Rapping Games [1 comment]

Tara

I am genuinely impressed with the quality of these video game inspired rap videos by Hi I’m Rawn. Check out ones for Mario, Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Pokemon below:

(Source: Geekologie)

Zaxy Girls play ‘Just Dance’! [3 comments]

Kristina

Hello lovely Zaxy audience!

Before you throw tomatoes at me for not posting nearly all summer, I want you to know that… I’m now going to make a bunch of excuses about how I was traveling every week, went to three different web-related conferences, spent some time with my elderly grandparents, and in general didn’t have enough time for the Internet. So, okay. Throw tomatoes. But at least I’m back now!

My first order of business upon re-rentering the world of regular Zaxy posting is to bestow upon you a gift from the mystical world of Zaxy Sleepovers. And to embarrass myself and fellow bloggers.

Here is a video of the three of us playing ‘Just Dance’ earlier this year – the footage was sitting on my hard drive all this time, just asking to be posted online for the public to see. I personally have no shame, but the other girls had no idea this existed until recently. *evil grin*

As you can see, dancing may not exactly be our forte when it comes to video games. But at least none of us straight up fell over, or pulled a muscle, or exploded from exhaustion am I right? AM I RIGHT? I heard that’s a thing. Exploding. From exhaustion.

It’s nice to be back, Zaxy crew. I’ll see you again soon, I promise.

(Secret note from Tara: Want to see more of us dancing ridiculously? Then donate to Extra Life and tune in to our livestream on October 15th!)

The Day You Knew Would Come is Here: Duke Nukem… [4 comments]

Tara

..is delayed.

I’m really bummed, but not because I’m excited for the game. I had this awesome April Fool’s Day prank planned where I’d tell you all that it was delayed (I had a fake press release and everything). And now that’s ruined for me. Hmph.

Place your bets here… when do you think it will ACTUALLY come out?

Dead Island trailer brings a tear to my eye. [9 comments]

Kristina

So I enjoy a good zombie game as much as the next person, but never have I shed a tear at a video game before.

This trailer released today for “Dead Island” pulls at my heartstrings in a way I didn’t even know zombie video games could. See for yourself.

I just… someone pass me a tissue. And an Xbox controller.

Can You Solve These Gaming Puzzles? [12 comments]

Tara

This has been floating around for a week now, so apologies if you already saw it:

All of these puzzles are names of video games. How many can you solve? Put your answers in the comments: I’ll post all of the answers in a week!

(Source: Geeks are Sexy)

Extra Life Recap [3 comments]

Tara

A giant thank you to everyone who supported Britt and I during our quest to play video games for 24 hours straight. Whether you donated, played along, visited us, or chatted with us on our livestream, all of the support we received was amazing and an excellent motivation to keep on playing. Especially at 5am when things started getting rough.

(A bit of our livestream when Michael Robles was over teaching us Magic)

And now: My recap of some of my favorite happenings. Probably not in correct time order, as the whole 24 hours is one jolly sleepy blur in my mind.

-I played L4D for the first time. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m still getting the hang of FPS, but I don’t think I was too awful! Zombies are scary, man. And the witch totally killed me. Twice.

-Michael Robles of WOTC visited, and showed Britt and I how to play Magic: The Gathering, thanks to the Xbox Live game, Duels of the Planeswalkers. Their tutorial was really good and I’m excited to try an actual card game! A bunch of my guy friends (Forest, Zach, Alexander, and one of Zach’s friends) hung out and played some Magic cards while Britt and I got back to more video games. We also chatted a bit about all of our new fave thing: Gamma World. Be on the lookout for a review in the next day or so!

-Jim from Kirby Krackle visited with goodies in hand. We played some Guitar Hero. Apologies to those watching while I stumbled through my first couple tries with the game. I’m good at finding beats and rhythm in songs, but something about music-based games freak me out. Those dots coming up… I just get flustered. Which is why I hadn’t played much of Guitar Hero, DDR, or Rock Band before. But let me just say: By the time 7:30am came along, I was slowly getting the hang of it. I’m still not ready to go off “Easy”, but I at least know what I’m doing and how to hit the notes!

-Seattle Geekly stopped by and brought along Brunswick Bowling for PS3 Move. They were pros! Bowling was a nice, calm yet active break from our other gaming. We also did a bit of “Just Dance”, as neither of them had tried it before. Matt didn’t want to have anything to do with it, but ended up rocking with the high score!

-Fire Alarm. While Seattle Geekly was over, the fire alarm in my building went off. We all evacuated. Britt started grabbing all of her consoles and throwing them in a box so she could take them with her. I grabbed my DS so we could continue gaming while we were outside. I didn’t want our 24 hours of gaming to not count due to a fire-related technicality! It turned out a baby on the 2nd floor grabbed the alarm, and there was no fire. Or as the chatters on our Ustream said, we were “pwned by a baby”.

-Just Dance: Happy Feet Style. My friend Lisa stopped by, dressed as a penguin. Apparently she just finished shopping for her Halloween costume and got cold, so she put it on. Ustreamers were loving this, so we had her “Just Dance” as a penguin. Gifs were made. Lisa is now internet famous.

As the night went on, our energy declined. We tried a couple fun things to stay awake, including playing Resident Evil while blasting pop songs. We beat a giant snake while listening to Britney Spear’s “Toxic”, and listened to songs like “Backstreet’s Back”, “Bye Bye Bye” and “Genie in a Bottle” while blasting the heads off of zombies.

We kept playing Just Dance, Guitar Hero, and even a bit of Wii Yoga near the very end of the night to keep moving. Even though Britt looked like she was gonna kill me if I didn’t let her get some sleep.

If you wanted to donate but didn’t get the chance, you still can. Extra Life will be accepting donations until November 15, 2010. They’ve already earned over $430,000…. I’d love to see what us geeks can do in the next couple weeks!

Hope to see you all next year!

Tara and Britt on Ustream [Add a comment]

Tara

Britt and Tara are playing video games for 24 hours straight for Extra Life! Check out our livestream here!

Want to donate to us or our team throughout the night? You can do that here!

See you on Ustream!

Britt and Tara earn Extra Lives! [3 comments]

Tara

On October 16th, something pretty big is going to happen.

Britt and I, along with gamers all over the world, are going to be playing video games for 24 HOURS.

This sounds like a good idea now. But honestly guys, I get sleepy at like 11pm. I start to get fussy at around 1am. We will be staying up from 8am to 8am. Time to start stockpiling the energy drinks and caffeinated candy.

So why are we doing this? It’s part of Extra Life, a marathon that raises money for local children’s hospitals. Which means we’re playing video games. For the children.

Want to help us? Go to my or Britt’s page and pledge to donate $1 an hour (that’s $24 total). We’ll make it worth your while with live tweets, pics, and vlogs during the day. Britt’s bringing her consoles over to my apartment and we’ll be playing a little bit of everything. And you better believe there will be “Just Dance” breaks to keep us moving!

Want to join the effort? Sign up here and join the “Zaxy” team!

We look forward to raising money, playing games, and pounding back the Rockstars. We hope you can join us!

Pass me my Sonic Screwdriver! [4 comments]

Kristina

So, most of us will never be swept off our feet by the Doctor, pulling us from our lives of mediocrity into the exciting adventures he goes on every day in outer space. Many of us will never step foot inside the magical machine that is the Tardis. But now BBC Worldwide have announced the next best thing being brought to Earth by Asylum Entertainment:

Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth for the Nintendo DS and Doctor Who: Return to Earth for the Wii.

Nothing much else has been said about gameplay (whether we’ll be fighting Dalek’s, learning to drive the Tardis, or dressing up Amy Pond in the Doctor’s closet full of period appropriate costumes is still a mystery) but it does sound like the games will be based on the most recent season featuring Matt Smith as the Doctor.

I don’t know about you, but when it comes to a WiiMote, I’m thinking “sonic screwdriver”?

Hey! I’m Brittney. [8 comments]

Brittney

What’s up guys? Along with Kristina, I am the newest addition to Zaxy (although it appears some of you already figured that out)!

Yeah, yeah…Brittney=Britney Spears. Blah blah I didn’t do it again and don’t hit me one more time.

I know that was awkward, but it was necessary. Trust me.

Now that THAT is out of the way…

In the way that Tara and Kristina have labeled and introduced themselves, I shall do the same. My name is Brittney (or Britt5091 as the internet knows me), and I am a geek.

Although I sincerely enjoy Anime, Manga and am JUST now getting my feet wet with comics (just about to finish The Walking Dead compendium!), my forte and all-access pass into this great land of Geek is my obsession and passion with videogames and the industry as a whole.

Long story short—I’ve been prancing around in Videogamedom ever since I can remember. My grandma and almost every other female on my dad’s side of the family is a gamer, and I was fortunate enough to inherit the gene. Needless to say, our family gatherings are hardly ever dull ;)

(I’ve been playing since you were in diapers, boy.)

Like Tara mentioned earlier, this year has been exceptionally exciting for me as not only did I fly across the country for PAX East, I was recently able to fill a lifetime goal of going to E3. Believe it or not, actually experiencing E3 in person is a million times better than watching conferences via laggy websites and reading news via live blogs. Who woulda thunk it?!

Anyway, I’m SO very excited to be joining Zaxy and to share my gaming knowledge and thoughts and hear all of yours. I tend to be amazed and distracted by pretty, shiny objects, so be sure to expect some randomness out of me as well!