Lately, Jake and I have been uber busy, not having as much time to post. Therefore, we are going to need some people to help write for us. If you’re interested in such a position, please leave a comment or email us at webmaster@chenzen.org Guest writers are even good too!
Latest News
Diablo III coming to consoles?
The community manager at Blizzard Entertainment tweeted via twitter that Diablo III for the consoles was in the works.
Sven-Coop 4.6 Released
The well-known Co-Op mod for Half-Life has recently just had another major update. For those who don’t know, this is a coop mod that allows you to play through the Half-Life 1 campaign as well hundreds of varied custom maps (with their own style and objectives) with your friends. On top of that Sven-Coop adds numerous weapons, game-play enhancements, and engine improvements to spice things up.
Battlefield 3 Stutter Fix
On some system configurations, Battlefield 3 exhibits extreme stuttering issues as well as random video artifacts rendering the game unplayable. This problem frequently happens on Geforce GTX 560 TI cards however other video cards can experience it too. There is currently a workaround, until DICE and Nvidia can debug the problem and fix it.
Mojang wins Interim Injunction in Bethesda Lawsuit
As some of you have known, Bethesda had sued Mojang over use of the “Scrolls” name in their upcoming game. Betehsda believed that Scrolls would cause confusion with Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. Notch just tweeted a few hours ago that they had won the interim injunction which means they can still use the “Scrolls” name meanwhile [...]
Revival for reals?
Yeah, this blog has been dead for a while, I know that. Not to sound like broken record but real-life does take away a lot of free time and that unfortunately is one of the main reasons why this blog had died down. Also, motivations change and other problems arise we couldn’t take care of, [...]
Game Server IP Address Changed.
Due to an issue with our ISP, our IP address has changed. 96.242.154.6:27015 – CS:S 96.242.154.6:27017 – Obsidian Please update accordingly! Thank you We will find a solution for this in case this happens again! We have a dyndns address now too, so no matter what you can use this address if you want to [...]
High-Res Satellite Images of Haiti from Space
Found satellite images of Haiti after the earthquake through Gizmodo. Even with all the technology we have, there is still a lot of work to do. Even with various forms of powers of prediction, we still can’t prevent much.
Google Phone – The Nexus One
THIS PHONE IS REAL. So I’ve been following Gizmodo’s Liveblog of the android press event right now and they’ve finally gotten to the details I desperately wanted to hear about. The phone ships TODAY.
New Years…
So we haven’t done much recently. At all. We’ll try to get back to writing posts about the exciting things that are going to happen in 2010. As a final note, I would like to mention that the way you should say “2010” is “twenty-ten.” That is all. Thanks – hope everyone has a good [...]
Super Smash Bros. on Wii
I’m sure you all already heard, but Super Smash Bros. 64 has been released for the Wii. You can download it for 1000 Wii points, which is equivalent to about 10 bucks.
Revival! – With Pictures!
So it’s certainly been a while! Over 6 weeks really. Wow – I’m a jerk for starting something and not seeing it through. Well – that ends now. School is over and I have absolutely no excuse to not update Chenzen again like I did in the past.
A State Of Trance Episode 434
Tracklisting: 01. Black Pearl – Rise [Magic Island] 02. Marcus Schossow & Reeves feat. Emma Hewitt – Light (Mike Shiver’s Garden State Remix) [Tone Diary] 03. Trilucid – Departures (Skytech Remix) [Infra Progressive] 04. TyDi – Good Dream (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix) [Armada] 05. Cressida – Two-O-Ten [Euphonic] 06. Push – Global Age [Club Elite] [...]
A State Of Trance Episode 433
Tracklisting 01. Tocadisco feat. Nadia Ali – Better Run (Wippenberg Remix) w/ Kay D Smith & Marc Tall – Hoipolloi (Wippenberg Remix) 02. Eide feat. Cat Martin – Give It Up [Magic Island] 03. Mark Pledger feat. Melinda Gareh – Time Stands Still (Andy Duguid Remix) [Solaris] 04. Paul Keeley – Cloud 9 [Anjunadeep] 05. [...]
A State Of Trance Episode 432
Tracklisting: 01. Reeves – Call Of Loneliness (Andy Duguid Club Mix) [Anjunabeats] 02. Filo & Peri feat. Eric Lumiere – Soul & The Sun (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) [Vandit] 03. ID 04. Shogun – Connected [S107] 05. Marcus Schossow & Reeves feat. Emma Hewitt – Light (Lost Stories Remix) [Tone Diary] 06. Midway – What If [...]
A State Of Trance Episode 431
Tracklisting 01. Snow Patrol – Just Say Yes (Riley & Durrant Remix 02. Julian Vincent feat. Cathy Burton – Here For Me (Mark Otten Re-Dub) S107 03. Chantola – More Senses (Basil O’Glue Remix) Oxygene 04. Venaccio – Twilight In Trance We Trust 05. Sunset – Beautiful Life (Dmitry Bessonov Remix) Harmonic Breeze 06. Ashley [...]
A State Of Trance Episode 430
Vote for your top 5 tracks of 2009 at www.arminvanbuuren.net! This week has new tracks by Imogen Heap, Filo & Peri, Corderoy, Cerf Mitiska & Jaren and more!
Introducing the World of Warcraft Pet Store
Today we’re pleased to introduce the Pet Store for World of Warcraft, a new way for players to obtain in-game pets to join them on their adventures in Azeroth… So apparently on Wednesday of this week, WoW opened up their new online Pet Store for official business. Players can now buy in-game pets online through [...]
A State Of Trance Episode 429
New tracks by Jochen Miller, Jorn van Deynhoven, Marco V and much more. Year Mix voting has begun for 2009, so think about your top 5 tunes.
Tekken 6 Takes On Lag
Having a horrible online experience with Tekken 6? Namco Bandai are promising a patch to improve the online game experience. I have not personally picked up a copy yet, but for those who have let us know how it is for you?
Modern Warfare 2 PC Multiplayer Capped At 9v9
You know that whole debacle about MW2 not having dedicated servers? It just got even worse, with Infinity Ward confirming that there is a 18-player cap on the PC version online, which is is the same cap imposed on the console versions.
Doom now on iPhone
Doom Classic is finally now on the App Store, available for iPhone and iPod Touch. Priced at a reasonable $6.99, the game boasts the following additions and improvements.
L4D2 Pre-Order Bonus and Demo Live!
Two Valve universes collide, when you pre-order Left 4 Dead 2, which nets you a exclusive hat in Team Fortress 2. If that isn’t enough, the 10% off the price might be an incentive. L4D2 will be available November 17th. In addition, the L4D2 demo is live! In case you’re on the fence of buying [...]
Prince Of Persia Movie Adaptation Trailer Looking Good!
A trailer for the Prince of Persia movie adaptation has been released. My initial impressions are quite positive. So far, it looks like they have nailed the setting and feel of the game, as well as having a decent storyline set out. However, trailers can be quite misleading. It will be interesting to see how [...]
DROIDDOES
So I’ve been seeing a lot of commercials for Verizon’s DROIDDOES recently. Taking a look at it, it looks like the rumors of the Motorola Sholes going to Verizon were very true.
A State Of Trance Episode 428
Armin wins #1 DJ from DJ mag top 100 DJs. This episode includes an hour from Ibiza. Tracklisting 1st hour – regular episode “the newest tunes selected 01. Armin van Buuren feat. VanVelzen – Broken Tonight (Intro Mix) Armind 02. Calvin Harris – Flashback (Eric Prydz Remix) Fly Eye 03. Matt Darey pres. Urban Astronauts [...]
A State Of Trance Episode 427
New week, new ASOT. From what I gathered from Twitter, seemed to be a good episode. Let us know in the comments. Also, next week is the DJ Mag Poll results!
Windows 7 Launch!
I’m sure everyone already knows about, but the event is so big that I’m going to post it here anyway. Windows 7 has finally officially been released today for the general public! That means anyone can now purchase Windows 7 and begin using the glorified savior of the MS operating systems.
Borderlands launching at midnight at 1,300 GameStops
Want to get Borderlands a little early and stay up a little late? …Basically, you now have only one excuse for not getting Borderlands tonight if you’re into the game and you’re in the US, and that is not wanting to go to GameStop and stand in line at midnight. Which is actually pretty reasonable.
A State Of Trance Episode 426
Armin plays us some new tracks by Arnej, Wippenberg, Sophie Sugar, First State, Ronski Speed and Daniel Kandi. Download and tracklist after the break.
Latest iPhones Block Jailbreaking Exploit
Apple are now attempting to halt jailbreaking for the time being. Latest 3GS models are now loaded with a new booting firmware update, iBoot-359.3.2 which fixes the popular 24kpwn exploit. Another exploit will have to be found in order to jailbreak future iPhones, but fear not there will always be a way around this.
WoW requiring Battle.net Account Starting Nov. 11
Starting November 11th, all WoW players will be required to login using Battle.net accounts. Makes sense as Blizzard is really trying to push the Battle.net 2.0 platform, finally getting rid of redundancy and consolidating everything into one account.
Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Closing Down
It seems that the leaders of the L4D2 Boycott (Agent Chaos and Walking_Target) have decided that the goal of the group was accomplished and that the group no longer serves a purpose.
Killing Floor Free DLC and Free Weekend Plans
Tripwire Interactive has announced they are planning for a Killing Floor free weekend as well as a free DLC pack. The free weekend is expected to kick off October 22nd along with the free DLC pack. So guys suit up and grab a bunch of your friends for some Co-Op survival horror!
Google ChromeOS Preview
So omg!ubuntu! has decided to give us a small peek on the current ChromeOS build from google. A few things about ChromeOS that you may like to note are that it is debian-based and will be an OS that seamlessly stitches together the web-browser and OS.
Google Voice Viral
So, as many of you know, Google Voice is currently invite only. Until just recently, the invites had to be requested through Google Voice itself. Well, if you have a friend who has an account and you were too lazy to sign up and wait for yours, it might not be long before you can [...]
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