If you have gotten your hands on Left 4 Dead 2 and have played just smidgen of the Dark Carnival campaign, you have probably heard of the band Midnight Riders. I don’t know if it’s THE Midnight Riders or just Midnight Riders, but the point is, the band is mentioned throughout the campaign as one of Ellis’ favorites. He goes on and on with his lengthy diatribes while he’s getting eatin’ up by zombies about how awesome the band is. Hell, you even get to take on a zombie climax event on one of their stages with pyrotechnics and everything!
I was recently popping around on the internet and saw a new website for the Midnight Riders seen here. The site is actually owned by Valve Corporation and is one of their 198 domains. The site is legit. We don’t know in what context yet, but it is legit. When you head on over to the site you can see that down below the riders we are given the menacing message “Coming Soon”. Is this Left 4 Dead 2 DLC already in the making? Are we going to be able to play as the Midnight Riders through the campaign? Will this be a whole new set of campaigns telling the story of the Midnight Riders and their escape to freedom? We will find out soon, and we will keep you informed at Loot Ninja.
I’m personally hoping that at least there will be a sequence of getting on the band’s tour bus only to find zombie groupies wanting to have sex with you. That would be awesome! Hey, don’t judge me! Things still work down there even if they are flesh eating zombies. I got some flesh……IN MY PANTS!
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This isn’t 100% game related, but I figured I would spare you guys yet another article of Modern Warfare 2 today and show you something slightly different.
Graffic artist Tony Quan from LA suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Don’t worry, I had to look up how to spell it and say it too. The only part of Mr. Quan’s body that he is able to move is his eyes and eyelids. Nothing else works. He has to spend the rest of his days in a hospital bed. His brain however is fully active and able to process all sorts of artistic ideas. So how is an artistic man like Mr. Quan who can barely move his eyes going to show off all of the graphical things in his head that are constantly swirling around? The Eyewriter Project.
The Eyewriter is a device that uses open source software and normal over the counter technology (a disassembled PS3 Eye camera) to let Tony be able to get his artwork shown to millions of people. This amazing technology allows Tony to move and blink his eyes to have the PS3 Eye camera (which is attached to glasses) track his pupils to create lines and objects. Moving his eye from left to right creates a line, and blinking for him stops the creation of that line. It’s pretty amazing stuff to see what this camera can do. In the program he is able to follow his eyepoint in the form of a little red cursor, able to create anything he wants.
Tony loves graffiti and its overall style, and it hearkens back to his younger days tagging subway cars and trains. So to help Tony’s art feel right at home the guys go a little step further for him and take his creations off of the hospital wall and go project them onto a major building just off an interstate at night. Thousands of people are traveling on this interstate only to look over and see graffiti being created before their very eyes.
Unfortunately the video above is a short compilation of video clips from the documentary that will be coming out soon on the whole ordeal, but you can read more on the disease, The Eyewriter Project, and Tony Quan’s accomplishments with the link provided below.
I was very hesitant to post something like this for you guys, but it’s cool to see gaming tech that we might take for granted every day to send pictures of buttcracks and penis shots to each other being used to help someone express themselves who otherwise can’t. You can find out more on the project at the following link.
[The Eyewriter Project]
I’ve been keeping tabs on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ever since I completed the gold induced final chapter of the first Bad Company. I patiently awaited word that there would be a sequel, hoping desperately that the franchise would take off instead of being thrown into the Wal-Mart bargain bin forever. Luckily the people over at EA came to their senses and will be releasing BF: BC 2 sooner rather than later.
I just received an e-mail tip from a fellow gamer that the people over at IGN and FilePlanet are giving away PS3 beta keys for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the PS3 away to everyone. All you have to do is head over to this link right here, sign in to your IGN account, and request one. If you don’t have an account with them it’s no big deal. You don’t have to pay for anything, you just give a valid e-mail address and password you want and you’ll be sent a verification e-mail to get you on your way. All you have to have is a valid PSN account. After you login, just click on the link to request your beta key.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 fell off my radar there for a bit with Uncharted 2 and Modern Warfare 2 hitting store shelves, but this beta should be a good look into what the final game will look and play like. I just hope you Loot Ninja gamers are smarter than the average assassin, knowing full and well that the beta could be frustrating at times. Remember, this is a beta and will not be indicative of the final product. It’s used to iron out all of the kinks with lag and matchmaking. Plus, if you are one of those “I have to be a higher level than you” type of gamer, this probably isn’t for you as your multiplayer rankings will be wiped clean as soon as the beta is over with.
Look for me online November 19th. Can’t go wrong with a little taste of a free game!
The Xbox 360 has had the Netflix service for over a year. It’s got this streaming shit down. Well, it should. But crashing into the party is the PS3 with it’s disc based application for the online streaming service. You essentially have had a year long relationship with your 360 chick when all of a sudden this new “dreamy” black slim kid shows up in a leather jacket. He comes around like the alter-Fonz (or Micheal Jackson) and says he can do the same tricks you can do in hopes of stealing your girl from you. Jumping a pool full of sharks? Maybe. Are there enough positives in the new dude to warrant using him to see what he can do? Or do you check him out and go with the old standby “one of the guys” for your viewing pleasure? Find out after the jump.
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Hey what up Loot Ninja!? I just got an e-mail today to let me know that the Netflix PS3 disc will be hitting my snail mail box this Friday (November 6th). Wait! That’s tomorrow! Holy crap! For those of you out of the feed, the Netflix service (online streaming) will be making it’s way over to the PS3 this Friday.
I can’t wait to watch a few British TV shows before I get back into Uncharted 2! I’ll have to just insert the Netflix disc in the PS3 to boot into the service like it was a game, but this will give Netflix subscribers access to an extensive library of movies and TV shows for online streaming. It’s essentially the same service used for the Xbox 360, but mark this off the list of something that the SexBox can do that the PS3 can’t.
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Have you ever found yourself holding a gun in a dark alley wanting to waste somebody in order to go to jail? Do you find yourself gluing black cardboard bars to your outside windows of your apartment to make it seem like you are in the big house? Have you ever just wanted to see what it’s like to be corn-holed in dark cell by an overweight Latino man named Jose? Have you ever walked around the house holding on to your wife’s pocket asking her to call you “little bitch boy”? If you answered yes to any of these questions then read on, because I have an RPG game that you might just want to play. A game not only you will be happy playing, but it should also give your family the peace of mind knowing you aren’t in the joint getting a dirty cock meat sandwich.
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Here I am on Xbox Live sporting the recently released University Collection package in the Avatar Marketplace. Yeah yeah, before you hate on me for buying useless clothing or accessories let me just say that football is a different story. Especially college football in my mind. You don’t change your favorite college team because they are sucking. That’s who you grew up with and that’s who you stick with.
Today on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft have released the “University Collection”, a plethora of Avatar goodies for you to purchase. The new collection features a substantial list of collegiate teams from all over the US with various items of clothing adorned with the school logo or name. Don’t worry though, this stuff is officially licensed so all of the items have the school’s official name and colors. I went online to purchase a few items I wanted from my school and ran across a small bug on Microsoft’s part. The one thing I noticed? Lack of spellcheck on one item for a particular school. It just so happened to be MY favorite school. Arkansas.
As you can see, it is entitled “Arkanasas”. This is an actual screencap from the Xbox Live Marketplace. I don’t know when this issue will get fixed, but I figure for the moment it’s kind of funny.
As a little history lesson for Microsoft if they read this, the name Arkansas was derived from both French and Indian settlers of that region. At one point in history, it was actually illegal to pronounce it “Ark-an-SAS” instead of its proper pronunciation “Ark-an-SAW”.
Looks like I’m going to be sporting even more jokey material for my home state. I feel like we as a state just got over all that “having sex with your sister” crap and Bill Clinton. And now this? Sheesh! I’m gonna look like a hillbilly that can’t spell on Xbox Live! Thanks Microsoft!
With Halloween coming this weekend for most of us in the US of A, we all need a little help getting in the ghoulish spirit. And no, don’t break out and read your shitty Goosebumps books. I know you have them. And it’s okay. I’ve got them too.
You probably have already decorated the front yard with skeletons, jack-o-lanterns on the porch, and spooky music playing from a hidden karaoke machine. These all set the stage for a great spook filled holiday weekend. Oh, and the candy. I can’t forget to mention all of the that candy; pounds of luscious chocolatey bite-sized goodness.
Do you need help getting into the spooky spirit? Do you happen to be that douchebag that hands out coupons, ketchup packets, or toothpaste samples for treats? Well guess what kiddies, I am here to help you get ready for Halloween. How am I going to do that? Video games. It’s what I know, and it’s what you are hear to read about.
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Most of us out there are trying to save up all of our clams and change we find in the couch cushions trying to get our hands on this year’s biggest titles. $60 bucks for a brand new title is a big chunk of change to swallow for most gamers, so I bring a little breathing room for all of you guys and gals. This might just be what you Loot Ninja gamers need to hold you over until the mass hysteria of Black Friday and Christmas shopping.
GameFly is doing a $20 dollar and below blowout sale on a select list of pre-played games. This offer does include free shipping and handling, as well as the 100% GameFly guarantee that the games have been pre-inspected and come with the actual case and a “like new” manual. Read the list of games and more after the jump.
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