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Posted on October 27th, 2008 in Video Game Music.
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YouTube genius Brentalfloss has done it again. This time it’s with his Satchmo impression in his tribute to Super Mario World.
Well done, my friend. Well done.
For the lyrics, check out the original YouTube post and expand the info on the right side.
Posted on October 23rd, 2008 in Console/Platform-Related.
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Where does your PlayStation go when you return it for refurb or upgrades? If you’re living in the UK, it could find new life in the form of pens or plastic chairs. The Electronic Waste Company, one of the leading UK electronic recycling companies, has announced plans to carry out the first stage of recycling busted Sony PlayStation consoles. The first goal is to shred and process and estimated 250 tonnes (about 300,000 cases) in the first year. The company pledges to reuse or recycle 100% of all equipment they receive. Nothing collected or brought to The Electronic Waste Company is sent to landfill. For now, they are only recycling the plastic casing for the PlayStation consoles, but they’re currently figuring out how they can process other recyclable components such as clips and foam. Going green FTW!
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 in Videos.
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Okay, Wii Music. Seriously? How is this ad going to improve your sales? Who are you trying to target?
And what the hell is the deal with the actress they cast to show off her air cowbell skills? She is so effing proud of herself. I wonder what she was thinking… “Man, I’m definitely going to be a movie star now that I’ve got this on my reel!” 
[PowerUp to Jo√£o for the tip]
Posted on October 21st, 2008 in Random.
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So I like to think I’m pretty good at keeping on top of pronunciations of things in the gaming world. But I recently discovered I have totally been pronouncing the Ubisoft brand name WRONG. I thought I’d heard employees of Ubisoft saying OO-BEE-SOFT in an interview once and I’ve said it that way ever since. Unfortunately, either those employees said it wrong too or I just heard it wrong. EITHER WAY, I would like to set the record straight. Ubisoft is pronounced YOU-BE-SOFT not OO-BE-SOFT. So… whoops. My bad. I’ll say it right from now on. Special thanks MTV Multiplayer for clearing up the mystery once and for all:
Posted on October 20th, 2008 in Techie Tidbits.
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The Max Payne movie starring Mark “Say hi to your mother” Wahlberg debuted in the number one spot this weekend. According to the Associated Press, the video game-based movie brought in $18 million outdoing Oliver Stone’s film biography of George W. Bush which pulled in only $10.6 million. Anyone see Max Payne over the weekend? Thoughts? It looks like it could be awesome, but previews can be deceptive little bastards sometimes.
Posted on October 17th, 2008 in Console/Platform-Related.
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When I’m asked to sign anything, I read it. So when I got an email from PlayStation about needing to accept policy changes to access the PSN, I started sifting through the mess of red on gray text to make sure I wasn’t agreeing to anything stupid. Everything sounded relatively standard. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t use the network for illegal activities. Blah blah blah. But at the end of section three, some things started catching my eye:
Unless otherwise required by applicable law, there is no requirement or expectation that SCEA will monitor or record any online activity on PSN, including communications.
Ok, cool. Makes sense. Until you read the VERY NEXT LINE:
However, SCEA reserves the right to monitor and record any online activity and communication throughout PSN and you give SCEA your express consent to monitor and record your activities.
So let me get this straight. They’re saying “Unless there’s something required by law, there’s no reason for us to monitor your shit. But we’re going to do it anyway because you’re going to sign this agreement saying we can.”
Then I get to section 11: maintenance and upgrades. Be aware that SCEA can do an upgrade on the platform at any time – even without your permission:
Some content may be provided automatically without notice when you sign into PSN. Such content may include automatic updates or upgrades which may change your current operating system, cause a loss of data or content or cause a loss of functionalities or utilities.
and if it screws up your system or you lose data because of it, you’re on your own and they’re not going to help you:
You authorize SCEA to provide such content and agree that SCEA shall not be liable for any damages arising from provision of such content or maintenance services. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data located on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.
On to section 12: user material and information. Remember section 3 where SCEA talks about how they can record your information and activities? Here, they elaborate on what might be done with it:
SCEA may provide others, including but not limited to its subsidiaries or affiliates, with information relating to your participation on PSN, including your communication and game play provided through PSN (“Information”). You hereby authorize SCEA to use, distribute, copy, display, and publish your Information for any legitimate business purpose, including tournaments and ranking, without payment to you. In addition, you will have the option to post, stream or transmit content such as pictures, photographs, game related materials, or other information through PSN to share with others (“User Material”), provided no rights of others are violated. To the extent permitted by law, You authorize and license SCEA a royalty free and perpetual right to use, distribute, copy, modify, display, and publish your User Material for any reason without any restrictions or payments to you or any third parties. You further agree that SCEA may sublicense its rights to any third party, including its affiliates and subsidiaries.
Some games played on or provided through PSN may have features that allow your information, including game play, PSN ID, Friend’s list, messages and related gaming information to be recorded by a user and distributed to any third party publicly, including users outside of PSN. You agree that any third party may record, use and distribute such information for any reason without any restrictions or compensation to you. Additional terms and conditions may apply, including SCEA’s privacy policy and the terms and conditions of any game publisher or service provider. Please review all terms carefully. If you do not want your information to be used, recorded or distributed, please do not play the game online through PSN.
If that made your head explode, the simple translation is this: any image you send, thing you say or way you play on the PSN can be recorded and used in any way by SCEA or even third parties. So think twice before sending pictures of your super awesome artistic creations to friends through the network. SCEA could steal it, reproduce it and profit off of it and they wouldn’t owe you a dime.
It’s not that any part of this agreement isn’t typical, but it is worth reading through. You can see the entire agreement here.
Posted on October 17th, 2008 in Pre/Reviews.
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After watching the final debate on Wednesday night there was nothing I wanted to do more than punch McCain in his weird “I lick my lips like a snake” face. Good news! Now you can fight as your favorite political figure Mortal Kombat-style in Kung-Fu Election, a game developed by Starvingeyes Advergaming and available on Atom. The game came out about a year ago, but was recently updated with additional characters. Now you can play as any of the following folks:
Joe Biden
Sarah Palin
Michelle Obama
Cindy McCain
Hillary Clinton
Rudy Giuliani
Barack Obama
Mike Huckabee
John Edwards
Mitt Romney
Bill Richardson
John McCain
Every character has a special move. Hillary, for instance, can summon Bill Clinton for a powerful distance attack. Sarah Palin has her Moose Rifle. Funny stuff, and a game well worth checking out. The graphics, controls and gameplay are pretty sweet especially considering this is a browser-based game.
Posted on October 16th, 2008 in I Love Technology.
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If you live in one of the 10 battleground states and play Burnout Paradise, Madden 09, Nascar 09, NBA Live 08, Need for Speed Carbon, Need for Speed Pro Street, NFL on Tour, NHL 09, or Skate on the 360, you may catch a glimpse of an in-game ad from Senator Obama. Even though billboard ads in racing games like the one pictured above aren’t the best places to put an ad, the move is still a smart one and shows that Obama understands that reaching the gaming audience isn’t going to happen in TV commercials. According to The Seattle Times, Massive approached both the Obama and McCain campaigns but McCain’s declined. The ads will run through November 3 and make history as the first presidential dynamic in-game ads.
Check out these fake Obama in-game ads from Paul Tassi»
[SOURCE: GamePolitics.com]
Posted on October 14th, 2008 in Techie Tidbits.
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MTV Games and Harmonix have partnered up with Tap Z Corporation to help you bring your Rock Band 2 stars to life. For 69 bucks, you can order six-inch-high 3D physical models of your in-game Rock Band avatar creations that will reflect your persona, style and musical instrument of choice. You can also get custom t-shirts featuring your band and the clever name you created with a combination of capital letters and numbers to bypass the profanity filter.
Posted on October 10th, 2008 in Console/Platform-Related.
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Microsoft is trying to woo the wafflers who aren’t sure which console to buy this Christmas with a special holiday offer and the promise of the upcoming Xbox Experience launch. For an estimated retail price (ERP) of $199.99 ERP (U.S.), the Xbox 360 Arcade holiday offer comes with ‚ÄúSega Superstars Tennis‚Äù and five Xbox LIVE Arcade games. The Xbox 360 console ($299.99 ERP) and Xbox 360 Elite ($399.99 ERP) holiday offers pair the consoles with ‚ÄúLEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures‚Äù and ‚ÄúKung Fu PandaTM‚Äù at no added cost.
Here’s what we can expect to see on November 19th:
Xbox LIVE Party. I remember hearing stuff about being able to watch movies with friends if you invite them into the same room… but I’m not seeing specific details in the press release about this. It just says: “Xbox 360 allows you to create a virtual party on your TV with up to seven friends. With LIVE Party, voice chat while you play games, share photos in real time and entertain friends all over the world.” You can already voice chat with friends while you play games so I’m not sure why this is a big deal, but whatev. Guess this is really targeting people who don’t know anything about the 360. Note: in order to do the picture sharing deal, the footnote says you need to have an Xbox LIVE Gold membership ($49.99 for 12 months.)
Avatars. You can create a customizable, animated avatar to use when you’re hosting a LIVE Party or chatting. I’m not sure I like these. They’re very Mii Wii-esque and anyone who has had a Wii for awhile knows how quickly those got old and boring. They just feel too cheesy for me, but I again – I think Microsoft is just trying to expand their 360 demographic.
Netflix Partnership I really want this to be awesome, but I’m worried about the download times. I’ve got a T1 internet connection and yet it still takes several hours to download movies. I used the “watch it while it’s downloading” feature on the PS3 and that was buffering hell. I’m hoping the 360 does a better job with this. We shall see. In order to take advantage of the Netflix library, you have to have a LIVE Gold membership and an unlimited plan with Netflix (cheapest one is $13.99 a month.)
Games for the community, by the community. For the first time in the history of console gaming, thousands of games developed by the creative community will be available to the public. The Community Games channel on Xbox LIVE will include games made by students, hobbyists, and average people all around the world and will be exclusive to Xbox LIVE.
So – if you don’t have an Xbox yet and you want to take advantage of all the new stuff, you probably don’t want to go for the Arcade version. It doesn’t come with a hard drive (?!) and the New Xbox Experience requires a minimum of 256MB of memory. The 512MB memory unit will set you back about $50 putting the cost up to $250 at which point you may as well go for the Xbox 360.
Xbox 360: $299.99
Gold membership (1 yr): $49.99
Netflix membership (monthly): $13.99
Total initial cost: $363.97
Entering the joyous world of Xbox ownership: priceless
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Video podcast appearance
—June 2008
Sweet Flag
Interview
—May 2008
Attack of the Show
“The Loop” panelist
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CrotchMail.com
Interview
—June 2007
TiedTheLeader.com
Interview
—April 2007
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