This week we surf the waves of yet another Swedish rock act; Khoma, and the song “Medea“, from 2006’s The Second Wave. Other recommendations...
The much anticipated release of the coolest firmware to date will be released on Wednesday July 2nd. To go along with the in-game...
How many more days of teasers were we going to see on Blizzards’ site. After 8 long years since Diablo 2, fans will not need to wait much longer. ...
We wanted to go ahead and wish everyone a Happy 4th (even our Canadian readers)! I hope most of you get the chance to take it easy this weekend and have a little fun with your friends and family. This is a great chance to get off the internet and have a little fun in the non-virtual world. If you can’t think of too many things to be happy about, just realize that by next year at this time, GW will no longer be in office. 
Drink plenty of beer and light a sparkler or two…
Title: Don King Presents: Prizefighter
Don King is certainly one of those characters in this world that you love to hate. His odd hairdo, weird personality and use of his own slang words certainly is enough to excite most people, whether they like him or not. When Don promised us that ‘Prizefighter’ would be the “most realistic boxing video game in history”, I got excited even though I didn’t really believe him. With that said, ‘Don King Presents: Prizefighter’ doesn’t quite make it into the same league as the Fight Night series from EA.
Bungie’s third Halo game has been regulated to second place in the Xbox 360 online space for a while now by a certain future-proof’ed Call of Duty, but it sure loves its fans.
In a move that Microsoft will likely see as a missed economic opportunity, the remake of the Chill Out map from the Halo 1 days, Cold Storage, will be available for FREE on July 7, according to Bungie.net.
Luke Smith also talks a bit about an interesting throwback wrench being thrown into Halo 3’s online game play on Bungie Day:
“Beginning on July 7, there will be a 48-hour long seven-player FFA playlist in Halo 3’s Matchmaking where you can turn the calendar back to 2001 and control l Rockets, Invis and Snipe.”
Via Bungie.net
If you currently have a variation of ‘Ben Dover’ as your name on Xbox LIVE, you will be required to change it if Microsoft hasn’t already banned your name. It seems to me like Microsoft is getting a little too “PC” and trying to eliminate any kind of creative screen names that may have adult meanings behind them. Recently, Microsoft also decided to ban any screen names with the word “gay” included.
Are they going too far with name restrictions? What do you guys think? I realize that Microsoft is worried about offending people, but perhaps they are going a little too far. How about banning the foul-mouthed punks who continually plague XBL? Screen names are really the least of my worries.
One of the greatest RPGs of all-time is finally headed to the Nintendo DS. ’Chrono Trigger’ which is considered by many to be one of the best SNES titles is finally getting a remake. We don’t know much yet, but we do know they are creating a new dungeon for it, cleaning up the graphics, adding a wireless play mode and the obvious dual-screen presentation. I haven’t been truly excited about a DS game in a long time until now. No official release date has been mentioned yet. We’re hoping it’s later this year…
Via G4
After close to 15 hours of uptime, the firmware for the Playstation 3’s, 2.40 has been taken down. The official Playstation Blog has the latest on what’s happening. In the meantime, please read below what Sony has posted concerning the 2.40 update:
As has been reported on many gaming blogs and websites, we have temporarily taken Firmware v2.40 offline. We’ve received a limited number of calls from consumers experiencing an issue with installing the system software update on their PS3. While our consumer services department has seen a low volume of calls on this topic, we are committed to providing the PS3 community with XMB access features delivered in the v2.40 update. We are working diligently to isolate the problem for those few consumers and to identify a solution before we put the firmware back up.
For those of you (me) who have downloaded the updated firmware, if you’ve got no problems your all set. Enjoy the wonderfulness that is in-game Xross media bar. And the trophies.. oh baby the TROPHIES! For you Xbox360 jerks, have your moment. With your working XBox Live achievements and all. Ahh Shut it!
[Editor’s Note: Walking down the aisles of your favorite retailer you’ll see movies that you’ve never heard of. Even if you’d like to know how they fare no one cares enough to review them! That’s where “Movie Watch” comes in…oh, and we’ll try to cover movies on Xbox Live from time to time. Because if you’re gonna spend those confusing Microsoft points on something other than games, it better be worth it, right?]
The movie adaptation of the PlayStation 2 game, Yakuza, will be screening tomorrow at the IFC Center in New York for the Asian Film Festival at 2:10PM. How does it fare?
For those of you that anxiously waited for midnight to strike, you probably noticed a message telling you “A System update is available”. This is probably the longest feeling update, or maybe it’s because I couldn’t wait much longer. Nevertheless, update 2.40 is now live under mrjuandrful’s PS3. Trophies here I come!
Go get the update, play for a bit and come back here to read more of our funnies.
