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Just came across some info about a game to be released in quarter 2. Tunnelers is a futuristic tank shooter that will be available for free online play. However the best part is that it will soon be in beta. Visit http://www.tunnelers.com to sign up.

Get the details after the jump.

This formula is designed to extract asset numbers from monitors (a) and computer numbers (b) after the help desk program dumps summary fields.  First is goes through and looks for the monitors and if it doesn’t find any the error function runs the search for computers.  The trick is that not only numbers are returned but words as well so after you put the formula in you have to do replaceall to change the words to nothing.

=IF(ISERROR(MID(D1,SEARCH(“a?????**”, D1),8)),(MID(D1,SEARCH(“b?????**”, D1),8)),(MID(D1,SEARCH(“a?????**”, D1),8)))

If you were paying attention to my blog today (which you most likely weren’t), you would have noticed that I was having issues trying to put ad space on my sidebar. Just last week I decided that I wanted to switch back to using Adsense. Boy, was that ever a mistake. I was quickly reminded why I had started using ProjectWonderful in the first place. However I had a problem, my ads kept getting pushed off to the right of each sidebar. Nothing seemed to work.

Finally today I figured out a quick and dirty solution.

I was able to get a sneak peak at the Red Faction: Guerrilla demo through a UK based gamertag and a code given to THQ registered members.  Even though I had already beta tested Red Faction: Guerrilla last year, I was eager to play this.  Not only would I be able to see what had changed since I was involved last but I would also grasp how the campaign play was going to be setup.

For those who didn’t get into the beta last year, Red Faction offers an environment where building are fully destructible.  In multi-player this works out well as one game style revolves around this and the ability to restore damaged building.  It is similar to Halo’s territories but instead of standing in a certain area you instead destroy and re-build a building to capture it.  Multi-player was excellent in the beta supporting a full 16 player match.  Weapons and extra abilities are well balanced and the pace of the game is comfortable.

The demo that is coming out soon features only one short campaign with the ability to unlock a harder difficulty once completed.  Alex Mason, part of the Red Faction, sets out to recover a mining vehicle that the EDF, the current ruling faction, has held from the miners.  On easy the AI is easy to beat single handed but once they come out in numbers its best to play strategically.   In all actuality I found myself to be more of a threat than the AI.  I kept smashing through structures that held gases and fuels, and imeaditely found myself dead and restarting the mission.

One noticeable difference from most first person shooters is a reputation system.  When playing through missions, destroying EDF controlled facilities gains a good reputation from the miners for the Red Faction but accidentally killing miners will draw away from that reputation faster than you can earn it.

Once I reached the under guarded mining Walker I quickly boarded it and started the short phase two of the mission; getting the damned thing to the truck.  A brief walk carried me through the EDF controlled facility, through several men, and a bridge or two.  Yeah, that thing is pretty much indestructible so I can’t understand how the EDF wrangled it away from the miners in the first place.

Phase three, aka drive away while defending, was pretty much my favorite.  Here I mounted a back cannon gun on the vehicle hauling the Walker away and defending against all the EDF vehicles that persued us.  Why they chose to drive past all those points I will never know but it was certainly fun none the less.  Once passing a bridge that my friends blew up behind me, with planted charges though my cannon certainly would have done the trick, the campaign and the demo ends.
I certainly cannot wait for more Red Faction: Guerrilla, everything about this game just seems right to me.  Maybe I just like destroying things too much?