Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 Firmware Update Idea April 17, 2010
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Playing older games from the PS1, PS2 or Xbox on a new widescreen HDTV sucks pretty bad, as the style at the time was to display all cutscenes in non-anamorphic widescreen. It worked for 4:3 tvs, but serves to do nothing but make even less image visible on a modern HDTV. Here’s the problem, and my possible solution. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, please hear my pleas.
A firmware update where the unit will automatically zoom into a frame to the edge of the image when it detects black bars on the top and bottom of the screen would be more than adaquate for HDTV owners.
Splinter Cell Conviction Unboxing April 13, 2010
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Well I just had to pick one up given the pre-release controversy. I got it for $60! A special edition! That was not ten lower than what the price was supposed to be, it was twenty dollars lower than what the price was supposed to be. So that was pretty good at buttering me up for how bad this was going to be. Take a look with me while I do an unboxing of the game.
What did we learn from all this? DISCS ARE GOOD! USE DISCS!
Splinter Cell Conviction Coming Tuesday, CE Reduced Price April 11, 2010
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I’ve posted before about my passing interest in Splinter Cell Conviction. I have played this game since it’s inital release on the PC, after I got back from my year spent in California it was one of the first games I picked up. I also picked up Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory on their respective launch days, but when Double Agent came out, I started losing my interest in the series as a whole given the major changes to it. It looks like those changes are going even further with this next game, as they’re extending to major gameplay alterations (IE, the killing is now open season, opposed to being bad).
I picked up a preorder of the Collector’s Edition on a whim, hoping to just get it to get a decent CE. Splinter Cell has done Collector’s Editions since Chaos Theory, that being cross platform (every platform had it’s own CE) and Double Agent being 360 exclusive (they were trying to get people to buy 360s at the time). I really liked the Chaos Theory CE if just for the tin box, the extra Splinter Cell 1 levels for PC, and the Mega 64 Videos (“H2 No! H2 No!”), but the Double Agent CE, at it’s 70 dollar price seemed like a lot of fluff pieces, it’s only rewarding feature being the interview with the actual american splinter cell.
Well it turns out that the Conviction CE has gotten a pre-release price drop to 70 dollars US due to the usb’s sticks having a high level of failure. Since I already have my five dollars down paying 65 doesn’t sound as bad. I’m suprised that they bothered to lower the price, it’s not like defective CE’s have stopped publishers before. I remember the DVDs in Chaos Theory being defective without their SC1 levels (although they later made the levels downloadable to anyone who filed a tech support issue), and I can remember the Big Daddies in Bioshock’s CE being cracked and damaged, but those were replaced free of charge (and anyone with a broken Big Daddy got a free artbook, lucky bastards).
Until Tuesday, you Splinter Cell fans can just salivate over this, a training video for perspective splinter cells. Enjoy.
What Makes for a Good Collector’s Edition? April 2, 2010
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After the terrible review I gave of the God of War III Ultimate Edition, I picked up the Bioshock 2 Special Edition at a discounted price and ended up liking it a lot. Then I asked myself, what is it that makes a good CE and what makes for a bad one? I have no shortage of CE’s to review, so come take a look at the very wide collection of CEs I have, and with it, see the history of Collector’s Editions.
Also, due to YouTube constraints I had to sadly cut some scenes from the video, where I took a look at two other premium Collector’s Editions that I owned, the Batman Arkham Asylum CE and the Halo 3 Legendary Edition.
God of War III Ultimate Edition Unboxing and Walkthrough March 24, 2010
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This is the God of War III Ultimate Edition. In the United States it costs $100 and as far as I know has sold out everywhere. Check it out with me will you?
As far as I can tell there is no reason why the majority of the content could not have been included on physical media such as CDs or Blu-Rays. The box could’ve easily fit them. It’s not like when they were released online it made it any better. The music CD retrieval site was completely down for most of the time I tried getting them, and you already know about all the trouble I went through trying to get the Uncovering the Legend documentary.
In short, if you didn’t get this, you saved $40, don’t kick yourself.
God of War III Release Night March 24, 2010
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As promised, I was there for the midnight release of God of War III, unfortunatly, not many other people were.
What follows is what happened that night. Very little turnout, it was extremely dissapointing for such a major release, but there were many factors working against it. It was in the middle of the week, and the weather was quite cold.
Here’s what I was able to shoot. Expect more site videos soon!
Splinter Cell Conviction Unlike Any Splinter Cell Before! March 23, 2010
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Currently on Xbox Live, the Splinter Cell Conviction Demo is avalible for download. The last time we jumped into Sam Fisher’s shoes was in 2006 with the release of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, a game which broke all of the rules in the well established Splinter Cell formula. Now he returns in the upcoming Splinter Cell Conviction, and it looks like the rule book has been completely reworked.
The demo contains one part of one level. The level demoed has not been seen before in any of the previews that I’m familiar with, however it started with something I had seen before, and that was the bathroom interrogation, previously seen at E3 2009.
Splinter Cell Conviction will release for Xbox 360 and PC in April. Warning: The PC version will contain the incredibly stupid UBIsoft DRM which made Assasin’s Creed 2 unplayable for all users.
For those of you who can’t wait for the release here’s a promotional video that we have done for it.
What I did when the PS3s Were Busted March 4, 2010
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On the first of March, no original style (non-slim) PS3 worked well. This espessially hit hard the people playing Heavy Rain who either were trying to finish the game, or replaying it for further trophies. So what is a guy to do on a day he can’t play any video games?
Well, God of War 3 is coming out in two weeks, and I happened to get one of those Prepaid Rebate Cards yesterday. Rebate companies have not really heard of checks anymore, so we’re basically forced to use these things, which can only be used if you’ve got less than or equal to the total amount. In short, all they’re good for is putting money down for preorders since you can put down exact amounts and not worry about tax, but then you have to destroy them.
My grandmother got my dad this shredder for Christmas this year, and I’ve been waiting to test its credit card shredding capabilities. Watch and enjoy.
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