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by Adam Blue • Editorial

So last week I was pretty damn sick. Not sure if it was the Memorial Day feast or the beginnings of a zombie outbreak, but I caught a nasty stomach virus. This lead to quite a bit of non-gaming. This realm does exists, and I accept it with warming arms, but not in the state in which I don’t intake, but out-take. Constantly. If that was too much information, I don’t apologize. I try not to hold anything back here.

But with the little time I found to indulge, I did. Namely, IL-2 on the 360. Not only is this game gorgeous, but it is a competent flight sim for a console. Something I don’t think has ever been done before, but is achieved here. As you may know, Brandon got me into flight sims recently with the PC version of IL-2. This 360 port is more of a new game with 2011 graphics (they are that good). Coupled with the Hori Ace-Edge flight stick, the living room’s big screen LCD makes flight-siming an experience.

Because of the weekend deal, I was able to finally try some Shattered Horizons. This game is great, taking FPS’s to a new level. Not that they all need to follow, but playing an FPS with no up or down is really something worth trying. And it’s a lot of fun when you have teammates to help call out enemies. If you recall, this game is developed by Futuremark who created a Benchmarking tool for PC’s.

And lastly, a lot of time was spent with Eastern Front. The Russian Army expansion to Company of Heroes. I guess it’s really a mod, but it looks and feels like a retail release from a backing publisher. The dev team is in need of help too. Brandon and I will hopefully be chatting with one or more creators of this masterpiece soon.

As this week wraps, we’ve got E3 next week and Comicon the weekend after. The Bluecast will be broadcasting live. If you’re going to be in San Antonio, stop by and see us. While we’ll talk about what’s happening at Comicon, there will certainly be a lot of E3 talk. This could then create more than one show.

For the remainder of the week, I hope to get into some Splinter Cell co-op with Sean, and maybe play some more Snoopy Flying Aces – it’s really damn fun.

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