Someone over at the SomethingAwful forums has a broken HDTV from playing some Wii sports bowling. He says it was a slower game but somehow I doubt that. Either way the strap gave way and now his TV has a lovely crack. Now that sucks.
But he's blaming the wrist strap for breaking??? I was playing with the Wii all day yesterday and I can honestly say that wrist strap does what it's supposed to. It's meant to keep it tethered to you in case it slips. Like the strap on your camera, PSP, DS or whatever.
Time to get your friend some anger management and yourself a new television.
As you may or may not realize, you're looking at the brand-new design of our humble little site, Bits Bytes Pixels & Sprites (If you think it's a pain in the ass to say, I'm stuck typing it all the time). The name may be a tounge twister but I've grown quite fond of it, so it's here to stay.
We started back in July with the intention to try and bring something new to the internets, a place where those of us who don't have the time to game that we'd like a place to visit. Since we don't have enough time for gaming starting a site probably wasn't the best idea, as it has eaten up a large part of my oh so little spare time. But it's been worth it. We've made friends with other great gaming sites like Destructoid, Aeropause, GayGamer, AtariAge, LastBoss, Racketboy, GamePolitics.com and more (That list is in no order at all btw, you all kick serious amounts of ass.)
I appreciate and enjoy every single hit to this site, and the people that leave comments are just icing on the cake. Thanks to each and every one of you. I'm pretty sure you guys like us, we've been on the web for almost 6 months and only 1 guy has called me a fag. With the usual discourse on the internet that has to be some kind of record.
I've got some big stuff planned. A little contest to herald in the new design, and hopefully a few new writers. And a very special holiday event. I think you'll enjoy it.
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As some of you may have noticed, DanZuke and Harpua Scorpio have had their Xbox Live Gamercards available to view since the formation of the site. Until recently, I had refused to get Live for two reasons. 1) There was nothing I was dying to play online. 2) I don't like the idea of having to download patches and what not because eventually, I will get fucked by it.
So When Gears Of War came out, I finally had an excuse to get Live. After a few days of playing Gears and checking out achievements of my friends, I decided to pop in Project Gotham 3. In case any of you haven't noticed, i dig driving games... so long as they're good. PG3 is pretty darn good, and the fact that Zuke had more things unlocked was eating me up inside. B was online for my initial run, so I downloaded the update (even though I hate that I have to if I want to play the game) and in minutes, we're racing. I had a blast, but the next day, I wanted to unlock more. I dove into my saved single player game, and bought every Ferrari and Lamborghini I could to unlock those achievements. Then it was on to race. First race, three seconds in, my screen goes crazy. How crazy you ask? Take a look at the provided picture.
WTFITS? Not only is that crap everywhere, and ever changing, but I can drive through it. I shut my system off promptly, and started it right back up. I got one race in and then the same thing happened. I deleted everything I could PG3 related off the hard drive. Same deal. I am pissed. I have to call MS tomorrow (it's sunday at 10:30p est) and see if they have a fix, but this is exactly the reason I didn't want live, and two days into having it I get bit in the ass by it. If any of you have had this happen, do feel free to chip in and offer up some knowledge. I'll update this post when/if I get an answer from Microsoft.
We'll be posting Wii and PS3 1st impressions soon but I'm not going to let that get in the way of our "Nothing happens on Sunday so let's show something non-game related" post.
After a marathon session of Guitar Hero II, I decided to head out into the night to check out some of the campers waiting out overnight for the Wii. I wanted to pimp the site, hand out some cards, meet some gamers and talk games. Mostly I wanted to know who was keeping and who was selling. Most people I talked to were keeping it, and just about everyone was (obviously) picking up Zelda, with a smattering of "Red Steel" thrown in.
High School kids for the most part, full of the kind of energy it takes to pull off something like this.
It reminds me of the time a friend and I went over to Philly to camp all night for Howard Stern's autograph. In my slightly younger days when things like that seem like a good time. You guys don't know how well prepared you are, we went over with nothing. I had on Chuck Taylor's for fraks sake. And it snowed that night. A LOT. Unfortunatly that night ended with him in the hospital with hypothermia and me dizzy from breathing in the fumes from a news van and without a ride out of the city. When it was happening, I was never so miserable in my entire life. I never even ended up getting the damn autograph! (Damn numb limbs) But looking back on it now, I laugh my ass off just thinking about it.
So if you're waiting on line tonite, I guess what I'm saying is as miserable as you're going to be at 4am, try and have some fun out there. You all are hardcore and in for a long, cold night. But come morning it'll all be worth it. Have fun burning the midnight oil, make some friends, have a few laughs. Nights like these are the ones you'll talk about years later. Trust me.
The people at MIT have pulled some classic pranks/hacks in their time, but they've pulled out this excellent triforce dome topper in accordance with the launch of Twilight Princess. Well done guys.
People are trying just about everything to have their Playstation 3 auction stand out from the over 20,000 other auctions currently running. Some people have tried adding in games, swag, or HDMI cables. But this guy here has a different idea.
Get a chick to pose naked with it.
The auction is over and sold for 2 grand, of course the winning bidder has a zero feedback rating so I doubt it'll be paid for.
In a funny turn the guy also has a pic of himself holding the PS3 but covered over his face. Loser.
Hery buddy if your shallow enough to get this chick to pose nude the least you can do is not cover your face.
I'm not dying to get a PS3 hooked up to my tv right now. I have HD, so I can certainly take advantage of it. But looking at the lineup of games and listening to Kutaragi's bullshit day in and day out for the past few months just has me jaded towards the system. I'm sure I'll get excited as hell for the system, as soon as there's a game worth playing. Honestly it pisses me off that I'm not dying to play it.
I was talking to Greshkov just the other day when I said to him, "I blame Sony for not getting me more excited about the PS3." I'm a day one guy every time. I bought the PSP during a midnight launch for crissakes! If I want it, I buy it the day is comes out. Every Tues. I head to Best Buy to pick up whatever DVD, CD, or game coming out that week.
But even taking my current ambivilance towards the Playstation 3 these days, I have no problem calling these guys complete assholes. Nevermind the fact that you just wasted $600 bucks, but why destroy it in front of gamers. What's the point?
I post this hoping someone finds these guys and let's them know how fraked up this is.
I'm sure some Nintendo fanboy is laughing, and somewhere a Sony fanboy is crying. But I just dont get the reason for it.
Racketboy accurately calls it the #1 holy grail of videogame collecting. It's so rare I've only seen a few pictures of it.
It's the Gold Plated Nintendo World Championship cart from 1990. They were given away as prizes in a Nintendo Power promotion, so could be anywhere in the country.
There's only 26 in existence, and one of them is for sale on eBay.
The grey cart version goes for a few thousand dollars, but this guy is selling the gold one for a whopping 15,000. He could probably get 10k for it, but I'm not so sure about 15k. In all honesty if I had that kind of money, I'd buy it. But I live in a 1 bedroom apt. so what the hell do I know.
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As you may or may not realize, you're looking at the brand-new design of our humble little site, Bits Bytes Pixels & Sprites (If you think it's a pain in the ass to say, I'm stuck typing it all the time). The name may be a tounge twister but I've grown quite fond of it, so it's here to stay.
WTFITS? Not only is that crap everywhere, and ever changing, but I can drive through it. I shut my system off promptly, and started it right back up. I got one race in and then the same thing happened. I deleted everything I could PG3 related off the hard drive. Same deal. I am pissed. I have to call MS tomorrow (it's sunday at 10:30p est) and see if they have a fix, but this is exactly the reason I didn't want live, and two days into having it I get bit in the ass by it. If any of you have had this happen, do feel free to chip in and offer up some knowledge. I'll update this post when/if I get an answer from Microsoft.
After a marathon session of Guitar Hero II, I decided to head out into the night to check out some of the campers waiting out overnight for the Wii. I wanted to pimp the site, hand out some cards, meet some gamers and talk games. Mostly I wanted to know who was keeping and who was selling. Most people I talked to were keeping it, and just about everyone was (obviously) picking up Zelda, with a smattering of "Red Steel" thrown in. 
People are trying just about everything to have their Playstation 3 auction stand out from the over 20,000 other auctions currently running. Some people have tried adding in games, swag, or HDMI cables. 
Bloguin is the revolutionary blog network specifically focused on helping bloggers get the most out of their websites. We're currently working on building a large network of online communities and hope to expand our blogging coverage to include a wide range of topics. 
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