Want to game with your friends, but their energy’s lagging? Put this on, break it down, and make it happen:

Shake it, Tink!

(Want to relive our night with The Guild? I know I do…)

…Just check out the video. (NSFW for language!)

Ahh, now that’s some good clean gaming fun, courtesy of Zaxy lady Kristina, and one of my BFFs Sara.

Now, I’m pretty excited to give the Kinect a try, but it’s because I know the Kinect isn’t meant for hard-core gamers. If you want to try out some new technology and have a good time, try it. If you want to play an intense game, it probably won’t be your console.

But I do love these videos, courtesy of LaughPong. I had the pleasure of being in some that will be released soon, such as Kinect: Dancing with the Hoff, and Kinect: Halo. Just wait.

Check out more Kinect spoofs at Youtube.com/laughpong and let me know what game YOU would want to see played on Kinect!

This kid’s parents decided to approach punishment with some creative parenting. That resulted in an almost “bragging rights” style of punishment for him.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not condoning or encouraging pot smoking or porn watching. But we all do some silly things in our lives, and eventually get punished (unless you’re me: I was a perfect angel/favorite child and never got in trouble. Or at least that’s how I remember it). Any time my brother got punished (because once again, I was the perfect angel), I remember that my parents couldn’t send him to his room because he had a computer, tv, and multiple game systems available. Who wouldn’t want to hide out in their room?

How do/did you get punished, and how did your parents/guardians avoid the whole “access to technology and sweet games” part of groundings?

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

• July 17–18 Manhattan, NY Macy’s
• July 20–22 East Falmouth, MA Barnstable County Fair
• July 24–25 Manhattan, NY Seaport-Lower Manhattan Entertainment Area
• July 28–Aug. 1 Washington, DC Six Flags America
• Aug. 4–6 Canton, OH Football Hall of Fame – Rib Burnoff
• Aug. 7–8 Canton, OH Football Hall of Fame Festival Weekend
• Aug. 11–15 Chicago, IL Air Show/Navy Pier
• Aug. 19–21 Detroit, MI Woodward Dream Cruise – Auto Festival
• Aug. 26–30 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
• Aug. 30–Oct. 24 Tampa, FL Westfield Citrus Park Shopping Mall
• Sept. 3–6 Indianapolis, IN Rib America Festival
• Sept. 10–13 Nashville, TN Tennessee State Fair
• Sept. 15–16 Atlanta, GA Atlantic Station – Entertainment Plaza
• Sept. 18–19 Atlanta, GA Atlanta Arts Festival
• Sept. 23–26 Charlotte, NC Festival in the Park
• Oct. 1–2 Orlando, FL Disney Wine and Dine Marathon
• Oct. 8–10 Valdosta, GA Wild Adventures Theme Park
• Oct. 14–17 Dallas, TX Texas State Fair
• Oct. 21–24 Shreveport, LA Louisiana State Fair

West Coast

• July 15–Aug. 22 Minneapolis, MN Mall of America
• July 25–26 San Diego, CA Youth Surf Cup – Soccer
• July 28–Aug. 1 Sacramento, CA California State Fair
• Aug. 6–8 Portland, OR Bite of Oregon Food Festival
• Aug.10–11 Seattle, WA Woodland Park Zoo
• Aug. 13–15 Seattle, WA Taste of Edmonds – Food Festival
• Aug. 19–22 Vancouver, BC Summerfest
• Aug. 27–Sept. 1 Pueblo, CO Colorado State Fair
• Sept. 3–6 Denver, CO Elitch Gardens
• Sept. 9–12 Albuquerque, NM New Mexico State Fair
• Sept. 16–19 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fair
• Sept. 24–26 Los Angeles, CA Universal City Walk
• Oct. 1–3 San Diego, CA Miramar Air Fest
• Oct. 7–11 San Francisco, CA Fleet Week – Military Ship and Air Festival
• Oct. 15–17 Phoenix, AZ Arizona State Fair
• Oct. 20–24 Las Vegas, NV PBR World Finals

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 27^th, 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.

Buzzfeed has an amazing list of the “Coolest Painted Video Game Consoles”, which got me thinking: How many people actually decorate their consoles?

I think if I had the time and artistic talent, it would be awesome, but I happen to lack both of those things.

Here are some of my faves from the list:

Mario Wii (Love the pipe to hold the Wiimote!)

Awesome PS1 (But why do people keep shooting at it!?)

Zelda NES

Have you decorated your console? Send us a pic! Put it in the comments, submit it to our Facebook page, or email it to tara@zaxy.com.

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.

I’m sure most of you are aware of Blizzard’s Real ID fiasco that has been taking place over the past week or so, but if not, let me give it to you in a nutshell. As a part of Real ID, users posting to Starcraft II and World of Warcraft forums would be required to use their real names. No longer would the security of posting anonymously under dragonXslayer45487878941594 be an option.

Blizzard pretty much stated their forums are becoming a trolling, flame war-ing haven and “Removing the veil of anonymity”   is a way of curbing all of that inevitable nonsense.

Speaking of inevitable, people were NOT fans of the idea and immediately began flooding the forums with disapproval for Real ID, worried about their personal safety and exposure to the internet creepers out there.

As part of their protest, people were also sending complaints via email to the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB).  

Well, Blizzard listened, and ultimately retracted the Real ID policy.

And the ESRB, being the golden child that it is, proceeded to alert those that had emailed them that the Real ID biz was no more. Unfortunately, the ‘reply all’ button was pressed, and ultimately over a thousand email addresses were exposed.

Gotta love irony.

Hey guys—

I recently added an amazing game to my collection.  As much as I wish I could say this game draped itself in bubble wrap, sealed itself in an envelope, sprouted wings and flew to my doorstep, the sad truth is that I actually had  to shell out a decent amount of mullah for it.

I figured we could have a little fun, so I took a picture of the cover art and cropped out a piece. Any ideas as to what it is?

I’m sure some of you seasoned vets can identify this one rather easily. But if not, I’ll continue to drop hints throughout the week!

Take a look at the video of my and Britt’s experience at the Red, White, and Dead walk in Fremont. It was so much fun!

The Dr. Pepper guy was my fave.

Take a look at Britt’s post for pics from the event here!

What object would you go for in Dead Rising? (Hint: The handgun is not a good choice.)

I don’t know what you guys have planned this weekend, but Brittney and I are going to do something AMAZING:

The Red, White, and Dead Zombie Walk in Fremont!

(Last year’s event. Holy zombies everywhere, Batman!)

Seattle had the world record for largest zombie gathering, but some music festival in England narrowly stole it from us. We’re going to take it back, and we’re hoping to get 10,000 zombies to be in one place at one time!

Brittney and I will be hanging out, decked out in zombie garb. We’ll be playing Dead Rising 2, watching zombie fashion shows (I didn’t know zombies cared so much about their looks!), dancing to Thriller, and just rocking out, undead style.

Come join us! We’ll be tweeting/vlogging throughout the event, and would love to hang with you.

You can register online for only $3 here (and skip the huge line tomorrow) or you can register for $5 at the door. By registering, your name will be sent to the Guinness World Records as part of the largest zombie event!

Zombies not your thing? Then go see Kristina sing some Harry Potter rock in Bellevue!
Details:
July 3 – 6:30pm
Lewis Creek Park Visitors Center
5808 Lakemont Blvd.
Bellevue, WA 98009
$10 – ALL AGES

We hope to see you this weekend, and wish you all a fun (and safe) 4th of July! Seriously, don’t blow yourself up with modded fireworks. I know how you guys are…