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It’s a Left 4 Dead Weekend on Steam

Lots of news this morning relating to one of my most recent favourite games:

First up if you haven’t had the pleasure of playing Left 4 Dead (L4D) yet, today is your lucky day! Today is “Freaky Free Friday” and for the next 24hours you can download and play L4D via Steam. I highly recommend it, lots of fun! My Steam ID is skitau, feel free add me to your Friends list so we can join up for some Zombie killing action!

Secondly if you do decide to purchase L4D or have been waiting for a sale on L4D to snap it up, your in luck! This weekend L4D is on sale at 40% the normaly price bringing it down to US$23.99, awesome!

Last but not least, once you’ve dedicated your entire weekend to zombie smashing you’ll no doubt have high numbers of kills/pounces/snags/booms against your name. Valve have also released an extended stats page for L4D so you can see the numbers in all their glory! Check out my stats page here: http://steamcommunity.com/id/skitau/stats/L4D

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Life Update

It’s been a while since I wrote a Life blog entry, as apposed to all the techno babble I’m constantly spewing forth. Hold onto to your mouse, this’ll be a long one…

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Perth Game Industry Survey

Nick Lowe, VP of Interzone Australia, has published a Perth Games Industry survey. The aim is to collect information from those in the Perth Industry or those people interested into getting into the industry.

Survey can be found here: http://survey.letsmakegames.org/

The information gathered by this survey will be used to produce a Perth games industry profile document, which will summarise general characteristics and capabilities of the local industry. We want to facilitate organic and sustainable growth to help ensure a long-term future for game developers in Perth, and a clear objective assessment of the local industry is an important part of making this happen.

We want to hear from you if: you are in the industry, want to get into the industry, or even if you have left the industry. We will greatly appreciate if you could take the time to complete this survey.

Initial results will be presented at the IGDA Perth meeting tonight(!) and put a more detailed report available in a few weeks.

WoW Mining mechanics changed, one hit per node

The updated 3.0.8 patch notes released today have an interesting, yet significant, change to mining. Miners will now only hit the node once to get all the ore and associated loot. digg story

Winner – One Copy of Nitro Bike

So I entered a few competitions PALGN a while back, one of those entries paid off. :) I scored myself a copy of Nitro Bike for the Wii. w00t!

Replacement Wii Guitar Hero III Discs

For those of you that are stuck with a Mono copy of Guitar Hero III on the Wii.

Activision Australia are now replacing the the discs with stereo copies. Just call (02) 9869 0955 and give the lovely lady on the other end the details on where you bought your copy, also your Name, Address and Phone Number. First batch have just been sent out (~200) and a second batch is getting processed “Today”…

*fingers crossed they do send out a replacement and it is actually Stereo*

Pirates of the Burning Sea

Pirates of the Burning Sea A new Pirate MMO coming out in June of this year. Looks awesome, I think it’s the Ship Battles that really do it for me. :)

Console Purchase Flowchart

Console Purchase Flowchart – It’s funny coz it’s true. digg story

Real Life Super Mario Galaxy

Real Life Super Mario Galaxy – Some very cool fish eye photography giving the feel of little worlds just like SMG. digg story

Ghostbusters 3 Screenshots and Demo Footage

Ghostbusters 3 Screenshots and Demo Footage – ZOMG! Re-live Ghostbusters fun thanks to Dan Akroyd. The in game footage looks awesome, featuring Marshmallow Man!
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