To be as forthright as possible, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was not on my radar when it was announced last year. Apart from a handful of pretty screens, it subsequently managed to slip by me in the madness of the 2010 summer trade show season. Having now spent several hours with the first half of the game, it’s impossible to think I could have missed it. Based on what I’ve played so far, Enslaved deserves a spot on everyone’s radar, offering polished gameplay, interesting characters and a gorgeous world to explore.

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Enslaved preview: The apocalypse goes green originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It may be a holiday here in the US, but the show must go on! This isn’t a traditional episode — instead, we’re just talking PAX Prime 2010, answering some questions from Twitter and addressing some fanmail. We’re trying to keep it casual, you know, so pull up a chair, grab a frosty beverage and kick it with your X3F buddies below. Enjoy!

Oh, and we’d like to thank @_misterd_ for releasing the butterflies in the wonderful chop above.

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Hosts: Alexander Sliwinski (Sli Xander, @xandersliwinski) and Dave Hinkle (KnifefightYaDad, @davehinkle)

Music: Intro/Outro: “Electromooq” by Uma Floresta. Break: “Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat.

Xbox 360 Fancast 179.5 — PAX Prime 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell Inspiron 1525 here.

I guess you could say I was 'refurbishing' this computer. It was only a couple years old and I bought it for 20 bucks. The original problem was that there was no display..a blank screen on startup and nothing else.

I transferred the guts of the notebook to a new base/casing. Thinking something may have been a loose connection, as well. So I swapped it all over to a new base..new battary and powerplug too. Same problem. Th enotebook powers on fine, the lights onthe front come on. But there's just a black screen. I THINK I saw a couple of times in the corner of my eye..a white flash. I replaced the HD cause I've seen Dell Inspirons do this when the HD craps out, too. But still, same problem. Also, from the indication on the lights I think its also rebooting bvut I can't tell for sure cause I have no display. But, you know when a system boots up the caps light usually comes on for a second and you can heard the DVD spin up ( if there's one present in the drive) ? Well..seems to me as if its doing that…but again, no diplay.

Could this be the inverter? And is this hard to replace? I've disassembled Dell Inspiron's and many notebooks and computers before but I've never replaced an inverter.

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The first public appearance of The Witness, a new game from Braid designer Jonathan Blow (and a small team of independent designers), almost went unnoticed. Its presence at last weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo wasn’t announced by an enthusiastic press release or trumpeted by a flashy trailer. It didn’t even have a sign.

“PAX is a huge show, with tons of stuff to see everywhere; if the game could hold peoples’ attention under those conditions, purely on its own merits rather than by hype or pedigree, then I would know that it was really working,” Jonathan Blow wrote on The Witness blog. “Happily, the game worked very well – despite the fact that the visuals are still in an early prototype stage. People tended to play for a long time, and they liked what they played.”

Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo compared the first-person exploration and puzzle-solving to Myst. The game’s beautifully lit and serene world hides abstract enigmas, such as boards that require you to trace the correct route. What’s most interesting, however, is that there don’t seem to be any prompts or instructions for the player — making this understated PAX reveal seem very appropriate indeed.

The Witness makes low-key debut at PAX originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Develop reports that bankrupt studio Realtime Worlds has seen its Project MyWorld IP bought up by an “anonymous American company.” It’s currently unclear what this means for the 23 developers who were working on the project at the studio’s location in Dundee, Scotland. One of the more optimistic scenarios is that the American outfit will create a satellite studio nearby and hire the current staff to finish the (allegedly almost done) project.

This means that Realtime’s APB IP, which at last count had about 130,000 players, is still up for grabs from Begbies Traynor, the company handling the bankruptcy. Okay, Begbies, we’ve got $5 and some gummi bears in our pocket — what do you say?

Develop: US firm acquires Realtime Worlds’ Project MyWorld originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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