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Posted on August 19th, 2008 in Techie Tidbits.
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Outside of St. Louis, a man robbed an EB Games store at gun point. But he wasn’t interested in cleaning out the register. Instead, he claimed that his family was being held hostage and the only thing that would set them free was a PS3 and the game he’d swiped from the shelves. He got what he wanted, but before he left, he told the clerk to call the police because his family really needed help. They needed help alright, help from a really bad liar.
Posted on August 19th, 2008 in Random.
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If grounding your kids from their consoles isn’t quite getting the message across, you can take things up a level like this angry dad did. Here’s the story from iReport:
My husband had repeatedly warned our 3 boys about their behavior while playing the XBOX. Tuesday, after I arrived home from work, our oldest son told me to look in the backyard at “Dad’s artwork”. Well, I wasn’t surprised to see the XBOX proudly displayed on the nearest tree… way to go Honey!!!!!
PWNED!
[Source: Gizmodo]
Posted on August 15th, 2008 in Console/Platform-Related.
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I just read what might be the shortest press release I’ve ever seen for an upcoming DS game today:
The daily grind has this office ninja downing gallons of green tea by noon. When his pager isn’t blowing up, his cell is, and when that’s not going off, his blackberry is making sounds like a robot about to explode. Even with the stress, he likes the money and the cookies it buys him, not to mention the joy he gets from increasing Wee Ninja efficiency.
Motto:
“Not right now, I have a very important conference call to make!”
The release says nothing about the developer, has no info on a release date… nothing. It’s mysterious – like a ninja. Anyone heard anything else about this game??
Posted on August 15th, 2008 in Techie Tidbits.
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ZeemoteTM and Nokia just announced a partnership to bring the ZeemoteTM JS1 controller to Germans wanting better control on their mobile phone games. The remote fits into the palm of your hand and has a thumbstick and four assignable trigger buttons. The ZeemoteTM may help players avoid those awful hand cramps you get from using your phone’s keypad, but I can’t even keep up with my phone half the time – much less a tiny wireless controller built to work with it.
Posted on August 14th, 2008 in Techie Tidbits.
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When I started reading the following press release, I thought this competition sounded pretty retarded:
On Thursday 21st August at Leipzig Games Show Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will be inviting show attendees to take part in a record breaking challenge playing Guinness World Records‚Ñ¢: The Videogame on Wii‚Ñ¢.
Participants will battle it out on three mini games in a bid to smash the most melons, pop the most balloons or secure the fastest time to sheer five sheep!
The official Guinness World Records‚Ñ¢ adjudicators will even be there to officiate the world record attempt and give you the opportunity to enter the official Guinness World Records‚Ñ¢ Gamers Edition 2009 book.
The competition kicks off on Thursday 21st August at 2pm sharp running until 4pm at the WBIE stand, Hall 5 stand D21. Participants will be invited to play on a first come first served basis.
I mean, who wants to be listed in the Guinnes World Records‚Ñ¢ as fastest melon smasher, balloon popper or sheep sheerer? Then I got to the last line:
The award ceremony will take place at 4:20pm.
Funny how that instantly turns the competition from retarded to awesome.
Posted on August 13th, 2008 in Console/Platform-Related.
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Got ten bucks? Love Strong Bad? Getcho ass on over to the Wii Shop if you’ve got a Wii or to the games site if you’re a PC person and download the first of 5 games brought to you by the twisted minds over at Telltale games. Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People is a five-episode game series releasing monthly on WiiWare and available for PC download. The first installment is Homestar Ruiner – a point-and-click adventure and is available now. I haven’t checked it out yet but as soon as I do, I’ll write about it here.
I was going to write more about this whole thing, but I’ve only got 30 minutes left on my lunch break and I want to keep playing Peasant’s Quest – one of the free games available on the Homestar Runner site. Here’s my review so far: if you were ever into adventure games growing up, stop reading this and go play it right now.
Posted on August 13th, 2008 in Level-Update Podcasts.
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 in Techie Tidbits.
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The latest Lara is more than just a pretty girl with awesome abs. 23-year-old Alison Carroll is also a former gymnastic representative for Great Britain with over 12 years of experience as a professional display gymnast. She has performed across the UK and overseas as part of a team of twenty athletes, wowing Prince Charles when she appeared at a special event at Westminster Abbey. She is also a dedicated coach of younger gymnasts, and recently choreographed the routine for the junior team that won the British National Championships. Now she’ll be learning the ways of Lara by taking a series of courses including SAS survival, combat and semi-automatic weapon firing courses in Eastern Europe, and a crash course in world archaeology, to become the world famous archaeologist and action heroine we all love and adore. Once completely trained in the ways of Lara, Alison will be lining up a host of international modeling assignments, starring in TV commercials, appearing on chat shows and is set to travel the globe over the coming months.
Posted on August 11th, 2008 in Game Dame News.
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Whenever I log in to check my Game Dame comments, I expect to see some spam that needs to be deleted. I always get the ones about buying cheap drugs and porn. Usually, the porn links make sense… “Eva Longoria topless!!!!” or whatever. But today two of the posts made me lose any desire to eat lunch. So naturally, I’m going to share them with you. I will not suffer through these mental images alone:
You feel a little sick now thinking about nekkid Frasier Krane and Doogie Howser, don’t you? Kind of like that feeling you got that one time when you were stumbling to the bathroom in the middle of the night and stepped in cat vomit. Squissssssh.
Posted on August 8th, 2008 in Pre/Reviews.
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Last Friday I popped my QuakeCon cherry and went out to the Hilton Anatole to check out the Frag movie. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many gamer chicks were there. Overall, the audience was pretty flipping cool. Here, the mouth-breathers were definitely in the minority. Most of the people were tattooed, pierced and attractive. Some of them had rug rats. Some of them had obviously been spending some time at the hotel bar.
Before the flick started, the Frag street team hurled t-shirts, DVD copies and other swag into the crowd. The best was when a balled up pink baby t ended up between two dudes. They went for it at the same time, but the guy with the Chuck Taylors won. Now, had this been a baseball game and the t-shirt in route from a classic rock station named something like “THE SNARL” the winner would’ve shouted “WOOOOOO!!!!! In yo FACE! YEEEEeeeeaaAAH!” while he ran away to stand in the yard o’ beer line and that would’ve been the end of it. But we’re talking about a gaming convention and competitions just don’t end that easily in that setting. Without saying a word, the two guys went into a good old fashioned game of Roe Sham Boe. Round 1: scissors beat paper! Things were looking bad for the Chuck Taylor dude. Round 2: paper beat rock!!! We had a winner!!! The t-shirt changed hands and the proud new owner handed it to his girlfriend before sitting down to enjoy the movie. You gotta love gamers.
The movie is a documentary focusing on the lives of professional gamers. It highlights the struggles that kids go through who are trying to make it as a pro gamer and just how hard it is to maintain success. I’ve got to admit, I didn’t know shit about professional gaming before I saw this movie. I didn’t even know who Fatal1ty was. I’ve just never been really drawn to that realm. That said, I was intrigued by the movie. It made me really curious about the competitive gaming world and opened my eyes to the corruption and craziness within. I went with a friend of mine (SolarCurve) who was an active pro gamer and seemed to lean over every 2 seconds to tell me he knew the new person being featured on screen. So we were two extremes – I knew nothing about this realm, and he knew everything. The thing is, we both came out of the movie saying, “Wow. That was really good.”
I quickly learned to hate Agnel Munoz, Founder and President of the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL), on the same level as Billy Mitchell. A greedy, corrupt backstabber, he is one of the villains of the documentary. Stories of unpaid winnings by the CPL were disheartening. The movie highlights the vulnerability of kids who want to go pro but don’t have parental support or good management and end up stuck in situations that are hard to escape. Frag does a good job of showing that being a pro gamer may not be as cool as everyone seems to think.
After the screening, the filmmakers held a Q&A where they revealed that over 220 hours of footage was shot for this 90 minute film. I asked if they had plans on using any of those extras to make another gamer documentary. They said some of it is included on their DVD and they’re going to wait and see the public’s response to Frag and go from there. I’d love to see more from these guys. The plot not only kept me interested the entire time, it left me wanting to see more.
They’ve decided to keep movie distribution independent, so you can purchase the DVD from the official site for just $20 and I recommend that you do. Apparently, none of the distributors out there really get the gaming world (imagine that) and are quick to dub Frag “The next King of Kong” which the filmmakers vehemently dispute. Yes, this is a movie about professional gaming but it’s in a totally different realm than King of Kong. King of Kong screams retro. Frag screams now.
Game Heroes
Video podcast appearance
—June 2008
Sweet Flag
Interview
—May 2008
Attack of the Show
“The Loop” panelist
—November 2007
CrotchMail.com
Interview
—June 2007
TiedTheLeader.com
Interview
—April 2007
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