Interviews: Jonah Matranga (Far)

Far It’s been twelve years since Far put out the critically acclaimed album Water & Solutions. Countless bands reference Far as a key influence to their sound. After over a decade of the members of Far working on various other projects, the boys are back in town with a new album coming out on Vagrant Records on May 25 entitled We Are Alive at Night. Punknews contributor Kira Wisniewski spoke with frontman Jonah Matranga about the accidental reunion, the forthcoming album, Far’s secret code name – Hot Little Pony and of course, Beyonce.

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Previous PC Owners of Civilization IV Games on Steam Get Mac Version

Yesterday when we shipped Steam on the Mac, previous owners of the PC Steam version of Sid Meier’s Civilization IV, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Civilization IV: Warlords, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization, or Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: The Complete Edition did not have access to their games when logging in on a Mac.

But as of now, upon logging into Steam, those owners will have access to the Mac version of their games, right in their Steam library.
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Gotta move that gear up!

In between obsessing over hats, we’ve been trying to keep up with all the neat things the community is doing.

  • The fantastic folks over at TF2maps.net have unveiled the results of their latest community mapping challenge: The Competitive CTF Contest. If you’re a fan of CTF, or a competitive team looking for some new maps to try out, it’s the best day of your entire life. All down-hill from here, sorry.
  • The Third European edition of Pros vs Pubbers event is coming up. Like previous events, their goal is to bring competitive & public players closer together. If that sounds like fun, head over and get involved. They also sent us this neat poster to show us that not only are they better at TF2 than us, they’re also better artists.




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