Posts Tagged ‘game’
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Breaking News: NY City destroyed by pixels!
If you’ve ever wanted to see New York city completely taken over and taken apart by your favorite 8-bit characters, now is the time to do so. Patrick Jean did an amazing job on this, I’m astounded and in awe.
PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Arts and animation videos.[Via Mashable!]
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eRepublik: The New World
Have you ever wished that you could live your life all over again? I have!
The idea behind eRepublik is that you can create an account and live it day to day as you would in real life. Boring? Nah.
After inital sign up you’re forced to pick a job and horrible wages and work. Sucky? For now. After you work two days you’ll level and get something a little better as well as join the army and train. At level 5 (I think it was 5) you can participate in any wars your country is in. Eventually you can vote for political parties and what not as well.Personally I’m still pretty newb at this, but looking into the future of the game with user-created political parties, different countries and regions and fluctuating economies it can hold a lot of potential. A key factor that interests me is that the game is based on real-time logic, so those with more time on their hands won’t overrun the game.
I’d recommend to give it a try for a week or so, see how it plays out. I like the idea of being able to represent my region. Look me up while you’re there, name is Egen.
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Games: Battle of the Bands
As promised last week, today we’re going to take a look at
Battle of the Bandsfor the Nintendo Wii, made by THQ.
At first glance, this game looks like it can be a lot of fun. Well, it can once you get past the lack of content in the game itself. Lets have a look at some of what the game has to offer:
- A decent variety of songs (of course, no where near some of the more costlier games on the market)
- The joy of rhythm based games without the need to have any extras hanging around
- A quirky variation to the plain old ‘hit the notes and you win’ formula
Battle of the Bands offers some classic favorite songs such as Black Betty and Jungle Boogie; mixed in with some fun songs like Feel Good Inc. by the Gorillaz and Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones. Though the songs are few, they’re good to play.Unlike some of the other rhythm games, Battle of the Bands uses only the wiimote to hit notes (left/right/down/stab/shake). It’s a fun concept, though a little tiring on the wrist at first on some of the higher difficulty levels. Also, if the wiimote is tilted it often doesn’t hit the note. Once you get used to this though, it’s a fantastic workout for your wrist.
Above all else what makes this game worth playing is the presentation itself. The game is one big battle, so you’re always in a versus mode against either an AI or a Player. Each band gets to choose a style of music, for example country and hip-hop. While playing, if the country team is in the lead the song which they’re playing will be done in a ‘country version’ (IE redneck accent and banjos). As the teams battle, the song jumps between the two bands’ type. It’s a riot when the types are conflicting as they switch seamlessly.
Another cooky part of this game is that you can attack the opposing player. Teams get the option of 3 weapons to use, all with different steak counts. Once a team has a streak to the length of the weapon, it will fire causing the other player to miss a beat if not blocked (hitting B). It’s quite off tilt to have a battle of the bands where you can shoot lightning at the drummer on the other team, but a blast none the less.Overall, I can understand why this game is so cheap (I got it for $15) because though the concept of it is amazing, the final execution of it is lacking. If they had access to a larger library, or even if they had more modes or unlockable content it may have made it a little more interesting. For what the game is though, it was worth the cash and I’d suggest it to any music lover out there if not only for the music player feature that allows you to switch between styles without having to actually play the game.
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Rock Band 2 Update – Downloadable Content Comes to the Wii!
Today is a day that will be rejoiced upon, as millions of Wii-geeks world wide will turn their little white boxes into even more of a rocking machine.
Nintendo and Harmonix, apparently holding true to their word to have the Music Store open for business by early 2009, today released the first wave of downloadable content for Rock Band 2 wii users. This does include a number of free songs that were given to Xbox 360 and PS3 users when the game was released, as well as songs from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s.
Songs are available for 200 wii points, which averages out to $2.00 US per song.
A list of the songs released today in the Wii music store (free songs marked with **):
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Time is Running Out – Papa Roach
Simple Man – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Buddy Holly – WeezerApprentice
Cheeseburger in Paradise – Jimmy Buffett
El Scorcho – Weezer
**Burn you down – Opiate For the Masses
The Kill – 30 Seconds to Mars
All the Small Things – Blink 182
**Crazy Tuesday – TheNewNo2
**Bounce – The Cab
**Young – Hollywood Undead
**I’m gone I’m Going – Lesley Roy
Crushcrushcrush – Paramore
Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
**If I ain’t Got You – The Len Price 3
**Database Corrupted – Dealership
Baba O’riley – The Who
Call Me – Blondie
**Magnetic Baby – Semi Precious WeaponsSolid
This Ain’t a Scene – Fall Out Boy
**Give It To Me – Cockail Slippers
Wonderwall – Oasis
Snow (Hey Oh) – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sex Type Thing – Stone Temple Pilots
**Ashes To Fire – Ghost Hounds
**The Feeling – Kutless
**Sons and Daughters – The 88
Rock and Roll Band – Boston
More Than A Feeling – Boston
Beethoven’s C*** – Serj Tankian
Zero – Smashing Pumpkins
**Get It On – The Chevelles
**The Time is Wrong – Tickle Me Pink
Hammerhead – The Offspring
Message in a Bottle – The PoliceModerate
Move Along – All American Rejects
Saints of Los Angeles – Motley Crue
Inside The Fire – Disturbed
Afterlife – Avenged Sevenfold
Shockwave – Black Tide
Working Man – Rush
**I.V. – X Japan
**I Wanna Be Your Man – EndEverAfter
**Like a Fool – Shaimus
Hysteria – MuseChallenging
**Desperate Times, Desperate Measures – UnderOath
…And Justice for All – Metallica
**No Regrets – Authority ZeroNightmare
The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails
**Prequel to the Sequel – Between the Buried and MeI’ve noticed that several songs (the one that I can think of the name to is Margaritaville) is now missing from the Music Store – it was there this afternoon for 200 wii points.
For those who are about to rock (harder), wii salute you.
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I am Batman Pac-Man
Let’s stick with some gaming fun here. To follow up with the totally badass furniture that I showed last week, I have found some more cool Pac-Man stuff that I would love to own.
</a.First off, the Pac-Man Hoodie from Think Geek. If this doesn’t confuse people and earn you a hand full of cherries, an extra life and the all time high score, nothing will.
If that design made your headspin, you might be suffering from a Dot Overdose and need this shirt from Dead Zebra. Friends don’t let friends OD on Dots…But they do buy them the shirt.
And the last one for today (though not pac-man inspired) is the Most Deadly shirt from Busted Tees. You may recognize this from Perfect Dark (or maybe you don’t if you suck at it) but even the biggest lamer *cough DEL cough* can pretend to be old school now. -
Vampire Game
Vampire game
One of the only shojou manga I have ever read. Started reading not knowing it was shojou since I tend to keep away from them as they are targeted towards a female audience. Since it is a story mainly targeted at females, it has some story elements that I didn’t really like sometimes even though the overall story was really good.
Vampire Game is about the reincarnation of Vampire king, Duzell, who died 100 years ago in a fight with King Phelios who defeated him using a powerful spell that sacrifices the caster. Duzell vows to reincarnate after 100 years to get revenge and destroy the reincarnation of Phelios. Fast forward to the present: The descendants of King Phelios are all fighting for the throne, like you’d expect from any royal family. Princess Ishtar, the main character of the story, is 15 years old and currently first in line to the throne. She is a willful and troublesome princess, always causing trouble for her head bodyguard Darres. She escapes the palace one day as usual causing trouble only to happen upon the reincarnated Vampire King Duzell, who is in the body of a cat. She adopts the cat and promises to help him find the reincarnation of her ancestor Phelios so he can kill him. Through out the 15 volumes they set out to find who in the royal family is the reincarnation of King Phelios; all the while trying to stay ahead of power hungry royals aiming for the throne and Ishtar’s head. Full of political intrigue, Vampire game is a an excellent manga with lots of twits and turns to keep any reader entertained till the very end.
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Crysis
While most people are awaiting the release of Halo 3 for the 360. I’m not one of them screw Halo3 I want to play the Crysis demo that comes out the same day. FPS games on the PC are better cause of the mouse and keyboard over a controller for playing. Crysis from the makers of Farcry is one of the best looking FPS games on the PC with support for Direct X1o and multicore processor enhancements that are supposed to make it perform more fluidly on a 64bit OS. The teasers for the game are awesome with huge maps interactive scenery and hard AI that are difficult to kill. The demo is supposed to have a fully playable first level and a special surprise from the developers.
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Monkey Kick Off
Kick the ball, it’s fun. Here’s my best let’s see how good you can do.
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Final Conquest
So I’ve decided to attack Final Conquest to waste some time. I love this game. It’s risk, but it’s nice and quick. I love it. If somebody wants a game, come find jdwig of comment here.
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I’ll have my bags packed in the morning!
CNN.com – Beijing clinic ministers to online addicts – Jul 1, 2005
So I woke up this morning and came downstiars to find an article labled “Internet Addicted Youths Find Peace At Treatment Facility In Beijing” (above). So the way I see it…I’m being sent to Beijing! Woo hoo! Go Internet powers! Seriously though, it’s cool. I want to know what the ‘clear liquid’ is though that they give them. Knowing the government, it’s something to play with their brains. I want some
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