So there could’ve been a Halo MMO. I hate Halo and personally thinks this would be a craptacular idea. But it would generate tons of cash, because for some odd reason lots of people who aren’t me love Halo and the Halo universe. Sorry to you weirdo’s.
Other then the catchy headline, it’s mostly true. Microsoft has admitted that recently (last 19 month’s) produced 360’s are indeed defective.
Microsoft has admitted that every one of the 11.6 million Xbox 360 consoles sold in the past 19 months suffers from a design flaw that could cause the device to fail.
The firm will extend the warranty coverage from one to three years to compensate consumers, but does not plan to instate a recall or exchange programme.
Now lord knows, considering this is an Aussie site, here’s hopin’ that means for us Americans too. I’m assuming so, ’cause I doubt every Aussie has a 360 in their living rooms anyways. Especially considering Sony Australia touting the PS3 as more a Blu-Ray player then gaming system.
But the main thing here is… I’m covered! Woo Hoo! Hope it breaks when they come out with a cooler, less problem riddled version. Knowing my luck it’ll break year 3 and a day.
The world is filled with many, many crazies, one of the most outspoken who isn’t a TV evangelist (at least I don’t think he is) is Jack Thompson. He’s the guy that blames video games for all the world’s problems. Here’s a nice little letter he’s I guess posted for the world to read and digest, and shake in fear that he’s going to down the great giant that is Take Two Interactive (publishers (?) of the GTA series and Manhunt series, and lately Bully).
Dear Gamers and Gamer Publications on the Internet and Elsewhere:
I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered. This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law–while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry’s efforts notwithstanding. I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David, which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it), but for those who don’t own a Bible or who think their hands will catch on fire if they touch one, here is the salient portion that applies to this lawsuit:
7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back. Oh, and by the way, the entire Take-Two management and board will be gone on March 23, so this pit-digging comes at a very bad time indeed.
Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even video games.
Jack Thompson
Yup, he’s crazy as old Christmas fruitcake.Hope this turns out HILARIOUSLY for him. Like he gets disbarred or something, again.
Well most people know by now that Tyra Bank’s isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to anything that doesn’t involve her staring into a camera like a deer in head lights. But I do believe her knack for making already or usually public knowledge into a big deal is kind of a annoying. I’m not going to start a rant about how silly Tyra seems a vast majority of… well since I first saw her boobs grace a television screen. So here’s one of her latest TV shows apparently.
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Fresh Prince perhaps? Possibly her ill fated first TV show? Not to mention all those “black barbie”-esque Disney TV movies.
Last video of Tyra yet again stating the obvious nationwide yet again below.
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So everybody by now has either seen, or been told about one of Uwe (Ooo-way? Ew?) Boll’s many attempts at film making. Usually the douche bag takes a great game franchise and runs it into the ground until people don’t even want to play the game anymore.
Such travesties include:
Most of the time the only thing he contributes to film archives is gratuitous shots of female body parts (gotta love the bewbies). The rest of the time? It’s what I like to call “slowly taking your precious little time on Earth and sharting all over it”. That’s right, he doesn’t take the time to make a good movie that will have an ounce of replay value — he prays on the inner/outer geek of any video game loving male/female and kicks them in their respective genital area repeatedly.
I know you saw House of the Dead and were ready to have the fun time of your life based on the fact that every time before the movies you’d play the game until the movie started. And of course it was good good times. Then you watched the movie and cursed the franchise that you once loved so dear.
Now he’s doing it to Postal. Now granted this isn’t the kind of game that I’d expect anyone anywhere to know about, but I know it, and I’ll even admit to liking it for a period of time. It’s a “naughty” and mostly vile game to play, but it was fun. Imagine GTA but with no real missions except to piss on as many things and people as possible while trying to blow them up.
Anyhoo, I made this post far too long, but check out a little bit more info here. I predict this thing to go straight to video. And who the hell keeps giving this guy money to make these “movies”?
So I’m an avid Madden fan. Been playing since I could pick up a controller really (I’d say Madden 94 or something was my start, don’t quote me on that though). But seeing as how my XBox is out of commission, I’m stuck playing whatever game I can get my hands on for the PC. I played Madden 07 for a few months since the start of the season (GO BEARS!), and even though the game looks good, I was thoroughly upset that it didn’t have any of the cool features seen in game play video’s for the 360.
Why aren’t PC’s considered next-gen to EA? You can put the same hardware in a PC or better that a 360 or PS3 has. So why no cool mini-game stuff, or multiple players tackling? Because EA sucks that’s why.
But Madden isn’t the reason for me complaining right now, my gripe right now is purely with EA for saying Need For Speed: Carbon was Vista ready when I can’t even finish 2 of the 3 starting races!? I get past a certain point and bam, crash to desktop for no apparent reason.
I’m not the only one with this problem either, and as per usual EA will take their sweet time to fix their problems. Sure am glad I don’t put money in their pockets other then for a Madden here and there.
Loved Firefly the series? Wished it lasted more then 3 monthes (rough guesstimate :P)? Welp it’s not coming back, and no I don’t know of a new movie coming out — but I just found out there’s going to be a MMO based on the show.
[...] Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.
I’m like the bringer (well possibly second messenger) of good news to sci-fi fanboy’s the world over. Check out more info at this Wired article: Firefly Reborn as Online Universe
I wonder if they’d consider a Get Rich Or Die Trying-esque MMO for the newfound e-thugs. I’d play it, ’cause maybe they’d do better with that then at FPS’.
So I just bought the xbox live vision pack with uno and a camera…
That’s the beginning to a poor guys shocking view one night/day on the 360 version of XBox Live. Who didn’t know this was coming with all the perv’s who bounce around on Yahoo! Chats asking any and every female to view his cam to show himself spooging all over the cam. It’s what cams were made for.
Read the discussion here
Looks like all the bellyaching over the price of Sony’s PlayStation 3 has done some good. Sony exec Ken Kutaragi just sent jaws to the floor over at Tokyo Game Show with an announced price cut of the 20GB PS3 base unit from ¥62,790 to ¥49,980 in Japan. Closer to home, we’d be looking at a move from about $538 to $428 … representing a drop of some 20% when the PS3 hits
That’s some good news for… someone I guess. Not me in particular seeing as how my XBox doesn’t even work these days. But for you rich bastards out there planning to either import, buy, or catch one off that infamous truck (might be next to me :P) this is some good news. Far from that asinine price of $600+ so it’ll basically be the cheapest HDVD/Blu-Ray ready device or something. Whatever.
Yeah I’m bitter, so what. 
(via Joystiq)
P.S. Sorry for the lack of posting, Madden 07 has basically sheltered me from the outside world, like always. Hopefully I’ll get back to posting more. ’cause I’m sure someone reads this every now and then…
Championed by Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Illinois’ video game law made the sale of violent and sexual explicit games to minors illegal.
Now if only states/governments could get sued for passing/introducing other idiotic legislations. Maybe then tax payers could focus their money on more important things… like eating and of course sacrificing their first born for gas money (not you Zoe, I’d never trade you in for a tank of gas! :D).
On another more important to other folks who live in Illinois, maybe this’ll be another deciding blow to get Rod My-name-sounds-dirty-if-you’re-high out of office. Though the person he’ll presumably be running against is just as bad and just as stupid. Here’s too years more of retarded state spending! Hoorah!