• 31Aug 08

  Fable 2 : Tight

  Fable 2 is merely hours from going gold, with only two bugs holding that threshold closed. But it should soon be broken due to the team staying 12-hours every day until they fix the bugs. The one common term being used by gamers is, "Tight". With the game being released Oct. 21, we could be very lucky to find the game being released early. Making all the hundreds of millions of copies to fulfill the needs of the gamers world-wide sould hopefully take only a week or three. With the time it would take to bring the games to every damn retail store, a week or two, and the way retailers like to keep their games boxed up for a week, we should see the game at most a week early.

  • Posted Aug 31, 2008 7:45 am GMT
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• 18Jan 08

  True gamer hero

  When I loaded my homepage a few minutes ago, i couldn't believe my eyes.

  Titled, "Gamer uses virtual training to save lives" on yahoo.com (http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/gamer-uses-virtual-training-to-save-lives/1181064), the article explains how 28-year-old Paxton Galvanek rescued two people trapped in a turned over SUV in North Carolina last November. The victims had scrapes, bruises, and two fingers sliced off on one of the victims. Paxton got his med training from computer game, America's Army. America's Army is an FPS that was made by the United States Army. As a medic in the game (one of the ****s you can choose), you have to go through virtual medical lessons to learn how to deal with these situations.

  "In the case of this accident, I evaluated the situation and placed priority on the driver of the car who had missing fingers," he told Ben Silverman, a writer for yahoo.com. "I then recalled that in section two of the medic training, I learned about controlled bleeding. I noticed that the wounded man had severe bleeding that he could not control. I used a towel as a dressing and asked the man to hold the towel on his wound and to raise his hand above his head to lessen the blood flow which allowed me to evaluate his other injuries which included a cut on his head."

  Soon later, a real American Soldier arrived to help, but the victims were already patched up and waiting for an ambulance to take them to a hospital.

  The project director of America's Army, Colonel Casey Wardynski, told Silverman, "Because of the training he received in America's Army's virtual ****oom, Mr. Galvanek had mastered the basics of first aid and had the confidence to take appropriate action when others might do nothing. He took the initiative to assess the situation, prioritize actions and apply the correct procedures... Paxton is a true hero."

  To learn more about America's Army, go to http://www.americasarmy.com/.

  NOTE: the origional story was written by Ben Silverman. I used his information to help me write this, but I tried my hardest not to plaigurise his excellent work. All credit for information on this blog goes to Ben Silverman, but I wrote this blog in my own words(except for direct quotes of course).

  this stupid blog sysem also wont let me use the word **** which if it blocks it out here, is a place where you learn things in a school or a type of character you can make in most videogames.
  Ex: The character ****
  Ex2: I had to go to my ****oom for school.

  • Posted Jan 18, 2008 8:25 pm GMT
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