I’m a huge fan of Deus Ex, it’s my favourite game, in fact (even though my fave genre is RPG). I loved the first game (and it’s bible made shortly afterwards) and I didn’t find the second that bad, just screwed up in regards to the storyline, and shared ammunition really does suck.

Now, Deus Ex 3 has been confirmed and announced since December last year, but no recent news. has been posted about it… until now. Yes, that’s right, more news has been released on Deus Ex 3. It seems the PC Gamer Magazine got the full scoop and, as fate would have it, the pages were scanned and uploaded online (though not the text, just the concept art, which is rather annoying).

I won’t post the images directly, just the links to them, because there is a large number of them. And here’s an article from PCZone to go with the following images. Read it, and either weep or shout with joy (I’m weeping). I weep, because certain things, which I’ll explain after these images…

Deus Ex 3 Concept Art #1: A normal Police Officer (normal my ass!)

Deus Ex 3 Concept Art #2: Yeah… too hard to explain this one. 2027 clothing?

Deus Ex 3 Concept Art #3: A lovely, lovely morgue. We all like morgues here right? Right?!

Deus Ex 3 Concept Art #4: I can’t quite tell what this one is either, to me it looks like an eating area somewhere.

Deus Ex 3 Concept Art #5: Hand/arm augmentations? Let us hope so! These look nifty, and painful!

Deus Ex 3 Concept Art #6: Possibly the man we’ll be playing, unconfirmed though. If so: FUCK YES. I wanna look badass, JC did. DO IT AGAIN.

Deus Ex Concept Art #7: I’m still not quite sure what this is, even in the analysis I watched (more on that in a bit)…

Deus Ex Concept Art #8: Yeah, let’s not screw with the guy who, by the looks of it, has explosives all over him and don’t forget the bull belt buckle!

Deus Ex Concept Art #9: Oh look, a simple guard. Can we kill it?

Deus Ex Concept Art #10: How many bosses do you know that keeps arms on their desk like it’s nothing? This guy has BALLS to do such a thing.

Deus Ex Concept Art #11: Like the image says, the Underground of the FUTURE!

Deus Ex Concept Art #12: It’s a LIMB clinic, probably where they make limbs and other crap. Chances are, just like in Deus Ex 1 and VersaLife, we’ll be blowing shit up in it.

Deus Ex Concept Art #13: Hey look, it’s the guy with the explosives again. Side-on view this time.

Deus Ex Concept Art #14: The rich live above, the poor below — lovely thought isn’t it?

That’s a lot of images, wouldn’t you agree? All look rather marvelous in my opinion, but do read that article as some points in it suck, again, in my opinion. Like auto-healing (aka health-regen)? We don’t need health-regen, how many games have it? Beside Call of Duty 4?!

And playing an “average joe” security officer who gets taken by “black ops commandos” (which could really be anyone, but it stills sounds pretty random)? How many average joes are private security officers for a technology lab, get their own security plan stolen and then used against them? Not many, if you ask me. Though if the 6th picture IS the protagonist then I shall no longer complain.

Also watch this video of an analysis of Deus Ex 3’s concept art. Made by none other then GlobalNode. Watch it, it’s pretty good and I’ve always liked his analysis’ personally. And that’s it from me for this time.

The Daily Mail reported today that a 13-year-old boy French boy was under arrest in Lyon. Apparently this kid torched several cars and then told the police that he played Grand Theft Auto IV for a few hours and then wanted to go outside and commit some arson. The quote from a Lyon police spokesperson being:

“He said he played the game for a few hours, then wanted to go out and what it felt like to burn out some cars. This kind of entertainment is clearly having a negative effect on some young people.”

There is only one problem with this, Daily Mail. And it’s this quote by them:

The 13-year-old schoolboy used petrol to set light to three vehicles after playing on the violent GTA 4: Liberty City game on his home PC.

I have a question. How did the kid manage to get the PC version of GTA4 before anyone else? Every good gamer knows the game doesn’t even release in Europe until the 21st of November. Ah, once again Daily Mail try to discredit violent video games and the players of such games. And fail, miserably.

Source: French Lad Torches Cars, GTA IV Blamed But… [GamePolitics]

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I’m sure the game’s fairly old now, and I have heard/seen some videos of it lying around about a year ago but never tried it myself.

For those unaware, Frets on Fire is a PC ripoff of the massively popular game; Guitar Hero. If you’re a gamer and have never heard, let alone played Guitar Hero, then GTFO NOW! I kid, but honestly, if you haven’t, then get out from under that bloody rock!

As I was saying, Frets on Fire is a PC version of the game. You’re apparently supposed to play it by holding your keyboard like a guitar and use the F1-F5 buttons as the fret buttons and the Enter key for the pick (the controls are fully customizable though).

I however, own a laptop, so I’ve got the trouble of not being about to hold my keyboard in that position as that would be bloody awkward. Nevertheless, it’s a very fun yet very addictive game. The game is completely open source and it comes with only two songs. More songs, can be downloaded on the forum at FretsonFire.net and there are a TON of songs from a ton of bands.

Of course, most of the ones I’ve downloaded (so far, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Avenged Sevenfold and Marilyn Manson, heh) are bloody hard. Honestly, it wouldn’t be too bad if I could just get my bloody finger onto the 5th fret (which I can but my pinky finger is EXTREMELY iffy to use :P).

You guys take a look and see what you guys can do. Tell me of your exploits!

Edit: I posted the wrong link to the Frets on Fire website it’s .net, not .com. Sorry about that!

Can someone please tell me what morons were smoking dope when they thought up this shit. A Hello Kitty MMOG?! Who in their right mind would make such crap.

Well, here there you have it folks! The new pedo-playground, yippy! Here’s the bloody weird video for you. Honestly, these thing weirds me out…

WoWWiki, an incredibly popular and VERY useful World of Warcraft is having a contest to celebrate the Beijing 2008 Olympics. It seems Clopper Whizbang has lost his WoWlympic gear and he needs your help to find them!

This is a great competition and I’ve successfully completed it (and it’s not easy, let me tell you now). What can you, I hear you ask? Well simple: Wrath of the Lich King Beta Keys and, what I personally believe to be the best of the two - A Tyrael minipet!

Interested in winning if you’re a WoW player? Then head on over to the WoWWiki WoWlympics page for more information!

Here’s the Age of Conan layout in a darker shade of… blue. What’s it for and why does it look different? Simple. This is the version I’ll be using for The Death Reapers, an RP Guild I’m setting up on World of Warcraft’s Steamwheedle Cartel realm.

It will also most likely used for The Ownerz, my Social Guild on the Barthilas realm (that is yet to get members, but then, I’ve yet to reach level 70, lol). There isn’t much difference to the layout except that the background is different and everything is blue. Some may argue that WoW isn’t blue, but I beg to differ.

Also note that the title was misspelled, not deliberately, I just couldn’t be screwed correcting it. As for the slogan, for those of you who have never looked up Warcraft lore - 26 is the year that World of Warcraft is set in.

As promised, here is some screenshots of my current User Interface for World of Warcraft. Look if you’re interested, ignore if you think I’m a psychopathic freak of nature who is going to Hell because I play World of Warcraft (when, in fact, I’m a psychopathic freak of nature who is going to Hell for completely other reasons, but that’s a story for another day).

You can find all the screenshots by clicking on this handy dandy awesomeness link. Yes, that’s how awesome it is. It’s awesome because it takes you from one page, to another. And that, my friends, is why it is awesome.

I may make a page for all my gaming screenshots (which I have a fair amount of) but until that day, the above system works fine. Especially for lazy people who don’t get out of bed until four in the afternoon.

Thank you and good night. I shall be watching you in your dreams… I mean… ah crap… disregard that last sentence…

I’ve started making my online Portfolio and, as of current, you can view all of the website interfaces (templates, layouts, designs, etc) by clicking here. Please note that I have decided against showing live previews of my templates. I was going to have them but after further consideration I have deemed it to risky to do so (intellectual property theft and the like). So I do apologise for that inconvenience.

The next parts of the my portfolio that still need to be created are the Forum Signatures and Other Graphics sections. It shouldn’t take too long to put those up (the only real time taken is to make the thumbnails for the images, everything else is a cinch). I really hate the work I done on my Signature images because I could never get them right, I just show them here purely for portfolio completion.

In other news: I have finally gotten my perfect UI for World of Warcraft (yes, I do play the game others hate :P) and I may post some screenshots of it later. I also may be working on a new layout so check out for the Development Journal section of the site coming soon!

L8erz guys. I’m off for this post!