Video Games

Well, I’m out for the night. If I want any candy tonight, I’m going to have to finish my homework first.

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Sony is now promoting two of their games right now by making their soundtracks free with the game purchase. If you buy Jak X: Combat Racing for the PS2 or The Con for the Playstation Portable, you download their respective soundtracks for free! All you have to do after you buy the game is hit up Sony’s Connection website, type in your coupon code from the game, and download away. “The Con’s soundtrack includes exclusive remixes by Blackalicious, Dan the Automator, The Alchemist and Doc. Jak X includes songs from Queens of the Stone Age and Billy Howerdel.”

The Xbox 360 Hour Tour will allow avid video-gamers in the UK to try out the new Xbox 360 system before it’s released. The Tour will kick off in Glasgow on November 4th, and then continue on through Birmingham, then to Leeds, and finally to London, wrapping up on the 28th of November. The games available for public testing include Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo: Elements of Power, and Project Gotham Racing 3. The date for the release of the Xbox 360 throughout Europe is Dec. 2.

It’s official. Uwe Boll is directing a two-part adaption of the popular video-game Dungeon Siege. “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale” is said to be a roughly 4 1/2 hour epic. Uwe Boll, to pander to “the exhibitors who can’t accept a movie so long,” has decided to cleave the entire ordeal into two parts. Part One is to be released November 3rd of 2006, with the denouement hitting theaters on December 1st.

The film’s diverse cast includes Ray Liotta, Leelee Sobieski, Burt Reynolds, Ron Perlman, Claire Forlani, Matthew Lillard, John Rhys-Davies, Kristanna Loken, Will Sanderson, Brian J. White, and German supermodel Eva Padberg.

Will Uwe Boll butcher another film, or do you expect this to be a hit? What are your predictions?

I am checking out Half Life 2 over Steam, and the installation is too slow! Take a look at these download speeds:

I am getting ~500KB/s on a connection that regularily sustains 1.2 MB/s. What gives, Valve? Don’t have a great online content distribution network, or what?