To celebrate the release of their second album together, Kingdom of Sorrow has put together a cool prize package for two Punknews.org readers. The band is the collaboration between Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) and Kirk Windstein Down, Crowbar) and the band just released their album, Behind the Blackest Tears through Relapse Records.
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Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Engine
- Tuned thread initialization to improve performance on CPUs with more than four cores
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed leftover shadows when ragdoll physics are disabled
- Added stats gathering to track client and server performance
- Added instrumentation to help debug network issues
- Disabled some unsupported threading convars
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Joey Cape: “Uniform”
Joey Cape has posted his seventh new song of 2010. “Uniform” is the newest chapter of Doesn’t Play Well with Others, Cape’s new solo album that’s being released on a song-per-month schedule. As with previous months, the single features artwork created by Joey’s daughter, Violet.
Check it out here.
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New Software Survey
Steam’s opt-in hardware survey has been providing valuable data to the gaming industry for several years now, for gamers looking to upgrade their systems, game designers striving to target their customer base, and PC manufacturers anticipating gaming system adoption rates and trends. However so far it’s been limited to just hardware components, which everyone knows is just one part of a gaming system.
So in today’s Steam Client Beta release we’re extending the survey to include installed software – Any programs listed within Windows’ Programs and Features control panel (OS X coming soon) are reported alongside the hardware information Steam collects and reports online.
The new software component of our survey helps us understand what else our customers are using their PCs to do, and as a result, what features we can deliver or leverage to make Steam and our games better. PC users, developers and manufacturers will no doubt also find this information useful, so we plan to publish these results and trends over time. The first set of software survey results will be published among Steam stats at the end of the month.
As always, this survey is both optional and anonymous, with none of the collected data being associated with your Steam account. Survey selection is random; you’ll know you’re part of the Survey because Steam will ask if you want to take part.
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Into It. Over It. and Castevet plan split 7-inch
Topshelf Records has announced details on the newest split from Into It. Over It.. The disc is the latest in their Twelve Towns, which previously included a a release with Bob Nanna (Hey Mercedes, Braid, City on Film) and Lauren Lo. The new addition titled Snack Town, features Castavet and four tracks, two from each band. Castevet and Into It. Over It. have each unveiled a new track from Snack Town on their respective myspace pages. Castevet has launched a stream of the track “(Get) Bucktown” and Into It. Over It. has launched a stream of “Somerville, SC.”
Snack Town will be limited to a one time pressing of 500 7-inches and will be available digitally as well from all retail outlets and directly from the label. Topshelf Records will be offering an immediate download of the album to everyone who pre orders it.
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Band of Horses: “Laredo”
Band of Horses are premiering their new video for “Laredo.” The track comes from their 2010 album, Infinite Arms.
Reviver: ‘Potential Wasteland’ EP
Our stream today comes from Salt Lake City, UT-based Reviver. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, Potential Wasteland. It was released earlier this month on State of Mind and features guest vocals from Defeater’s Derek Archambault.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Tours: Guided by Voices (reunion tour)
The Guided by Voices reunion has morphed into a full-blown tour. The band will play a show in Austin, TX before heading to Matador Records‘s 21st anniversary party in Las Vegas and then continuing with gigs throughout the US. The shows will feature the band’s ‘classic’ 1993-1996 lineup, responsible for creating such adored albums as 1994’s Bee Thousand and 1995’s Alien Lanes. Click Read More to see the dates.
The band initially called it a day in 2004 after 19 years together.
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Voodoo Dice Released
Voodoo Dice is now available on Steam. Roll the dice in a mystical world filled with exploration, puzzle-solving, and adventure! Mixing action based and puzzle mechanics in a 3D world, Voodoo Dice is an innovative, challenging puzzler that plays with your mind to lead you to solve puzzles in unique and interesting ways.
Bad Company 2 Owners Now Have Access to the Medal of Honor Beta!
Do you own Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on Steam? If so, you now have access to the Medal of Honor beta! Download it from your games library and jump into the fast and furious multiplayer action created by DICE and prove that you are Tier 1! Click here to install the Medal of Honor beta now.
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The Gamits wrapping up ‘The Halves and Half Knots’
Denver, CO’s The Gamits have just about finished recording their comeback album, according to this post. Vocal tracks are being completed and the record will soon enter the mixing process.
The Halves and Half Knots will be the band’s first new material since 2004’s Antidote and is expected out this fall via Suburban Home Records.
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Weezer going indie, plans album for September
According to a new interview, changes are afoot for Weezer. First, the band has announced that they will be releasing their next full length on September 13, 2010. The as-yet untitled album will follow the band’s album Raditude from 2009. The other significant news is that the band has wrapped up their contract with longtime label Geffen and are “getting ready to sign with a yet-to-be-named independent label.”
The band signed to major label Geffen in the 90s, releasing their debut, Weezer through the label in 1994. Cuomo also talked a bit about how the band sees itself these days:
I don’t feel like we’ve really transcended our original niche. We’re always going to be the weirdos. I’ve spent the entire morning trying to come up with a name for the record. How does `Heavy Mental’ sound? There’s definitely going to be more raw rock energy on this one.
Check out the interview here.
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Aye, that’s tha way ya do it!
After our usual delay, we’re proud to announce we’ve finished the utterly impossible task of selecting the winners of the Polycount Contest. These five lucky individuals will soon receive the unbridled adoration of the TF2 community when we release their packs in an update. Unluckily for them, we’re also going to attach gameplay attributes (probably of a game destroying nature) to these items, sullying their perfect work with our clumsy attempts at game design. Anyway, enough mucking about, head over and see who won!
Winners:
The Gasman (pyro)
Tank Buster (Soldier)
Special Delivery (Scout)
Croc-o-style (Sniper)
Saharan Spy (Spy)
In other good news, the chaps over at CEVO dropped us a line to say that registration for the CEVO TF2 Season 6 tournament has just opened up. With three skill divisions, it’s a great place to play some competitive TF2 matches, even for relative beginners. They’re trying to convince those of us in the Valve TF2 team to play in the Amateur division as well, which would be possible if we ever figured out how to curb our usual desire to cheat spectacularly.
Note: The current top 4 TF2 teams in North America (Complexity, Blight-fanom, eMazing Gaming, Nexus) will be battling it out this weekend at the ESEA season 6 LAN in Texas. The top CS:S and CS 1.6 teams will also be there. http://www.Pwnage.tv will be covering all 3 games.
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