2009 WCG Grand Final Second day: Counter Strike match: Fnatic.MSI vs wNv.Cn
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2009 WCG Grand Final Fourth day: Round of 16 2set – Counter Strike : wNv.Cn vs [k23]
2009 WCG Grand Final Fourth day: Round of 16 2set – Counter Strike : wNv.Cn vs [k23]
Video Rating: 4 / 5
2009 WCG Grand Final Fifth day: Final – Counter Strike 1set : fnatic vs Again
2009 WCG Grand Final Fifth day: Final – Counter Strike 1set : fnatic vs Again
Video Rating: 4 / 5
360-degree virtual combat room is like Iraq: The Arcade Game
Just so you know, I’m not making light of warfare — it’s just that virtual training like this, while valuable, does remind one simultaneously of Modern Warfare and Ender’s Game. Of course, as this article notes, the current generation of potential soldiers has grown up in a digital age and expects a little Xbox with their ammo box.
Training has, since the introduction of America’s Army in 2002 (remember, everyone thought it was going to suck, and it really didn’t at all), incorporated more and more virtual or simulated training, though admittedly the technology used is decidedly last-generation still. But when you can save a million rounds of ammo by having your recruits shooting pixelated guys in a 360-degree combat room like this one, the benefits are clear.
I wish we didn’t have to send 19-year-olds into a war zone, but every advantage we can give them is helpful. And for the record, if I had to have someone watching my back while bullets whiz past, I wouldn’t mind if it was one of my old Counter-Strike clanmates.
Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)
Steam for Mac is 100 percent official. Valve just released a statement saying it plans to launch it this April. The first games available will be Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life (and expansions), Counter Strike, and Portal. Portal 2 will be the first game released for Mac and PC simultaneously. Pretty big news, yes.
Steam will be fully native on the Mac, that is, not some rubbish emulation—it uses WebKit (“Safari”). That makes me jealous: Steam for PC uses Internet Explorer, and it gar-bage. It’s the worst part about Steam.
Valve bigwig Gabe Newell said, “As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients. The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services.”
Welcome to Steam, Mac users! I look forward to sniping you all in Team Fortress 2 over and over again until you accuse me of using an aiming bot, the quit in a big huff. Mwahaahaa~!
Remember when Team Fortress 2 didn’t look like Team Fortress 2?
A few of you may already know that Team Fortress 2 didn’t always look like Toy Story más violence, but for the unawares: it did. So, proof! A certain Curits Lassam, friend to all, found an old PC Gamer preview from the year two-thousand that described the game in its old, Counter-Strike-like art style. Yuck.
It’s safe to say I wouldn’t have spent nearly as much time sniping those red dogs if the game looked realistic. There’s a certain charm to mayhem and carnage when it looks like Buzz Lightyear.