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3/27/2006 Gamer Scores Making Us Whores
I can see it happening now. This is the start of mediocore to absolutely horrible games still
making money. All developers have to do is allow gamers to get an easy 1000 points and people
will play it to get those points. That is why I am glad to see games like Perfect Dark Zero
and G.R.A.W. are making sure this isn't always the case. With some of the almost impossible
achievements that Perfect Dark Zero has, no matter how many points someone has from these games
that offer easy achievements, you can point to PDZ and prove who is the best because not everyone
can beat Dark Agent, or Perfect Agent for that matter. I just don't want to see developers stoop
to new lows just to make a pretty penny.
I am not the biggest fan of the Playstation, but in all honesty, I do not want it to bomb. Why?
Competition will be good for XBox. I don't want just one ruler in the console wars. Nintendo
is doing there thing and being creative which will help in the interactivity of our future
games. Nintendo does a pretty good job of even when there is little to not competition in still
trying to push itself forward in new ways. I just want PS3 to give the 360 a run in the races
so that graphics and power in the consoles can keep increasing at the HUGE rate. This generation
(besides Revolution) is by are the largest jump in power of everything within the systems.
Just look at NVidia and ATI. They keep out doing each other back and forth. This brings even
better stuff for the people who have to have the greatest and brings the cost down for not the
most powerful graphics card, but still incredibley good. With competition, both Playstation and
XBox have to keep their prices down while still offering what they feel is the best for the system,
for the fans, and for future players.
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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3/23/2006 3 Days, 4 Games
The past three days, I went on a spending spree. The four games I picked up were Fight Night
Round 3, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, and Metroid Prime Hunters.
Now usually when I get games all at one time like this, I usually just play one for a few days
and go to the next. But this time I played them all and am loving them all. In fact I am having
a hard time doing anything else besides play games. Each one of these games incredible, each
one bringing it's own beauty into the world of gaming.
Fight Night for example, this game looks
like it's a CG the entire game, it looks like all your doing is watching a movie. The strategy
of blocking and countering is awsome. Than there Metroid Prime Hunters. Wow. This game plays
fast. The multiplayer is a blast and the single player feels just like the Gamecube Metroids.
And if you bought the Metroid Pinball, you can use that rumble pack it game with.If you have a
DS, I can't tell you how much you need Metroid. Elder Scrolls IV, it's predicesor has one of the
most succesful RPG's on the origional XBox and the new one seems like it will be the same. The
environments are huge and beautiful. So much detail went into the making of this game and there
is way to much to even explore. Every person you can hold a conversation with, listen in on
funny conversations, and every single box and crate has items in it. Finally there is G.R.A.W
This shooter from Ubisoft is awsome. The single player is gripping, there you are just walking
down these quite streets and you see a red dot, and then another. Next thing you know you see
ten red dots on your screen and the drums in the music start pounding. Your fellow troops
are all yelling "Cover me," "I got your back." This is how a war game should feel, scary.
The multiplayer on-line is well done as well, I almost prefer just playing on-line because
it is so much fun.
All of these games are awsome and you should look into them. I only suggest though that you
pick up Elder Scrolls if you have a lot of time on your hands because I can already tell this
is going to be a long game.
PSP. Hellz yeah. - PSP commercial (I find it funny)
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3/20/2006 I like chicken
I wish I had more time to do other things like play video games and work on this site. Unfortunatly
I have not played video games for a couple days and have had barely enough time to check my e-mail.
I have updated the upcoming games list for the XBox page, I also have included links to some
information in case you haven't seen any pictures or movies, I would suggest looking at some of the
Elder Scrolls IV shipping out tomorrow and will be in stores Tuesday. Also I would check out the
Tomb Raider videos, they have really taken a new aspect to that franchise, they have increased the
playing speed of the entire game. Rare, the game developer of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Kameo, has
had a small team working on a video game that will correspond with a TV show called Viva Pinata. This
game is for young kids and is showing that Microsoft is serios about trying to be everyone, not just a
FPS system. So that is it for today, I had to take some time out of my homework time to let eveyone
know what is going on in the gaming world, I will most likely have more for you tomorrow.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. - Fight Club
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3/17/2006 More Sony
As all of you who know me already know, I am not a big fan of Sony's products. But it is
undiniable that they have made a major impact in the gameing comunity. So if you are a Sony
fan or look at the gameing industry as a whole, Sony has just released some major information
on the 15th (I know I am a few days behind, been busy). They announced the release date, as
well as some addition facts about their upcoming PS3. I will keep you waiting for the news
about the release time and talk about the new facts. First they will be providing an on-line
service (practically stealing XBox Live system) called the Playstation Network Platform, or PNP.
Some of the features of PNP are friends list, download, matchmaking, messaging, score, voice and
video chat, shopping, and a subscription. As you can see, no difference between that and XBox Live
on the 360. Some of you 360 owners are probably saying "Wait, I can't video chat." Well Microsoft
is releasing a video camera rumored to be released May over in Japan (it was in a Japanese magazine).
So that service will be on both. PS3's network will be running over Gamespy which is owned by IGN and
another company called Quazal. And finally, they have said that the PS3 will be required to
have a hard drive. They are also saying for developers to be expecting a 60 GB hard drive
to be in the system. Also Sony has said that the hard drives will support Linux OS. I see
a lot of hacking (bad for on-line) coming from allowing Linux to be installed. No official
word on if the system will come with a hard drive or not, but keep in mind it is required.
Now for the release time. Sony will be sending out the final development kits in July so
expect some gameplay footage finally. And the biggest of announcements from Sony, PS3 will
be launced world wide in November. Now this does not mean everyone will be getting theirs in
November, this is going to be similar to the XBox release where it was "that time frame".
So it could be December when we see PS3 over in the United States, at least. They also say
that they will be releasing at around one million a month for the first six months.
That is a lot of expensive systems.
I take a bad situation gonna make it right, in the shadows of darkness I stand in the light. - Rancid
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3/13/2006 IGN Debate
If you are interested in the PS3 and how succesful it will be, IGN has two people debating from IGN
about different topics such as blue ray and the cell processor.
Check it out here
and learn a little more about what the Metal Gear Solid team has been up to and a sneak peak at The Godfather
game coming out, it's the IGN Weekly Episode 2.
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3/11/2006 New File System
It seems to be a good time to be at IBM. Besides their custom processor for the XBox 360, and
their many other different projects going on, IBM is announcing a new file system. For those
of you who are not familiar with what a file system is, in short terms it's how files are
stored on a hard drive. For users with Windows XP, you are most likely using NTFS, other
types of file systems are Fat 32 and Reiser (Linux). The new file system from IBM is called
General Parrallel File System (GPFS). Using the new format, they were able to get 102
Gigabytes per second transfer speeds and a total size of 1.6 petabytes (1024 terabytes =
1 petabyte, 1024 Gigabytes = 1 terabyte). Currently this technology has little use for a
home user sense most people don't even need a terabyte and don't have the hardware to handle
102 Gigabyte transfer speeds. This will be good right now for large servers that have a lot
of traffic. For some more information, click here
to visit IBM's information page of the new file system.
I have just added some news onto the Windows page about the upcoming Windows Vista that you
might want to check out. There are a few pictures showing some of the new features including
the 3D desktop environment. Go check out Five Forms of Vista
on the Windows page.
If you think that punk rock doesn't mix with politics, you're wrong. - NOFX
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3/10/2006 Website 2.0
Welcome to the release of the new site. Besides just a new look, I have also completed all the
other links such as the entire top menu (all the images up top). There might not be news in all
of them just quite yet but there will be, I promise.
Nintendo has had a thing for taking one of their systems and shrinking that they are doing it
again with the Nintendo DS. Visit the Handheld Gaming page (the picture of the Nintendo DS)
for more information, it's the news listed as The DS on Atkins.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfight (G.R.A.W) was released just the other day and has been getting
great reviews from everyone including "the first killer title for the 360" from
360Insider.net. I am just starting to find all the joys of Perfect Dark Zero's on-line
experiance. When I first tried it, it seemed way to slow. But now I am starting to play it and
I find myself just sitting thinking about the game. I am trying to beat PDZ on Perfect Agent
and only have one level left to complete, it's no walk in the park.
That is it for today's news. If you have a minute you should drop me a line and tell me what
you think of the new site.
Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. - Green Day
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