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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Xbox 360 Reaches 30 Million Console Sales

Posted on May 30th, 2009 in Console/Platform-Related.
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Congrats to Xbox 360 on reaching a pretty hefty number of console sales. I was curious how the 360 stood up to the other consoles out there. Luckily, Shacknews was kind enough to do all the research so that I don’t have to dig for it (THANKS, YO!). According to their research, here are the numbers for the competitors:

1. Nintendo DS – 101.78 million units (as of March 31 2009)
2. Nintendo Wii – 50.39 million units (as of March 31 2009)
3. PSP – 50 million units (as of February 13 2009)
4. Xbox 360 – 30 million units (as of May 28 2009)
5. PlayStation 3 – 22.91 million units (as of March 31 2009)

I’ve got one of each, but out of all of them, my Xbox 360 gets 99% of the love. I’m curious about the numbers when it comes to how many people who own both a 360 and PS3 prefer to buy the 360 version of a game over the PS3 version. I know I do it. And it’s mostly about the achievement points and the fact that I have a bunch of friends on Xbox LIVE and like 2 on my PS3.

It’s funny how the 360 has totally changed my perception of Microsoft. I remember when it first came out I was like “Meh. Whatev. PlayStation is the way to go. Screw the 360.” But now my PS3 sits like a jealous goth teen overshadowed by her sporty, smart, well-rounded 360 sibling. “Look how dark and sensual I am,” she thinks. “I’ve got movies. And my graphics are more crisp. Why does everyone like 360 better?! I have trophies! I have a massive catalogue! The 360 is just so… primitive. As are the people who play it.” Yeah, well. I’ve got news for you, PS3. It doesn’t matter how much shiny black you wear, being a brooding, intimidating piece of machinery does not make you desirable. And just like real goth teens, you will spend more time smoking in dark corners than being engaged in conversation with the rest of the world.

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Fresh Nerd of Bel-Air

Posted on May 29th, 2009 in Videos.
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There are two great things about this video. It’s the extended version of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro AND it’s mashed up with the tune from Cave Story. Good times.

[SOURCE: The Daily What]

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Girls of the Arcade

Posted on May 28th, 2009 in Techie Tidbits.
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A friend of mine sent me a link to what is definitely the most awesome site I’ve seen all day and maybe even all month: ArtOfTheArcade.com. This little nugget features all sorts of video game awesomeness from the 70s and 80s including “Girls of the Arcade” – a section dedicated entirely to showcasing pictures of “models” next to arcade cabinets.

A couple of my favorites:

PEW PEW! Check out those graphics, man. Incredible.

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She’s standing next to a 10, but I think she only deserves a 6.
It looks like the photographer might have caught her on her way to a Jazzercise class.

I can only make fun of them knowing that 30 years from know, the booth babes of today will be ridiculed by the booth babes of tomorrow. It’s a natural cycle.

See more pictures on ArtOfTheArcade.com»

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Memorial Day Dance Party

Posted on May 25th, 2009 in Video Game Music, Videos.
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I was killing time on the interwebs and bring to you some of my findings:

A new one from Brentalfloss: Punch Out with Lyrics. Is the Rihanna joke too soon? Maybe, but I laughed. Does that make me a horrible person? Probably.

I have gamer friends. I have rennie* friends. I have girl friends. But I don’t think I have any gamer-rennie-girl friends which probably explains why I’ve never seen this at a party before. This is a promo for The Gothsicles new/old remixed album: NESFERATWO. Genius title. Fun tracks. And they’re free here.

And finally – another Konami Code shout-out song from DubNasty. This one’s also free for download on his site and I’m digging it. But I’ve got a question – he ends the code with “start select” instead of “select start.” Which is right? I thought it was select start. Actually, I don’t think the select part even mattered. According to my extensive research (a search on Urban Dictionary) “Many people mentally add in a ’select’ in there for one reason only–on the menu screen, pressing select changed the cursor to ‘2 players’ instead of ‘1 player’. Contra was always more fun to play with a friend.”

*Side note: I’ve always used the word “rennie” but I’ve never actually spelled it out before, so I googled it. For those of you who don’t know what a “rennie” is – it’s someone who is obsessed with Renaissance Faires and typically dresses up in some kind of ridiculously expensive outfit with lots of leather and patches for Halloween and – if they’re good – knows the difference between an Australian and British accent. And yes, I worked at a ren faire for about 4 years. So if you’ve ever questioned my nerdiness, now you know I’m for real. Anyway, when I was searching for the correct spelling, I found this group and I thought the description was hilarious:

Renaissance Faire Info for Non-Rennies
A tribe created (by popular demand) to answer questions about renaissance faire from people who feel intimidated by other renaissance faire tribes. Everything you ever wanted to know about faire but were afraid to ask.

I find it hilarious that there was a high demand of people who were actually intimidated by ren faire nerds and inspired this group.

[SOURCE 4 BELLY DANCERS & DUB NASTY VIDEOS: Geekologie]

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Dell “Live the Game” Commercial

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 in Videos.
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I don’t have cable television and my HD antennae is in some closet beneath a bunch of other stuff I ignore. It’s mostly so I can be one of those arrogant assholes who can respond to “DID YOU SEE ______ LAST NIGHT?!!!!” with “I don’t watch television.” And while I get great satisfaction out of that scenario, I’m sad when I miss good stuff like this commercial which I just saw for the first time today:

It was shot by Synthetic Pictures in Austin Texas and directed by Justin Corsbie and I am in love with it. You can see a higher quality version of the commercial along with some other hilarious ones (I love the BMW teleport one) on Justin’s reel.

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Domain Name Capture FTW!

Posted on May 18th, 2009 in Game Dame News.
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So I’m pretty excited. Today marks a momentous occasion in which I finally – after about 5 years of trying – am the proud parent of the domain name: GameDame.com. WAHOOO! Now I’ve got TheGameDame.com AND GameDame.com. I feel like I should pass out celebratory cigars or something.

Anyone got a good resource that tells me how to do a mirror site? Right now, I just have GameDame.com forwarding to TheGameDame.com where everything lives, but it’d be nice if they mirrored each other.

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Oh what a night…

Posted on May 15th, 2009 in Game Dame News, Interviews.
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What started out as a nice relaxing evening at home with my fat, snoring dog and a fresh watermelon quickly turned into a nightmare. I was surfing the internets, listening to the song in the intro movie for Fallout 3 that I have fallen completely in love with for some reason and decided I was going to post it on my site. But when I went to log in, I got a nasty message: “Error establishing database connection.”

I called GoDaddy to figure out WTF was going on. They told me there was nothing wrong on their end. That WordPress was calling a database and that database didn’t exist. Apparently, it got bored and decided to take off. I have no idea how that could’ve happened and neither did the guy I talked to.

I spent the next hour freaking the hell out that I’d lost every post on my site and would never be able to get things working again. I was trying to get help from the first tech support guy. He said that because I’d installed WordPress manually and not through them, he couldn’t help me. I was about to lose it. I asked the guy if he knew of any good resources online where I could figure out how to fix this mess. The dude actually said “Why don’t you try Google?” REALLY, ASSHOLE?!?! Thanks. I wouldn’t have thought of that. Fucking jerk.

I set up a new WordPress account through my GoDaddy hosting account with the help of another tech support dude named Chad who was NOT an asshole and prevented me from writing the totally nasty “I hate GoDaddy” rant I had totally intended on posting as soon as I got everything switched over to another company. So, thanks Chad. Way to represent your company. I don’t remember the other guy’s name, which is probably good for him, but whoever you were – you should take customer service lessons from Chad. When someone who has supported your company for about 10 years and has purchased around over 50 items from you has a crises, don’t be a jerk. There’s this thing called the internet, and we will tell EVERYONE about it.

Then I called my friend Mike. And through him coaching me on the phone, I was able to retrieve everything except the last two months of posts – which most of you know there weren’t a lot of. He was even helping me find the last two months of posts through cached Google pages, but I’m so worn out that I decided I’m good with losing those. Mike also designed my layout. Mike is a genius. And I love him. I owe you a solid, bro We need to plan our WTFBBQ soon.

SO – I’m back. I lost a few posts, but I regained my sanity, so I think that’s a fair trade.

Now that my heart rate has slowed, I will leave you with this (the song I originally wanted to post over 3 hours ago) and go back to enjoying my night: