You’ve made your purchase. Your hands are shaking as you take your receipt from the clerk and make your hasty retreat out of the store. Your mind is already calculating the fastest route home with the least amount of traffic/cops. And why are you this hyped? Because you have just purchased an Xbox 360 and you are invincible…or so you think.
Weeks pass. You wonder what you ever did before you made your sweet purchase. And then it happens. Disaster strikes. The comforting glow of faint green is replaced by an infuriating red flash. You contact customer support and discover that your problem is covered, but you will be without your Xbox for “3 to 6 weeks”. WHAT?! To be denied gaming nirvana for that long seems like cruel and unusual punishment, but finally after what seems like an eternity you get your “baby” back and life can return to normal…for a while.
The red rings rear their ugly head again! This time it is returned with a free game and a free month of Xbox Live gold which helps to appease your anger. Again…life returns to normal, but you already know where this is headed. You guessed it…it breaks for the third time. This time it is not the “red rings of death” so I panic that it won’t be covered under warranty. Sure enough, I am told that the repairs will cost $150. I take several deep breaths before telling the operator that this is the third time it has busted. He says that since I have been such a devoted customer (devoted to a fault apparently) they will waive the repair fee. Woohoo, but by this time I am just about fed up, and my final straw is right around the corner.
After getting my 360 back (for the 3rd time) I decide I need to play something a little violent to relieve my stress so I pop in GTA. Doesn’t work. Damn. So I try Street Fighter IV. Again, doesn’t work. $%$#!. At this point I don’t even bother trying a 3rd game. I could not trade that 360 in fast enough. Now I wanted so badly to be able to straight trade this for a ps3, but as any of you who own a ps3 know, that was not about to happen. Well after all was said and done I ended up with a slim ps2 with 2 games and 1 controller, and a Gamecube with 1 game and 2 controllers and a memory card.
That’s right…I just traded in a next gen console for two current (at the time) gen consoles, but I made a note to get Microsoft’s competition, both of their competition to be exact. But I wish I would have done my homework long ago.
The 360 didn’t have a built in hard drive…you had to purchase one separately or buy the bundle. The 360 didn’t have sweet looking Blu-Ray, just HD DVD that went the way of the dodo. The 360 didn’t have a long life span…the longest span of time I ever had it was 5 months before I had to send it in. All that the 360 really had/has going for it is that all of their systems have backwards compatibility.
So…what have we learned? That a young man can be blinded by the promise of gaming nirvana when it turns out that all he was getting was some window paint on a worthless pile of feces. Yep…that’s what I learned. Learn from my mistakes, research your purchases. Especially when the ps3 (with its price being equal to the 360) is clearly the optimal piece of machinery.
Sometimes people should just have a good laugh, and what better way to do that then to look at a picture that is so ridiculous that you cant help but smile. These are two that got me for a long time.
I got this picture in an email saying “when Picard and Chunk fight, everyone wins”
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The guys over at Joystiq posted the heads up that on the official VanaFest 2010 website website (the site for the now eight-year-old MMO Final Fantasy XI ) a quick post that the “first wave” of (closed) beta testing for the “next Final Fantasy MMO” (aka Final Fantasy XIV) will be going live on March 11.
According to the site, Square-Enix also assured fans that the fears of missing out on the closed beta wouldn’t be an issue.
“Those who were not selected in this drawing, fear not, for there will be other opportunities to come,” and adding that interested gamers should “Be sure to stay tuned!”
As it stands Final Fantasy XIV is a MMORPG just like its older brother Final Fantasy XI, and that this game will be available on the PS3 and PC (with rumors of it making its way onto the XBOX360)
No official word on if the beta will be PC only or if PS3 users will get invited as well, but we will know more for sure in the coming weeks.
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Nearly 10 Years ago, the WB created a show about a young Clark Kent in high school. They wanted to show his origin in a way that wasn’t done before, to show Superman growing up. The show starting in his freshman year of High School, now leading a post college Clark Kent trying to balance his day job at the Daily Plant sitting across from Lois Lane, and crime fighting at night with the Green Arrow, Cyborg, Aquaman, Black Canary, Impulse, and the most recently shown JSA.
Sites like /Film , Superhero Hype! , Comicbookmovie, and io9 have all reported the news that the CW has renewed this show for what many of them are calling its 10th and Final Season.
“SMALLVILLE” TO RETURN FOR A TENTH SEASON ON THE CW
March 4, 2010 (Burbank, California) – The CW Network has announced that its hit series “Smallville” will return in the fall of 2010 for a momentous tenth season.
“Smallville,” a modern retelling of the Superman legend, stars Tom Welling as Clark Kent. The series moved to Friday nights this season, where it currently ranks as network television’s #1 show in its time period among men 18-34 and men 18-49. Additionally, “Smallville” has dramatically improved The CW’s ratings performance in its Friday 8:00-9:00p.m.time period by 67% among adults 18-34 (1.5/6), 200% in men 18-34 (1.8/7), 75% in adults 18-49 (1.4/5), 183% in men 18-49 (1.7/6) and 74% in total viewers (3.12million).
“Smallville” joins the five previously announced series – “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” “90210,” “Supernatural” and “America’s Next Top Model” – which will all return for another season on The CW.
“Smallville” was developed for television by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar (”Shanghai Noon,” “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”), based on the DC Comics characters. Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson serve as executive producers, along with James Marshall, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins and Joe Davola. The series is produced by Tollin/Robbins Productions, Millar/Gough Ink and Warner Bros. Television. SUPERMAN was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
While rumors are stating that this new season may include Lex Luthor’s return, the appearance of DarkSeid and Apokolips, and Clark wearing the Superman suit and actually flying on his own for a change, fans really cant say for sure what this show is going to give next season, all we can do for now is finish season 9 in the coming weeks and wait for the announcements.
Since Final Fantasy X came out on the Playstation 2 back in 2001 rumors of a Final Fantasy VII remake were in constant movement.
But it seems recently talks of this possibility have be in full force. Through interviews, tech demos, and even the spin offs, demand for this remake is at an all time high.
The sites The Lifestream and Final Fantasy Union both reported on the news that Square-Enix themselves has been asking fans about the demand of this remake.
They first posted on the Square-Enix Members Twitter account the question of fans opinion of the possible remake, shortly after it was posted the account was immediately flooded with positive replies, in fact there were so many replies that the author asked everyone to stop replying because they got the information they needed.
Shortly after they posted another question asking fans about a remake of Final Fantasy VIII, and to my understanding (I may have translated it wrong) what changes fans would want to the possible remakes.
While this may just be Square-Enix teasing its fans, it is interesting to note that this is the first time they have gone out of there way to ask the fans if they wanted something. Maybe it was to see if making these games would be cost effective? For now we just get to add this to the long list of evidence/rumors that point to this game being made.
