Eve Online Ice Price Tank

Remember when I said that the new Eve Online patch was going to cause market prices to tank on minerals?  Well that didn't quite happen - but only because I didn't realize that the real miners only mine ice.  The change was that with the huge ore holds on the Mack and Retriever, you can set up to mine and walk away.  No need for a Hulk and a transport alt character in order to do your high-yield mining.    Today I literally went to an ice field with my retriever, clicked to start mining and came back later to have 26 chunks of ice in my hold.  Those 26 would have sold for close to $300k isk a month ago, now will go for around $120k due to the market saturation. Check out this graph to see what I mean about the price of ice.  The component materials it refines into have seen a similar drop in value but not quite as severe:

Borderlands 2 GeForce GTX PhysX Trailer

Let's just say the difference is noticeable:

Come and Get Me

Pandora's new head honcho Handsome Jack explains how fruitless your quests will ultimately be.

Team Fortress 2 co-op

You read that right.

It's called Mann vs. Machine, and it's coming tomorrow:



General (nuts) details here, and more specific (bat shit crazy) details here.

Borderlands 2 trailer

Love at first blight.

War in Delve

Finally. We can put aside all the cartel bullsh*t and watch a real war occur. I hope it lasts for a while.

It looks like the main players are:

Pandemic Legion + TEST + Clusterf*** (has Goons)

.....versus 

Nulli Secunda + Against All Authorites + SOCO + Raiden + Solar,

with additional allies and mercs being recruited by the minute.

Here's the Goon call to arms:

"We – and 'We' means 'Everyone' – are going to Delve, and it will burn. No mercy, no respite, no 'freeports', just brutal conquest – conquest which will not stop until this threat to our bloc is extinguished. If that means that we must set all of Catch on fire to remind this ex-NC, ex-IT, ex-BoB excrement of their proper place in the universe, so be it." – The Mittani

And here's the first propaganda vid:

Unity 3 to Support Linux

We may just be seeing the beginning of a perfect storm.  Unity 3 Game Engine will be supporting Linux:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/unity3d-4-will-be-the-first-mass-market-games-engine-to-support-linux

I had no idea

But this seems pretty serious:

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spectrum-crunch

Diablo III account hacks

If you haven't heard already, all the information you need is in this one sentence from RPS:

And so: hackers! Diablo III's official forums are currently rife with tales of items and gold going missing and characters even being hijacked wholesale. 

Yay! for always-online DRM as a "security measure."

You know who this is for

You know who this is for...

W*A*R*N*I*N*G

http://www.howtogeek.com/114037/researchers-prove-tin-foil-hats-boost-receptivity-to-government-signals/