern Warfare 3 is Facebook's 8th biggest topic in 2011.

    More Gaming Links:

• Batman: Arkham City PC patch released. 
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 1.3 patch won't fix PS3 lag issue.
• Nintendo 3DS system update goes live with unexpected additions.
• Xbox Live terms of service updated to evade class action lawsuits. 
• Xbox Live iOS app released. 
• [Image] What the frack, Microsoft? Really? Really!?! (Image credit: KARMA_P0LICE on Reddit Gaming)
• [Images] Real-life Half-life gravity gun prop project.
• [Cracked] The seven dumbest video game innovations that actually exist.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Mysterious planet sized object spotted near Mercury. Hoping that it's not a Vogon constructor fleet... 
• [Feature] A reality check about the recent 'Earth-like' planet discovery.
• How to slow the effects of aging on the brain.
• Petition started in England to posthumously pardon Alan Turing.
• Facebook begins official rollout of Timeline.
• [YouTube] Mythbusters shoot cannonball into neighborhood. (Thanks, Matt!)

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 20 November 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 13 November 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Modern Warfare 3 breaks more records: Over 600k Call of Duty Elite subscriptions at GameStop. And Modern Warfare 3 itself has earned $775 million in just 5 days.
• Modern Warfare 3 will get 'lots of updates'.
• [YouTube] The inevitable: Modern Warfare 3 free-for-all boosters in 'action'. Cue the banhammer in 3, 2, 1...

My friend still hasn't gotten the hang of his first CoD...

(Image credit: mrm3x1can on Reddit MW3)

    More Gaming Links:

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(Image credit: darthsand on Reddit Zelda)

• Eurogamer Game of the Week: Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
• [Review] Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on Kotaku.
• [Preview] Zelda: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Nintendo 3DS coming.
• Kojima talks Metal Gear Solid 5. 
• Guerilla Games working on new Killzone game.
• Mass Effect multiplayer has been on BioWare's wishlist for a while.
• Former Call of Duty and Activision veterans start new copmpany, U4iA Games. Also covered on GameSpot.
• Reasons not to buy a video game at launch.
• [Video] A Zelda rap so ridiculous, it's amazing...

    Non-Gaming Links:

• [Blog] Magenta is not a real color. Purple is, tho... 
• Nook Tablet unboxing on PC Magazine.
• Why it's not too late for Windows Phone 7.
• Google unveils Android-based online music store. 
• EU bans claim that water - yes, water - prevents dehydration.
• [Health hacks] Five foods for glowing skin. Need I say that chocolate is one of them?
• Ender cast for the Ender's Game movie.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 11 November 2011

Featured Modern Warfare 3 Video

Uploaded 8 November 2011 on Sandy Ravage

    Call of Duty Links:

• [Review] PC Gamer givers Modern Warfare 3 a 74 review score.
• Modern Warfare 3 rises to the challenge - of game reviewers. And guess someone's manipulating Metacritic user scores. (Image credit: hatianvacation on Reddit MW3.)
• All of Modern Warfare 3's intel spotted and charted on the first day of release.
• And so it begins: The first reported Modern Warfare 3 PC aimbot hack.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Review] Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on GiantBomb; Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
• [Video] Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 'The World of Skyrim' trailer on ActionTrip. Also on ActionTrip, 'Animating Skyrim'.
• [Review] Super Mario Land 3D on EuroGamer.
• Star Trek Online goes free-to-play 17 January 2011.
• [Feature] What Zelda: Skyward Sword learned from Mario.
• [Link] Nintendo of Japan Zelda 25th Anniversary screen saver.
• [Feature] Five things we hope to learn from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• [YouTube] Video of a pulsar.
• NASA test fires modern rocket engine derived from Saturn V third stage engine.
• Russia has 'two weeks' to save Mars probe.
• Researchers create a pituitary gland from scratch.
• Guinness secret revealed: Why do Guinness bubbles go down, instead of up?

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 21 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 21 July 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Modern Warfare 3 PC dedicated servers may not be ranked.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Preview] Star Wars: The Old Republic is 'World of Warcraft with lightsabers'. But in a good way...
• [Spoiler] First 45 mins of Batman: Arkham City. 
• Warner reportedly fixing Batman: Arkham City launch glitches.
• Recap of the Nintendo 3DS press conference. EuroGamer has an image gallery of the presentation.
• Xbox Live's Major Nelson gives details on Xbox holiday bundles. 
• [Rumor] 'Xbox 720' to launch in 2013.
• [Feature] The seven steps to Mario Kart 7. 
• [Cracked] Five ways Batman: Arkham City proves I'm under-qualified to be Batman.
• [Image] When it's not OK to call something a 'game manual'. (Image credit: dcponcho on Reddit Gaming)

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Newly discovered dwarf planet outside Neptune's orbit has ancient water ice and possibly remnants of an atmosphere.
• Meet the man who wants to mine the moon.
• Does China want to own the Moon? Hey, play a game: Look at stuff around your house and see how many things have 'Made in China' on the label. 
• [Feature] The significance of Mars travel and exploration.
• DARPA seeking ideas on how to recyle space junk into new satellites. Two words: V'ger and Nomad.
• Biographer: Steve Jobs refused cancer treatment for too long.
• [Feature] Unfair myths bitter nerds will eventually spread about Steve Jobs.
• [Hobbies] Video of SR-71 'Blackbird' model with real jet engines.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 20 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 9 July 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Mark Rubin on Modern Warfare 3 dedicated console servers, spawning, and knifing.
• [Reddit] WayneWex thread on preparing for Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Video] Battlefield 3 multiplayer trailer on ActionTrip. And here's a direct YouTube link.
• [Video] New Saint's Row trailer makes fun of Call of Duty, Battlefield 3.
• Zelda: Skyward Sword not originally destined for motion control.
• [Review] Zero Punctuation reviews Id's Rage. (Not safe for work language, as usual)
• Electronic Arts' Origin download service used by 5 million people daily.
• Nintendo schedules a news conference on the 3DS for tomorrow. Possibly this is related to the firmware update scheduled for next month.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• [Video] Our Future in Space. 
• [YouTube] Interview with ISS commander.
• First ever pictures of a star cluster on the far side of the galactic center.
• Hawaii astronomer captures image of forming planet.
• Archaeologists find intact Viking noble burial ship site.
• Until the next study comes out: It's better to reduce carbs than saturated fats for preventing cardiovascular disease.
• The bacteria that live on and in us might be responsible for being healthy or unhealthy, fat or thin.
• [Cracked] The six most mind-blowing things found in space.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 19 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 19 July 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• [Review] Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation map pack on PCGamer. 
• New, non-FPS Call of Duty game probably canceled.
• [Merch] Logitech announces official Modern Warfare 3 gaming devices.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Preview] Classic Halo 'Hang 'em High' map makes reappearance in Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary edition. 
• [Video] Star Wars: The Old Republic 'Signs of War' trailer.
• [Preview] New Elder Scrolls: Skyrim screenshots show execution moves, more bad guys. 
• [DS] Professor Layton and the Last Specter reviews on GamePro; IGN; Examiner; NintendoLife.
• Nintendo thinks you will be able to select items in Zelda: Skyward Sword without looking at the screen.
• PlayStation Vita release date set for 22 February 2012.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Is the Universe flat?  
• When did the giant impact that created the Moon take place?
• Russians see room for moon base in lunar lava caves. 
• Beam me up, Scotty! Tractor beams in space, the next awesome.
• [YouTube] How quantum levitation works.
• [Op-ed] New York Times: The future of space travel.
• Bitcoin implodes, with value dropping 90%.
• [Feature] Clearing the Smoke: Lost Chances to Study Marijuana Effects.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 18 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 5 September 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Why Modern Warfare 3 didn't have a public beta. Hubris... pure hubris.

    More Gaming Links:

• [Video] Prototype 2 'Red Zone' trailer on ActionTrip.
• [Preview] Zelda: Skyward Sword on IGN.
• [Feature] Zelda: Skyward Sword versus Twilight Princess.
• Battlefield 3 driving upwards of a billion dollars in PC upgrades.
• [Analysis] Crysis performance round-up videos on EuroGamer: Crysis Face-off; Crysis 360/PS3 face-off; Xbox 360 vs. PC; PS3 vs. PC; Xbox 360 2D vs. 3D performance; PS3 2D vs. 3D performance; Crysis engine performance analysis; Crysis gameplay performance analysis.
• [Feature] The top five video game characters to have on your side during a zombie apocalypse.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• NASA books first flight from New Mexico spaceport.
• Older women could guard against osteoporosis by drinking beer. Beer... Is there anything it can't do?
• New supply figures stoke iPad 3 speculation.
• [Feature] Ten not so insanely great Apple products released under Steve Jobs.
• Massachusetts school principal bans celebration of Halloween and Thanksgiving, saying the holidays are 'insensitive'. How about a nice, big cup of STFU?
• Pets join the parade of Halloween costumes. No... just, no.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 17 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 1 October 2011 on SandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• 'Act of Valor', a film inspired by Call of Duty. Included is an embedded YouTube link to the official trailer.

    More Gaming Links:

• [YouTube] Fifteen minutes of Counter-Strike: Global Operations gameplay, with Joe Miller and Chet (from Valve) voiceovers. (Credit: v_1 on Reddit Gaming)
• New Shadowrun game in development.
• [3DS] Cave Story 3D screenies. And, it's 'whet', not 'wet' the appetite, Destructoid...
• [NYCC] Fan-made Star Wars R2D2 console mods.

'Son, you'll never learn anything important from those video games...'

(Credit: jc92 on Reddit Gaming)

    Non-Gaming Links:

• New mystery on Mars' Forgotten Plains.
• 'Faster than light' neutrino mystery claimed solved by special relativity.
• [Feature] Why Einstein was wrong about being wrong.
• Amateur captures coronal mass ejection.
• [YouTube Documentary, 25 mins] Mysteries of a Dark Universe.
• NASA buys flight time on private spacecraft.
• Iran's attempt to launch a monkey into space ends in failure.
• Scottish doctors use ultrasound to help heal fractures.
• Los Angeles pressures scientists into retracting study which showed crime increased after medical marijuana dispensaries were closed.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 16 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 29 September 2011 on TheSandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• Modern Warfare 3 features disability-friendly controller scheme.
• MW3 developer: Modern Warfare 3 competing only against itself. Except for that whole Battlefield 3 thing... And Halo...

    More Gaming Links:

• [Preview] Mario 3D Land on the Nintendo 3DS marries old and new. And speaking of marriage...
• [Screenshots] New Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii) pics on NintendoEverything.
• [Video] Batman: Arkham City launch trailer on ActionTrip.
• [Review] Batman: Arkham City on 1Up, IGN; GamePro; GiantBomb, Joystiq; GameInformer; Metro UK; The Telegraph; CNN.
• [Competition] MLG Orlando this weekend with high quality StarCraft 2, Halo, and Black Ops streams.
• Sony announces mouse and keyboard controller for the PS3. Boy, if there ever was something to make me inclined to buy a flipping PS3, that's it!
• [Image Gallery] Animated Zelda illustrations.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Ancient Mars was 'earth-like' for a few hours a day.
• T-Rex weight topped nine tons. But sad T-Rex is still sad.
• Why would scientists re-create the Black Plague? For science, and because nothing could possibly go wrong. Here's an LA Times link of the original story.
• In an African cave, traces of an ancient paint factory. Also covered on the LA Times.
• Microsoft developer blog: Inside the Windows 8 task manager.
• [Privacy] Verizon wants to know where you go and what you look at. Hey, Verizon... Kiss my ass. Can you hear me now?
• Production of film-based movie cameras has ceased.
• Ten ways to celebrate 'Vegetarian Awareness Month'. I did my part: I had a nice thick, juicy filet mignon with my son.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 15 October 2011

Featured Sandy Ravage Video

Uploaded 28 September 2011 on SandyRavage

    Call of Duty Links:

• [Op-ed] Modern Warfare 3's Pepsi Cross promotion steps over the line.
• [YouTube] Black Ops Robot Chicken Style.

    More Gaming Links:

• DICE: Battlefield 3 isn't at all like Modern Warfare 3. O RLY? Guess Medal of Honor wasn't anything like Modern Warfare 2, either...
• Dark Souls 'Hardcore' trailer on ActionTrip.
• [Video] GoldenEye Reloaded multiplayer trailer (HD).
• Activision flip-flops on GoldenEye's 'paintball' mode.
• Batman: Arkham City locks Catwoman behind one-time use code. Also covered on GiantBomb.
• Men in Black game to be released alongside third film.
• [Image] Base-jumping 500 meters in Battlefield 3.
• [Image] Sexy Mortal Kombat cosplay.

 

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Landing on other planets - How hard can it be? Really, really hard without a launch platform...
• The mystery of Mars' bizarre plumbing.
• Russia asked to join ExoMars Project. Get your ass to Mars, comrade!
• [Image] Seven nebulae, a galaxy, and a supernova remnant painted by redditor vactuna.
• The party's over: Microsoft ruins acquires Skype.
• Bible's authors decoded by computer.
• [Op-ed] The shoulders Steve Jobs stood on.
• R.I.P., Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and Linux.
• Pork industry reports boom. Hey! Bacon: It's the guy's chocolate.

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Call of Duty and Gaming Links, 3 June 2010

Featured Modern Warfare 2 Video
Sandy Ravage: Ground War TDM - Estate

Uploaded 31 May 2010 by Sandy Ravage

    On to the CoD links:

• Fourzerotwo: Modern Warfare 2 title update rolling out on Xbox Live, preceding 'Resurgence' map pack.
• The Tech Journal: Call of Duty: Black Ops preview.
• Xboxic: Black Ops beta 'under consideration'.
• Develop: Treyarch: Bungie is our competition.
• MTV: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 'Resurgence' recap.
• 411Mania: Modern Warfare 2 soundtrack available.
• GamingToday: Mad Catz continues Call of Duty partnership with Black Ops merch, buys Tritton. GameGuru notes that Mad Catz will also develop Call of Duty branded gaming peripherals.
• Block Shopper: Original CoD founders sell jointly owned Sherman Oaks house.
• Seattle Weekly Blogs: Pedo douchebag solicits naked photos of timmies using Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live. As if hearing them talk wasn't bad enough...

Jahovas Witniss Spazzin with the Spas

 Uploaded 1 June 2010 on MW2Commentators

    More Gaming Links:

Five Easy Red Dead Redemption Achievements

Uploaded 2 June 2010 on IGN Entertainment 

• Red Dead Redemption review round up: Daily News; San Francisco Chronicle; San Jose Mercury News; Shelbyville Times-Gazette;
• Major Nelson: Red Dead Redemption beats Halo 3 on Xbox Live.
 

 Red Dead Redemption Guide to Dueling

Uploaded 2 June 2010 on IGN Entertainment
 

• CVG: EA: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 won't beat Modern Warfare 2.
• Joystiq: Virgin Gaming to offer online game tournaments.
• Destructoid: Rumor: Hulu for the Xbox 360 to be announced at E3.
• Kotaku: Japan: DSi XL pedo packaging.

    Non-Gaming Links:

• Slashgear: Google Chrome OS due this fall.
• Kotaku: The folks making our gadgets: Foxxconn employee dies after 34 hr shift. Also, Steve Jobs addresses Foxxconn suicides.
• MaximumPC: Five freeware apps for locking down your system - hardcore. Speaking of hardcore, MaximumPC reports a study that claims 'extreme' gamers spend 48 hours a week gaming.
• Ars Technica: Dreaming big: Planning a human mission to the outer solar system.
• Motor Authority: Ford kills off Mercury brand.
• Culture Lab: Forensic astronomer solves Walt Whitman meteor mystery.
• UGO: Top sci-fi women of 2010.
• News Tribune: Darwin honorary mention: Dumbass shoots himself in the balls.

Fail Compilation May 2010

Uploaded 2 June 2010 on TwisterFail 

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