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This is addicting. Enjoy.
Archaeologists will find this one day, and think this is an accurate depiction of our culture. And sadly, they’ll be right. I’m a bit concerned. Now excuse me as I go watch this video again.
How many of these clips have you seen before?
So, I was initially brought on to Zaxy as the official Harry Potter girl, but aside from trying to make you all jealous with stories of how I’ve already been to the acclaimed HP theme park, I have very little in the way of news from the Boy Who Lived.
However! For those of you who are looking for something similar in literary awesomeness and suspense, the final installment in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games comes out tonight at midnight, and Harry Potter fans everywhere are looking at their wands and cloaks with nostalgia as they prepare for their Hunger Games midnight release parties.
The Hunger Games is a fantastic series set in a dystopian future where the Capitol keeps the remaining twelve districts in fear by forcing them to offer two child tributes each year to compete in the Games, an area-style battle royal where twelve to eighteen year olds fight each other to the death while their families and friends at home are forced to watch on television.
If you ever liked Harry Potter, I’d suggest giving this trilogy a try. And if you see the girl in the Slytherin cloak waiting in line for her copy tonight, that’s me. Old habits die hard.
Hey guys, I just had to share this with my fellow zombie lovers.
My parents just returned from a week long roadtrip, and I had been watching their house in the meantime.
In exchange for the hard, excruciating work of watering plants and feeding a cat, my mom said she had found something for me in a little shop during their travels.
Let me just say, ladies and gentlemen, my life is now complete.
Excuse me while I go into a juvenile fit of giggling rage as I play with mister zombie. I can’t WAIT to test this guy out.
Anyone that knows me knows that I love garage sales. In fact, it’s kind of a summer tradition for my family to devote an entire morning and afternoon once every weekend to them.
I’m not on the lookout for antiques, lamps, or old paintings. No, those things are boring. When I go to garage sales, I have one clear, distinct motive.
Any guesses? I’ll give you a hint.
They usually go PEW PEW PEW!
Yes, I am a garage sale connoisseur, and let me show you some of my spoils of war thus far.
When I saw Suikoden II selling for a few bucks, it took everything I had not to burst out in the worlds loudest SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!! I mean, have you SEEN how much it sells for on ebay?
I played NBA Jam and Goof Troop ALL the time when I was younger. You could say I bought them for nostalgic reasons, and also because they are simply awesome. I can’t wait for NBA Jam to hit the Wii (and from the looks of it, 36o and PS3).
Not too shabby considering I’ve gotten all of these games for under 20 bucks. There are other games I’ve picked up ( like F.E.A.R. 2 and Resident Evil 5) but have been boxed up and put under my bed in preparation for my future game room.
…okay, that’s a lie. They are boxed up because I have no freakin’ room for them anymore. But the game room is a thing that is happening. Trust me. I daydream about it.
Anyone else do the whole garage sale shindig? If you do, I can give you hintz ;)
To win your way into a geeky girl’s heart, there are numerous options, such as:
Or you could do this.
DAWWW. Any respectable girl can appreciate that.
Check out Tim Stone’s Twitter feed for the actual tweet.
As I sit here wishing I were in San Diego for Comic-Con, I decided that Tara, Kristina and I need to start raising money or SOMETHING to get our arses there next year. Of course, this will require us to work. Not that we don’t have day jobs already, but I’m trying to think of other ways to make mullah besides bake sales, car washes and the like.
…And yes, I know what half of you are probably thinking right now. And making money that way is just not a viable option.
Anyway…
I then got to thinking. If ONLY making money in real life were like making money in videogames. Things would be so much easier.
Or would it?
Making Gil in Final Fantasy titles is relatively easy. All I would need to do is wander the world in search of ginormous, menacing beasts and swing something to the extent of a sword at them. Slay the beast, get gil. And if luck were on my side, I may stumble upon a treasure chest.
Grand Theft Auto also crossed my mind, but was dismissed rather quickly as I don’t want to go to prison for murder, assault, robbery, burglary and of course, GTA convictions
Then it hit me. I may be deadly with a weapon in the virtual world, but in real life I’d be lucky if I could haul something like the Buster Sword around. So I thought of less violent ways.
What about Link? How does he fill his wallet with rupees? Be it bushwhacking, treasure hunting in the ocean, collecting insects, or storming the villagers’ homes and smashing their pots against the wall, there is always a way for that guy to make bank. Sure, he battles drooling Deku Baba’s and fire-breathing Dodongos to get cash from time to time, but I could bypass that.
Oh! What about Harvest Moon? I could slave away at the ranch for hours and grow crops and raise livestock. But that would be extremely, uh, BORING.
There are so many other ways to make Gil, Rupees, Gold, etc…but if I had to choose from these four examples, I would have to go Link’s route. Slashing brush and breaking people’s decorative house wear is not my cup of tea, but it’s definitely better than going to prison, getting a farmer’s tan or stabbed by 1000 needles from a Cactuar.
Meh…
It looks like I might be washing cars or baking cookies in the near future.
What’s your favorite way to make money in the gaming universe?
Working in an office completely void of anything videogame related (and I mean completely void) I have to make do with what I have so that it feel like gaming has a presence… at least in my cubicle.
Call me obsessed, but it keeps me sane.
The power up mushroom, NES controller and PSP are all mint/candy containers. The 360, PS3 and Wii are gift card holders, and the lil’ Dissidia Zidane I purchased while I was in LA for E3.
After returning from Los Angeles last month I still had E3 swag and badges in my bag. So I thought, meeeh, they’re just going to sit in boxes at home or get thrown away, so I’ll hang up my media badge and Activision preview event badge as well. Every… day…I stare… and long… to go back….
I have some other miscellaneous crap up there like a ZomBcon card as well as a Nintendo calendar.
As much as I would LOVE to bring other collectibles from home, people have reported things being stolen off desks. Taking a mint container is one thing, but if my replica Hyrule sword/shield combo goes missing I might go batshit ><
But even with all of my junk hanging on the wall, I have a void space above my left monitor. Anyone have any ideas of what to put there? I’d love to duct tape a live Moogle to it or something, but let’s be realistic. They are way too hard to catch.
Do you have anything geeky/dorky/nerdy in your work area? If so, pics or it didn’t happen! (Okay fine, you can just describe it).
Who needs drama sitcoms or reality shows when you can sit back, relax and watch developers and publishers alike lash out at each other?
<3.
Last week’s episode of Gaming Industry Drama consisted of Double Fine’s Tim Schafer calling Activision’s Bobby Kotick a “total prick” in a Eurogamer interview, for which he later apologized for, not before referencing to Kotick as Darth Vader. Remember that Brutal Legend publishing fiasco? Enough said.
There was also that juicy bonus episode where Cliff Harris of Positec Games became extremely ticked off at Epic’s Mark Rein due to comments Rein made during a panel that Harris was a part of at the Develop Conference in Brighton.
Harris and three other panel members were discussing marketing techniques for indie titles. Rein was not a part of this panel, just an audience member in the front row, but proceeded to open his “big mouth” and give his conflicting opinion. This resulted in Harris making a blog post in which he stated he “resented having some triple-a studio jerk come and tell someone whose run a microstudio for thirteen years that he is doing it all wrong”, and concluded with “Triple-A studio bosses trying to lecture me on how to communicate better with gamers? Fuck off.”
This week, we have Glenn Schofield of Sledgehammer games calling out EA. Back history: Glenn Schofield was a part of the subsidiary of EA, Visceral games, before he and Michael Condrey left to form Sledgehammer Games, which Activision owns.
Because all battles are best fought via Twitter, Schofield tweeted the following:
“Wow, a year ago today I left EA. What a day that was. They really treated me like shit even after creating Dead Space 4 them.”
And later…
“Seems my tweet got some attention. Didn’t mean to. But after a year of EA bashing us it’s good to get it off my chest.”
Well, there you go. Do you really want to know what it feels like to be treated like “shit”? Go talk to Infinity Ward. I’m sure the employees of Respawn Entertainment also have some old stories to tell.
Granted, specific reasons why Schofield was treated poorly weren’t given, so who knows.
Something tells me we haven’t heard the last of it.
If you live in the United States and simply cannot wait until November to try Kinect, you may be in luck. Select Macy’s (of all places) nationwide will have Kinect available for your body flailing pleasure. Random, out of the blue places will be hosting Kinect as well. What better way to burn off those calories from the Taste of Edmonds-Food Festival than to play Dance Central, amirite?
Check out the list:
East Coast
West Coast
If you can go to one of these, and are remotely intrigued by Kienct, I would encourage you to check it out. I went body-on with Joy Ride and Kinect Adventures at E3, and while it was exactly what you would expect, it was quite amusing.
Also, apparently starting July 27th, if you go to www.macys.com/glamorama you can enter to win a free Kinect. But I wouldn’t recommend going there now—you’ve been warned.
And we have legitimate, muscular proof.
Enter the Old Spice guy. You know, the one always flirting with your girlfriend via television?
Well he’s a pretty big deal, and his commercials make me giggle every time. In fact, he is such a big deal that he’s now responding to random questions and comments directed towards him via Twitter and YouTube.
Enter Cliff Bleszinski, aka Cliffy B (don’t hurt me) aka DUDE HUGE of Epic Games. He also joined in on the fun and sent Mr. Old Spice the following question via twitter:
“Do you do everything with your shirt off? Like, drive to the supermarket? Because I usually do.”
Check out the video response:
I friggen’ love this guy.
