MPGH News (7/27/12)

[[MPGH]Psychotic]

5th Edition
7/27/12

MPGH Radio (Updates!)
Earlier this week, Dave did some work onto the MPGH Radio and made it so users do not have to put the "listen.pls" file into Winamp, iTunes, or any program like that. You are now able to listen to a certain stream by going to it's MPGH link.

https://www.mpgh.net/radio/1.html (Stream 1)

All you have to do is change the number where it says "1" to go to the next stream. If you want to know the difference in genre between each stream, or what song is playing go to: https://65.254.62.150:8000/index.html (which is the index of the streams) and click on the stream you'd like to know more information about.


Nothing else that was "important" enough to be on the headlines happened this week... Check in next week! Next week MPGH News is adding on a NEW News section which will be content packed! Keep on the lookout for it! I will not tell you what the News section is.. You'll have to see for yourself. .

User News
@Martin Johnson - Had his birthday this week. Happy birthday!
@giniyat101 - Gotta special one for the ladies. He just turned 17
@Dolan - The famous cocksucker was banned earlier this week for scamming a member. Shortly after, he refunded and was unbanned.

Recent Post Bans
@Paladin 6,000 Posts | Congrats
@Pikaboom 7,000 Posts | He wish he had 10,000
@Hero 14,000 Posts | My hero!
@Dawgy Dawg has finally hit his 4,000 post ban! Congratulations!
@Canadian hit 2000 posts in 2 years! Way to keep a steady pace!

Sorry! Currently there are no contests going on.
I know this is what you've all been waiting for... but I haven't seen many contests floating around lately this summer.
Unfortunately, I don't have any updates for the SOTW Contest. The poll has been closed for a couple days now, and at any moment a winner will be announced! Can't wait!

Interview - [MPGH]Eminem

 

[MPGH]Hero: When did you first join MPGH?
[MPGH]Eminem: I joined MPGH on December 2009.


[MPGH]Hero: How did you stumble upon MPGH?
[MPGH]Eminem: I was playing AVA, and then I saw someone hacking. So I asked him where did he get the hack, and he said MPGH. So here I am.


[MPGH]Hero: What was your first impression when you joined MPGH?
[MPGH]Eminem: It looked like any normal forum.


[MPGH]Hero: You're a Combat Arms minion. Did you do any sort of contributions prior to getting minion? If so, what kind of contributions?
[MPGH]Eminem: I made a few simple tutorials, and I helped people around in the help section. That's about it.


[MPGH]Hero: Do you have any hobbies outside of MPGH?
[MPGH]Eminem: Yeah, I sometimes drive my 50cc bike. I also go to the cinema every now and then. I also go to clubs sometimes although I prefer just hanging around in the streets.


[MPGH]Hero: Since it's summer, do you have any vacation plans?
[MPGH]Eminem: Not really. I'm having a pretty boring summer vacation this year.


[MPGH]Hero: Do you have any favorite music artists or bands that you listen to?
[MPGH]Eminem: Yeah; Kid Cudi, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and of course, Eminem.


[MPGH]Hero: Do you have any favorite games?
[MPGH]Eminem: Yeah, MX VX ATV Alive, Combat Arms and Call of Duty MW2/3.


[MPGH]Hero: Before we wrap this up would you like to give a shout out to anyone?
[MPGH]Eminem: Yeah, Lance. stop falling in love with boys, Thunder go suck a dick and Dave stop lying pls.


[MPGH]Hero: Thank you for your time, Eminem.
[MPGH]Eminem: No problem. C:

Syrian Diplomats Abscond as Aleppo Fighting Worsens

The U.S. has confirmed that two or more of Syrian's diplomats fled due to the mounting pressure on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. This was an outcome of the intense fighting clashing in Aleppo, which is Syria's commercial capital, stronghold of President al-Assad, and home to approximately 4 million people. Aleppo was seized by rebel troops earlier this month, but government forces hope to regain it as quickly as possible. The Syrian governement rushed troops and tanks to oust the rebels from Aleppo, but the rebel soldiers are still standing their ground. With the defection of the Syrian diplomats, White House spokesman, Jay Carney, told reporters,"Senior officials around the Assad inner circle are fleeing the government because of the heinous actions taken by Assad against his own people and the recognition that Assad's days are numbered".

Ghana's New President Pledges Stability

On June 24, 2012, Ghana's former president, John Atta Mills, passed away in Accra allegedly due to throat cancer. Five hours following his death, John Mahama was sworn in, and this rapid transition shows that Ghana now has a mature, capable government. During an emergency parliamentary meeting, Mahama said, "I wish Ghanaians to be assured that all is well. "We are going to maintain the peace, unity and stability that Ghana is noted for."

Mr. Mahama has declared a week of national mourning for the death of former president John Atta Mills.

Company of Heroes 2 Weather Dynamics

Company of Heroes 2, the award-winning upcoming RTS will feature weather condition simulation technology never seen before in the RTS genre.
The game will use the new ColdTech system which includes an "extreme cold" mechanic which accurately encapsulates the Soviet winter which reached extremes of -40F in 1941.
On winter maps, units exposed to the bitter cold will gradually freeze to death unless the player keeps them warm by building fires and garrisoning them in buildings.
There is also a new system called the Essence Engine to dynamically paint on and off snow, meaning that not only does it accumulate on buildings and vehicles, but it can also be melted or removed from objects by the player. And ice is not only there to look pretty, but can also be used to kill your enemy.
Company of Heroes 2 is scheduled to release for Pc in early 2013.



L4D2 Updates

Cold Stream is the new campaign available free for all Left 4 Dead 2 players. The game will automatically update to this. Cold Stream features the community made Cold Stream campaign, 20 maps, and the L4D1 campaigns, Blood Harvest, Crash Course, Dead Air, and Death Toll.
They are also featuring the Community Campaign Deathcraft II. This campaign is a total conversion of the world of L4D into Minecraft. More information about this can be found here.
And the L4D2 characters are now available in Valve's movie making tool the Source Film Maker (SFM). While the tool is TF2 focuses, the community has already been creating and dropping in L4D assets as well.
(Left 4 Dead 2 is still 75% off.)
More detailed information about Cold Stream can be found here.



Mists of Pandaria

Blizzard Entertainment announced on their website today that the long waited expansion Mists of Pandaria will be available on September 25, 2012. If you want to be ready to play when the servers go live, you can pre-purchase the game digitally.
There will be 3 different version you can buy: The Standard Edition (for $40), The Digital Deluxe Edition (for $60), or the Collector's Edition (for $80).
The Digital Deluxe version comes with:
-World of Warcraft in-game mount
-World of Warcraft in-game pet
-StarCraft 2 Battle.net Portraits
-Diablo 3 banner Sigil and Accent
The collector's Edition comes with the above +:
-Behind-the-Scenes DVD and Blu-Ray
-Collector's Edition Soundtrack CD
-The art of Mists of Pandaria book
-Chen Stormstout mouse pad
More information can be found here.



Gabe Newell hates Windows 8

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve made a rare appearance last night at Casual Connect, an annual video game conference in Seattle.
Newell unveiled some of his most secretive projects in an interview onstage with Ed Fried, former VP of game publishing at Microsoft. He talks about what he thinks about the future of video game distribution, Windows 8, and more.

Valve wouldn’t exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn’t have existed without the openness of the platform. There’s a strong temptation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors’ access to the platform, and they say ‘That’s really exciting.'

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don’t realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It’s a hedging strategy.

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we’ll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that’s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.

Read more of the interview on allthingsd.



Nvidia releases A New Dawn

In 2002, Nvidia released a demo called "Dawn" to demonstrate the power and programmability of GeForce FX. Now, Nvidia has brought back Dawn once again, in a demo. The demo starts not with the main character, but with a sweeping overview of a rainforest. As our character comes into view, we find her swinging on a vine in her tree home. The tree is rendered to the finest level of detail using DirectX11 tessellation. At its peak, over four million polygons are used to showcase Dawn's environment.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI1_quVr_3w

Another dramatic improvement is Dawn's hair. It now has 40,000 soft locks of hair where as the old one had 1,700 stands. Advanced shading allows her hair to move out of the jet-black colo scheme. While still a brunette, you'll see her hair flowing in the wind, reflecting and transmitting light from the environment.
A New Dawn was developed to showcase the performance and capabilities of Nvidia's flagship GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, but following reader feedback after the initial announcement of the demo last night, they have introduced a less demanding mode that allows 670 and 680 owners to also enjoy the demo.
Check their post for more information.

Tunderstruck

It is speculated that yet another form of malware has struck Iran’s nuclear facilities after an Iranian nuclear scientist contacted Mikko Hypponen, head security researcher of Finnish computer security firm, F-Secure. The researcher wrote, and I quote, “There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC.” Mikko believes that Metaslpoit, an open source project that allows users to test software and networks for vulnerabilities, was used. This is the second confirmed attack on the Iranian nuclear program, after the Stuxnet worm. I hope the hacker is taking requests, I want to hear highway to hell.



Fuck USB-mini because we’re Apple and we’re cool like that.

It has now been confirmed that the new iPad and iPhone lines are to be launched with a 19 pin dock. The IPhone 5, set to be launched this October, is confirmed to have the 19 pin dock, a 4in screen, and the 3.5in jack squeezed on the bottom. This is going to irritate me, as an iPhone user. It has been rumored that Apple’s move from the old 30 pin, to the new 19 pin connector, has been influenced by their plans for the new “authorized access program”. The new program will prevent any un-authorized accessory manufacturer from producing accessories for Apple’s products without paying royalty to Apple. Way to rack up more lawsuits.

MPGH News Team

• Publisher
  
  • Psychotic

• Editors
  
  • [MPGH]Scata
  • [MPGH]Ravallo

• Writers

• Psychotic
  
  • MPGH Headlines

• Dawgy Dawg
  
  • User News (Reporters)

• Katy
  
  • Contest News (Reporters)

• [MPGH]Hero
• N/A
  
  • Interview(s)

• ryakhawk (Full credit goes to Misdemeanor as Ryakhawk is on vacation, and Misdemeanor will be doing Global News for the next 3 weeks.)
  
  • Global News

• Nitekillr
  
  • Gaming News

• Azathoth
  
  • Technology News

• Freelance Writers [Backups]

• Misdemeanor
  
  • Global News

[Bernard]

Looks great

[[MPGH]Psychotic]

Looks great

Thanks! Glad you like it. Not much happened this week. It was like a dead week for some reason. Not much User News, and I could barely think of one MPGH Headline.. Luckily I pulled something out of my ass.

[Bernard]

Thanks! Glad you like it. Not much happened this week. It was like a dead week for some reason. Not much User News, and I could barely think of one MPGH Headline.. Luckily I pulled something out of my ass.

Love the User news and that Interview with Eminem

[[MPGH]Psychotic]

Love the User news and that Interview with Eminem

Oh yeah. The interviews are hilarious.

[Implify]

Loving it

[unicorn69]

Good reading. Hats off to you.

[Azathᴏth]

I didn't read any of it. This issue sucks.

[Dreamer]

Looking good again Radio works fine.

[Polo]

Loved the interview

[bowlcut]

God damnit Psychotic you fat sack of shit you put Paladin as the gaming news again.

[Azathᴏth]

Katy's link goes to Galactic's profile.

[xfum]

Like a baws

[[MPGH]Psychotic]

God damnit Psychotic you fat sack of shit you put Paladin as the gaming news again.

GOD DAMN. I'LL EDIT IT. Lemme edit the link as well. @Azathoth.

[bowlcut]

GOD DAMN. I'LL EDIT IT. Lemme edit the link as well. @Azathoth.

No hard feelings.