Monthly Archives: May 2010

Heavy Metal

CRIMSON GLORY: DIO ‘Was Easily One Of The Most Influential Artists In Modern Music’

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Florida-based melodic metal veterans CRIMSON GLORY have released the following statement regarding the passing of legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (DIO, HEAVEN & HELL, BLACK SABBATH, RAINBOW): “Ronnie was a wellspring of immeasurable talent and a shining example of the persistence, hard work, dedication, passion and creativity that it takes to become a true legend in the music wo
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Steam Powered

AI Wars Update Released

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Updates to AI Wars have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • Major new Border Aggression behavior for the AI.
  • Four new Heavy Beam Cannons (Mark I
  • IV).
  • Performance improvements for the largest battles, game loading, and more.
  • Focus fire control node options added, along with other various new control nodes.
  • Many various improvements to ship autofire targeting in general.
  • Many significantly rebalanced units, including MLRS, Anti
  • Armor, Transports, Sentinel Frigates, Scout Starships, all melee ships, mines, all Golems. Many of these units are like all
  • new (and much more useful) ships.
  • ClearType text is now used, resulting in vastly more attractive fonts.
  • New AI modifiers for optional less
  • Tower
  • Defense
  • inspired gameplay for advanced players: No Wave Warnings, Cross Planet Waves
  • New AI Plots feature for more exciting endgames: the first one, Avenger, is now available and more will come in the coming months.
  • New lobby options for starting with a largely invisible galaxy which is only revealed as exploration is undertaken (normally you can see all the planets and their connections, just not any details whatsoever about the planets).
  • Other balance tweaks, interface tweaks, and bugfixes.

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Punk Rock

Sound and Fury Festival finalizes lineup

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We’re happy to bring you the finalized lineup for this year’s Sound and Fury Festival. The fest is being sponsored by Hellfish Printing, AMP magazine and us, Punknews.org. It’s set for the the weekend of July 23rd and runs until July 25th (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) at the Earl Warren State Fairgrounds in Santa Barbara, CA.

Latest additions to the lineup include 50 Lions, Backtrack, Bitter End, Deadhead, Defeater, Downpresser, Earth Crisis, The Effort, Gravemaker, Hostage Calm, Mammoth Grinder, Man Overboard, Mindset, The Mongoloids, Naysayer, Outspoken, Retaliate, Touché Amore, and Transit. They’ll join previously announced acts such as Bane, Terror, Strife, Sick of it All, Down to Nothing, Daylight, Tigers Jaw, Such Gold, Heartsounds, Donnybrook and a slew of others.

Tickets are available here.
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