Many hours were spent playing Minecraft during the 1.7+ build, and Gonzo’s (Catwezl in Minecraft) ‘Neo Edo’ was one of the more beautiful creations to come from that time. I made big castles and redstone creations, but he made flowing waterfalls and tall lighthouses. You can have a look at his creation in a video I made and uploaded to youtube. Remember, this can be played in full 1080p HD. Enjoy.

Over the past few years, and thanks to HD TV’s and the like, games have been getting great HD makeovers. Unlike the DVD movies that are ported over to Blu-Ray (simply upscaled and then marketed as HD) these games have normally had a massive amount of work put into them, making them look great on our nice, HD televisions. Some such games that have come out in the last few years have been; Serious Sam 1 & 2, The original Prince of Persia trilogy, God of War 1 & 2 and Monkey Island 1 & 2.

These updates really help to bring in new punters who can experience these gems in an updated fashion, they also help to bring back those of us that are just a little bit nostalgic. This is great for many reasons, not only can it help older games that had less people buy them sell a few more copies and get the recognition they deserve, but they can also help developers see how much interest there is in an old franchise that they could possibly re-boot (buzz word in Hollywood at the moment!!).

One such franchise (I say franchise, it sold in such low numbers that a sequel was never made) was Beyond Good and Evil. This game was originally released on the Xbox, PS2 and PC back in the day. It managed some great scores from the critics (87 out of 100 on metacritic), but much like the recent, Enslaved: Odyssey to the west (82 out of 100 on metacritic), sales were very low. Now, it can have the chance to shine again on Xbox Live and PSN. If it sells well, there could finally be hope for a sequel to this great game. In fact, there has been a rumour that exactly that could be happening, but I’d bet that they are keeping their cards close to their chest and waiting to see how the HD remake performs.

At just 800 Microsoft points (about £10), this is a real steal and I will certainly be picking it up. Let’s just hope it does well and Ubisoft decide to take the plunge will a full fledged sequel. Click HERE to read a review of the HD version of Beyond Good and Evil.

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Hello dudes.

Just wanted to let you know about some changes here on The Muppet Clan website. First off, you will notice that there are a few buttons you can click on each of the pages and posts. These are linked to social networking sites and make the website itself a little more user friendly. You obviously don’t have to use them, but they are there if you do and you can now share stuff from the site on websites like, Facebook, Twitter and Digg amongst others.

The second big update is the Facebook comments section. Now, you don’t need to put your e-mail address in and other such nonsense, if you are logged in with facebook and you link your account to the Muppet Clan then you can post comments. This is a much easier to use system and it also stops the spam that was clogging up the server. There is a check-box to post your comment to facebook at the same time, if you don’t want it to, then simply un-check the box. It’s also gotten around a problem I had faced when making the site where I couldn’t enable comments on all the pages, they were only enabled on individual posts. Now you can comment on any page on the website.

So, have fun and enjoy the social life. By the way, the movie, ‘The Social Network’ is actually really good. Well worth a watch.

Demon.

Some updates dropped yesterday (18th January) for the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead 2. The updates are as follows:

• In Versus mode Tanks will spawn in stasis until a human player takes over. Tanks in stasis are invisible and invulnerable, and won’t move or attack.
• Tank speed is no longer reduced when on fire.
• Allow players on the Infected team to manually spawn during finales.
• Added a vote option to toggle All-Talk.
• Special Infected that causes a Survivor to stumble into a “ledge hang” situation will receive 50 points.
• Bullets that first pass through an infected character before striking a Survivor are now ignored as friendly fire.
• In Versus mode car alarms will now trigger anytime a Special Infected pulls or stumbles a Survivor into an alarm car.
• Survivor Bots no longer try to melee exploding barrels out of their way.
• Fixed the Sacrifizzle achievement.

Nice to see that the bots will be a little less, how should I put it… Dumb! A couple of nice changes in there like the friendly fire detection and car alarm problem, but what is ‘All-Talk’? I don’t think I have used that before!!

This is some really cool news. Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 will be getting some very cool DLC on October the 5th. This time it’s for both versions of the game, but if you get it for Left 4 Dead 2 you get the added bonus of the ‘No Mercy’ campaign and the ability to play as the original survivors in Left 4 Dead 2. No, whether or not you can play as the original 4 in the original Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns will remain to be seen, but I think you will all agree when I say that THIS IS AWESOME! Look below from the official word from the Left 4 Dead Blog.

“The Sacrifice” is the prequel to “The Passing,” and takes place from the Left 4 Dead Survivors’ perspective as they make their way South. You may read the comic to find out the official version of events or this October 5th you may play the game to choose your own ending.

In “The Sacrifice” for Left 4 Dead, gamers receive the complete Sacrifice campaign with maps playable in Campaign, Versus, and Survival. There are 5 new achievements, a new style finale and plenty of places for devastating Hunter pounces.

For Left 4 Dead 2, gamers receive “The Sacrifice” campaign and L4D1’s “No Mercy” both playable with the L4D1 Survivors. This version also offers 5 new achievements. In the L4D2 version of “The Sacrifice” each campaign is playable in Campaign, Versus, Survival, and Scavenge modes, and both “The Sacrifice” and L4D2 version of No Mercy feature the Left 4 Dead 2 Special Infected, items, and weapons. Yes, Zoey with a chainsaw!

“The Sacrifice” will be available as two separate packages on Xbox Live for 560 Microsoft Points each and free to all PC gamers.”

Check out the blog for 3 comics, they are the official story for the sacrifice but you as the player will be able to decide the story for yourself when the DLC releases on the 5th of October. There are 3 parts so far, the 4th comes out at the same time as the DLC… And trust me, they are a great read.