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Halo 3: Recon Announced

by @ Thursday, October 9th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under Games, xbox 360

Microsoft announce Halo 3: Recon today.  I’m pretty phsyced about it.  It has a lot of potential to be good.  I’m looking for good game play, of course, but I live to the story in Halo also.  I’m among those rare few who liked the ending of Halo 2 though.  I’ve read a lot of [...]

Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories and Final Fantasy

by @ Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under DS, Family, Games, PS2

Square Enix has announced that is will be releasing the PS2 version of Chain of Memories here in the States this December.  It’s Final Mix+ minus the Kingdom Hearts II stuff.  The box art looks pretty nice. Xander and I will no doubt get quite a bit of enjoyment out of this release.  Kingdom Hearts [...]

Gaming Update

by @ Thursday, July 24th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under Games, xbox 360

So Puzzle Quest hasn’t been played much yet, due to time constraints with work and the fact that I try to play that when Xander and enjoy it with me.  I play so many games that aren’t child friendly, that I tend to hoard the ones that are for playing with/in front of them. Picked [...]

Revenge of the Plague Lord

by @ Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under Games, xbox 360

The Puzzle Quest expansion comes out today, so the fact that I’m writing this from work is pretty impressive, I’d say.  Xander and I are both looking forward to the new content.  More info after I’ve had a change to play it some tonight.

WiiFit

by @ Thursday, May 22nd, 2008. Tags: , , ,
Filed under Family, Games, Wii

Point one, WiiFit isn’t kidding around. Point two, I’m out of shape. Hopefully WiiFit will be able to help encourage me in that regard.  It is a lot of fun.  Some of the exercises are quite challenging for a sedate software engineer such as myself.  If i can keep up with it though, it should [...]

Rock Band

by @ Friday, April 18th, 2008. Filed under Family, Games, Music, xbox 360

We picked up Rock Band today, and it is awesome!  Kate, Xander and I all had a great time playing.  Kate was on vocals, Xander played guitar, and I tried my hand on drums.  We all had a really good time and we are looking forward to playing a lot more in the future!

NASCAR 09 Preview

by @ Wednesday, March 12th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, NASCAR, Sports, xbox 360

Gamespot has up a preview for NASCAR 09, which looks fairly encouraging.  I’ve skipped the last few versions, since they didn’t offer much of an improvement over the version I own.  This one looks like it might be a nice graphics upgrade, as well as some interesting game play.

Head Tracking using the WiiRemote

by @ Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, Internet/Tech, Wii

This is just amazing, and this is a guy doing it in his home using the Wii and his PC. I can’t imagine it will be much longer before game developers start doing something like this. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw[/youtube]

Guitar Hero 3 Progress

by @ Saturday, January 19th, 2008. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, Music, xbox 360

I finally managed to get 5 stars on all the songs for Guitar Hero 3 on Medium.  Knight of Cydonia and Raining Blood were the two that took me a lot of practice before I could do them.  That’s done now and I’ve moved on to playing through career on Hard.  I made it through [...]

WRGPT Hand

by @ Monday, December 3rd, 2007. Tags: ,
Filed under Games

You know when you are watching poker on TV and some idiot stays in a pot he should really get out of because he really has nothing and is just playing to a draw, and then he pretty much goes all-in with said nothing, and you are yelling at the TV that he’s an idiot [...]

Assassin’s Creed

by @ Friday, November 30th, 2007. Tags: ,
Filed under Games, xbox 360

I finished Assassin’s Creed last night (mostly, I still have some achievements to finish, but I finished the main part of the game).  It was quite an amazing game.  The only complaints I have about it are that it was a little repetitive at times.  I would have like more variety in the information gathering [...]

Guitar Hero Update

by @ Thursday, November 22nd, 2007. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, Music, xbox 360

I went back down a level to finish Guitar Hero on Easy to get the achievements involved.  I finished that on the 16th and finished them all with 5 stars a couple days later.  Now I’m trying to get all the songs with 5 stars on Medium before I make a serious effort on trying [...]

GH3 Medium Done!

by @ Friday, November 2nd, 2007. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, Music, xbox 360

Just finished Guitar Hero 3 on medium.  It was a ton of fun.  I’ve still got to try to get 5 stars on all the songs, which is easier said than done.  Then I’ve got to ramp up for Hard.  I might go ahead and play Easy first just to get it out of the [...]

My Aching Wrist

by @ Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, Music, xbox 360

I broke down and picked up Guitar Hero 3 yesterday (for the 360, of course).  I had a ton of fun with it last night.  The only down side of it is that my left wrist and fingers are a little bit sore today from all the playing I did last night.  It is a [...]

Finished the Fight (Again)!

by @ Thursday, October 18th, 2007. Tags: , ,
Filed under Games, xbox 360

Three friends and I finished the fight on Legendary last night! It was a lot of fun to play through the game at that hard level with a group of friends. I highly recommend the experience to anyone who has finished the campaign on their own. It really gave a different feel to the game. [...]

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