Games

"Liberty City Police Face Allegations Of Incompetence, Brutality". This is funniest Onion piece in years....

And don't miss the opening sequence of Naked Gun recreated in GTA IV!

I was delighted to discover, on Digg.com the other day, what is surely the strangest grammatically correct sentence in the English language: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo!!! It was invented in 1972. Ah those cunning linguists!

It took me a few minutes to figure out. Obviously, the word buffalo is used as a proper noun (the city in upstate New York), as a noun (bison), and a very ("to bully"). What threw me is that the middle of it is an inner clause; I'm not used to reading (or forming) clauses like that without punctuation or joining words. If you get the intonation right, it makes sense.

So it can be best understood as: Buffalo bison [whom] Buffalo bison bully[,] bully Buffalo bison. Or, in a shorter (only singly reflexive version): Buffalo bison bully Buffalo bison (Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo)!

The videos from the upcoming Enemy Territory: Quake Wars look insane. Like GoW or SOCOM, it's a multiplayer-online war game, only set in the future of Quake. New software technology from Id and 3D programming guru John Carmack allows for incredibly large non-repeating (untiled) game levels. Called MegaTexture, it's a gigapixel of data representing the level compressed such that only 8MB or so is needed in the video card at any time.

Below is a low-res clip composed of entirely of in-game action.

More clips can be downloaded from the ET:QW site, which are well worth watching even if you are not a gamer, to see what the state of the art is.