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After the victory of Fernando Alonso at Silverstone story is very video that I want to emphasize in this article. The guys at Codemasters are working hard on the official game of Formula 1 and it seems the result of this year will be much more satisfying than the debut. First, look at the first real images of the game and then keep talking.

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I realize that posting this is counterproductive, it's like to publicize Jimmy Jump, but that goes without saying. It has leaked a version of Crysis 2 (not final) that contains the full single-player campaign, the publisher and the multiplayer one month before it goes on sale. And it seems to contain the master key to activate the game ...

The response to a leak, let's face it, must come from within was as follows: "Both Crytek and EA are deeply disappointed by the news. We asked our fans to support the game and the development team waiting and buying the final, optimized version of the game on 22 March. "

Well, my message is up the next: "Winners do not use drugs or use versions of Jack Sparrow." Come on, that the PC game if you wait a bit you will get dirt cheap and if a game is worth 30 euros, you have to pay.

And the same seems to have happened with Killzone 3 in what appears to be the first major leak of PlayStation 3 from a group of hackers discovered codes and let the PS3 console totally exposed to anyone with the necessary knowledge could program in it (or install Linux). Apparently the leaked version is European - Vandal.net information - and could only run on pirated PlayStation 3.

In short, a disaster that comes amid the controversy over the law Sinde ...

Before I ask, no, it has nothing to do with the famous British music group that triumphed with his smash hit " Song 2 ".

Blur , the game is synonymous with fun, competition, rivalry, struggle to reach the first goal at all costs a lot of laughs and laughs.

2 months ago that Activision has launched numerous codes to play the beta of Blur with 48 hours of free Xbox Live Gold. So we could enjoy the multiplayer mode (since the beta only has online multiplayer modes). The success was overwhelming, exhausting these in no time.

While still not out the game, the beta of Blur is one of the most played online, gathering thousands of gamers daily. There is nothing unusual, because once you've tried the beta and have played Blur a couple of races, the game becomes increasingly addictive and awaken the desire to improve our final result.

Why is it so addictive Blur The answer is simple, people from Bizarre Creations have done a tremendous job, have mixed Project Gotham Racing 4 with Mario Kart , and the result is Blur, a game arcade racing unlike in the which your goal is to reach the finish line first, but not just enough to accelerate and brake, but along the circuit are scattered numerous "power ups" to help you advance to the desired top.

These "power-ups" are: turbo, normal shots, shooting guided missiles, mines, car repair, shield, etc.. Furthermore, our car has a life bar that decreases over the rival attacks and strokes than we, but be careful that when we appear zero reaches far behind and lose many jobs.

Blur will go on sale on May 28 for Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 and PC, there will be a "boom sales" since the month of May will be collapsed by Alan Wake, Red Dead Redemption, among others ...

If you have not had occasion to try the demo, you're already taking, and those who have tested and, what do you think?

Yesterday there was a digital conversation Yahoo! Eurosport with Adrian Valles, a great pilot who aspires to become the fourth Spanish race driver in Formula 1 (which today is one of the few hobbies that I think I like better than video games). You know that Alonso and Raikkonen were called the PlayStation generation prepared for careers in the new thrill of riding on your PlayStation 2 ... Well, almost all young drivers are big fans of driving games and did not hesitate to ask Vallés what was his:

Question: The speed and driving games on consoles are well made. Do you play normally? What is your favorite?

Adrian Valles: I have a simulator at home which is a Jordan Formula 1 in 2003 and the game I use is the Rfactor Mod F1 a.

Touch your c ... mariloles! A Jordan 2003! Hell, here who hesitates is lost! The Jordan were never cane , but that car Fisichella won a race, the Brazilian Grand Prix in 2003 . I remember it was a very eventful career, he won the pure bow and got nothing more that season, but continues to be a Formula 1 car real "tuned" to become video game.

Anyway, I am consumed with envy and I would love nothing more than making a small story of the toy, not hesitate to have three screens, custom made seat and steering wheel and pedals of course real ...

And then there are the official team simulators, which apparently are very realistic ... I'll get the mop that I am leaving everything lost drool

This weekend, after the acquisition of my new laptop, I was playing Machinarium.

For those who may know what is a flash game in which you drive a robot-style "point and click" where you have to fight your way through different levels with different puzzles and puzzle games to find out do you look for our beloved character.

Honestly what I love about this game are its graphics in 2D and with a high level of detail. Another strength is both his story (I will not spoiler) like puzzle games, really original and fun.

Like Braid , two games that I think are a work of art and if you have not yet had the chance to play them, I recommend them 100%, once you can not leave the probéis, as they are very addictive and it will be difficult stop playing them (I tell you from experience, I began to play on Saturday and ended on Sunday in a total of about 7 hours). By the way, I think these two games on the DS triumph.

Machinarium is the first long game developed by Amanita Design, available exclusively for PC. Through it we can get and download, but have announced a physical release , with an art book, poster and a CD with the soundtrack of the game.

Download the demo for PC | Machinarium (34.7 MB)
Download the demo for Mac | Machinarium (36 MB)

... Mostly because mine are mental straws, nothing else ... hehe. Well, since you've gone through and manipulative tabloid headline tell you: I will not do the typical review-roll. As always there are other sites that they will do better than me, as Vandal , but I would like to discuss two issues that I think are of vital importance about Modern Warfare 2, the new major release in the history of entertainment: the way campaign loses again much bellows versus multiplayer and the issue of violence in the game.

How handsome am with my new glasses!

I do not know you, but I after receiving a game of this caliber, the first thing I do is get to play alone and enjoy the campaign mode. All right (action, spectacle, good script, sound, ambience ...) unless you just as soon as a popcorn movie in Hollywood and in the end one wonders whether it has become the single player mode just that, a flashy movie playable . One gets the feeling that Infinity Ward has focused once more on the multiplayer mode, improving the campaign mode, but I tend clear that the important thing is the other.

It is increasingly clear that the importance of video games is going to online gambling, a mode in which you can switch off Microsoft if it detects that you're hacking the console, and Sony is ready to collect soon. When you lose money on each console sold and not sold enough games to return on large investments, it seems that online and multiplayer mode is the new holy grail. But is it fair to pay around 60 euros for a campaign mode that lasts a few hours and play the rest, the multiplayer mode, you have to checkout? Did not pay enough?

The single player experience is enlarged slightly with so-called special operations, which are quite entertaining mini-missions, but many are only available for multiplayer.

The truth is that the multiplayer mode is most entertaining, full of great scenes, constantly improving thanks to your achievements, aids in the game thanks to the number of victims you produce ... until you reach 25 and can activate the nuclear bomb that erases map all and makes you win the game. Someday I will get the bomb! I swear!

Then there is the airport scene in which we are part of the bad and provoke a slaughter at an airport. In my opinion, this scene may be necessary for the normal course of history, but it was not necessary is to play. As a player and gives us nothing and contribute nothing in the scene, because although not perform a single shot, the rest of the group made the slaughter of itself and we will just go with them. No choice, no moral dilemma.

In my humble opinion, could have briefly shown killing with some kinematic and let us begin the mission after the incident. The rationale was that the developer wanted to identify ourselves with evil Makarov group, but as I have explained, this effect is not achieved. I guess the scene is there really to argue, as a cry of Infinity Ward's creative freedom, but I thought it was a great idea, because the game did not need this controversy to be a bestseller and children that surely will not miss this game should not "enjoy" these scenes.

I say goodbye and wishing to be launched, but a new edition of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, the third party. The two were fucking great.

Mother! Her mother canceled WoW account and the guy gets a control with such bad luck that his brother was recorded and the eyelet part. Get in that state of semi-demonic possession because you delete the World of Warcraft account has no name, but the brother is already in police court ...

* Seen in the Enjuto Twitter .

I welcome enormously

a) to come into my temple sabiduríaaaa

b) the great success of The Sims 3 though and it was a few weeks before hacking into the networks . In the first week in stores, Sims 3 has sold 1.4 million units , which is quite an achievement.

Once again shows how important it is to open up gaming to a new audience, a casual audience, more feminine, that it is not very aware of what torrents are and who loves to play dollhouses. That if Politeness does not hot, and continue to make jewelry like Dead Space, that the "hardcore" also have the right.

Situation contrasts with that of the Sims, for example, GTA Chinatown Wars, which also leaked a few weeks before its official release and whose sales figures have been very low. What is the difference between Chinatown Wars and Sims? I say the audience it is directed and holding each of the sagas. It is radically different.

PS: Very Handsome SBK 09. I have everything hooked.

You probably already have seen it, but if you've been offline this weekend retreat or waxing and polishing wax, here's the first video of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game with real images on purpose (no teasers worth anything):

Following in the footsteps of Spore , The Sims 3 may already be available in networks hacking 2 weeks before its official release, as I see in many American video game sites . It appears, though I do not recommend or encourage (the file can contain viruses or go you know what), the game works and does not require activation online or anything. More bad news for Electronic Arts, which could stop selling many units, as recently happened to Rockstar Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars, for example.

Torrent Sims 3 Edition

Now we just need to not repeat the mistakes and not disturb the legal buyers Sims 3 DRM systems with stupid ...

The work of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of books left by the Lord of the Rings at the height of bitumen will be video game. This was announced Cyanide, a French study Cycling Manager and responsible for Loki, among others.

The announcement gives me a bittersweet: On one hand I can not wait to play something that resembles the work of Martin, but on the other Cyanide not just convinced me even though they have done a bad job with the Nintendo DS version of Runaway 2 . What could have done Bioware and Bethesda with this script? Wonders!

This book is trippy. Seriously!

Anyway, the author of the novels will be involved in the project, which I guess is an adventure game, though Cyanide does not just detail.

* More details in the press release of Cyanide .

* Song of Ice and Fire on Wikipedia .

Well George I miss a curiosity worth reviewed. Blizzard has posted on the doors of his office in Irving (California) a huge sculpture of more than twelve feet high. How could it be otherwise, the massive sculpture is inspired by World of Warcraft and shows an orc riding a wolf.

Great game Lord of the Rings ... I mean World of Warcraft

A huge crane and a good group of workers were required to install the statue, which was conducted by the same special effects team behind "The Lord of the Rings". The statue will welcome every day to employees who make the game possible.

-> Take a look here at photos of the statue.

What statue give the door of your business? Hehehe

Alberto Cano asked me to write something about the DRM for your blog and I've done. My conclusion in the article that I invite you to read is that DRM is not the solution to piracy. I speak mostly of what happened with Spore, but recently has also been bundled "brown" with Gears of War for PC, thanks to the DRM protection was disabled . Until Microsoft fixes the problem, the solution is to change the date to the computer at any time prior to January 1, 2009 ....

Nothing was published that the final number of layoffs at Microsoft would be 5,000 worldwide and that the Xbox division would not be little affected, but nothing was said about the Games for Windows ... In fact I just learned that Microsoft would be reduced in this area, whose goal was to revitalize the Titanic PC games for Windows Vista platform failed.

Specifically talking about the dismissal of general manager of Games for Windows Live and the dismantling of the team responsible for a classic, the Microsoft Flight Simulator, which does not mean you stop editing this game, is now aged 27, but take to the people and then see who will see it encasquetan. It also ends with the unemployment of many of the games testers.

The truth is I never understood the intent of Games for Windows. Video games have been essential in the past for one operating system to succeed and to modernize and renew the computer equipment, but today things have changed. The "gamers" have come to consoles, which is a cheaper way to get a newer machine for games (and in most cases just as easy to hack) and the PC remains the monopoly of strategy games in real time, some great players who play Crysis, versions of The Sims for laptops and little else. You do not need a new, more powerful PC, with one office and the Internet serves to let it kill us to play consoles already, whether domestic or laptops.

The Games for Windows brand and platform DirectX 10 was born burdened by the high piracy is on the PC, the integration of graphics cards on motherboards, the proliferation of portable configurations unsuitable for games and little or no acceptance Windows Vista. Attempts to cross the Xbox to the PC and make players play both platforms together not succeeded. Anyway, little positive can be taken out of the subject.

In any case, as they also say the guys at EA, layoffs for the company will emerge strengthened. I love this phrase! How cool is that?

Tom Clancy EndWar - Parrots also play on Yahoo! Video

More photos and videos in the special Tom Clancy's EndWar on Yahoo! Games