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I'm pretty bummed to hear that. I was hoping he could make it to 1,000 games. Currently he's played 915, but at his pace he'd need 4 or 5 seasons to get 85 games. There goes another legend.

Watching that Ovechkin video made me realize that I really need to figure a way to shoot the puck like that...it's amazing how quick it comes off his stick. And how does he always get it back on his stick after a deke? Seriously, it looks like magnets.

Duel option is just a 1 on 1 battle on the battle screen. You have an army, your opponent has one, and you go at it. It seemed pretty random to me, but it crashed early on in the only duel I tried. I'm thinking you can probably build your own hero and take him to the duel ring to face other people, but right now you just choose a random hero.

Ok, I got some good play time in, first impressions... Bad News: It's buggy...very buggy right now. I will be surprised to see it released in February. Good News: It's gorgeous! It really is just a beautiful game. -It has Hotseat play as an option -It is basically exactly like HoMM III. It has a beautiful 3d engine, but the combat, the map movement, and the city building is basically the same. The gameplay is exactly the same. I haven't tried the real time combat option though...but I love the turn based.

I just found out the beta is strictly for multiplayer. That kinda blows, because I personally wouldn't buy the game for an online component. I'm not sure if this means there is a hot-seat component...but I'm guessing that concept went the way of adventure games and co-op (meaning it's dead.) Ah well, my download just finished...

I think Crosby has lived up to his expectations (except making the Pens good...but he's not God.) Ovechkin has just been spectacular as well. These two are top players at very young ages. Lundqvist is great too, but it seems like the Rangers are playing well in front of him as well. I don't think he'll be able to got in the spotlight enough to win the Calder.

Since when is beta something you are automatically entitled to? Why should it be free to use Fileplanet's high speed file servers? I've never understood that mentality. I pay about $60 a year for my fileplanet account, and I got to download 3 free games when I signed up for a premium account. The 3 games were Theif 2, Hitman 2, and ToEE. That was well worth the price to me. I'm just waiting for the 30 minute client download to play. People can now go back to whining about Fileplanet.

Yeah, paid fileplanet rocks. I've got in quite a few beta's before they open to the public. The downloads are also pretty decent.

I'm pretty sure the poll was for under-represented PnP games. D&D isn't lacking for good games.

Woohoo, I'll get it when I get home. I love Fileplanet.

Where did you hear this? I haven't seen anything on the website, it just says delayed.

Rifts is a pretty epic setting. I know some people hate MMORPG's, but this would be the best setting for a futuristic MMORPG. There are just a ton of different areas that have completely messed up stories. Imagine taking a high level character into the jungles of South America to fight Vampires, or using a mech to battle huge Gargoyles in Europe. Not to mention the Rifts themselves make for excellent expansion ideas. Seriously though, Rifts is like every fantasy and Sci-Fi concept wrapped up in one tight package.

As a Sharks fan, I'm in the only division where every team is over .500. That's 32 chances to screw up. The Pacific division seriously has issues.

I went and saw Underworld Evolutions. I loved it, but I also loved the first film. It really finished up the story from the first movie. I was a little unclear about the ending, though. Again, some great action and a very decent plot, you get what you pay for.

I think the NWN2 game engine and development toolset has been in the creaton stages much longer than 18 months. That's a total opinion, but my impression has not been that this is a rushed project. Very little was known about NWN before it was released either.

The 'Yotes just gave away Nedved to the Flyers. I'm not surprised, but if Nedved remembers how to play, that will make the Flyers even more dangerous. I'm a little surprised they got almost nothing out of the deal. They got a guy I've never heard of who has 7 points this season. You would think a former superstar would have some value.

FYI:To be specific the japs lost 39 planes.next off the war ended 4 years later after brutal fighting.finally it is a great game and im pretty good at it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 4 years of brutal fighting? You must be a history professor, can you tell us more about it? I hear it was a long time ago. Were you alive back then?

It's a fairly different type of game, really. I'm going more off my past experiences with the two series, but Civ is much more involved with economics, diplomacy, and moving along the technology tree. HOMM is more of an exploration and city siege game. You send out a hero with an army, explore and gather stuff, and then attack enemy fortresses. I'm over simplifying both games, but that's the gist of it.

I would really like to see the guy from The Professional (Leon) face off against Janet Reno. That would be epic. Hearing all this talk about Nuclear retaliation makes me think of Fallout. I'm pretty sure this type of reaction to terrorism would be a great catalyst for a bit of apocalypse. Time to stock up on the ju-ju fruits.

Wow! Realistically the Japanese only lost 30 planes during Pearl Harbor. Did the war just end right there when you hit 80? The Japanese also only launched about 300 planes in two waves, so you managed to cripple almost a 3rd of their forces. This game sounds excellent, I think I'll pick it up and try to be more like you.

I really don't know what I'm talking about with the coolant. Personally I just buy whatever fan fits, but haven't used AMD in a long time.

They are also probably looking at a minimum security prison. I don't think it's a Federal, which I hear is the nicest and it's the type Martha Stewart was in. If it's a State minimum security prison, they should be fine if they don't cause trouble. Most people in those prisons are on short sentences, so they don't stir the pot. I'm not saying it's easy, it's just a tamer hell. San Quentin is a maximum security prison, and the majority of the felons are going to have a record of violence. Unless the two do something bad in prison, they should avoid a place like that.

Just pump coolant into your computer. It's much neater looking than a fan.

Does anyone remember Myth by Bungie? It was a great real time combat game. I don't consider Total War or Myth style games RTS because they don't have any unit building or resource gathering. They are just about formations and positioning. I'm pretty excited about the chances of Medieval TW:2. If anything, the single player campaign will be nice to play with the updated graphics engine.

This is actually the 4th or 5th time she has filed a fraudulent lawsuit. Over the years she has attempted to do this to other companies, although this was the first that got so much national attention. I think they deserve the sentence. Chances are they will serve 4-5 years each. It wasn't just the finger case that they were convicted on either. This couple spent years of their lives trying to con money out of people and other companies, and now they get to spend a few years behind bars.