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A brand new collection of 20 just released screenshots of the upcoming coop survival shooter, Left 4 Dead, from Valve. I'm not really a fan of the horror zombie genre but even I have to admit this is looking really sweet.

Some might say the perfect combination, Naked ladies and Hot Weapons. hmmmmmmm Enjoy.

 

Teabagging: You do it. We do it. Chances are, your grandparents did it too (We've seen pictures.) But it's never been chronicled quite so finely as in the video below.

While scouring the GamesRadar archives, we happened upon an instructional film chronicling the elegant art of the dangle. Believed to date all the way back to the 1950's, the movie depicts how Teabagging came to prominence, and with the help of an on-screen guide clad in a clip-on "training bag" it's sure to unleash your inner "Sack-Smithy."

We have no idea how our predecessors had access to games as recent as Halo 2, Crackdown, Call of Duty 3, but you owe it to those tireless gamers that came before us to view the fruits of their endeavors.

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posted by Gunny

Now there is a valid reason for convincing your woman that she really should start playing on the PC more!  According to Gametart (UK game rental service), women who play video games have sex more often. That’s super news for video gamers everywhere.

Gametart did an interview consisting of 200 women and found that women who played games had sex 4.3 times per week, while their non-gaming sisters only had sex 3.2 times per week.

The extra plus is the tit-bit that women who had only recently started playing games said they now had sex more often then before. Now how’s that for promise? All you need to do is get your lady playing games and you’re in!

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posted by MissDMeaner

We've heard little from the new Alone in the Dark game for some time but it's finally making a bit of noise again with the arrival of some new huge screenshots. Some are as large as 6000 x 3500 pixels in resolution !! Now thats what you call High Def. Click the images to see the huge full size versions.

  

Atari's Alone on the Dark game, of course, marks the return of the survival horror granddaddy that first appeared in the 1990s.

In this reinvention of the series, events take place in present-day with New York's Central Park the stage for shocks and scares.

Enjoy the latest screens, but don't worry... you're not alone.

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posted by Gunny

Forgotten your IP or maybe you have a Dynamic IP that changes from time to time, well now instead of going to one of those boring corporate looking sites to look up your number, you can be entertained with some lovely ladies informing you of your IP in a most discreet manner. Crank up the volume as I found the audio fairly quiet, and head on over to MoanMyIP.com. There is hours of fun to be had with this, or maybe I'm just a geek. The site also informs you of some other useful information such as What operating system you are using, what browser you are viewing the site with, your ISP and port etc.

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posted by Gunny

Wow. . . you know despite all these issues that BioShock has been having on the PC (360 as well but they are less important) it is quite nice to see a company responding to quick. Normally, as a PC gaming community, we’d be stuck haggling and harrassing the company until finally a minor patch got issued a month later which still didn’t solve any major issues. If we are lucky it usually only takes a good 6 months for a company to work out all of the bugs in their “released” version. In any case, kudos to 2k, we really appreciate your quick responses to this matter.

"We have been reading and listening to your frustrations over SecuROM, PC activation problems, and technical support issues since BioShock launched on Tuesday, and we’ve devised a plan to help.

Starting immediately, we will be upping the activation count to a 5 by 5 plan. We will be raising the maximum amount of computers a user can have BioShock installed on simultaneously from 2 to 5, and allowing a user to reinstall BioShock on each of those computers from 3 times to 5 times.

Also, we have in the works a revoke tool which you will be able to run on your machine if you want to free up that key and move it to to another computer (this works very much like Steam or iTunes system). We are also working with SecuROM and 2K customer service, so that when you do need to call in support problems, you get answers to your questions faster, without much waiting or being bounced around.

SecuROM has been given much more autonomy to help fix your problems quickly and effectively. I am personally sorry for anyone who got bounced around in the past couple days (I even think I contributed to this problem) and we’re going to make sure that does not happen in the future.

As for other technical issues, we are bringing on a team of tech support that will be on the 2K forums 24/7 to help people resolve their technical issues. Our QA guys are in the offices and on the forums, too, reproducing issues and looking for workarounds and compiling information that they can put towards making you a patch and updating the knowledge base.

Also, we are aware that our activation server went down last night, stopping some of you from finishing your installs. The server is up and running now and we have corrected the problem that caused that crash.

Finally, we have released a FAQ, which you can view in full below (and will also be posted on the 2K Forums in the Technical Support area) that will help clear up a lot of questions and misinformation that has been floating around about SecuROM and PC activation.

And as for widescreen, we also want to say we completely understand a user’s desire to augment their FOV. BioShock is a harrowing experience, but we don’t want anyone to feel limited (or motion sick!). So we are in the process of working on an official PC patch to give widescreen PC users a choice to expand their horizontal FOV, and are investigating creating a similar update for the 360.

And finally, I want to personally congratulate Racer_S from the Widescreen Gaming Forums, and his awesome user patch to expand the widescreen FOV in BioShock. I’m currently tracking him down via email, but hopefully, he’ll accept my gratitude, and maybe an Nvidia 8800 to boot."

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posted by Gunny

VIDEO - Your favorite tomb raider in the buff

One of the best in-gags in gaming history is the "Lara Nude Cheat." For all the old Tomb Raider games, Core would leak a cheat that claimed to turn Lara naked. In reality, once you'd managed to pull off the complex moves, your only reward was to watch your heroine violently explode with a scream, her arms, legs and head flying off in different directions.

Gone are such innocent times, thanks to the mod scene. Now you can have Lara look any way you wish in TR: Anniversary (sorry console owners, you need the PC version to see Lara's birthday suit). You can use your own skills to create an outfit, or download pre-made togs from www.tombraiderforums.com. All you need is TexMod, and the costume files (with the extension .tpf) which can be found at the sites provided.

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