Where to stream The Walking Dead Season 3 episodes

This is gonna be good

If you are like me and decided to buck the Cable TV giants off your pocketbook by dropping tv programming from your bill and keep the internet only, then this post is for you. I was trolling the interwebs this week trying to find a 'good' way to watch this season and stumbled across Amazon's Instant Video service. Essentially this works like Hulu where you log in and pick your episode to stream. There is a charge per episode or you can buy a season TV pass where you get all the episodes for a slight discount. Where the pay off really comes in is for the owners of a Roku player. A Roku box is a basically an internet TV device that hooks to your HD tv and they have an Amazon channel that gives you your fix on the big screen instead of your PC or laptop. Here is the link to the Amazon site http://amzn.to/PsueJR and if you want to check out Roku (I have 2 and they rock) just visit www.roku.com.

It's Zombie season people!

Blog Name Change

Oh yeah that blog title says what you think it says. We are going to go where no blog has gone before...I think! Couple that with the realization that I have never seen a blog title with zombie and politics in the same line and it becomes clear that his is going to be a fun change of pace. So that's it for this post. Let's get some commentary going on any new posts. Including this one... :)

Played: Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream

I recently held a little 4 person Xbox game night at my house and the game of choice for 4 player co-op is obviously Left 4 Dead. In preparation for a night of slaying zombies my friends and I noticed Cold Stream DLC was released on Xbox Live and thought it would be perfect for all of us to try out. After a 1.4GB download we were treated not only to a new campaign (PC community created), but we also got ALL of the original L4D maps along with ALL of the mutations available to play at any time. w00t! Needless to say our night of Xbox playing ended around 4am the next morning and a big chunk of that time was playing the new Cold Stream campaign on Expert with the Gib Fest mutation. Sadly, after repeated attempts we couldn't make it to the chopper without getting smashed by the tank and his friends. With the amount of content added on in this DLC it is money well spent for any zombie fan with co-op in their blood.

Highly Recommend!

- beegzz

This *might* cool your jets until Battlefield 3 releases tonight.

OK since this is the last 16 hours (in the eastern time zone) or so that you will have on this earth until Battlefield 3 hits stores for the official US release, I aim to keep my hunger for all things BF3 satisfied until then. To do so I read the following articles from various game sites with different takes to get a broader sense of what to expect. Let's be honest though, seeing the pictures and reading the words is nothing like getting to experience the pure joy it will be to play out these moments yourself. So read on my gaming brothers and sisters...and prepare yourselves for...well...you know. WAR!

IGN posted their PC Review of the game early this morning - Read here
Destructoid has a great preview by Casey Baker - Read it here
Joystiq has posted their PC review as well - Read here

I will say this, the reviews in Joystiq and IGN are fair and critical as they should be. Each outfit gives BF3 a great score mainly on the merits of multi-player (but we already expected that to some degree) and while they discount single-player somewhat I am not akin to just believing the reviewer all the time. Often times my view of certain parts of a game differs greatly and I think that possibly it is because these journalists are playing so many similar games all the time that their expectations become jaded and their experiences muted. 


Finally, here is a new vid by the superb Freddie W. Enjoy!

Battlefield 3 Open Beta Impressions

Ok instead of posting a bunch of screenshots or videos that we have all seen already I wanted to share my thoughts on the BF3 beta that is in gamers hands around the world until Oct. 10th. So here goes....

I love it despite its obvious flaws. This is a BETA release people and its an old build to boot. The primary reason for the beta was to test their net code and get a large amount of feedback on the core mechanics of gameplay and weapons. There is a lot of work that needs to be and probably has been done already on the matchmaking, joining games as a squad, launching and exiting, team balancing, and map textures. I can't imagine that these huge things will not be polished in the retail release. It's funny because at first a seasoned FPS gamer will jump into this with a lot of concerns but after getting some games under the belt those things take a back seat to the addicting and rewarding gameplay elements present in this limited beta.

The Operation Metro map is laid out in a superb manner to allow each side to have multiple avenues (not too many) of attack and defense. From the open park atmosphere in the first section to the corridors of the subway all the way to the streets of Paris itself. The guns are well balanced with maybe some slight modifications needed but they sound friggin amazing. My favorite part of this beta was getting a taste of what it was like to play with friends (when it worked) in a 4 player squad. It obvious a lot of thought went into making sure the classes to choose from worked in a 4 man squad. It is a blast to spot enemies for your buddies and then provide suppressing fire on the target while they head for the objective.

This beta is not a very polished presentation of what is surely to come but it does feed the fire. The real excitement comes when vehicles get introduced on the battlefield. Last but not least, EA's stat tracking site battlelog.battlefield.com (which is free compared to CoD Elite) is awesome. I love being able to logon and see what my progress is and what I need to work on to get that next unlock. Very well put together and it even supports clans called Platoons on the site. I created the Zombie Squad. :)

Don't forget 10/25/11 is the release date for Battlefield 3! Reserve your copy!

beegzz