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E-3 2012 will be here in June. Media registration has already ended. so the show is stocked with seats, booths and visitors. Now for the preparations of the products.
The concern here is , “What games would you like to See more of at E-3?”
There are many games we have all been waiting for. Many of these games we have been waiting years for. From First person Shooters, To Role playing RPG games, to Action adventure games and racing games
Made a toolbar. It has a couple boredom games. Of course :-) .
Also has a few essential links to free virus scanners. Just look at the “Clean Machine” Section. These are very important when it comes to cleaning up a hijacked computer.
Added a few radio stations. It’s the stuff i listen to when deep into my work.
Also added a few podcasts about tech related content.
There is an SEO tools section. This section is still new so please send me link you want added.
The Official TruXtertech Toolbar
If you have any links you want added to the toolbar please respond below and they will be considered.
Ninjas Live, this game is crazy fun. I am so glad it came to the Android system. I have been playing this thing now for a week on my Droid Phone. Not many games are this fun. I have to say that storm8 knew what they where doing. I just want to see storm8 Come out with Pirates Live and let us all go head to head pirates verses Ninjas lol.
Well to show my support for the game I left it open so you can leave your Ninjas Live code or just pick up someone elses code.
No sign up needed to post just leave your ninja name and a fake email address and all is good :-)
MFJ5Y
I wrote Is Pc Gaming Dead 2 years ago, Now I recap.
I actually got tons of hate-mail from pc gamers. There was a ton of messages from console gamers saying stuff like “go buy a ps3/360 you cheap %%^#). but to get hate mail from pc gamers on a subject that bothers me. To get called a scare monger or fear monger or a poor writer with scare tactics. It threw me for a curve. So for two years I stayed off the topic. Now the consoles are a few years old. No news on a new Xbox or the next playstation. I do feel like I am cheating because this is a bad time to do an assessment. Then again, people are fanboys of stuff for a good long while. I am certain the fanboyism has petered out now that pc gamers have slapped the console kiddies down with “Nice out dated machinery, still calling it next gen?”
Okay lol that was so wrong of me. but it was right. Very right.
Ok to the work at hand.
I took a trip to the local gamestop to see if I could find a fun new game for my pc. I mean I did just upgrade my video card to dual Nvida gts 250 cards toting 1g memory, and I just upgraded my processor from a dual core 2.9g cpu to a tri core 3.0g processor. and I added two gigs memory to my motherboard. So you can see I am ready to game a bit. I get into the game store and look what I found.
Game stop Pc gaming
Pc gaming went from a small shelf, down to one of the outer edges of a small shelf. A small 4 foot shelf end-cap. so I was was shocked. all of the games so old and outdated, I tried to laugh at it but it came out distorted. It was disturbing. I was outraged. I walked to the cashier and said ” What the %^^&%^ is this %^$%^” or something really close. The cashier pointed at the pieces of paper hanging over the side.
It was three pages I think, front to back listed with hundreds of pc games they have in the back. I was excited. I bought some games from the list and left there happy. Then I got all the way home and realized ‘dude, we are pc gamers, not paper gamers.” They could just go ahead and remove that whole dang rack and that notebook on the side and just put us a computer there to select our purchase from. i could go for that.
a week or so later, I was shopping in Walmart for some screws or something. It was late and no hardware stores were open. So wally world was all I had. After I finally found something that might work, I walked to the electronics department so I can look at the fading pc games there and sulk at the three shelves of 9.99 games and a few two year old games. The pc games were gone. I mean completely and entirely gone from the spot they have slowly dwindled down to. They were gone. I broke out my cellphone to take a picture. I back up and bumped into some guy. I turned to apoligize. As i turned I winced because of the huge long glass cabinet of console games. My eyes moved from the furthest end. Nintendo stuff had to have had 300 different games. Counting hand helds and stuff. Then the next case xbox. Well over 100 games. Then playstation 200 or so. Then….. wait…. What????? IT’S A HUGE RACK OF PC GAMES AT THE END OF THE LINE. MORE PC GAMES THAN ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Walmart Pc Gaming
The Humble Walmart has more pc games than Gamestop of Spring (on 45 and cypresswood).
so what the heck happened? is pc game dying? Is it on it’s last breath? Is it getting it’s second wind? It looks like pc gaming is coming to the forefront again. Quietly making it’s march forward.
What i am worried about is that most pc gamers are let down enough, they have been buying online only. so they may never even notice that this is going on. and by the time they find out about it, the games will be pulled off the shelf because it was a failed attempt.
Or someone will get the news out as well as they can that pc gaming is not dead or dying, we just have to find it and make sure the guy who sales knows he has what we want and that we will be there for him to profit from.
******Update*****
Well I talked to Gamestop.
Got the answer we needed to hear.
GAMEstop (lol their name says it all.)
Gamestop is reducing their pc games because gamestop tends to sell used games. Pc games, even though they do not get pirated any more or any less than Xbox and Playstation games, they have great deals of protection methods on them that prevent the RE-SELL of Pc Games.
Since GAMEstop sells a lot of used games, and you can’t use cd keys like you used to by “unregistering a cdkey”. Games now come with a limited amount of installs.
The pc gaming industry is killing it’s self
Well I seem to have found “The Ultimate Myspace Games Toolbar” .
I found the toolbar that of all toolbars, it has links to help sites and tips sites with Myspace Mobsters Cheats, bots, glitches and tweaks. It has the same for Mafia wars and Street Racer, Vampires, Yoville, Sorority life and a couple more. . Man what used to be me with twenty windows open and mad clicking and typing is now just a series of 5-8 clicks and bam I am done.
The person that put this together seems to know exactly what is needed to make myspace gaming as easy as possible. It has what started to seem like work and labor (fixing all of my accounts, and updating everything) all rolled into one system of links and mods and glitches. I love this toolbar.
Tons of stuff I knew off but didnt have scattered all over my bookmarks/favorites, and some stuff i never knew of. I really recommend you try it out.
Tech and Video Game Help Forum Launched
If you are in search of a community to help with a tech or video game question, head over to iworkwithtech.com
The first member to give 100 posts will be given administrator position. Second Member to give 100 Posts will be given Moderator Position. You must notify one of the administrators when you achieve 100 non spammy posts. All posts must be relevant to their section and helpful to other users.
The community is created to be helpful for people in search of answers, so if you are a geek like myself, feel free to join and creat a few posts answering the questions you are sick of answering, that way when you get the questions again, you can just send the link to that person, and be done with the redundancy of it.
As the owner of http://truxtertech.com I found many questions coming to pages from people who just have a bad problem they need fixed. I do not have all of the answers, So many of the questions had to go unanswered. I decided to create a place for those with questions to go and post their questions with the chance of someone answering them for them. Since I had the domain name iworkwithtech, just laying around looking dead, I made this place.
There is a page to help people locate the latest bots tips tricks and cheats for myspace and facebook games. Game like Mafia wars, Mobsters, street racer and the such. so it would be very helpful if you could post any links to anything you know of, because I get questions here about that stuff all the time. and well, I just do not know all of that yet. I will check all links for popups and spam and any malware that might be bundled in the downloads. So please use virscan to check all downloads first. I do not want to have to ban someone for being thoughtless.
I hope you join me in this quest to save the world from their hardware/software and stupid video game.. (lol)
Special Note for those interested.
First person to make 500 posts will get Administrator position and will be given space to post advertisements and receive 50% of the p0rofits of the traffic to the site
Zynga the company that owns Mafia Wars (a game played on Myspace and other locations) , Launched their new toolbar application two days ago. after a year of my kid having a toolbar for mafia wars, they decide to make their own toolbar. Since my kid’s toolbar had greater page rank, they send a cease and desist notice to conduit, the company my kid uses to make his toolbar.
After you read this cease notice, I want you to remember, all that my son had in his toolbar was links to his favorite websites that where focused on Mafia Wars for Myspace. Well he removed everything from his toolbar and started a new one focused on his own website (about Myspace Mobsters Family HFS). Soon after, Conduit removed the link to his toolbar from their search engine (powered by google) and then, the following day (today) Google removed him from their search. Wow, zynga threw a big tantrum because they had an idea to late and could not out PR a teen age kid. Remember though. THIS IS MY BOY we are talking about. I give high props to my son. I totally respect his intentions to shut down his toolbar before it got all covered in stupid, and I appreciate his modesty and integrity for allowing Zynga to capitalize on it’s income a little bit further.
I do suggest and recommend that Zynga go ahead since they threw the hissy fit, to register with conduit and take over the name of that toolbar because it’s PR, I would respect them a little bit more if they compensate him for his efforts in keeping people interested in their game. I on the other hand will discontinue my Zynga account, and spend all efforts in promoting the fun created by playdom (mobsters). Zynga has lost my respect. I am not trying to rally troops and cause everyone to quit the games they create, Their games are fun, but man, they sure have no idea how the internet works and what free advertisement is worth. They need to respect their users a bit more.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Legal <Legal@conduit.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:03 AM
Subject: “Mafia Wars” toolbar – violation of the Publisher Agreement
To: *******
Dear Publisher of the “Mafia Wars” toolbar;
Thank you for choosing Conduit to power your community toolbar.
It has recently came to our attention that the community toolbar that you publish [CT2101201] [http://mafiawarstoolbar.ourtoolbar.com/] contains materials (such as marks, signs, images, or texts) that allegedly infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties [your toolbar name, logo, links, pictures and / or other contents include contents which were taken from or referring to Zynga’s Mafia wars application without receiving their written permission first].
This activity is considered a violation of the terms and conditions of the Publisher Agreement that you have approved prior to using the Conduit platform (http://www.conduit.com/license.aspx).
We kindly ask you to remove any content that may violate the terms and conditions of the Publisher Agreement from your toolbar within the next 12 hours [or less] from the date of this email. If you fail to address the issues described in this email within such timeframe, we will be forced to take the required actions to resolve such violations. For the avoidance of any doubt or misunderstanding please be aware that all Zynga’s related materials should be removed from your toolbar [This includes your toolbar name, logo, and all the content which is related to Zynga].
We kindly request that while utilizing the Conduit platform, you will refrain from using material or content that is legally owned or licensed by third parties without receiving an approval from such third parties.
Thank you for your cooperation. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions.
Regards,
Conduit Compliance Department
They would not have acted out like this after year of the toolbar, if Zynga had not just launched theirs two days ago and saw they Suck at Page Rank
Decided to drive to the swingset in Gtaiv on a motorcycle.
I pulled up to the leg of the swingset and bam.. my wheels disappeared. I kept trying to ride away, but that wouldn’t happen. It was as if I was stuck to the swingset. So I got off the bike and was about to just run away, but decided to see if the game sees the bike as being a dead bike. What I mean by that is , sometimes when you trash a vehicle, exit the vehicle and try again to mount/enter, the game will act as if it isn’t there. So I wanted to see what the game saw it as, it let me on. The bike rolled backward about a foot or so then it froze. I exited again to see if it would happen again. Cool it did, but I was still stuck to the swingset. I kept doing it till the bike disconnected from the swingset, I then rode away with no wheels. On a hover craft like Harley bike thingy lol.
Of course I tried to save it to see what it is like next time I boot the game up. we’ll see when I reboot.
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Rockstar games mailed out the official news letter three days later than take two’s announcement .
We are proud to announce that Grand Theft Auto IV will be arriving for the
platform it was birthed on this November. Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC will
feature everything from the acclaimed original console releases, along with
newly expanded multiplayer just for the PC and more.Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC debuts on November 18th
in North America and on November 21st in Europe.
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more details.
Visit the FINERY section of the Rockstar Warehouse to shop for a
newly added range of limited–edition Grand Theft Auto IV tees.Including:
Available in black and white.
“Kill Your Hunger. Bleedin’ Tasty.”
“Dog Eat Dog World”These things (and especially Large and XL sizes) tend to sell out fast, so move quickly!
Grand Theft Auto IV – ESRB Rating: MATURE with Intense Violence, Blood, Strong
Language, Strong Sexual Content, Partial Nudity, Use of Drugs and Alcohol.
” Earlier today we broke the news that some Grand Theft Auto IV gamers were having problems with the game on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
“For them, the game was freezing up during the introductory cut-scene, something that neither I nor Mike experienced during our time with the game on both systems. To be clear, we have no idea how widespread the problem is, but it’s certainly on Rockstar’s radar and making the rounds both in our tips line and on forums.
“Rockstar declined to comment on the issue officially, so I went to the phone and called up Rockstar Support to see what they had to say about the problem.”
I am certain that Rockstar games will fix this issue. Not to bash the gaming site that seems to have “broken the news.”
But really. This is taking words out of text.
