Games! Games! Games!

Anyway, I’ve got work that needs to be done on my web site. I’m currently talking about the Playstation 3 and the XBox 360, two consoles which I’m greatly looking forward to spending my hard earned cash on. Gran Tourismo all the way.

Anyway, i have yet to play it. I havent felt like it. I was supposed to print out some game cheats when i was at school…i forgot. No, i don’t have a printer. It’s not really a big deal…i’ll just copy the shit down by hand. I do wish i had a printer though. That would be wish #3 if i had 3 wishes. What the first 2 wishes would be…i’m not sure. I have an idea, though.

Typical observances of this holiday are to present gifts to your Sysadmin. These gifts include chocolate, beer, wine, electronic toys, video games, and cake & ice cream.

We all know that the Xbox 360 is going to be a go-between for digital content. You will be able to use it as a Media Center Extender, even for high definition content. In fact, this console will most likely be the reason that I purchase a Media Center PC. The following quote, albeit by a Microsoft representative, puts it all into perspective:

Gamers Reports got thier hands on pics from a Spanish presentation of the Xbox 360. One of them included a design for an Xbox controller with a Qwerty keyboard controller attached! Here’s a translation for the image:

The official homepage for the SHUFFLE! anime adaptation was just recently updated with new information about the upcoming PlayStation 2 version of the original game. The most exciting piece of news is that we’re going to be seeing a DX edition of the game, packed full of extra goodies to keep us happy.

I think Tommy Tallarico may be a biased critic. As a video game music composer and the host of Judgement Day (a half hour weekly show on G4 TV that rates video games), his dual rolls seem to have conflicted. He composed the music and sound effects for the new Advent Rising game, and then gave it a great rating on his show (8.0 out of 10). Advent Rising is a game that offers nothing new to the first person shooter genre, but actually uses seemingly dated graphics and awkward game play. But that isn’t just my opinion. X-Play, another show on G4 TV that rates video games, gave Advent Rising a 2 out of 5.

I have a ps2 and some games that I like a lot for it are the duo of Baldur's Gate games. They are wicked, solo or as a team. Finished both of them and I am looking forward to a new one (hopefully before the ps3 comes out!). I also have a compilation of old school arcade classics that is pretty fun when you're in the mood. And the Mark of Kri was one of my first, and probably my favorite.

If you’re itching to play there is an online version (warning: noisy flash animation) at the manufacturer’s website, which reports that “the game debuted to the world at Studio 54 in a launch party attended by a number of ’70s celebrities who played SIMON game while dancing to the beat of disco and the flashing of SIMON lights.” Drugs and video games, mmmm.

This past saturday we went to a party at matt and amandas house. it was a lot of fun even tho i wasnt drinking. even when youre not drinking you can always make fun of the drunk ones. we were there for like 7 hours. they did karaoke and matt gave us performance of Godmack’s VooDoo for us (by request from rene and me). matt has this video arcade stand thingy that he built and it has like a billion old arcade games on it, including dark stalkers!! i used to love that game when i was a kid. i didnt know how to play it tho so i just mashed the buttons a bunch and hoped for the best.

However, Rockstar Games’ argument has been undermined by an increasing number of reports that claimed the sex minigame is in the PlayStation 2 version of San Andreas. Since the PS2 version comes on an unmoddable DVD, it cannot have any content added to it, although cheat codes–created either by the publisher or third parties–can unlock preexisting code on the disc. While devices such as GameShark and Action Replay Max can tweak preexisting variables in system memory with cheats, they cannot inject new models, animations, and/or code into a game.

That’s a pretty nifty little dock.

For those who do not know anything about Homebrew on the PSP here is a quick crash course. Homebrew is the given term to applications, emulators, and games that can be run on the PSP that were not developed by “professional” developers or authorized by Sony. The name Homebrew is accurate because many of the programs were written at home or without the backing of a developer.

The making of Super Mario Brothers 3. Undoubtedly one of the best games ever made.

It was fun playing those games and intensified my urge for a Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. They should be pretty nice and run way more games than my Windows-less Celeron 1700 or Mac Mini. I still have two Xboxes at home and played some Burnout 3 whenever I had time. I guess the first phase of enthusiasm will wear of the next few days and I can focus on other things (I even managed to fix three FreeBSD ports while that damn beast was loading stuff).

When I got home I tore into the package and found a huge stash of goodies. When Drew said he was sending a care package I expected some books, probably a ton of beta CDs, etc. This was so much more. There was a plethora of Xbox games, computer games, and other software! And not the crappy stuff, I am talking about full copies of Office, Visual Studio Enterprise Architect, Flight Simulator, Halo 2, and much more.

When deciding which of these two game consoles is best for you, you should certainly take into consideration what types of games each offers, and which games you are most interested in playing. PS2, having been around a little while longer, tends to have the larger game library, but Xbox is not terribly far behind. In addition, Xbox tends to produce games geared more towards adults than children. The graphics seen on the new Xbox games are also clearly a step ahead of PS2 graphics. There is, however, nearly a PS2 game for everyone, and there are lot of PS2 games geared towards teenagers. If you are looking for games for kids, the Nintendo Gamecube may actually be a better choice than either of these two - and it’s cheaper.

Everything went great until near the evening my brother told my mother about he himself wanting to buy a new PlayStation Portable (PSP). My mother threw a big “NO YOU CAN’T BUY IT” right into his face and he started to go really insane.

Naturally, this lead on to deeper exploration of the genre, and eventually to the discovery of a whole new (relatively underground) scene I never knew existed. People making music using retro consoles like the Commodore 64 and Gameboys (not strictly a console, I know). I know what you're thinking. I thought exactly the same. "How can you produce anything of note using a C64?". But you'd be surprised - some of the music produced is fairly advanced, and some of the techniques used are, well, fairly advanced.

THQ Inc. today announced an agreement with critically acclaimed development studio Team17 Software Ltd. to publish Worms on the PSP portable entertainment system and Nintendo DS.

Microsoft and Marvel struck a deal so that Microsoft can now develop games featuring Marvel’s plethora of 5,000+ characters in XBox Games. I’m hoping that Microsoft develops a game that’s just as fast-paced as Marvel Vs. Capcom II, but featuring more characters and better graphics. That’d be awesome.

Aren’t we all at one time or another curious about death? Its the ending of our consciousness, the end of all relationships with everyone on this world. Imagine no more playstation 2, no more laksa and no more senseless blogging! How perturbing this issue is!

Da qualche giorno su internet circola la notizia che il processore Cell (ovvero quello che verrà messo nelle PlayStation 3) è supportato anche dal kernel Linux, maggiori informazioni si trovano su questo articolo. Visto che la PlayStation 3 supporterà un HD da 2.5′’ (come quelli dei notebook) è teoricamente possibile installarci anche un sistema operativo basato sul kernel Linux. Il resto lo lascio alla vostra immaginazione!

In conclusion, I enjoyed the game enough to have played a couple of matches, some 5 minutes per match-half, others much longer. I give it 8 out of 10, it losing points mostly for the irritating player-switching-choices. Not a game for non-sport lovers, definitely a game for rugby lovers. For the casual gamer that wants to have something more serious than Mario Party 4 on the GameCube and something less bloody than Soul Caliber 2 to play, then this might be something to own, if only for the short bursts of enjoyment one can get out of it, and less so for the long-term enjoyment.

Electronic Arts today announced that its Need for Speed Most Wanted Blacklist gets under way this Saturday in Houston, Texas. The game is part of a promotion for EA’s Need for Speed Most Wanted game, which makes its debut on the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox on November 1. Xbox 360, PSP, DS, PC, and Game Boy Advance versions are also in the works.

My friend had to sign a Nintendo NDA to be able to see this and I’m glad he had his camera phone with him or no one would believe it to be real! I can only imagine the awesome games this will make possible!

Nintendo have confirmed to Echoplayer the rumour that has been circulating the net for a while now. Nintendo do indeed plan to release a wifi adapter that’ll plug into the usb 2.0 port in your PC and allow free wifi gaming from your home. Thanks to Nintendo of America for confirming this for me.

Good information here on how to burn copy-protected games, CDs and DVDs. Because, I mean, you are cool and you totally deserve free games.

So here’s an interesting situation. The developers, Rockstar North, put these scenes into the code of the game, but then they decided not to use them. The code is sitting hidden away, and completely inaccessible to anyone playing it normally. However, a chap has programmed a mod that allows access to the unused scenes.

The battery for Playstation Portable (PSP) is 1800mAh. And it lasts for about 4 hours. This article taught you how to use 4 rechargeable batteries to boost the battery life.

Ridge Racer doesn’t disappoint. I bought a Gameboy Advance just after their US release a few years back (I happened to be in the States at the time), and there was nothing amongst the launch titles for the GBA that had the same impact as Ridge Racer on the PSP. The presentation is, for the first time on a handheld gaming device, on a par with the presentation in games for the “big” consoles of this generation. The cute little loader game gives way to an excellent title sequence, immediately making clear that this little black box packs a big punch.

According to the latest issue of Japanese magazine Toyo Keizai, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities has recently calculated an analysis that the production of a single PlayStation 3 console will cost Sony approximately 54,000 yen to make ($494), as of its initial release in 2006. We haven’t even seen a Blu-ray drive yet.

Yeah, you know you be kickin’ out the jams now with that PSP. Noah Vawter and Nathan Wray have whipped up PSPKick, a sample-based drum machine for the Playstation Portable. We’re quite sure this is exactly what Sony had in mind all along, eh Ken? [Thanks to everyone who sent this one in] Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments © 2005 Weblogs, Inc. Ads by Google

Call me old, but I really miss the video games of those days. I know the video game industry is still going strong, and the quality of the graphics are phenomenal, but where the whole reality video game concept breaks down for me is in the controls. Take ole Robotron for example. Two joysticks. One to move your guy away from the swarming robot armies, and one to direct your gunfire. Because you could shoot and move in different directions you had to ‘decouple’ your left hand movements from your right. Wickedly hard and wickedly fun. Now look at modern PS2 or Xbox controls. 6+ buttons, 2+ triggers, an 8-way direction pad, and an analog joystick. To get your quarterback to throw a long pass from the shotgun in a modern, super-realistic NFL video game you’ve got to do a “left - up - fire - fire - button1 - button6 - down - down - button4 & button3 combo - wink - wink - snort - right - up” control sequence, all in 10ms.

PSP News Swedish developer DICE has revealed that a version of Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is in progress for the PlayStation Portable at EA’s UK Studio, while work has commenced on a brand new FPS title at the firm’s Canadian offices.

According to Gamespot, Sega may be partnering with Secret Level, developer of the Xbox version of Karaoke Revolution, to develop a next-gen Sonic the Hedgehog game for the Xbox and PS3. While it’s nice to see that there are still new games being developed featuring everyone’s favorite blue hedgehog (well he’s the only one, but still…), it’s also sort of disappointing, at least in my view, to not see the words “Nintendo Revolution” anywhere in that article. The article is just a rumor, but perhaps Sega, or at least Sonic Team has abandoned Nintendo’s home consoles. Sonic had two Gamecube-exclusive titles this generation, however, and again this article is not entirely confirmed. Also, stating support for PS3 and Xbox 360 does not necasarily take the Revolution out of the picture either. We’ll just have to wait and see. At any rate, at least we have Sonic Rush… right?

Deadsy is a band I had never heard of until I bought a playstation 2 and played the freebie game that came with it, Offroad Fury 2. A song by Deadsy titled Gramercy Park was part of the game’s soundtrack and after hearing it over and over I had to find out who they were. Fortunately, the The Edmonton Public Library has a copy of the CD Commencement, on which Gramercy Park was released.

Thursday night a few of us from work went to happy hour at Chili's. Usually when we go out it is a sausage fest, but somehow I managed to get some females to accompany us for the evening. Hell must have froze over. After shooting the bull for a few hours, the trio of Pat, James, and I decided to go out. We went to Hard Times Cafe, our old stomping grounds for pool. We stayed there forever, Pat got some digits which was very impressive, and then headed back home for an all out Mario Kart war on the Nintendo 64. I ran my mouth and talked so much trash which resulted in a wedgie that ripped my boxer briefs. Thanks Pat!

The new Midnight Club game is now rolling on onto Sony’s new handheld console. The game was previously released back in April on the Xbox and PlayStation 2, which was created by lead developers, Rockstar San Diego. Rockstar Leeds got behind the wheel of the PSP version, which is only the second appearance of the franchise on a portable console, after 2001’s release of Midnight Club: Street Racing on the Nintendo handheld console, the Game Boy Advance.

For a while, we were all waiting to see which developers and publishers would support the Playstation 3. Now it seems that Bandai is the company, and that they are in development for a game that will be a release title for the PS3.

This means that what looks like an Xbox successor, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 will be the only one out of the next-gen consoles that will have a detachable 20GB hard drive, which sums up to be 60GB less than what seemed to be the PS3’s hard drive. Also, Nintendo has not considered the Revolution having a hard drive because the console actually uses 512MB of memory for saving game data.

So, I was messing around with making some faceplates for the new Xbox 360 which comes out in Novemeber or so. For those who don’t know, the Xbox 360(Xbox 2) will feature the ability to remove the faceplate off of it and replace it with a custom faceplate. So yeah.. here are a few I made.. more after the jump..

Well, it took awhile, (though I certainly thought that it would take a lot longer) but a team has finally found a way to play UMD games on memory sticks. An anonymous group has released a loader for Lumines to allow it to be played through a memory stick, so you can have an image of the puzzle game on the stick, use the loader, and voila, you’re a dirty pirate. The loader requires a UMD on the device and a 1.5 firmware (sorry, no 1.0 Japanese PSP’s will work ATM), and the game currently has no sound, but no doubt this is a sign of things to come, with Sony becoming ever more paranoid (and rightly so) and releasing more firmware updates to cripple your PSP, and the PSP piracy scene about to get a massive kickstart.

I think the Xbox 360 is looking better and better all of the time – I can’t wait for some real reviews to come in once they get into people’s hands. Is anyone actually considering the Playstation 3 over the Xbox 360?

gameboyzz orchestra project lleva funcionando en el 2001 y en la actualidad por son 6 jugadores, todos ellos equipados con una GameBoy. En su página de información hablan de su infancia marcada por los videojuegos, de su intención de crear ironía en la actual escena de música electrónica usando sus GameBoy como instrumentos musicales, o de como conseguir complejidad sonora siendo muchos jugadores.