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Check out the trailer for the new house of the dead trailer and tell me what you think as i love the 70’s style and look of the game and the trailer does remind me of old grindhouse movies.

It is very rare to see a video game site that does things in a different way as there are so many on the web that they start to look and feel the same however there are a few that decide to be different and one of those sites happen to be one of my favorite site to visit and that’s the excellent Lolocaust.co.uk.

The reason why this site is different because it doesn’t follow the same paint by numbers crap that most sites do and it gives us a true gamers eye on what is happening in the world of video games and other aspects of life in a informative but funny way.

They have been going on for 6 months and since the first day they started the site has been going from strength to strength and has provided me with some of the best written articles i have ever seen on the Internet.

So why the hell I’m i giving this site a lot of praise well its down to three main reasons, the first being that the chaps over at the Lolocaust are some of the easiest people to speak with them having a great sense of humor, secondly every now and again the site seems to plug Vagusnet so i have to do something in return and give them a little plug, finally though and this is the main reason they have shown me how to write articles in a different way thus spurring me on to keep vagusnet going and doing it in a different way that the old VN was.

So if you haven’t been to visit the Lolocaust (and why the hell not) then get over to this great site and see what I’m talking about.

Oh and while you are there register for the forum and enjoy the new arcade that the guys have put up.

I like to think that i know a lot about videogames but there has always been one section that goes over the top of my head and thats the world of mods.
You see i’m not a PC gamer as it has never interested me so i just stick to consoles for playing my videogames and until the PS3 came out the world of mods never even crossed my mind but as soon as Sony’s black console came out and Unreal Tournament 3 was released then the whole world of mods came to console gamers as well and this is where the scary task of learning about mods came into light for me.

I have a friend who also has UT3 and over the last few months he has been talking about how he is able to play levels from other games and even do modes that are not part of the game and this made me want to get UT3 again as the first time i had the game i did’nt know that these kind of things exsited in console games.

So i’m going to dip my feet into the pool of mods to see what all of the fuss is about and to see if my friend is right that this could be a new step for console first person shooters (FPS).

I will post my findings to tell you how i got on and what i thought about the mods i have used.

To me this is going to be a game to look out for as i’ve followed this from the start and i think it looks fantastic and i can’t wait to play it.

So check out the new trailer and tell me what you think.

I have the new Resident Evil trailer for you that was shown off at Leipzig today and while the game is looking fantastic i just wish they would stop teasing us with trailers of this high standard when the game is’nt even coming out until march next year.

So while you are watching this trailer just keep saying to yourself release this game sooner than next year or stop showing us new stuff and making us scream that we have a long time to wait for the full game.

Trying to come up with a feature that other websites or gaming mags have done can be really hard as most subjects have been done many times before thus leaving me to think do i just copy what other people have written about there fore giving me more content for the site or do i try and think of something different but leaving me with very little for the site.

Well the route i decided to take was a little bit of both and thats why there has’nt been that much on vagusnet lately as i’ve been trying to think about stuff to write about.

I will start to update this site more often with basic news storys and make the feature section a bit more special by writing about things that i want to get off my chest and i think that you might enjoy reading.

If you have any topics you would like me to write about then post a comment and i’ll see what i can do and don’t forget also to enter the competition i have started for you to win a PS3 game.

If you remember a little while back i did a review for Ferrari Challenge on the PS3 and i thought it would be a great game for racing fans, well i have even more good news for you then as i have a competition to give away a copy of the game for the PS3 and to enter cannot be easier.

Just follow the easy steps below and you will never know you might win a copy of the game.

1 - Just send me an Email with the heading Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli competition

2 - Answer the following question What is the make of the Ferrari car you only control in the main mode of the game? (Clue : It starts with an F and it has 3 numbers in it)

3 - Send your details as well with the answer to the question (name and full address)

4 - Do all of the following and sent it to Vagusnet@GMX.com.

The competition closes at 12:00 midday on the 1st September and i will pick a winner straight after and send you an email telling you that you have won.

One more thing this competition is open to people in the UK only and you only have to enter once.

So good luck

Well it seems that people will go to extreme lengths just to get things take for example a man in the UK saying he went missing for two years only for him to be lying and now he is in prison but I’ve never heard anybody staging his own kidnapping for a Wii well guess what one really sad person has done this.

The Chinese man staged his own kidnapping by asking two friends to help him out just because his parents were not going to buy him a Wii however things went wrong for him when he decided to take the ransom money out of his own account just to then be stopped by the police.

So what is the moral of this story well if you want something so badly don’t stage your own kidnapping instead just save up for it and that way you will not be doing something this stupid.

Check out this trailer for the new wolfenstein game and tell me what y6ou think.

Everybody who owns a copy of Burnout Paradise on the Xbox 360 have been really pissed off lately as the Playstation 3 got the Cagney update before them and when Criterion delayed the update not once but twice things started to get a bit out of hand on there forums with gamers wanting there blood in return.
Well now it’s time for 360 owners to breath a sigh of relief as the update is now finally coming out tomorrow and just in case you forgot what is in the update check out the list below and get ready to return to paradise

3 New Freeburn Game Modes:

• Road Rage
Up to 8-player team event. One team must race through a series of Paradise City checkpoints. The other team must stop them.
Cue incredible chases and battling through the city, tons of voice communication as players co-ordinate their efforts.

• Stunt Run (vs)

Pull stunts to score points - hit barriers, billboards and ramps; ace barrel rolls, flat spins and massive airtime to score big. Everybody competes to simultaneously reach the biggest total. Hit your rivals to kill their scores and gain multipliers.

• Marked Man

A player is selected at random and everyone gangs up to take them down. The Marked Man scores for reaching the end point intact and taking anyone down along the way.

70 New Freeburn Challenges
• 70 new timed multi-part Freeburn Challenges
• Leaderboards for these challenges that log your best time (as well as those people who did it with you)

Vehicles
• Hunter Olympus
• A secret Criterion Car!

New liveries
• Rossolini Tempesta Dream
• Two fan-created liveries – the Oval Steel Racer and Inferno Hippie Van
• Two secret Criterion liveries!

Ranked Race Changes
• Too much to report in this blog entry but click here for the full breakdown!

Custom Soundtracks
• Custom Soundtrack support on PS3

Other high-priority fixes and updates

• If you’re in a 3 or more player challenge and a player drops out, the remaining players can still complete it (subject to it being a challenge that can handle this!)
• “Previously” section on the search games list now displays Challenges, Today’s Best and Freeburn game modes, making it loads easier to decide which game you want to join
• You can now view Leaderboards and Options in an online game
• You can now mute other online players in the show players screen
• You can now mute yourself if you have a PS3 Eye/Eye toy
• We’ve increased time-out for online races, and if all players complete the races within the timer, then you go straight to results
• The Airfield has been changed to help with the drivability of the area and make it a little easier to complete the hoop challenges
• Online cars now show damage - roll up to the start in a half-destroyed Hunter Cavalry and everyone else will see it!
• Added a stronger display message if you rule all of Todays Best
• The Easy Drive menu & Challenges page now loops from top to bottom
• Fixed the navigation system so that it takes into account the next check point in a race
• Fixed traffic not reappearing in Freeburn after a no-traffic race
• Fixed online races using Lawrence Road - it’s been reporting finish distances with a little inaccuracy
• Revised 30+ car resets following crashes
• All new sound effects added for Easy Drive
• Driving backwards in Road Rage now ends the event as it does in Marked Man
• Option to invert camera axis for the look around camera on right stick
• Online player information made accurate on the instance a player goes through a checkpoint in races
• If you set VOIP mix to zero it is now saved correctly
• 1080i support for “almost HD” sets - PS3 only
• Improved the Standard Definition rendering on PS3
• New highlight to show the player in Today’s Best
• Easy Drive fades out if it’s unused for 20 seconds
• Boost chaining no longer possible by drifting in open areas