5/29/2006 Going Down to South Park

With all my new computer things I have have everything built, I just am waiting to get my copy of Media Center Edition before I install everything. So far though my new computer is awesomely fast.

I am currently downloading a whole bunch of South Park shows to start my collection of T.V. shows for my server I am building out of my old parts.

Great job to all of the Seniors who have recently graduated. That is actually where I was this weekend was back in Casper Wyoming for about 24 hours to visist a buddy who just graduated.

There was recently a hole found in the Symantec Anti-virus software that allowed a hacker to take full controll of your computer without evening you opening a e-mail or downloading anything. Settle down if you do have Symantec because they fixed the problem yesterday so just go do a automatic update and you should be safe. The hole was only found in the latest version of the Anti-virus software. And if you are in the need for a anti-virus program that is dependable, check out Avast! Software. This is a very good program, in my opionion much better than Symantec, that will pick up everything and does automatic updates. Oh and did I mention, it's free for home users. I have a whole list of legit free software on the Software page of this site so go check that out.

Less Than Jake and Bouncing Souls have both released a new CD and AFI is releasing their new CD on June 6th. Next month (June 15th) is the start of the Warped Tour and if you are planning to come to the show in Denver, it comes here on July 23rd. I would suggest that you hop online and order the tickets at least a month before, it makes things a lot easier. For a full list of when shows are coming to your area go to the Warped Tour website.



I heard you're losing your mind, shit, I been lost mine.
But I still stay focused through good and bad times.
Give me a chance to shine and I'll blind the world.
Take a stand and be the voice of those who cannot be heard. - Transplants

5/22/2006 Just Random Stuff

Today is just some random stuff I will be talking about.

There is a new video for Rayman over at IGN.com for the Wii, it is acctually pretty empressive. What I find weird that I didn't know is that it's being made by UbiSoft. UbiSoft is really busy, they must have like 30 departments all working on their own stuff because they are releasing new games left and right for multiplatforms.

Apparently Halo 3 is coming along nicely, they are already testing multiplayer maps. That's right, they are not just designing them, but testing. So will we see Halo 3 release up against the PS3? And what is up with all these 3's? Today I orded a bunch of parts that I will be using to build myself a new system. All in all it is an awsome powerhouse. The only thing that I didn't buy a really good thing was on the video card simply due to the fact that I am waiting for DirectX 10 video cards to be released before I spend to much money on a card. Here is a list of the hardware in my new machine.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 2.2 GHz L1 Cache 128KB+128KB L2 Cache 2x1MB
2x Gigs Corsair DDR400 Memory
ATI X1600 Pro 256MB
2x 80GB Seagate Hardrive (RAID0)
2x 160GB Seagate Hardrive (RAID0)

I am going to do a lot of stuff with this computer, I am trying to do more than just gaming on this PC, but a full multimedia system. I will be taking all my parts from my old computer and building a server that will hold movies, T.V. shows, and all my music. Than I will be able to stream these anywhere in my house because I don't have a LAN phone line so I used all those cables to set up a network throughout my house. I also plan on building a little time system that will copy all my recorded shows automatically to my server for storage. But obviously I will still have this machine as a gaming rig.



Teach me a little, I learn alot. Teach me alot, I learn very little.

5/17/2006 End of E3, Busy is Me

I am sorry about the lack of updates. I just got done finishing up finals for this term at college and I am actually in my home town of Casper, Wyoming. So I have been working extra at work so it would be easy for me to come home for a week. It is nice to be back in town where I can just relax, I don't get to do that very often. Also while I am here I get to visit a bunch of people I haven't seen in a while, so all in all it's good times.

I do not have a whole lot of exciting news to talk about. I am sure if you are interested you have poked your nose around to find all the cool games announced at E3 this year, but in case you were to busy, here is a list of some of the good stuff:

PS3WiiXBox 360
UT 2007
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (W.A.R.)
Turok
Metal Gear Solid 4
Rainbow Six: Vegas
Tony Hawk: Project 8
Final Fantasy XIII
Grand Theft Auto IV
Spider-Man 3
Tekken 6
Killzone
Devil May Cry 4
Call of Duty 3
Heavenly Sword		 Metroid Prime 3
Sonic Wild Fire
Wii Sports
Super Monkey Ball
Fire Emblem
Super Mario Galaxy
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii Version)
Red Steel
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Duck Hunt
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
Tony Hawk Downhill Jam
Resident Evil Wii
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles - Crystal Bearers
Metal Slug Anthology
Call of Duty 3		 Halo 3
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (W.A.R.)
Fable 2
Enchanted Arms
The Darkness
Rainbox Six: Vegas
F.E.A.R.
Turok
DDR Universe
Gears of War
Saints Row
Huxley
Lost Planet
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Too Human
Tony Hawk: Project 8
Spider-Man 3
Grand Theft Auto IV
Call of Duty 3
This is not all the games announced, but these are some of the ones that I find interesting or cool. The only other thing I can think of is for you book lovers or the people who are to lazy to read, only two days on the 19th, The Da Vinci Code is being released to theaters. That's all for today, now go read some Penny-Arcade.



Simply because you can breath, doesn't mean your alive, or that you really live. - Rise Against

5/9/2006 Halo 3, PS3, and More From E3

I just downloaded the Halo 3 trailer on the XBox Market, but you don't have to have a 360 to watch this video, simply go to Bungie.net or simply to click here to go directly to the news announcement and you can download a low and high quality video. I want you to keep this in mind while watching this video, it is all done in real time, none of it is CG, meaning that is how it will look while playing. And this is the final game of the Halo series, Bungie said so, but I am sure Bill Gates will be pushing on them to make a new FPS. A huge hurt on the PS is that GTA4, one of the babies for the Playstation, will actually be launched at the same time on the XBox 360 October 17, 2007.

Playstation also had a confrenece where they announced that the PS3 is due to launch this November for a price tag of $499/$599. That's right, just as Sony said that they wouldn't do, they did. They are releasing two different version similar to the way the 360 did. So let me get this straight, Sony is releasing two versions, it will have a hard drive, and you will be able to download games to your hard drive. I am not going to say anything there.

Nintendo has also been announcing games left and right. Nintendo Tennis is one game, but it's not Mario Tennis. The game I am most excited about is Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, check out some games at here. Another cool game is the sequal to Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronics that is coming to Wii. And just when you thought you knew everything about the new controller, Nintendo throws a side ball a change up. That's right, that last piece of innovation added to the Wii controller is a built in speaker allowing for a audio experiance like no other.

But I am extremely tired, so I am going to go to sleep. E3 has done a lot of their announcements, and I will keep adding new stuff as I find them.



5/6/2006 PDZ Update and Wii News

Just Thursday, there was a update for Perfect Dark Zero. It's a quick download but does a lot of things. One thing is it prepares your system for the future maps and it ads some cool things to multiplayer such as bots in Dark Ops, no longer just Death Match. Here is a full list, PDZ Update. Here is a sneak peak to the four new levels; High Res(45.6 MB)   Med Res(9.1 MB) (right click and Save As).

As I mentioned last post, Wii is getting a new Tony Hawk called Downhill Jam. This is going to be an exclusive title for Wii and they plan to make a entire series out of the game for Wii. The way the game will play is by holding the controller sideways and you will use the A,B, and the button on the back to do tricks, and from what I am understanding, you will actually turn by turning the controller, sorta like a stearing wheel. The whole point of the game is to race down hills and do tricks. Every trick landed will add to your boost. At least it will be different than the rest of the franchise.

Speaking of a succesful series, Call of Duty has been probably the most succesful WWII game of all time, even above Battlefield. Well it seems that they are trying to keep their success rolling with Call of Duty 3 which is planned to be released for PS, XBOX/X360, and Wii this year.

Sense there really isn't anything out there like this, I am going to start the movement with something I like to call Achievements Made EZ. I will be getting a capture card here shortly and will be able to get screen shots in order to help explain and show how to do certain achievements. The point of this is to help with some of the more difficult achievements or fast ways to do some of the more excrusiating ones. Not sure when I will get it completely up, but I will start it as soon as I am done making this post, which is right now. Fare Well.



I've been thinkin maybe I've been partly cloudy, maybe I'm the chance of rain.
Maybe I'm overcast, and maybe all my lucks washed down the drain. - SwitchFoot

5/1/2006 Nintendo Announces A Name

For the longest time Nintendo's next console has been referred to as Revolution, the system's codename. But on April 24th, Nintendo announced the official name for the system, check out my thoughts on the page Wii The People. Along with the new name there have been a few new games announced including Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Metal Slug Anthology, and Tony Hawk: Downhill Jam.

I am so proud of myself. Today I beat Perfect Dark Zero on solo Dark Agent. Along with that I am now ranked number 67 in the world on Level 11: Outpost Rescue, and I am also in the top 300 in the world for most of the rest of the levels. I just need someone good to play with to do the same on co-op.

Well that is enough for today, have a good one, and maybe and can do more for the site tomorrow, after all, it's only a day away.



I'm going to drop you like a bad conversation. - Perfect Dark Zero