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eRepublik: The New World

Posted By Jeff On June 8, 2009 @ 8:33 pm

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.

Tags: erepublik, game, online, political, real-time

Monday, June 8th, 2009 Gaming No Comments

Games: Battle of the Bands

Posted By Jeff On January 15, 2009 @ 9:21 am

As promised last week, today we’re going to take a look at
Battle of the Bands for 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 nintendo wii coverart
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.

Battle of the bands nintendo wii gameplay
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.

Tags: Battle of the Bands, cheap, game, games, guitar hero, Music, nintendo, Nintendo Wii, rhythm, Rock Band, THQ, Wii, wiimote

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 Gaming No Comments

Rock Band 2 Update – Downloadable Content Comes to the Wii!

Posted By leanna On January 13, 2009 @ 7:21 pm

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 **):

WarmUp
Time is Running Out – Papa Roach
Simple Man – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Buddy Holly – Weezer

Apprentice
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 Weapons

Solid
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 Police

Moderate
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 – Muse

Challenging
**Desperate Times, Desperate Measures – UnderOath
…And Justice for All – Metallica
**No Regrets – Authority Zero

Nightmare
The Perfect Drug – Nine Inch Nails
**Prequel to the Sequel – Between the Buried and Me

I’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.

Tags: Add new tag, Blondie, DLC, DLC January, Downloadable Content, game, harmonix, Jimmy Buffett, Lesley Roy, mario, Metallica, MTV Games, Music Store, nintendo, Paramore, Rock Band 2, rock band wii, Rock Band Wii Shop, RockBand2, The Who, Wii, Wii Points

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 Gaming, Leanna Land No Comments

Vampire Game

Posted By Del On October 2, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

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.

Tags: cat, Comedy, delhomme, Family, Fantasy, game, Manga, reincarnation, royal, shoujou, throne, Vampire

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Delville, Other No Comments

Monkey Kick Off

Posted By Jeff On May 18, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

Kick the ball, it’s fun. Here’s my best let’s see how good you can do.
Monkey Kick Off

Tags: flash, game, Kick, Monkey

Friday, May 18th, 2007 Gaming No Comments

Final Conquest

Posted By Jeff On August 6, 2005 @ 11:30 pm

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. :D

Tags: Blogathon, conquest, final, game, risk

Saturday, August 6th, 2005 Blogathon '05 No Comments

Emo Day

Posted By Jeff On June 28, 2005 @ 5:32 am

Thanks to Ashley, Today is Emo Day. Yes today will be anything and everything Emo. Lets hope in rains so I can wear my black hoodie and I’ll carry around my laptop bag and act all depressed. Yeah, ok I won’t do that because it’s way too damn hot out, even if it does rain. But it was a nice thought huh? Anyway, check out the Emo-tastic links below.

Emo Farm
How to be Emo
Emogame!

That is all.

Tags: bored, emo, game, how to, smoething

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 Geeking No Comments

Typing of the Dead

Posted By Jeff On January 22, 2005 @ 12:37 am

Oh my god, this is awesome! Basicly, you’re fighting off zombies with a keyboard. It’s first-person typer. When a zombie shows up, it has a word on it. You type that word and it’s like shooting the zombie and he dies. Yeah, I know you’re thinking “Wow, that sounds stupid”. Well I’ll tell you, I was thinking that, but tried it anyway and I was SOOOO wrong. It’s got action and I know that my typing speed is improving. Now I only have the demo, but I plan on buying teh full game ASAP. It really is great. If you don’t listen to anything else, listen to this and try it out. after you try it, leave me some comments.
For info on Typing of the Dead, check out THIS SITE.

OK, site stuff. I put up the hostee/hosting page as well as the Terms & Conditions for the hosting. For those who I’m already hosting, your packages will not be changed, but those Terms and Conditions are now in effect.
The rest will be up Monday or so. I’m mentally writing what it is that will be there. By mentally I mean I’ll wake up at 4 am or so and write all out on paper scraps.

As for me now: I’m not sure. Today has been a pretty good day. I got all that I set out to do done on the site, I found $6while cleaning my room (and blew it all on hobo credits), I got contacted about a job that I have to call about on Monday and I had Wendy’s for supper. So it was a good day. First call-back for a job that I want is the best thing this week to my memory (which isn’t saying much). Yep, that’s it now.

I’m done. Have a good weekend and look forward to Monday.

Edit: Woo hoo, 100th post for Blogging for Apples on ShirtNinja.net !

Tags: Dead, game, spelling, Typing, Zombies

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 Eggo Estates, Gaming, Site Related No Comments
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