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One new feature on the new dashboard is the ability to create avatars. Gamesradar has a gallery of up of celebrity look a like avatars along with a competition on which system can create the best. Check both out below.
Celebrity Avatars
Celebrity Avatars Round 2
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This is a great montage video straight off Bungie's Blog its got great music and really shows what people can do nowadays. There's nothing left to say except HEADSHOT!
This is made from the Flash Game "Line Rider" some of you may have heard of it, this is dedicated to the history and future of Halo
I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I watched this and I ended up liking it a lot. If you can sit through the horrible music you will enjoy it as much as i did. Continue Reading»
The video above is similar to my other post about Dissdia, however this whole video was done with the replay editor that the game offers. This feature allows the player to edit any battle they would like and re-create their own cinematic experience. I feel this feature should be implemented in more games nowadays, especially now with all these user created videos you see from games like Halo 3 and Little Big Planet. Hopefully other publishers will catch on and see that gamers have brilliant minds and really can create amazing things. Continue Reading»
Who will be the next king of the iron fist tournament? I have no idea but after this trailer I'm sold. Continue Reading»
President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata says that the Nintendo Wii was a large success on Black Friday. How Big? It sold 800,000 units in one week. One Week. Lets just break that Down.
- That's more units sold in one week than the entire month of October.
- That's double the units sold in the same week last year.
- Nintendo makes 6$ a Wii, that means in one week alone they've made:
4,800,000
We'll have the full NPD numbers this Thursday.
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Could a Halo real time strategy game work? We'll all find out soon as Microsoft has just announced the release date. North America, South America, Canada, and Mexico will all get it on March 3rd. While Japan and the Asia Pacific regions will be getting the game on February 26th, and Europe the 27th. I'm still on the fence for this game, impressions have said that the game is easy to pick up and is a fun experience. But if it was really that good would Ensemble Studios be closing down after its release? Sounds like another case of Force Unleashed syndrome. Continue Reading»
The elusive Laque'nahak is the only Spirit Beast to date in the world of Azeroth and has beast master hunters across all servers going wild attempting to tame this cool looking cat. The ferocity spec beast has a special ability Spirit Strike (which has the moonfire animation) that does damage on hit and doubles in 10sec. The rare spawn also doubles as part of the achievement "Northern Exposure" which requires you to kill all rare spawns in Northrend, so if finding him isn't hard enough you'll have to compete with everyone trying to kill him for that and the 3 blue items he drops.
Upon hitting level 77 my hunt has begun and thus far has proved only frustrating. To all hunters heres the map I've been using showing the 3 usual spawn points for Loque.
Good hunting and good luck.
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I am a huge fan of the movie Pitch Black. It was a great movie and is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. Also I loved Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, and aside from Halo 1 & 2 it was undoubtedly my favorite game on the original Xbox. After watching this trailer I got chills because I have been waiting for a game like this for a very long time. I know the Chronicles of Riddick movie was kind of lame, but I love the story behind the main character Riddick and it seems they are expanding on it and I really couldn't ask for more. This trailer is awesome, enjoy! Continue Reading»
Been a while since a good Batman game has been out. This trailer looks pretty impressive. Enjoy Batman fans! Continue Reading»
Resident Evil 5 demo released on the Japanese marketplace yesterday, though if you don't have a Japanese account the demo hasn't released on American marketplace. But if you really want to partake here's how to get it.
Option A:
Download the Demo
- 1) Go Here, Download all 5 parts.
- 2) Unzip the main content folder
- 3) Burn the folder
- 4) Play
Create a Japanese Account
- Go here: http://www.passport.net/
- Sign up a new account, Click
"No, sign me up for a free MSN Hotmail e-mail address" - Pick JAPAN for your country
Pick Tokyo-to as your Prefecture
150-2345 for your zipcode - Keep going, and then have it set you up with a @hotmail.com address.
- Go to your 360, and create a new profile. Log in using your hotmail address on your 360, and it should set it to Japan.
- If this is less than your 4th trial account you get gold free, so select yes when it asks you.
These are just two I picked out, but so ashamed that he wouldn't even bring these games online. Ratio > Overall Score.
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It may have taken three years, but the day has finally come. Dave Dinowitz has finally lost his title for the highest gamerscore in the group. Oh how the mighty have fallen. I now lead the race with a whopping 21 more points than Mr. Dinowitz. Don't worry, I'll try not to rub it in too much.
Hail to the King baby. Continue Reading»
Hail to the King baby. Continue Reading»
Let's get this out of the way first. This is a bad movie. Not just bad. Pretty terrible in fact. Ok well now that that's out of the way.
Good:
- The Punisher. Ray Stevenson is a great Punisher. Stevenson looks just like Frank Castle's depicted in the comics. I never watched Rome but from what I've seen of him in Punisher he seems like a capable actor and a very good replacement for Thomas Jane. It's a shame though that he wasn't given more time to play with the character. Whenever the Punisher was on screen, it was a moderately entertaining movie and when he wasn't it had me wishing he was back.
- Art direction. The movie's dark and gritty and fits the Punisher universe very well.
- Violence. It's not the amount of violence. Its the absolute ridiculousness and over the top qualities of the violence in this movie. The things Frank Castle does in this movie makes the recent Rambo look fairly tame in comparison. I don't want to ruin anything but just know this, he breaks an old ladies neck. Yes you read that correctly. The Punisher breaks an old ladies neck. The amount of brutality that Castle inflicts on some of these guys is so bad you may have to look away in some parts and might even feel bad for some of them. When expecting the Punisher to just kill an enemy in a normal fashion, he goes above and beyond, at one time putting his fist through a man's face. Literally, he put it through a man's face. Waiting to see the next ridiculous, over the top kill was the only thing that kept me from leaving the theater.
- Humor? I'm not 100% sure this movie was supposed to be as funny as I found it. Thanks to the over the top violence, this was a very, very funny movie. It had a lot of dark humor to it, which fit the comic's feel well and I've never laughed so hard at people being destroyed in such brutal ways though I'm still not sure if that's necessarily a good thing.
- Newman. Yes Newman from Seinfeld plays Micro, the Punisher's tech and arms guy. It will take you by surpise at first and although it takes you out of the movie for a time, he ultimatley does a very good job of making you like the character.
- Middle of the movie. This is when the movie lost me. I'm able to suspend my disbelief if you give me crazy and impossible action scenes, but don't give me crazy action scenes and impossible scenarios, then try to get me take you serious all of a sudden by forcing me to watch stupid characters with bad dialogue .
- Looney Bin Jim. To his credit, Looney Bin Jim comes off as a very good impersonation of the Joker. Had the Joker been both homosexual and mentally retarded, it really would have been spot on. This character was just stupid to include in the movie for no purpose and after going through the entire movie, wanting a hideous, terrible death for this character, we are awarded with nothing.
- Urban Ninja Guys. There are three thugs in the movie who spend their screen time, doing flips and screaming. Not to mention the leader is a black meth head with dreads and a thick irish accent. Yeaaa... The only thing that is redeeming about these characters being in the movie at all is the fate that befalls them.
- Subplot. I didn't care that they got rid of this subplot involving terrorists bringing bioweapons into the city. What I did care about is that it's brought up as if it will be the main problem, then solved in the middle without the help of Frank Castle at all, and quickly forgotten. Don't waste my time with a pointless story trying to be relevant when I just payed 11 dollars to watch a pointless story about bad people being fucked up to all holy hell.
- Jigsaw-LBJ Relationship. Everytime these two brothers were on screen, they had me looking for any sharp object i could use to distract myself from the pain. Dialogue was terrible, their performances were terrible, and their relationship was just plain creepy, bordering on incestous.
- Not enough punishment. The creators of this movie decided, in their infinite wisdom, that viewers don't actually want to see the Punisher at all. They would much rather watch unfunny villians do and say unfunny things, all while doing nothing of consequence to actually futher the plot. Just showing Frank Castle kill a bunch of thugs in a gunfight doesn't do the character nearly as much justice as he deserves. Frank Castle is a killing machine yes but he's also a strategic genius and wages pyschological warfare as well as the violent kind. Criminals fear him more than any other superhero, including Batman. No one is feared like Frank Castle by the regular criminal because they've heard horror stories about what Castle has done to others and they know that they are next. Show the planning, show the fear, show everything the Punisher is in the comics. If you are going to adapt a comic book, at least be respectful to the character and what he does instead of just what he looks like.
In all, this was not a good movie. Terrible dialogue, terrible story, terrible characters. It really is a shame because the look and feel of Stevenson's Punisher does fit the comics very well. He just isn't given enough time to actually do anything with it. The only redeeming quality of this movie is the ridiculous violence and the pure shock value of seeing the Punisher truly go to work on some no name bad guys. The gruesome kills and over the top violence were almost enough to warrant the 11 dollar charge but instead, just take a pen, and jab it into your eye for an hour and a half because it is sure to be less painful than watching this piece of shit movie.
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This image just surfaced in famitsu and on kojimas website. I'm taking it with a grain of salt. Could it actually be?
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**Spoilers Ahead**
Good:
- Answers. Questions from issue #1 of New Avengers have finally been answered . Brian Michael Bendis had Secret Invasion in mind for more than 5 years, even before the first issue of New Avengers. Going back, one can see small hints in both the dialogue and art that many passed off as simply mistakes or didn't even notice at all.
- Tie-ins. If you just want to see your favorite heroes punch aliens in the face you can just read the main series but if you want more story to go along with it you also have the option of picking up a large number of tie-in issues. These help to flesh out the invasion. New and Mighty Avengers both gave more back story as to the Skrulls plans while others showed the battle going on around the globe. The best of the bunch were by far Captain Britain and the MI:13, Incredible Hercules, and Avengers: The Initiative.
- Art. The art and coloring is phenomenal. You'll find yourself going back again and again just to look at the pictures.
- Great action. Bendis really gives the reader a sense of a worldwide invasion instead of an isolated incident. Seeing all the Marvel heroes fighting alongside each other for the first time in years is a treat. Seeing the Marvel villains join in to fight the Skrulls alongside their enemies is something that is really cool to see.
- Characters are at their most bad ass. For some reason, when it comes to aliens, characters from the Marvel U don't see aliens as living creatures at all. Because of this, heroes who would never take a human life are seen slicing, stabbing, shooting, exploding, disentergrating, and breaking any green skinned freak unlucky enough to get in the way.
- Dark Reign. If nothing else, SI set the stage for a huge shake up in the Marvel Universe as Dark Reign begins to take over. The effects of Secret Invasion and Dark Reign will go on to last years to come.
Bad:
- X-men. For some reason, writers seem to put the X-men in their own universe outside of the regular Marvel U. while most Marvel heroes interact with each other frequently, the X-Men rarely if ever reference or interact with other heroes. Aside from their own SI mini, no mention of them was made in the regular series, even in a scene where multiple other battlefronts around the globe were being fought. It's frustrating as a fan when the only of the X-Men involved is the over used Wolverine.
- Pacing. SI has taken more than 9 months for every issue to come out. With most crossover events this is ok, in the story however, very little time has passed and it's annoying for readers to wait a whole month and see very little in terms of story progression. Because Bendis tries to show the vast scope of the invasion, very little time is spent on most of the incidents, and some aren't mentioned again for more than an issue.
- Issue #8. On one hand, issue 8 did exactly what it was supposed to do, it tied up all the loose end in the series and push us forward into Dark Reign. On the other hand though, it seemed very rushed. The huge cliffhanger from last issue was solved in the first three pages.
- Pricing. While I mentioned the tie-ins as one of the best parts about the event, it also got a bit rough on the wallet. While none of the tie-ins were essential reading to understanding the main series, it is if you want to know more than just the Skrulls are green and the heroes are going to punch them. New and Mighty Avengers both were the only place to actually find the reasons for the invasion in the first place. I don't want to complain to much about this because I enjoy having the option to pick and choose side stories I'm interested in, I gladly would have payed an extra couple dollars for them to make each of the SI issues Giant-sized and gotten more back story there.
- Skrull Sleeper Agents. While the idea of Skrulls having infiltrated all the major factions is intriguing, it also hits a snag in a very important spot. These are heroes that we want to root for. Telling us that our favorite hero wasn't actually the one doing all the heroic things for the past 4 years kind of takes away from them in my opinion.
Ugly:
- Captain America. Captain America has been the hero of all citizens of the the Marvel U, both ordinary and extraordinary, since WWII. Although a new person has filled Steve Rogers spot as Captain America, he is still the Captain America. I feel that he was done a huge disservice in this series by Bendis. Buck Barnes still hadn't officially come out of the super hero closet so to speak and this was to be the big reveal that he had taken over the red, white, and blue shield. I, along with many others were looking forward to seeing Cap take control of the different factions and lead them to victory. What did we get? Not even two sentences. Seriously. Not even two sentences.
- Nick Fury. Same deal with Cap. Marvel touted SI as Nick Fury's big return after years of exile. He would come to save the heroes of the Marvel Universe in their time of need. Nope. He shot a gun a couple of times. Acted like the grizzled war veteran he is and then fell back into place with the other under used heroes.
- Savage Land. The first issue ends with the heroes stranded in the Savage Land(AKA:Jungle) coming upon a crashed Skrull ship. Inside the ship, some of the same heroes in much older uniforms. Everyone turns on each other, not knowing which person is the imposter, the one from the ship or the one from their team. Not only does the whole encounter in the Savage Land take about 4 issues to long, none of the heroes from the ship turn out to be the real heroes, just Skrull imposters. While I wouldn't like to hear that for the last 30 years, the real hero had been held captive as an alien impersonated him, I did feel kind of cheated that there was no big reveal.
Afterthoughts:
All together, Secret Invasion was an enjoyable read with a few, if large mistakes. If looking for more than just action and fighting, look for some of the tie-in issues to help give your SI experience a more balanced feel. If nothing else, Secret Invasion is just dumb fun and sets the stage for much larger things to come.
Final Grade: B Continue Reading»
**Spoilers Ahead**
With Secret Invasion finally over, the heroes of the Marvel Universe will find the days to come dark ones. In the final issue of SI, as the heroes are closing in on the Skrull Empress, the person to score the kill shot is none other than Norman Osborn, AKA: The Green Goblin. Along with killing the leader of the invading force, he managed to do it in front of news cameras broadcasting around the world. Through both public and politcal manipulation, Osborn has found himself the hero and savior of the Marvel U. He is appointed head of all government agencies in place of the disgraced Tony Stark and goes about remaking the world his way. As of now the exact details have been scarce but what we do know is things are going to be getting very ugly for the Marvel Heroes. The details so far are:
*Osborn has put together a group of super villians to rule
*He has organized a new group of Thunderbolts to assasinate the president
*Iron Man has become the most wanted man in the world
*Osborn forms the Dark Avengers with a man calling himself the Iron Patriot as the leader who seems to be a cross between Iron Man and Captain America
*Wolverines son is also a member
*The New Captain America has become a member of the New Avengers
*S.H.I.E.L.D. has been disbanded and been replaced with H.A.M.M.E.R. Continue Reading»
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