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Ok, so all of you Command & Conquer fans out there knows that there will be coming a new game in the Tiberium series, that’s right, I also posted about it earlier but that was just when it had gotten announced and no trailer…etc was out yet. So Command & Conquer 4 <Add Subtitle Here> will be the last game of the Tiberium series according to Electronic Arts Los Angeles and will wrap up everything about Tiberium and about Kane, the story people have been so eager to hear since the game was released in 1995. Too bad the original creators Westwood Studios didn’t continue the story instead as they seemed to have quite some ideas for it but EA fucked it up and created their own shit when they took over the series. There have been many speculations around C&C4 and while some of them were just absurd and not true at all then there were those speculations which were true.

The true speculations where; There will be absolutely no base-building in the game, that’s right, they removed the best part of a C&C game which have been a part of the series since the first fucking game ever released, the only two games which did not have base-building was Sole Survivor and C&C Renegade (FPS game). They will also remove Tiberium harvesting and instead introduce these capureable structures where you will get resources from the underground, kinda like the Tiberium Spikes in C&C3 and Kane’s Wrath. What does this mean? Well, they apparently will focus on attacks more than base-building considering they removed it, you will have to build your units through an unit called the Crawler, there will be different types of Crawlers too according to EA; Offensive Crawler, Defensive Crawler & Engineer Crawler. While I am all in for new ideas I think they should reconsider about removing base-building, at least make something in the Options on Skirmish and Multiplayer that people can choose between Crawlers and base-building.

Right, so the official announcement trailer for C&C4 came out the 24th of July (which is a while ago now) and it was quite awesome, we see this extreme Tiberium infested area (Manchester, United Kingdom) in 2062 while a GDI Orca Transport and two Orca’s are flying towards the GDI HeadQuarters, the person inside the Transport is Kane himself who for a proposition for GDI followed by taking out the Tacitus, that’s right, the Tacitus from Tiberan Sun is back, it was also featured in Kane’s Wrath but back then it was highly unstable due to GDI research (last mission on the campaign).

Oh yea, before I forget about it, you will be required to have a 24/7 Internet connection to play Command & Conquer 4, while EA says there will be no DRM protection on the game they have done this sneakily by having this, they say it’s because you must be connected to their servers to update your stats…etc but in reality this is just a secret DRM protection, in other words; Fucking liars.

But yea, that’s enough about Command & Conquer 4, I think I’ve covered the most important stuff here now so lets move on. Though, in conclusion, I think the game just went down to SHIT.

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So as you know I ordered some figurines from HobbyLink Japan earlier, well, they arrived two days ago and they were nice, except the Revoltech Fraulein Rin Tohsaka one which just sucked monkey fucking dick because of epic poor quality not even worth talking about, I ended up just putting it back in the box and throw it on the top of my shelf so I don’t have to see it again, the other two were better quality and were cute to look at, these being; Rika Furude & Parfait. I still got the Hanyuu figurine on pre-order and I was thinking about buying another Rika Furude one which is kinda like the Hanyuu one, I wont be able to pre-order it before September 1st though so I gotta wait a bit. This Rika Furude one costs 1450 Yen so it isn’t the worst price for it, it still falls long under the tariff limit here in Norway so that I am happy about.

Also, when it comes to my Yuyuko cosplay I have it covered some, I have figured out how to use money on the cosplay while I still have enough to try and buy my laptop which I want to get, I seriously need a new one for school use so that would be really helpful, hehe. I found a wig for my Yuyuko cosplay now which is $38 but the seller allows “Offers” so I gonna try and put $30 as an offer as that puts it under the tariff limit.

So as I said in my last entry I would start watching some anime again, which I have and currently I am liking the new series I have started watching; Kanamemo & Umineko no Naku Koro ni. Seriously, Umineko is awesome and Kanamemo is just humorous to watch because of its weird storyline and random shit going on all the time, and the characters are quite moe so that adds to the fun factor. Umineko is kinda like Higurashi just worse and I am enjoying it even if it fucks around with my mind all the time, heh.

So shit, yea, this was another long entry when I thought it would be shorter but hell, can’t blame me for enjoying to write on my blog once in a while and make it a long entry, haha.

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So yea, I am kinda late on posting this but who really gives a damn anyway? At least I do post something about it so you guys wont think I’m all dead and such here on the blog. Ok, so here is the deal, EALA decided to continue with the Tiberium series in a last game called Command & Conquer 4….WAIT A MINUTE, it’s not named anything yet? That’s right, EA wants your suggestions on the name (they haven’t opened for submissions yet), I am though not sure what the prize will be, maybe you get a signed copy of C&C4 <Insert Name Here> and some other fancy stuff for winning? Oh well, at least it’s a good thing they want to take submissions from the community. I have to say, EA have improved themselves, even though it haven’t been that long since they released Red Alert 3 Uprising (February I think it was).

According to sources (EALA) so will C&C4 bring the Tiberium series to an epic conclusion where Kane (NOD) and GDI fight together to defeat the Tiberium infection! We are in the year of 2067 now and humanity is near the doomed extinction, and now NOD and GDI seemed to have managed to get some brain to understand that they can’t continue blasting each others faces as that just helps the Scrin (if they even are in C&C4) to take over the planet and turn it into some sort of Tiberium hell! I am looking forwards to see how they will bring this to a conclusion, as we all know the Command & Conquer series have been going on since the first Command & Conquer the 31st of August 1995, made by Westwood Studios until bought by Electronic Arts in 1998 they continued by making Tiberian Sun (and Firestorm) followed by Red Alert 2 (and Yuri’s Revenge) and Renegade before EA decided to throw Westwood Studios out in 2003 by literally turning them into EA Los Angeles, many people from Westwood Studios left and most of them can be found at Petroglyph now.

But hey, why the heck am I talking about this stuff here? I were just gonna tell you that Command & Conquer 4 is coming in 2010 and that they want YOUR submission for a name for their new game! You should follow closely on EA’s Official Command & Conquer Website because the 24th of July they seem to be giving out more information and most likely they will start taking in submissions for the name then!

ALL HAIL KANE! WE FIGHT TOGETHER FOR THE BROTHERHOOD! (Not really, I prefer GDI)

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Okay, so I have been watching most of the live streams from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) during the press conference, it started out with Microsoft and I gotta say, they had interesting stuff on their table now, I didn’t care much about the games though because they didn’t seem to have too much new there, except that they announced a release date (ok, maybe not date but time) for Final Fantasy XIII for the 360, which is Spring 2010 for North America And Europe. Together with that they showed a project they’ve been working on for a while which makes todays console controllers useless, motion sensor controller, in other words, you use your own body as the controller without the need of having anything in your hands. In my opinion so did this look like quit an awesome thing for the 360 and would love to buy it when it’s out, Lionhead made an AI and program where they tested it and it seemed to work fine, the sensor can even scan your items from real life into the game. Oh and yea, Koijima took a little visit on the Microsoft scene and THAT surprised, they’ve now announced a new Metal Gear Solid for the XBox 360. Microsoft is also launching last.fm radio, facebook and twitter access on their console so you can do social stuff while sitting in your living room without a computer to do it on, they are also starting to release FULL HD (1080p) movies through their movie service, and they have now doubled…No wait, trippled the amount of countries part of this, from 8 to 26.

After Microsoft it was Electronic Arts (EA’s) turn and they surprised me a lot this year, normally they only have shitty games or some poor follow-up to some other crappy backassed game which doesn’t deserve to be sold for anything. After the boring shit was done with (EA Girls & EA Sports) the other develoeprs and partner studios could get on the scene and show their awesomeness. The following games are MUST-HAVE games which looks extremely awesome; The Saboteour, Brutal Legend, Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMO), Crysis 2 (holy shit I want this game!), alos, Crytek surprised with their CryEngine 3 announcement, a friend and I were sitting on MSN watching and was hoping they would announce Crysis 2, and when the guy at the scene mentioned it we orgasmed, LITERALLY!

I didn’t watch the Ubisoft and Nintendo press conferences so I can’t say much there, except that Nintendo apparently is just making a new Mario game and a new Metroid game, oh, and alongside yet another Zelda game *Yawn.* Assassins Creed 2 looks interesting and is probably worth a try when it is released.

At last it was the Sony press conference, I didn’t watch everything but they seem to have new stuff up their sleeves, but first I gonna tell you what new games are coming for the Sony PS3 and PSP. On the PSP we will be getting a Metal Gear Solid game and some other games which I probably missed, on the PS3 we will also get a MGS game alongside the following; Modnation Racer, seriously, that game looks so awesome it almost made me want to buy a PS3, it’s like LittleBigPlanet but as the game title says, this time you will be racing, you can make maps like on LittleBigPlanet…etc and have fun on them with other players! You can custom make your characters and cars, get them rated and even let others re-customize them, this also counts for your map by the way. God of War 3 is coming too and The Last Guardian. Sony also showed us a prototype of their new motion sensor controller which seemed quite fun to use actually, too bad we couldn’t see it used in a real game but what I saw from the demo it looked worthy enough to be showed on E3! Oh and I have one last thing to tell you Final Fantasy fans, they are releasing Final Fantasy XIV Online for the PS3, I hear rumors about it coming to PC too but don’t take my words for it.

Well, that’s what I had to say about E3 and the different press conferences. Why there are no videos or images you say? Because I didn’t want to clutter up my blog with them.

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Woah…Woah…WOAH! I actually forgot the other days of E3 and such, I have though not been actively following the other days after the first two and the press conferences so can’t trust me on all this, but I’ve heard about some new games coming out and such which might be interesting, for example, for all of you zombie fans we have Left 4 Dead 2 which brings us down south in the United States…The AI Director v1.0 have also been upgraded to v2.0 which means it also will be able to render blockades and such in maps and the weather, so we will be seeing zombies in full daylight now, while in L4D all missions were done during the night. There will also be more co-op missions and the Survivor modification will come straight out of the box instead of VALVE making an ‘expansion’ to add it.

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