Category: The Exiled Gamers


L4D2 demo

For those of you who didn’t pre-order L4D2 (the idiots that you are), check out

these screenshots that I posted over at TEG.

It’s now obvious as to why it was banned and then dumbed down for the Aussies. L4D2 is a lot more violent and gorey when it comes to killing zombies. Check out the screenshots and see for yourself.

1337 posts on TEG

I’m the first member at The Exiled Gamers to reach 1337 posts, because all their base are belong to me (as they say). ;)

Cba with news on this blog anymore

Subject speaks for itself. Too much hassle, just use TEG for my news updates. You’ll find them in the Gaming News forum.

Changes at TEG + 11/8/09

The Exiled Gamers is looking better than ever. We’ve ditched the Word Press homepage and are using the Invision Power Boards’ portal feature instead, each forum now has it’s own picture and donations are now being taken towards us owning the site’s IPB license.

And since we’ve ditched the Word Press homepage, I’ll be posting news on here again. Luckily nothing really that important happened between the 7th and the 10th. :)

Legendary PC developer John Carmack thinks that Sony will be the first to release a new console whenever the next “next-generation” rolls around.

If they do, then they’ll have a head start on the competition. Just like Microsoft did when they released the 360 a year before the PS3 and Wii, the bastards…

Warner Bros. has big ambitions for Mortal Kombat 9, which they say is going to have features that will do no less than “revolutionize online play.

I thought Mortal Kombat was dead? It should be after so many games over the years.

A 29-year-old man in Japan has been arrested after burning his house to the ground following a fight with his mother over models from the Gundam anime/manga franchise.

Cry baby.

Swedish developer Grin, the company behind games like Bionic Commando and Terminator Salvation, has reportedly laid off “significant” numbers of employees and may be facing closure.

I honestly couldn’t care less, Grin are an awful company. I can’t think of a single good game that they’ve made.

A Japanese psychiatrist has written an essay that claims that while modern portable devices like the iPod and handheld game platforms might offer endless digital connections, they starve us for real human contact.

Don’t psychiatrists have anything better to do? Like, treating patients?

Risen, the upcoming RPG from Gothic developer Piranha Bytes, has been refused classification in Australia and thus will not be available for sale in the country.

As you know, I’m not an RPG fan. I just put this up here cos it seems to be at the top of the news list today.

Think the Wii Balance Board was silly? Nintendo’s patented Wii Horseback Riding Saddle gives it a run for its money.

Oh Christ…

Recently, Just Cause was reported to be getting its own movie – Variety says Adrian Askarieh (The producer behind the Hitman movie) has secured the film license for Avalanche Software’s free-roaming, adrenaline-filled action adventure.

Lets hope it’s not as bad as Hitman. ;)

That’s right, me! So right now I don’t really see any need for me to post gaming news on this blog anymore as it’s going to be on The Exiled Gamers‘ homepage from now on. Just highlight the Games tab and click Gaming News.

Blog now linked to TEG

This blog can now be found on The Exiled Gamers forums in the blogs section. Special thanks to the site admin ShootMe.

EDIT: We’re currently having problems with the blogs over at TEG, hopefully they’ll be fixed soon.

Dragonball: Evolution (movie)

I posted this at The Exiled Gamers forums and thought I’d put it up here as well.

Does anyone else agree that that film is awful? To me it fails on almost every aspect.

- It’s modernised/westernised, what happened to the old Japanese feel to the show? And Goku never went to high school, he’s a Saiyan. His goal is not to learn Home Economics, he’s a warrior for Christ’s sake!

- The cast – Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow*, James Marsters, what the hell were they thinking? Chatwin is a terrible actor and is 26 years of age whereas Goku was meant to be 18 in the film, Chow is Chinese (Master Roshi wasn’t) and Marsters; I’ve got nothing against him but, he looked NOTHING like Piccolo. The makeup artists/special effects team or whatever must have been on crack when they made that ghastly rendering of the almighty Namek. Before the film came out I remember saying, “The only reason I’d go see this film is Emmy Rossum.” Now I’m just taking a wild stab in the dark here but, I’m thinking that eye candy isn’t the kind of reason James Wong (the director) was looking for.

- The film was obviously rushed, the story was all over the place leaving no time for viewers to relate to the characters. The only actor that was relatively similar to their cartoon counter-part was Yamcha.

- Dragonball, Dragonball Z & Dragonball GT (GT was abysmal, by the way) were about fast-paced and sometimes ultra-unrealistic fight sequences with over-the-top ki blasts. Where were they in Evolution? Practically non-existent, that’s where. Wow, I use a lot of hyphens don’t I?

– Where’s Krillin?

* “Yun-Fat Chow” is in fact his actual name, not “Chow Yun-Fat” as people would have you believe.

Hello the Internet.

Welcome to my blog, I’m THGhost and I’m a gamer. I mainly play on PS3 but I enjoy the odd PC game every now and then. My PSN ID is THGhost_2008.

I’m probably most known for moderating comments, posting news and posting files on the Half-Life 2 site at FileFront – Half-Life 2 Files.

I’m currently situated around The Exiled Gamers, a site that was set up when FileFront was supposedly closing due to the credit crunch. It didn’t, but we decided to keep going anyway =)

I’d like to give thanks to Shadowfire67 for helping me choose the name for this blog.

So that’s me, I’ll be using this blog to share news stories in the gaming community; share my opinions on them, share little rants that I sometimes have about certain topics and of course post random shit for you all to enjoy. But it’ll have to wait until tomorrow, because I’m knackered. :P

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