Warm-and-Fuzzy-Gaming-Moment-of-the-Week

Yesterday a father and son walked into the store and asked if they could buy an XBox 360.

(Not surprisingly, the first one died in a hideous blaze of three glowing red lights and they had to return one to EB because it bricked...I'd say that '30% failure rate' is warranted)

I asked what games they had, and the father turned to me with this big smile and said, "Me and my son love to play Call of Duty together."

Awwwww.

To quote Mr Brady, "The family that plays together, stays together."

Of course, the Brady Bunch enjoyed having sack races in the backyard, rather than blowing the brains out of NPCs in bloody combat, but it's all the same thing...

The Pitfalls of Bubble Breaker

Despite the fact that I have a three-core next-gen gaming machine with all the bells and whistles of ATI graphics and shading, I have been spending most of my time on what is possibly the most addictive game in the history of stupid, mindless games.

It's called Bubble Breaker.

You might know it as The Same Game, although I think Hexic has a similar purpose...all you do is click/tap on groups of more than three bubbles. Extra points if it's a bigger stack.

THERE IS NO POINT TO IT. AND I CAN'T. STOP. PLAYING. IT.

It was one of the games that came pre-programmed into my PDA, and I have developed an obsessive-compulsive thing with it...the other day, all I did was stare into my screen without blinking for 40 minutes on the train, tapping frantically whilst ignoring all the other commuters around me.

The other night, I stayed up until 2 a.m playing the friggin' game.

I don't think I can take it into lectures this semester. I'll learn even less than I did last year, and I don't think that was even possible...

Christmas Gaming

For Christmas, my family gave me Bioshock.

My uncle gave me Assassin's Creed.

My sister gave me Test Drive Unlimited. And also Scene It!

Then I went and bought Mass Effect because I really couldn't wait any longer for what is possibly the most uber-awesome RPG to ever hit shelves.

And then I bought Dancing Stage Universe because I thought the Workout mode might compensate for my general lack of exercise (it hasn't).

And thus, friends, I am now banning myself from spending any more money on anything XBox 360 related, at least until The Force Unleashed comes out and you'll see the frightening combination of Star Wars fangirl and gamer come into fruition. I also think that with Mass Effect, I have a lot to get through, and I haven't even opened Bioshock yet (I know, I know) but I figured that the curious blend of FPS and art deco can wait until I've conquered Saren and ground him into bits of little Turian dust. (BTW, did anyone else think that Nihlus looked like the Turian equivalent of Gene Simmons? Or was it just me?)

Nihlus:




Gene Simmons:



See?!

Technobabblement Begins

I figured I'd do something I've always wanted to do, and start a blog entirely devoted to gaming and technology in general. Like the bastard child of Gizmodo and Gaming Today but ten million times crappier. In fact, take out all of the witty journalism from those two sites, and filter it down to the viewpoint of a young gamer who has very litte knowledge of HTML and thus is forced to stick to this plain old Blogspot format. (Ah, way to publicise my own blog).

'Learn HTML' was on my 'to-do' list, along with 'learn-how-to-program-with-Java' and 'go-to-the-gym-more-often'.

I figure this blog might die a slow and lingering death, but hey, at least I gave it a shot :D