Brain Assassin

Appar­ently, God of War 3 once again fea­tures a sex minigame. Every God of War title, even the PSP ver­sion, has included an optional, hid­den sec­tion where Kratos can please top­less maid­ens. In the third install­ment of the very suc­cess­ful fran­chise game direc­tor Stig Asmussen didn’t want to include the minigame at first. This time around, they decided to inte­grate the sex minigame into the story where it serves more of a pur­pose than in pre­vi­ous titles. In the con­clu­sion to the tril­ogy Kratos beds the god­dess of love — Aphrodite — her­self. He couldn’t pos­si­bly do bet­ter in fur­ther games, could he?

A new Iron Man 2 trailer has hit the web yes­ter­day! There’s more War Machine and more Ham­mer in the trailer. And I absolutely adore the suit­case armor. Funny idea and prob­a­bly rem­i­nis­cent of the Iron Man books back in the day. Enjoy the embed­ded trailer below. If you want more splen­dor, you can find a high res­o­lu­tion quick­time ver­sion of the trailer over at Apple’s. Iron Man 2 will hit a cin­ema near you on May 7^th, 2010.

Ever since Mozilla has intro­duced Col­lec­tions I wanted to be able to install a com­plete col­lec­tion with one click. These add-​​on col­lec­tions cre­ated by Mozilla or users are dis­played on the Mozilla web­site but they do not pro­vide an easy way to install a com­plete set. Mas­sive Exten­der is going to change that. Mas­sive Exten­der is a brand new — read: exper­i­men­tal — add-​​on that extends Mozilla’s Add-​​on Col­lec­tor by adding batch install capabilities.

Every add-​​on in a col­lec­tion is included in batch actions by default. You just tick the check box of the exten­sions you’d like to add to your browser. The num­ber of exten­sions marked for instal­la­tion is dis­played in the lower right cor­ner of the header of the sub­scrip­tion win­dow atop the dis­played add-​​ons con­tained in the col­lec­tion. Now all you have to do is to click the Install but­ton and you’re done.

While this add-​​on may not serve any pur­pose dur­ing daily oper­a­tions it will cer­tainly come in handy after the instal­la­tion of Fire­fox or the cre­ation of a new pro­file. This is a won­der­ful idea! Mas­sive Exten­der will cer­tainly become part of my exten­sion. After all, it’s pos­si­ble to dis­able it if you don’t need it. What’s your take on this exten­sion? Will it become part of your add-​​on col­lec­tion too?

Bat­tle­field: Bad Com­pany 2 is here and it sure looks like great fun. I liked the first install­ment of the series well enough but I could never con­vince myself to buy it. I always had the impres­sion that some­thing was off. This time around I’ve already pre-​​ordered the sequel. Judg­ing by mul­ti­ple reviews, the game should be fun. Unfor­tu­nately, the humor from the first part seems to have largely gone AWOL and the single-​​player mode seems to be quite short.

Any­way, a tweaked and upgraded Frost­bite engine does it’s best to deliver gor­geous graph­ics and almost totally destruc­tible envi­ron­ment. You get won­der­ful vis­tas and a sense of depth only a few other games can offer. Appar­ently, the game’s mechan­ics seem to work great and your AI com­pa­tri­ots do their best to sup­port you. A col­lectible weapon sys­tem offers a rea­son to return to the cam­paign though I’ll prob­a­bly just play through it.

The mul­ti­player is where Bad Com­pany 2 deliv­ers. The destruc­tible envi­ron­ment adds an extra tier of strat­egy to the game as you can alter the play­ing field by a few well-​​placed explo­sions. Larger teams are seg­mented into smaller strike forces, called squads. Within a squad, play­ers can choose between four load-​​out kits, each fea­tur­ing its own weapons and unique tools. Con­trary to the cam­paign, where the player has one of the most for­giv­ing aim­ing sys­tems, there will be no aim­ing help any­where in the online mul­ti­player mode.

BC2 has a Meta­critic score of 89 which is rather good. So, how do you feel about Bat­tle­field: Bad Com­pany 2? Already played it? How does it com­pare to Mod­ern War­fare 2?

Recently, a few Mail User Agents (MUA) — com­monly referred to as email client — have been updated, mainly Thun­der­bird, Sylpheed, Claws Mail, and eM Client. Dur­ing the next days (pos­si­bly weeks) I will take a look at them and their fea­ture sets to decide whether switch­ing from Thun­der­bird to another con­tender has its advan­tages or not. Last time I did some­thing sim­i­lar, I decided to go with Thunderbird.

I’m not going to write a review for every email client I’ve picked for closer exam­i­na­tion, nor will I cre­ate a check list. My plan is to install them all and then just use them. I want to see how they dif­fer in their fea­ture imple­men­ta­tions and how intu­itive their user inter­face is. Because I want to remain open-​​minded about any­thing, I decided against a check list.

Do you have some sug­ges­tions or want to tell me how you chose your email client? Don’t hes­i­tate to leave your opin­ion and enlighten me.

Yes­ter­day, the sec­ond offi­cial trailer of the soon to be released Prince of Per­sia movie adap­ta­tion hit the web. If you want to know more about the movie, check out my first post on the topic. Prince of Per­sia will be in cin­e­mas on May, 21^st. With­out fur­ther ado, here’s the trailer: