Games! Games! Games!

Remember folks - if your kid is playing violent video games? Its up to YOU to monitor their habits.

A short commentary piece we wrote about our hands-on experiences with the Xbox 360.

The first two are fairly straight forward. WiiPointer is probably the name of the formally known as revmote, currently known as Wii-mote, Wii controller.With WiiCulture spawning iPod marketing & peripherals imagery in my mind, I am inclined to believe that the name is a label for all things Wii. The most interesting of the three, !!M, is said to be the name of Wii’s built-in instant messenger. That, I think, is a really cool way to name an instant messenger, flip the console’s name around.Try that xBox 360 and PS3!

Again, they claim that they may have been wrong in the details, but they caught the spirit of the thing: terrorists are using video games to recruit. Well, perhaps when collecting intelligence—especially open source intelligence—it might be a good idea to get the facts right. Especially, when the facts don’t take long or cost much to get right. Folks are saying “computer game experts disagree,” but the truth is, anyone who is even moderately aware of the gaming world or popular culture (the “training video” included a voiceover taken from Team America: World Police) would have been able to give the group a reality check. That’s not to say video games are never used to recruit insurgents, just that they had it wrong in this case. And this was one of the cases they decided was especially worth showing congress as demonstrative of their abilities.

I got a job right after I was done with school. I have been there a week and I am enjoying it very much. I work at D3 Publisher Inc. in Tempe, AZ. I am a Quality Assurance Tester for games. This past week was training, but this next week starting on monday I will be put on a team to start debugging a new game that is supposed to come out by the end of the month called Flushed Away. It is based off of a movie that Dreamworks is making. I will be testing it on the Nintendo DS handheld system.

Man, I got my hands on my DS Lite today and I’m totally stoked. Played New Super Mario Brothers, Castlevania, and Tetris DS for a while. The quality of the machine is out of control, as is the brightness of the screens.

As a wedding present to ourselves, we're replacing the bumper of our car, which got sheared off in an accident in the parking lot of the airport after we finally returned home from our wedding trip. But we also snaked off some bucks to buy ourselves an Xbox 360 and three games: Dead or Alive 4, Tomb Raider: Legend, and Rumble Roses. The latter was mostly a joke until Mrs. Awesome saw the scantily clad ladies and put it on the "No, really" pile.

Is Nintendo doing the right thing? Yeah, I don’t see why not. Gamecube lost its appeal to me after being not being able to play online ever, and was part of why I slowly got myself playing PS2 and TRIED to play PC games. (NOTE: My PC = P.O.S. that’s why I say try. It’s not that I don’t want to, I’m just incapable with my hardware as it is). However with the DS it really adds something to be able to play online even with the lame friend code concept. If this is something even better for the Wii and will continue the hype Wii-60 over PS3, power to Nintendo to be able to share the market with Microsoft’s console. But we’ll see what this patent really is for in the future I guess.

Ihr fragt euch sicher, wieso im Titel des Artikels der Staubsauger erwähnt ist. Nun, das ist schnell erklärt. Schaltet man die XBox 360 ein, macht der Lüfter so ein Lärm, da muss man den Fernseher richtig laut stellen, um das Geräusch des Lüfters zu übertönen, denn sonst macht das Spielen keinen Spaß. Man könnte wirklich meinen, im Nebenzimmer wird Staub gesaugt. Grafisch sind die Spiele für die XBox 360 relativ detailliert und deutlich besser als bei der ersten XBox, doch von Microsoft hätte ich mehr erwartet. So ein lautes Gerät und dann auch noch mit so einem hässlichen Netzteil. Da sieht die Playstation 2 ja um Welten edler aus.

SSBM was release soon after the launch of the Nintendo Gamecube. There was a previous version made for the N64 but it’s not nearly as good and I never really played it much. I had played this game before I got my Gamecube and really liked it. It was the first game I got with my Gamecube. Little did I know how much this game would never loose its appeal. The biggest pros about this game are the multiplayer, computer AI, and the dynamics. I still play this game with Johnny and have yet to have someone play who didn’t thoroughly enjoy it. The computer does a couple stupid things but for the most part is very intelligent and very challenging. Probably my favorite part of this game is how much it changes.