MODSonline News Feeds http://modsonline.com/ The week ending March 14, 2010 in gaming news from a modders perspective brought to you by the new and improved MODSonline.This show: Finesse Gaming, GTX 480 Unigine and 3D Vision Surround, COD4 Frontlines, MODSCON 2010, XNA Game Studio 4.0 for Windows Phone, Left 4 Dead & L4D2 Mac, Portal 2, Razer and Sixense, Brink, PlayStation Move, CryEngine 3, Namco’s Cross-Platform Engine, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, OnLive, more…Hosts: foyleman, Jynx, Welshy, StryderURLs: MODSonline.com MODSonair.com**This show may contain explicit language or adult themes.Run time: 66:17 Website Link: HERE Video: Watch on Vimeo or on Blip.tvMODSonair Episode 222 from modsonair on Vimeo.We are LIVE every weekend. Tune in on Sunday at 12pm EST (5pm GMT) over at Livestream.com AND Stickam.com (profile name “modsonair”). Check out all our past videos on Vimeo and our iTunes compatible videos and audio on Blip.tv. Ask us about advertising or drop us an email for the show. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3029.html Owners of the Steam version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have a nice surprise coming with the release of the newest patch: Removal of the game's SecuROM DRM. That update is in addition to a number of other fixes and changes included in the patch, version 522175, which range from better notifications when failing to join a multiplayer server to the server browser now sorting by lowest ping by default. The patch for Steam users will come slightly later than it will for those with a retail copy, as it has to go through additional QA testing. It may be wise to hold off on updating for the time being, as there have been reports on the EA forums of crashing and freezing issues for some users. As the patch is only applied on the client side, and not to the servers, you'll be able to play with others who have successfully patched their game without patching yourself. This isn't the first time we've seen SecuROM patched out of an EA game; last year, we saw it removed from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. In other instances, we've seen the harsh restrictions SecuROM can impose be lifted (to an extent): Both BioShock and BioShock 2 had their activation limits removed, thanks no doubt to the outcry from gamers who didn't want to be treated so poorly simply because they reinstalled their game more times than 2K decided to allot them. Indeed, we've seen gamers rebel against companies who have decided to include SecuROM -- which many consider to be nothing more than spyware -- in their titles. Angry gamers slapped EA with a class action lawsuit over its inclusion with Spore and sabotaged the game's Amazon ratings. Responses like that surely played a role in more recent games abandoning SecuROM from the start, Dragon Age: Origins being just one example. Source: 1up.com Link: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178386 http://modsonline.com/News-more-3028.html MODSonair Episode 222 Live at 12pm EST.PLEASE NOTE THAT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME MAY EFFECT YOUR BROADCAST TIME.Episode 221 rebroadcast right before the LIVE show. All other episodes rebroadcast after the show.If you've got questions or comments for us on the show, send it to our mailbag or drop in and ask in our live chat room.We are broadcasting on Stickam today. You can find us under the name of 'modsonair'. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3027.html The week ending March 7, 2010 in gaming news from a modders perspective brought to you by the new and improved MODSonline.This show: Finesse Gaming, Newegg fake cpus, NVIDIA kills cards, PC Most-used System, PS3 Network, Sexual Orientation Gamertag, MODSCON 2010, Activision Terminates King’s Quest, Modern Warfare 2 Lawsuit, Three CoD Games, Portal 2, Mafia 2, Metro 2033, Lara Croft, more…Hosts: foyleman, Jynx, Welshy, Stryder, GTL from Finesse GamingURLs: MODSonline.com MODSonair.com**This show may contain explicit language or adult themes.Run time: 75:19 Website Link: HERE Video: Watch on Vimeo or on Blip.tvMODSonair Episode 221 from modsonair on Vimeo.We are LIVE every weekend. Tune in on Sunday at 12pm EST (5pm GMT) over at Livestream.com AND Stickam.com (profile name “modsonair”). Check out all our past videos on Vimeo and our iTunes compatible videos and audio on Blip.tv. Ask us about advertising or drop us an email for the show. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3026.html Valve Software, whose Steam download services has become a successful content distribution platform for the PC, will expand to the Apple Macintosh, the company said. I think this might spur some more developers to also port their games to the Mac side of things, however; Windows will still always be the true gaming side of OS's. SOURCE edited on Mar. 8, 2010 04:05 pm by vT-Ownage http://modsonline.com/News-more-3025.html MODSonair Episode 221 Live at 12pm EST.Episode 220 rebroadcast right before the LIVE show. All other episodes rebroadcast after the show.If you've got questions or comments for us on the show, send it to our mailbag or drop in and ask in our live chat room.We are broadcasting on Stickam today. You can find us under the name of 'modsonair'. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3024.html The week ending February 28, 2010 in gaming news from a modders perspective brought to you by the new and improved MODSonline.This show: Mach at $3, ATI Eyefinity six screens, PSP Go confused consumers, CoDWW Deployable PTRS-41, MODSCON 2010, New UI for Steam, OSX Steam, Valve Time, Battlefield 3, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Jack Thompson on Modern Warfare, CryENGINE 3 Trailer, Medal of Honor 2010, Disabled Gamer’s Suit Against Sony, more…Hosts: foyleman, Jynx, Welshy, StryderURLs: MODSonline.com MODSonair.com**This show may contain explicit language or adult themes.Run time: 61:44 Website Link: HERE Video: Watch on Vimeo or on Blip.tvMODSonair Episode 220 from modsonair on Vimeo.We are LIVE every weekend. Tune in on Sunday at 12pm EST (5pm GMT) over at Livestream.com AND Stickam.com (profile name “modsonair”). Check out all our past videos on Vimeo and our iTunes compatible videos and audio on Blip.tv. Ask us about advertising or drop us an email for the show. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3023.html Jason West and Vince Zampella, two lead developers at Infinity Ward, met with Activision earlier today. Then they seemed to disappear and "bouncer-types" showed up at the studio. This Activision filing might explain why. "The Company is concluding an internal human resources inquiry into breaches of contract and insubordination by two senior employees at Infinity Ward," Acitivsion states in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "This matter is expected to involve the departure of key personnel and litigation. At present, the Company does not expect this matter to have a material impact on the Company." Activision also adds that it will be releasing another Call of Duty game this year. That game is believed to be developed Treyarch. According to West's Facebook and Linked In pages, he is currently no longer working for Infinity Ward. SOURCE http://modsonline.com/News-more-3022.html MODSonair Episode 220 Live at 12pm EST.Episode 219 rebroadcast right before the LIVE show. All other episodes rebroadcast after the show.If you've got questions or comments for us on the show, send it to our mailbag or drop in and ask in our live chat room.We are broadcasting on Stickam today. You can find us under the name of 'modsonair'. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3021.html The week ending February 21, 2010 in gaming news from a modders perspective brought to you by the new and improved MODSonline.This show: Mailbag, Google launching broadband, 5 Boomer-Blasting Campaigns, The COD Community Pledge To Treyarch, CoD4 SP Script Entities extracted, MODSCON 2010 Left 4 Dead 2, The Passing Walkthrough, CoD: Vietnam, How not to be a noob at Bad Company 2, No Further Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising DLC, Stargate Resistance, Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment in Chapter 11, Mount&Blade Warband, Project Offset, Prison Break, more...Hosts: foyleman, Jynx, Welshy, StryderURLs: MODSonline.com MODSonair.com**This show may contain explicit language or adult themes.Run time: 61:03 Website Link: HERE Video: Watch on Vimeo or on Blip.tvMODSonair Episode 219 from modsonair on Vimeo.We are LIVE every weekend. Tune in on Sunday at 12pm EST (5pm GMT) over at Livestream.com AND Stickam.com (profile name “modsonair”). Check out all our past videos on Vimeo and our iTunes compatible videos and audio on Blip.tv. Ask us about advertising or drop us an email for the show. http://modsonline.com/News-more-3020.html