How about a news round up? Cowboy Style? Nah, I didn't think so either.
Mods:
Latest Mod Developments include-
- The Finest Hour total conversion mod has released a single player demo!
- Vietnam Reborn is a ZH mod. They have released some pictures for your pleasure.
- Armageddon Mod is progressing. They have launched a forums, but no website yet.
- Call To Arms ZH Mod has released some new renders.
- Blitzkrieg 2 is planning some fixes in the patch for v035. They are also offering help to those who are having troubles with their language not being supported.
- The Energy Mod is showing some great progress in their plans. Check it out.
Community:
- Uni of CNC Unleashed has posted this week's news roundup. Definitely worth checking out for all of the latest CNC community news.
- Lion of CNCDEN has released a reworked version of the first Generals map he ever made - entitled Lion Country - for Zero Hour. CNCDEN also has four new fan-submitted Zero Hour maps, so be sure to pay them a visit!
- CNC World could use some staff. See if you can help 'em out.
Time for my rant about something. I always sort of give one when I do a round up.
Turned on your TV today? Turned onto TechTV? Oh! No! It's gone! What's this G4TechTV, you ask???
It's a sad excuse for channel, that's what. I beleive they have a show called: Players. The show should be called "Pretenders". The shows that replaced the witty, entertaining, and downright fun to watch techtv programming are mindless, sad excuses of programming. Take the video game review show for example, do the're actual "ratings" seem to reflect what they think? Not at all. They're ratings are downright random. Half the time, they play very little of the game and just unlock the rest. Heh, they even dropped "Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow" for being too linear.
Where did computer help go? To the unemployment line. See, incase you don't know... *deep breathe* Paul Allen owned techtv until he sold it like a car with a bad transmission and Comcast bought it up to merge it with G4 (THE GAMERS TV CHANNEL!!! Or maybe just 13 year olds with no brains) because they thought the broad audienced Techtv which had a wider following would match well with their small and mindless channel which has an audience that can be described by any combination of the following:
- 12 to 13 years old males
- Sports acne
- Licks frozen metal pipes for fun
- Wears ALF t-shirts and low cut shorts
- Owns a PS2 because it has the most games
- Buys a game because the box "looks awesome"
- Buys games because it was cheap at Walmart and he's a fan of the cartoon
Tell me, where do all the TechTv fans go? Well, not to NYC or New Jersey. After all, they don't even get G4TechTV because there is no agreement to broadcast in that area. How poor is that? The place most fans have been going is the the phones and the internet to drive up some support.
Click Here to read the article that has a couple ideas on what to do if you're pissed, too.
Maybe I'm going hard on G4, but I don't think so. They're programming bites. If you meet a single one of the requirement above and disagree with be, don't even bother emailing me. I know what you will say. The fact is, Comcast did a boneheaded thing. Now the g33ks have to crawl back under their rocks. And apologies for the longness from me.
Anyways, have a nice day!
