1. Legendary:

In short, this dude opens the pandoras box unleashing all sorts of creatures on the earth. Griffins and werewolves etc. Great fun.

Engine: Unreal 3.0
RLS date: 21 October 08

Check out this video of some in game footage:

2. Need for Speed: Undercover:

Another title in the NFS series. Probably be crap considering the last couple of Need for Speed releases. I think EA fucked the series up, like they fail at everything nowadays. Could be worth checking out anyway though.

Engine: Heroic Driving Engine
RLS Date: 18 November 08

Check out the trailer and some gameplay footage:

3. Call of Duty 5:

New COD. Mean. COD4 was the shit, but a bit short, this one is going back to World War 2 with Veitnam and Berlin by the looks of things. Looks good. COD2 did Germany/Russia missions great IMO, so hopefully Treyarch can do just as good a job as Infinity Ward. I appreciated the Modern day weapons and theatre of COD4 but should be good to go back to the roots. I never played Call of Duty 3, developed by Treyarch, or any of their games actually (they look like a primarily playstation developer). I hope they don’t screw this one up.

Engine: Call of Duty 4 Engine
RLS Date: 11 November 08

4. Pure:

Looks like a fun quad racing game. Sure some of the jumps and stuff are rediculous but should be a fun fuck around game. And the environments look mean!

Engine: ???
RLS Date: 16 September 08

5: Far Cry 2:

While I thought the original Far Cry sucked ass, this one looks pretty groundbreaking. Things such as propagating fire, a real living environment, smart and aggressive AI and stuff make it look really promising.

Engine: Dunia
RLS Date: 21 October 08

Tech Demo:

Another one:

6: Mirrors Edge:

Parkour game where you have to defeat a totalitarian government. Nuff Said. Looks purrty, and free-running in Assasins Creed was SOOO much fun.

Engine: Unreal 3.0
RLS Date: 11 November 08

Gameplay video:

7: GTA4 (PC):

Finally GTA4 for PC comes out! I’m sure you’ve all seen videos of this so I won’t bother for one here.

Engine: RAGE, Euphoria
RLS Date: 18 November 08

8: EndWar:

An RTS from Tom Clancy that integrates with the other Tom Clancy game universes (Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, HAWX). Looks like fun, could give it a go. Looks really strategic and tactical though…

Engine: Unreal 3.0
RLS Date: 4 November 08

9: Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway:

Latest BIA game. The others were pretty fun, and not too tactical, sometimes really hard. So this one should be fun.

Engine: Unreal 3.0
RLS Date: 7 October 08

10: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3:

New Command and Conquer game. Hopefully it will be good. Initial reviews are positive.

Engine: RNA
RLS Date: 28 October 08

11: FEAR 2:

The first FEAR game was awesome. Slow motion, kicking melee, incredible graphics. I still never managed to clock it but am keen for a go on this even if I don’t know the complete backstory.

Engine: LithTec
RLS Date: 10 Febuary 09

12: Fuel:

New open world off road racing game from Codemasters with 2 and 4 wheeled vehicles, 14 sq km of go-anywhere game world, dynamic weather and a full day night cycle. W00t.

Engine: ???
RLS Date: 2009

13: H.A.W.X.:

A jet fighter game from Tom Clancy which integrates with other Tom Clancy games and is even incorporated into the storyline of GRAW. Looks great.

Engine: ???
RLS Date: Q1 2009

14: Prototype:

This looks really amazing. And plenty violent too. The deal is you play a guy who doesn’t remember his past but has amazing super human strength and is kinda evil… Check out the videos.

Engine: ???
RLS Date: April 2009

15: Just Cause 2:

Sequel to the entertaining albeit boring game where you always have a parachute and a grappling hook enabling you to hook onto cars, boats, helicopters etc. Plus a huge natural game world with many opportunities for base jumping. I could never get into the storyline, but jumping off a huge cliff, deploying my parachute and grappling onto a boat as it speed past and para-sailing along behind it is a lot of fun.

Engine: Avalanche 2.0
RLS Date: Q1 2009

16. The Wheelman:

Mainly a driving game, The Wheelman was simultaneously announced with a movie of the same name. Wiki says that it also features on-foot missions in the game world modelled after barcelona. The game features a digitized Vin Diesel and the movie will feature the actor himself.

Engine: Unreal 3.0
RLS Date: 2009

So yeah. That should remind me to get them. Epic post. Look how many games are using the Unreal 3.0 engine! Goes to show you what that thing can do!

Check it out:

for i in `ps auwx|grep hamstar|cut -f2 -d’ ‘`; do kill $i; done

That would kill all the processes that I have started under my username. Notice the red part is where it takes all the entries (puts each one into $i as it uses it, and the blue part is where it does something with the entries ($i again)). Adding kill to the start and ; to the end using sed would not work for this.

Ok that might a bit tricky for some of you, especially if you haven’t come across the miracle of piping yet, let me show you a simpler one.

for i in *; do echo $i; done

Basically another form of ls but thing of the things you can do with this. Rename from lowercase to uppercase:

for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i|tr [A-Z] [a-z]`; done

So its basically limitless to what you can do with this cool thing.

I also found another cool thing while writing this. Doing the following will covert all characters in a given file to lowercase or uppercase if you changed it:

dd file.txt conv=lcase

Okay, here it is broken down. Lets say, you have two linux boxes, both running GUI’s, and you want to open gedit on one machine (machine1), but display it on the other machine (machine2):

Getting the info:

On machine1, open a console and do:

ifconfig eth0

This should tell you your IP address (e.g. 10.0.0.1). Now go to the other machine and do following:

xhost 10.0.0.1
ifconfig eth0
echo $DISPLAY

OK, that has added machine1 to machine2s receiving trusted list. Now grab your IP on that box (e.g. 10.0.0.2) and the DISPLAY number (e.g. :0) and go back to machine1. Do the following:

DISPLAY=10.0.0.2:0
export DISPLAY
gedit

Now with a bit a bit of luck, gedit should have opened on the other machine.

Handy for:

• Remote administration! Put the box under the stairs without a screen or anything, ssh into it and open any windows on your own desktop.
• Open stuff on other people desktops! “I swear, that porn window came out of nowhere, I clicked nothing!”

Drawbacks:

• The environment that the sent window runs in is still that of machine1. So you can’t access machine2’s files even though you are using the window on machine2 (unless you set up a samba share or something)