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Pikachu DS Lite

Posted in Art, DS, Fan-made media, Nintendo by ubersoldat on April 15th, 2006.

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What could be cuter than integrating a Pokemon into the skin of a Nintendo DS? Nothing. And nothing could be farther from reality. Too bad. Here’s the fan-created concept:

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Ode to Starcraft

Posted in Blizzard, Fan-made media by Elliott Back on April 15th, 2006.

One Starcraft Protoss vs. Terran game per night
makes all my noobish strategies go bye-bye byte by byte.
One day you will all struggle before my might
and even in a decade some may take flight.

As I wage war after war, battle after battle,
Herding zealots, goons, no, carriers like cattle.

Your turrets will fail you.
Firebats will get the flu;
Your marines will sneeze achoo,
For you’re too busy at the loo,

Thinking, “Julie only does 20 actions per minute,
So even if she has a DT I’ll easily pin it.”

But there you’re wrong, my friend.
For very soon you’ll meet your Starcraft career’s end.
I’ll play so ferociously you won’t have time to mend;
I’ll have 12 gateways and you’ll only weakly defend.

If you consider the effort I put into this piece,
You’ll fly away like flocks of geese.

For my determination knows no bounds.
I’ll even chase after you like hounds.
I’ll reduce your hatcheries to mounds.
Oh yes, trust me, I will not cease to pound.

Until that fateful moment, full of shine,
Victory! is finally mine.

Credit to Julie Geng for this brilliant work.

DotA 6.29 Downloadable Map!

Posted in Blizzard, Fan-made media, Online, PC Games by ubersoldat on March 17th, 2006.

Yet another DotA (Defense of the Ancients) map has been released! This time, it’s version 6.29, which claims to fix a lot of things. You can download it HERE. The change-log is as follows:

6.29 Changelog:
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* Added -shuffleplayers(-sp, rearranges the players)
* Added -csboardon/-csboardoff to toggle a board that displays -cs stats
* Some improvements to the way Abaddon’s abilities work.
* Fixed various voodoo restoration bugs
* Fixed a few phase bugs
* More Netherswap abuse fixes, can no longer swap from an unpathable area.
* Improved all randoming code (was very inefficient in -dm -ar and caused some
lag)
* Fixed a bug with Freezing Field and caster units.
* Fixed some issues with sprout sometimes pushing the hero out.
* Chaos Bolt does some random damage now.
* Fixed Tormented Soul’s Lighting Storm lvl 4 mana cost.
* Fixed a typo on lvl 3 scepter death ward
* Restored original V hotkey for mana void.
* Fixed a bug with Crippling Fear that did not cause the target to miss.
* Fixed some counter helix bugs against song of the siren.
* Fixed a bug with neutral wolves requiring food (thx m-hehl)
* Fixed a few bugs with berserker call including moving cycloned units
* Brain Sap no longer has a short channel requirement/bug.
* Fixed a minor bug with VS base hp, adjusted str to make it same as usual.
* Lone Druid, Nevermore, Morphling and Mercurial Attribute Bonus now show up
as a +bonus
* Searing arrows mana cost increased by 3.
* Slight improvement to the Void’s model movement animation on timewalk
* Fixed Berserker’s Call exploit on roshan.
* Added buff icons to direct vengeance as well as Haunt.
* Changed how Death Ward works a bit. (This may not be a permanent change, its
still under debate)
* Redid a lot of nightstalker code to fix some old perm night effect bugs.
* Fixed PA to properly autorefresh (hopefully!)

Thanks again to the beta testers who are active.

**This was released before the new sent heroes could be finished because of
the wide spread axe-roshan abuse. They will be included next version.

Half Life 2 FakeFactory

Posted in Fan-made media, First Person Shooter, PC Games by Elliott Back on January 14th, 2006.

Fake Factory has released a high-res texture pack and music for half life 2 to spruce up the look and feel of the game. Now isn’t this an AWESOME screenshot?

They have a changelist:

- The Cinematic Modification adds Hires-Textures to all human characters, some non-human characters, nearly all items, walls and vehicles (and the vending mashine of course).

- It replaces the original HL2 music with a more classic score in the style of large Hollywood productions, that fits to the specific game-situations. Moreorchestral, more ambient, with unique themes for combines and Alyx.

-The additional Insane Hires Props are previous unreleased Hirestextures for nearly all props in the game, even little items like binders, computerparts, doorlocks and so on. The huge amount of details will give your HL2 virtually the look of a render-intro, but be warned: The amount of new textures will tax your hardware to the limit. Better don’t use this pack withoutdated DirectX8 cards. Don’t even think about it, unless you are using a 256+ MB card.

You can get it from halflife2.filefront.com/file/HalfLife_2_Fakefactory_Cinematic_Insane_Hires;54352 .