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Syphon Filter: Combat Ops (PSP) Winner!

last updated on September 23, 2008 @ 01:40 pm

NephX Wins!

Tool and Sting, Confirmed for GH:WT

last updated on September 05, 2008 @ 03:02 pm

related game: Guitar Hero: World Tour 

Well played Activision... you jerkfaces. Now I'll need to get both RB2 and GHWT.

Santa Monica, CA – September 5, 2008 – Rock and roll legend Sting and progressive metal pioneers Tool are making their video game debuts, contributing more than just music, in Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour.

In what will be the largest collection of artists ever to appear in a Guitar Hero game, singer-songwriter, actor, author, activist and lead singer/bassist of The Police, Sting will add his voice and likeness as an in-game character. Aspiring frontmen can take the stage as Sting throughout their vocal career or play alongside him as he performs one of The Police classics, “Demolition Man.”

Hugely popular alternative metal band Tool, known for their epic, intense musical arrangements and killer visual arts, will also soon be known for their contribution to the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour. Guitar Hero fans from all over the world will be able to rock out to “Parabola” and Grammy-award winning “Schism” from Tool’s critically-acclaimed 2001 album Lateralus in addition to “Vicarious” from their 2006 Grammy-award winning album 10,000 Days. The game will also feature an all-new venue designed in collaboration with the band and highlighting the art style that has become a staple in their music videos, live shows and album artwork.

Win Syphon Filter: Combat Ops (PSP) from Sochl

last updated on September 03, 2008 @ 07:52 am

Artayd2 was kind enough to donate a code for Syphon Filter: Combat Ops to the Sochl cause. Combat Ops is an MP only affair available through the Playstation Store. It can be yours fairly easily, all you've got to do is respond to this post and answer the following question. A winner will be chosen at random from entrants as long as you've answered legitimately (you can be funny, or serious, or whatever). Ready? Here we go!

Q: What feature would you like to see a developer implement or improve in a multiplayer game?

Few Updates

last updated on September 01, 2008 @ 08:17 am

Prepping for a few new features, I've updated the game pages again to include a new subnav style. There are now dropdowns breaking the list into different categories. Also, I've updated the top banner section so if users have a customized nav image, it will not only appear on their profile page, but their collection and wishlist pages too.

Demo Impressions

last updated on August 27, 2008 @ 09:20 am

related game: Castle Crashers 

The insane difficulty of Alien Hominid has been replaced with a simple, yet humorous walk in the park with awesome artwork. I never went below 3/4 health throughout the demo's single level, nor did I see anything particularly worth me buying the game for.

I know its got 4p Live Coop, which is cool and some RPG style aspects (leveling up, stat points, equipment, etc)... and I love the art style, but it still seems to be a fairly generic brawler akin to Streets of Rage or Golden Axe. Perhaps later on it gets more interesting, but is this another case of a somewhat shoddy demo not making a good case for the full game?

F'n Nintendo

last updated on August 27, 2008 @ 05:47 am

Eurogamer Article

Nintendo has denied neglecting core gamers and claims to have new projects based on existing IP in development with "all development teams".

"We have never neglected our core gamers. We still have developers working on popular core gaming franchises but we need longer to complete these games, approximately two to three years," the company told the October issue of Edge.

TH at Amazon for $50

last updated on August 26, 2008 @ 07:18 pm

related game: Too Human 

Here you go. Don't know how long it will last.

After going back and trying the demo again, I enjoyed it more than I did the first time I played it, so I figured with a $10 drop in price, I'd give it a try. Stay tuned for impressions of the full game.

Molly F'n Hatchet

last updated on August 26, 2008 @ 10:04 am

related game: Rock Band 

I've now at least beaten every song on Hard guitar for Rock Band in the main setlist... except for one. Molly Hatchet's Flirtin' With Disaster. I'm almost thinking that because I'm not playing on the Rock Band guitar (the one that doesn't make you strum during solos), I've got a more difficult task ahead.

It also doesn't help that my yellow button is acting flaky... or that the song literally broke my wrist. Ouch.

I'll beat it eventually, but dang yo. Even holding onto my overdrive until the very last second doesn't help me in extending the session. I hit 75-80% of the song at every fail.

Game Pages

last updated on August 21, 2008 @ 07:52 am

I've been playing around a little bit with the game pages, trying to condense and reorganize information. They're not final but what I have is now live on the site. Please check it out and let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions.

Referrers, Game Specifics

last updated on August 16, 2008 @ 08:11 am

Few new updates to Sochl hit. When users are not logged in now, they'll have a minimal main navigation so they can at least get "home" when they need.

We've also got a referrer badge now. Refer 10 people to Sochl, and you'll get it! All you have to do is login and on the homepage, you'll see your specific referrer URL. Give that to whoever you want to join and when they do, you'll get credit for it. You'll also be automatically added as friends when they sign up.

Some games have sites associated with them, giving users information based on a certain credential. Recently, mygamercard.net created a new display where you can give your gamertag and it will show your Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 scores. I've added that to the Game Specific Info area for GW2. I'll be adding more games to take advantage of this new functionality. Let me know if you think of any games that could take advantage of this.

Fixed some minor bugs too, as well as move the "templist" tags down below "wishlist" on the blog posts page.

The End.

Braid should have been named Brain

last updated on August 10, 2008 @ 03:56 pm

related game: Braid 

I played the demo for a while, got to one point and basically just said "I can't believe that's how I need to get that puzzle piece." Thanks to the 1000 points I won from GTA4, Braid ended up costing me 200 points, and I can deal with that. What a wacked game. I kind of wish that there wasn't so many blatant Super Mario Brothers ripoffs, but in general, its a great looking game, great sounding game, and has some great puzzles so far.

I don't necessarily agree that its worth the price yet, but its good.

Moar updates!

last updated on August 08, 2008 @ 09:50 am

Along with the Username Colors and Thread Watching abilities added the other day, we've now updated the User Review page to include more information (including the forgotten SCORE /foreheadslap, and game information).

Also, on the suggestion of randomfool I've updated the homepage. When you login to the site, the "welcome to sochl" box will be removed. The news post will moved to the top and truncated, and if you're a member of groups and posting to them, you'll be given a recent posts block (you know, so you can remember what you've been writing about). More updates to that coming.

I've also squashed a couple of bugs here and there, one in the Private Messages section with an incorrect date display... some username's not being displayed properly, and other things you don't need to worry about.

Don't forget to sign up for the contest to win an Xbox360 Gears of War faceplate.

Buy a Lifesized Lancer, Get the Game for Free.

last updated on August 08, 2008 @ 07:30 am

related game: Gears of War 2 

Amazon is selling the lancer, its lifesized and makes chainsaw noises (but doesn't move) for $140. You can upgrade and get the CE version of Gears 2 for $10 more.

While its cool looking, I can't help but think this is a little overboard and way too expensive. The entire Rock Band instrument set was only $180... and those instruments actually did something.

Summer Contest

last updated on August 07, 2008 @ 09:01 am

related game: Braid 

Just a reminder, all you have to do to enter MS's Summer of Arcade contest is download Braid. You've got a chance to win something every week its going on if you just download the titles.

Summer of Arcade