When you base your decision to buy a game, in this case Battlefield Bad Company 2, on a question such as this, it’s a sure sign of failure. Pfheww… I was worried there for a minute. Call of Duty could have started a bad trend in FPS gaming on the PC. But alas, Battlefield is better than COD on so many levels.

MyInternetServices.com is having a Battlefield Bad Company 2 contest this month during the Beta release. It started on February 9th and ends the day the beta expires. Each week, they will give a prize to the beta player that accumulates the most dog tags. In game, you receive a dog tag for each knife kill you perform. Each week they will be giving away $250 in prize money.

The beta is out right now. You’re stuck with one game type and one map right now, but it’s a big map and, wait for it, the server browser is included. There are hundreds of servers up right now from all over the world. BFBC2 is, without a doubt, 10x better than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.

There it is, simple math: BFBC2 > MW2. The only part that worries me is the whole rental-agreement for a dedicated server. Hopefully the mod community will come out in full force after the MW2 debacle. I’d like to host my own private server and have it show up on the public list of private servers. If I have to rely on a 3rd party to host my server, I have no doubt that whatever hacks come out for the game will work on my server. At least I’ll be able to kick hackers and insta-ban them, well, one can only hope.

Care package runners are still too fast, and by care package I really mean any of those package grenades that allow you to run as if you’re speed hacking. Model 1887’s still have too much range, although they did make somewhat of an improvement. I still feel cheap using them, so i’ll continue to skip them in favor of the previous shotgun. But the big problem I have is with the various texture and XP hacks. I think their fixes lasted on the order of minutes or hours rather than days.

After seeing the aimbot and wall hacks proliferate throughout the Modern Warfare 2 servers, I decided to find out just how easy is it to get these hacks and what kind of people actually buy these things. Check this guy out, he seems desperate! If his skill at FPS games is anything like his ability to spell and punctuate, maybe I could sell him auto grammar assist, what do you think?

Here’s a good map of the current balance of power in EVE Online. Goonswarm definitely has the largest number of systems under their control, but there are plenty of others out there holding down the fort.

The faster the market turns over, the higher and higher the prices go. Would-be explorers or combat pilots are now finding lucrative employment as miners and transporters, whether it be as a freelancer or for corporations. The boom in mining has caused the going price for mining and transport barges to leap. The effects of war appear to ripple through the entire singularity.

Daemon
Daniel Suarez’s book, “Daemon”, just released December 29th, 2009 is a great read. I picked it up in an airport over the weekend and couldn’t put it down. I’m not an avid recreational reader. I only pick up a work of fiction about every three months or so. Sometimes I …

I normally use the guided missile or Counter UAV with the Harrier and either the Pavelow or Chopper Gunner, but I decided to mix it up one match and selected Harrier, Emergency Airdrop, and Pavelow. The kills needed for these three are 6, 7, and 8. When I got all three in a row, I got a new title. I say challenges because I think it’s a challenge to complete the tasks in order to get all the titles and emblems. And they’re hidden because there’s no instructions on how to unlock all the titles and emblems!