Wasn't that supposed to be called Splinter Cell:Conviction or something? I remember seeing some screenshots of the guy in it running around an office building and jumping through a window or something dressed in jeans. If memory serves it looked like Stranglehold with less action in it.

Yeah, that's the one. Nothing says stealth like a guy walking through a crowded park in the middle of the day.

I tend to think of this as a good thing, most internal Ubi games are lucky to be development for half an hour before they're shit out onto a conveyor belt, so something with some degree of work effort thought put in instead of diarrhea in a jar like usual might be a good thing.

For anyone here who still doesn't have the game at all, or only has the 360 version, this Friday (i.e., tomorow), Steam is offering Left 4 Dead for the low low price of $0. That's a Zero, not an o.

The catch? Its more like a glorified demo: The promotion, called "Freaky Free Friday" will allow Steam users to download the entire game for free and play it for 24 hours before it becomes locked, at which point gamers will have to cough up the cash to continue playing.

If some among you are curious what the noise about this game is all about, this provides a good opportunity to try out the game, for a very reasonable price.

The official announcement from Steam's website:

Source:
The Escapist : News : Left 4 Dead 4 Free 4 24 Hours
Kotaku - Left 4 Dead Will Be Free! (For 24 Hours) - Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead on Steam

Now no one has an excuse not to try this. They could download and try just to see how it runs on their computer.

I saw the same announcement in Edge. It was pretty thin on details though so it could just be corporate hot air (Given that it came from their annual report) or it could mean they're upping the number of polys in the Rabbid models in anticipation of Nintendo managing a resolution better than VGA with their next console. I doubt that the announcement is in any way tied to any actual game development, there's a lot more than two years left in the current generation. Hell, there was another article on the Edge website with Sony claiming the PS3 will be number one console in five years, hardly the announcement of a company planning on superceding it in a couple of years.

Well, obviously it's literally just them pondering over unfinalized tech specs, but even if all they do is even contemplate a fucking tech demo, that's still far more effort put in than the average Ubi brick of condensed dog shit in a box that lines our store shelves.

I am merely joking about how garbage they are, not making any serious comment regarding anything else

I don't know, it takes a bit of foresight to come up with a plan like clipping the ending off your game and selling it separately. Some of their games are so bad it had to have been planned.

I saw leaked internal documents that stated Prince of Persia's name while in development was "Project Namco-Bandai"

They've produced some decent games over the years, I wouldn't write them off just yet. Armoured Core 2 was pretty decent, Grandia 2 is fairly popular and who can honestly say they didn't love Iron Lord?

I never did get to the end of that. :(

That's From Software, Game Arts, and a game made by two people in 1989, none of which were touched by the internal dev houses that make up Ubisoft's shitfactory these days.

The correct answer would have been Vegas, the latter Silent Hunters, and Chaos Theory.

In Shin's defense, Ubisoft was the publisher for those NA/EU-wise.

Um, yeah. Duh.

But this entire time I was referencing them as a developer, see.

Thank you for pointing out the flaw of my comment, in that people can't tell the difference. I know Shin knows. I'm just throwing this out there.

A++ will never assume anyone knows anything again.

Likewise, I was trying to make a joke about how the only good things with UbiSoft's name on are things they've published not developed themselves.

The joke was rather let down by the fact that I think most people know I'm pretty gay for Vegas and Blazing Angels.

Well, that was one big clusterfuck then. Let's pretend our unfunny asses haven't said anything for the last four posts and let's continue on with our day, then.

Hey, I kinda liked Pandora Tomorrow.

And why no Sands of Time, that's like one of the greatest games to start with the logo :mad:

Screw the Tom Clancy crap, it's all about Rayman 2 & 3. As amusing as the Rabbids are, I'd love to see them put out another actual Rayman platformer. That seems more and more doubtful with each Rabbid entry, though.

Well considering with Pandora Tomorrow came one of the greatest multiplayer game modes of all time, and had a decent single player. What was not to like? Too bad they decided to not include such multiplayer in Double Agent. They should just have both modes in the next one.

For those among us who enjoy Deus Ex, it has come to my attention that The Nameless Mod has recently been completed, which in a nutshell, is an enormous single-player total conversion mod for Deus Ex.

Source:
Gamasutra - News - Interview: Offtopic Productions Talks Making Mods And Taking Names
Narcissus Speaks: Nameless Mod Released | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
TNM - The Nameless Mod

I believe this is also required:
http://www.pleaselink.me/_/myconfine...ex-mention.jpg

Sorry for the double-post, but Marvel Vs. Capcom has been given a release date by Marvel: June 29th, and will be available on the PSN for US $15 and on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1,200 Microsoft Points. It should be noted that Marvel added a small disclaimer: "scheduled release dates are subject to change". So until someone officially says otherwise, that's the Monday you can get taken for a ride.

Source: Newsarama.com : Marvel Releases Q1 2009 Numbers

SORNY Walkman Entertainment pushes Atari over in the mud up runs off with publishing rights to Ghostbusters. It's now a timed PS3/PSP/PS2 (there was a PS2 version?) exclusive. 360/Wii/DS versions to be released towards the end of the year from Atari. I think.

That's if Atari is still around by then. :cmb:

I... I... What?!

Bit of a bummer, but I figure this'll give them time to fix whatever bugs the tripple version with ship with, and throw in some new content for the 360 version. Every cloud has a silver lining.

(If not, well, the PS3 version will be cheaper by the time it hits the other platforms, so I'll just wait to spring for it.)

ITT: Atari slaps money out of my hand, watches it fall into the gutter, laughs at me

This announcement only affects PAL territories, according to Kotaku. Atari is still publishing the title in North America, so no worries for us.