Blackhats Clan

The Black Hats’ online gaming community is dedicated to providing a mature and friendly experience for everyone who visits our servers or website. Our members currently participate in multiple types of online games, including FPS, MMORPGs, racing simulators and sports games.

About _-=BH=-_ Originally started 2002 as a gaming clan it was later decided that winning at all costs and recruiting based solely on ability was not the way to have a successful and long lasting organization. Skill level is still something that is looked at but the main requirement to be invited into the BH community was changed and is now based on maturity level. Here, all members have a voice and can make productive recommendations on how to improve the community as a whole. We do not care what sex or race you are. Our goal is to provide escape from lifes' drama with gaming, comedy and camaraderie. The Blackhats have been together for so many years because we understand that although specific games come and go... clans are about people and friendships. We will always strive to be the “ONE CLAN TO RULE THEM ALL”.

History behind the name The Black Hat Brigade was a division in the Mid-West during the American Civil War. They were called this due to the large black Hardee Hats that they wore into battle. They would be later called the Iron Brigade because they "stood like Iron" in the face of withering enemy fire.

Following the announcement of From Software's fantasy role-playing game Dark Souls for Windows, Namco Bandai revealed some additional details. Previously it was known the PC version, called the Prepare to Die Edition, would include new armor sets, bosses and explorable areas. In an interview with GameSpy, From Software recommended a gamepad to play the PC version and said there won't be much difference visually between the console version and the upcoming PC version.

Along with the Prepare to Die Edition's announcement was the reveal that it would be integrated with Games for Windows Live. According to Namco Bandai's Carlson Choi, that's apparently not a definite thing. Dark Souls was announced for PC in part because of a popular online petition signed by nearly 100,000 fans, and another petition popped up shortly after the announcement requesting GFWL be removed. "Discussion is still going on with the From Software team," Choi told Gamespy when pressed, indicating GFWL may wind up being removed.

Choi mentioned that more may be revealed about the Prepare to Die Edition at E3 2012, which takes place in early June 2012.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook was spotted at gaming giant Valve’s headquarters in Washington State late last week, an event that has sparked much speculation and claims from unnamed sources. The former include the idea that Apple is interested in buying Valve, while the latter includes the claim that Apple is working with Valve to reinvent living room gaming.

Valve is a large game publisher with titles like Half-Life, Portal, Counter Strike, and Team Fortress in its portfolio. The company also developed the Steam gaming platform that offers an App Store-like way of buying, managing, and playing a variety of games for Mac and Windows.

So, when Tim Cook is reported to be visiting Valve’s HQ, all manner of flags get raised. Apple has a hit and miss history with gaming that’s really mostly miss. Valve cofounder Gabe Newell himself once lamented that nobody at Apple got gaming, for instance.

The release of the App Store for iPhone changed that, at least to some degree. Games are quite popular for both iPhone and iPad, and in recent years Apple has actually bragged that iPhone and iPod touch was the most popular handheld gaming platform on the planet.

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Status Updates are weekly posts made in the community forum where the team share insights into the development of theHunter.

We continue ironing out the last issues and putting on the extra polish of the new Hirschfelden environment, the Roe Deer and the Wild Boar. We plan to release the game update 12th of April. At the same time we will also make the switch to our new data center with more and better servers.

There will be some downtime the 12th when we do the switch. Exactly how long also depends on your ISP (caching of DNS), but expect about 2-3 hours.

Screenshots

Here are some more screenshots of what is coming...

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The PC Battlefield 3 update is now live. It includes a smattering of fixes, tweaks, and additions. Read on for the full details.

Today, we rolled out the big Spring game update for Battlefield 3 on PC! The focus of this massive package is to make the game more stable, fairer, and more balanced. You can find a comprehensive change list in this earlier post. The ~1.6GB update is available now. Below are some of the highlights.

New and improved commo rose

This update sees a number of improvements to the commo rose on PC, partially based on feedback from the community. Some of the tweaks we have made are detailed below:

New global call-outs
We have added a number of new commo rose call-outs that you can make to the entire team whenever you want. Where you previously had to look at a Support player to get the option to request ammo, you can now use the commo rose at any time to request ammo, health, or repairs. Using these requests will trigger appropriate icons on the minimap.

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No matter how much hype surrounds a game at initial launch and no matter who the maker is, even great games inevitably become stale and tiresome. Luckily, series that are backed by huge modding communities -- like the Elder Scrolls games or the Baldur's Gate community -- possess the astounding ability to imbue a fading game with invigorating content, potentially bringing a dying breed back to life.

This total Skyrim Overhaul includes the best Skyrim graphics mods, content mods, and mechanics changes to date. We'll briefly cover some of the worst Skyrim crashes and how to fix them, as well.

As with Oblivion and Morrowind before it, Skyrim's community sprung to life at the drop of the official modding kit, and although our previous graphics mod article was entirely comprised of core hacks, the ones below have had time to mature and grow on the fully-functional toolkit. Total conversion mods haven't yet begun to flourish, but we can combine multiple mods to achieve something close.

Let's dive into the graphics, content, and mechanical/functional mods that you should consider!