BASHandSlash.com Webcast and Blog. Specializing in Call of Duty http://bashandslash.com Sat, 25 May 2013 07:38:18 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://bashandslash.com/images/M_images/bash150.jpg http://bashandslash.com BASHandSlash.com Webcast and Blog. Specializing in Call of Duty http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1322&Itemid=79 If you haven't heard by now, BASHandSlash has moved to a WordPress format. We are going to leave the old content on this Joomla site up, but we will now be redirecting bashandslash.com to the WordPress website. When you check out the new digs, you will notice an immediate difference. We've gone a bit minimalistic and the text will be black on white...not gamer-white on black. The tone of the site will also be a bit different, maybe I'll actually live up to the bash and slash names. Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:06:54 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1321&Itemid=78 I hope everyone has been having a great summer. Mine has been relatively busy, but I thought I would leave my self-imposed exile from the Internet to talk about some of the gaming experiences I have gone through lately. As you may know, if you are a regular on the BASH Boards (boards/viewtopic.php?f=7 t=4879), I've taken a little sabbatical from blogging to get a few Real-Life things done. Let me first start off by saying that blogging is way more addicting than I thought. The first few days I was away from the website I felt as though I was going through... Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:19:11 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1320&Itemid=78 When it comes to stirring up emotion, there's nothing like having a Run'n'gun (RnG) vs. Tactical Realism (TR) debate. Without painting too broad-a-brush, I've known quite a few Tactical Realism (TR) gamers who view Run'n'gunners as a set of folks only one notch above noob. How can any sane adult want to play FPS games with all that jibing and juking going on? Undisciplined fire. Undisciplined tactics. RnG's must infuriate TR fans...why can't they see that the RnG play-style as unrealistic fantasy. Arcade fluff, that's what Run'n'gun gaming is all about. To many Run'n'gunners, TR practitioners are a misguided lot... Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:13:18 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1318&Itemid=94 With FPS eSports in dire straights lately, many are heading back to tried and true territory. For most that territory is CoD4. CEVO goes to Europe I just spoke to Ian Tannehill, head of CoD4 for one of North America's premier eSports leagues and he had an interesting announcement to make. CEVO is announcing that signups for an online European event, the CEVO CoD4 European Showdown Tourney have started. It is a free tournament, currently restricted to 128 teams; however, that number could be increased if there are enough teams registering. The event is scheduled to start Sunday, July 17th. Clearly, CEVO... Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:54:14 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1317&Itemid=79 He's got Chutzpah I'll give'em that. Who? Respawn's Jason West, that's who. Yes, the Jason West who kicked the PC community in the teeth by having the gall to introduce IWnet and local hosting during the release of MW2. That was when he was still with Activision's Infinity Ward of course. Oh and while he was figuring out how to change our gaming experience (for the worse) he was all-the-while scheming to flip over to another publisher. Things went a little awry after that of course and Respawn Entertainment was born. Well, Respawn has grown some since then and... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:17:51 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1316&Itemid=92 Today we received this note from the BlackMonkeys.de regarding their wonderful CoD4 mod, Galactic Warfare. Here is their announcement. Dear friends of BlackMonkeys.de Star Wars Mod: Galactic Warfare, Today we celebrate two things: It’s the fourth birthday of blackMonkeys.de (http://www.blackmonkeys.de/), and at the same time we are happy to present our final version of Star Wars Mod: Galactic Warfare. After all the modding, mapping, scripting, gaming, and drinking, it is done! We hope you will enjoy the mod which is a non-profit project operated by fans of the FPS genre. It is our goal to unite our favourite... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 09:09:19 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1315&Itemid=78 If competitive FPS gaming isn't dead in North America, then it is in palliative care. BRINK has been a disappointment. Numbers have been falling sharply and I've been playing against more bots than human players lately. CoD:BO's? Don't even ask. About the only interesting action lately has been in CoD4. Check out National ESL's CoD4 League (http://www.nationalesl.com/us/cod4/news/161183/). If NESL gets the numbers they are looking for, it will mark the fourth straight year of competitive CoD4 (three years of Promod). With NESL being a small ray of sunshine, what happened to GetGosu.com is more typical of the state of competitive FPS. GetGosu.com was a... Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:48:27 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1314&Itemid=78 It was just last week that I was speaking with some devs at KAOS Studios. They were all looking forward to getting everyone's input on their new Homefront game. In fact, they had just announced this survey: http://homefront.ideascale.com/ (http://homefront.ideascale.com/) Much of the talk was positive and there was no hint that in a few days KAOS Studios would be shut down. Sure enough that is what happened today when THQ, Homefront's publisher, announced that it would be trimming operations -- and KAOS would be one of those studios trimmed. Apparently there was a strategic realignment within its internal studio structure... Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:13:33 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1313&Itemid=78 Activision head Bobby Kotick thought it prudent to push back on some of the phenomenal props EA's BF3 has been getting at E3, and in so doing, continued to denigrate CoD's once-loyal PC customers. “So far I’ve only seen Battlefield 3 shown on a PC, I haven’t seen it on a console which is where the bulk of our business is...if it’s just a PC title, as it looks like today, that’s a very small audience to participate...we're always interested to see what our competitor is doing.” The just a PC title and a very small audience... Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:22:54 +0100 http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1309&Itemid=78 Not FPS related really, but I thought this Activision press release was interesting in its ramifications. Though this game doesn't require the precise aiming of an FPS, I reserve the right to just sit here stroking my mouse and daydream on the possibilities of fragging against someone with a controller. Heh, heh...ya. Activision Announces First-Ever Cross-Platform Gameplay Experience for Skylanders Spyro's Adventure(TM) at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) New Adventure Game Allows Players to Bring Your Toys to Life™ Across Consoles, Windows PC, Web, Handheld and Mobile Devices SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Activision Publishing (http://www.activision.com/), Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) revealed today... Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:21:25 +0100