Thuyen Nguyen, tired of the negative representation of video games in the media recently (and I can relate to that feeling), decided to create the below video in response; "a love letter to video games".

I don't know how non-gamers will take to the video but personally, having played the majority of those games, it certainly hits a sweet spot with me!

More information on the video, and a link to a HQ download version, are available on Thuyen's site.

[via Kotaku]

As some of you game fans out there have no doubt seen already (since it's appeared on every gaming blog I've seen this weekend) there has been a new screenshot for Duke Nukem Forever released recently.

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Last weekend I changed the ringtone on my Nokia 6600 to the Metal Gear Solid Codec call sound. Doesn't sound too out of place as a ringtone to people who don't know the game but it certainly gets a reaction from those who do. :)

Here's the MGS Codec Call Ringtone wave file I made if you'd like a copy for yourself. It's GSM encoded, mono, 22kHz. It's had the volume bumped up since it was coming out much too quiet to start with. Also, I've cut the end of it slightly since my phone has a slight pause between playing loops of a wave file. With the cut it plays back on my phone at about the same rhythm/spacing as in-game.

Edit: If my trimmed wave file isn't quite right for your phone, download the uncut, 16-bit PCM encoded, mono, 22KHz version to use and/or edit for yourself! If you're looking for a free tool to edit the wave file with I'd recommend the trial version of GoldWave.

Metal Gear Solid is © Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

I noticed yesterday that the EU CoH servers have an RSS feed for their server status (as well as on the website) but the US servers only have a page on the website, no RSS feed. I thought an RSS feed would be handy so I spent some time yesterday and today writing a PHP script to generate one from the site data already available. :)

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