Two New Amazing Burst Limit Videos

NOTICE: I recommend that you click the link and watch these videos in high quality, they don't look nearly as good from the embeds. The link goes to the first video, and the first video response to that is the second video.

Sorry about not writing recently, I've been very busy over the week and even have plans tonight, but I have had enough time to find the two most amazing Burst Limit trailers available!



This first trailer basically summarizes the Saiyan-Freiza saga using Burst Limit cutscenes and "Kiseki no Honoyo Moeagare" as the background music. It shows off just how good this game looks and how faithful the game's cutscenes stay to the show. A truly impressive video, and an example of Burst Limit's greatness.

Next up we have:



This is a similar video, except it covers Trunks- Cell Saga, Bardock: The Father of Goku, and Broly: The Legendary Super Saiyan. This time it uses the same song, but the so-called "English version", which I can still barely understand due to the singer's heavy accent. This video impressed me as well, and more importantly hints to side storylines for the movies in single player since they have their own cutscenes. With Saiyan-Cell Saga, two movies, and what-if storylines this should be a long game with plenty of content. Can't wait until the 10th!

P.S. I should have a review for "Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One" up once I have some spare time over the next few days.

And the Hammer came crashing down...

Well... I've been banned. For the second time in about as many months. For an entire week.

The first time, I don't even think I did anything. My bio was clean, and it was just a revenge attempt by a fat egomaniac midget from Wisconsin who's entire profile was about killing people.

This time, I had a quote from the popular video game "Grand Theft Auto 4" in my bio. It was from the TV, and it was about Tony McTony.

Now- here's where the bullshit reeks. My profile is only viewable by friends. That means either Xbox Live caught me on some sweep, or some conniving ass betrayed me. Oh well.

I don't have a problem with getting banned, when I deserve it. In this case, one of several scenarios could have played out. Xbox could have deleted my bio and had me re-type it and warned me not to use offensive language again. Or they could have given me a warning to remove the word from my bio within 24 hours.

My point is- they didn't. Instead of doing something reasonable, leaving all parties satisfied and offending nobody, they decided I needed to be punished for using a word that they don't even bother censoring (if they don't want anyone to use it, make it easy and don't let them!). I've been denied service with one of my favorite pastimes for a week, and the prospect of a Playstation 3 seems that much more likely.

At least I have a week to catch up on my PSP games. Maybe play some single-player (do achievements earned offline translate to online?) GTA or Viking.

So I ask you, readers, co-authors- what's your opinion on censorship policies and bans for related infractions? Do you think they are too harsh? Have your own story to tell? Post a comment.

Oh- and just a tip for all you players out there. "Bitches love the initials!"- Tony McTony. That quote right there got me banned.

Reviews? This is Madness!

Well it turns out that Metal Gear Solid 4, despite being 16 days away, has already garnered some reviews.
Here they are straight from the source at NeoGaf:

• PlayStation Official Magazine (UK): 10/10
• PlayStation Official Magazine (US): 10/10
• PlayStation Official Magazine (Italy): 10/10
• PlayStation Official Magazine (Dutch): 9.6/10
• LEVEL (Sweden): 10/10
• Joypad (France): 19/20
• Jeuxvideo Magazine (France): 18/20

The game is set to release worldwide on June 12th, 2008.

In other news, Ninja Gaiden II has been recently reviewed by various sources and so far on gamerankings.com its ranking stands at 85%. Not bad, not great, but good.

Here's some gameplay of what I think is the bloodiest game out right now.

Gta 4 Easter egg madness!!

Here is a link to a giant map on IGN of Grand Theft Auto 4.It is worth checking out hands down. It shows the location of many easter eggs. Including dinosaur bones weird statues and other things you have to see. This is an amazing job done by IGN and everyone else on the site. If you find any easter eggs you can report them and IGN will check it out and add it to the site. So happy hunting.

(EDITED BY RELOAD)

Resident Evil 5, Timesplitters 4

Sorry to everyone about the recent drought of posts but I'll try to make up for it, starting now.

Right now if you go to Resident Evil's official website you will see a camera lying on the ground, with a counter counting up from the sites debut. Some people have said that once we get 72 hours away from the new trailer (on May 31st) that it will start counting down. What's really interesting is that people have reported seeing people and things walk by the camera on the website if you watch long enough.


(Screenshot of website)

In other news, right off the launch of Free Radical's Haze, screenshots have already surfaced for their next big project, Timespitters 4.
The screenshots come from scans of the official UK Playstation Magazine.

Xbox Minute

Click on the title and it will take you to ign after every video ends a new one pops up. The first 3 ive seen are hilarious. They involve someone acting out ninja gaiden 2. A racing chair idea and just them running around being dumbasses.
This would be the best job in the world. They also have some footage of new games and some funny videos. So check it out each vids only a minute long.

Prince of Persia

By now, many of you should have heard the announcement that's been simmering beneath the surface for quite a while now. Formerly rumored as "Prince of Persia: Next Gen", the official title is now just Prince of Persia. It's a new project out of Ubisoft, working on an upgraded Assassin's Creed engine with changes to everything imaginable.

First, let's talk about the art style.



That screenshot right there is completely-in-game. The new digs are definitely appreciated. The lines make it look like some sort of living drawing, a mixture of influences seem to remind me of Okami and Crackdown. GameInformer stated that the new prince alone uses 13 times as many polygons as the old, and that his hair uses as much processing power as the old prince in his entirety. Basically, expect a whole lot of detail, but not so much photorealism. I love this look, and think the unique approach will only help the game.

Those of you looking closely may notice the new weapons. This time around, the Prince (who starts off as a mere traveler in this new universe) doesn't have his trusty time dagger. Instead, check out a sexy one-handed scimitar, and that claw-gauntlet on his left hand.



That gauntlet, and the sword, were supposedly picked up on previous adventures. Whether or not this has story significance, I don't know. What I do know is, the gauntlet is the most important piece of equipment in the game. It not only helps you in combat, it's your key to the new platforming elements.

Prince of Persia is taking on a much less linear approach to level design this time around. You hang out in a hub world, a part of the Garden of Eden where you take refuge after a sandstorm. From this hub world, you travel out to different areas, cleaning out the corruption that has leaked from the Tree of Life. The tree used to house the soul of an evil god, one of two brothers who represented yin and yang, essentially. Somehow, the terrible power has been released, and this corruptive ooze-like substance is taking over flora, fauna, and the landscape itself. Each location is an open level, which you have to run around and solve puzzles on while defeating monsters and performing incredible acrobatics.

The gauntlet comes into play here. Sliding, climing, wall running, gripping and anything else you can do involves using the gauntlet to aid you in some way. Slow your descent, keep your cool running on a wall 500 feet above the ground, and stab things gloriously. I can't wait.



Combat has been revamped too. Instead of fighting multiple enemies, you'll usually be only facing one or two. Don't think you'll have an easy time though. These enemies will be ferocious, extremely powerful, and out to get you by any means possible. You'll have to use your environment to your advantage when defeating these beasts, but be careful to avoid corrupted areas. These locations covered in the dark substance are places you should never go if you can help it. Bad things happen if you do.

Hit the link in the title for more information (IGN has a 3 page preview) if you'd like. I can't wait for this game, although its apparent release date is a bit irksome. I'm already going to be juggling Too Human, Fable 2, and Fallout 3 at minimum that time of year, and having this must-play addition to the PoP stable is going to make me very, very aggravated.

Thank you very much to IGN for the beautiful screenshots.

Comments/Feedback appreciated. What's your opinion on the new direction, and will you play the game?

5 Incredible Little Big Planet Details

Source: MTV Multiplayer
I don’t mean to brag when I say that I had already played “Little Big Planet” a few times before trying out the malleable PlayStation 3 platformer again last week.

Instead, I mean to convince you that I had good reason to think I knew about the coolest stuff in the game. I’d run through levels. I had used the game’s mighty content editor to create all sorts of wild costumes and level props.

And yet I was floored five times during my brief opportunity to play the game with “LBP” technical director Alex Evans. Here’s what impressed me:


1) How Enemies Work — I kept hearing that each new “LBP” press demo would finally reveal the game’s enemies. But in each demo — including the one I went through last week — they were not in there. I asked Evans about this; what he told me made me realize I had been expecting the wrong thing. The developers at Media Molecule aren’t focusing on giving players pre-made enemies.

Instead, Evans said the game will ship with five or six artificial intelligence brains. He wouldn’t tell me what the AI behaviors would be, but explained that a “LBP” user would be able to apply them to their creations in the game’s editor. Whether or not the AI brains will drive your creations effectively depends on your designs. For example… did you put wheels on the giant attack-llama?


2) Gaming’s Most Impressive Screenshot Tool — You can take in-game screenshots in “Little Big Planet.” Hooray. You can then take those screenshots and apply them to objects. That’s actually… promising. While using the game’s content editor I made a few beams and struts. Then I hopped my character on top of them to pose for a screenshot. I took that shot and applied it as a sticker to one of the beams or struts. I had created an optical illusion, my character standing on top of a beam that looked like an image of him standing atop a beam. Think about how you could use this feature to mess with people: making solid walls look like empty space and fooling them to crash right into them.


3) How “LBP” Music Can Turn Levels Into Rhythm Games — “Little Big Planet” users can place sound objects in the levels they create. The object Evans showed me was a little speaker. We were able to attach it to a block that was resting at the beginning of a level we were making. You can assign music that will play from that speaker when a user’s character walks past it. The music from that speaker can be set to play from any point in the track. I proposed an idea to Evans that he said was 100% do-able: I could line a level with speakers, one set up every few steps — and set them all to play the same song, but queued up from different parts. Doing this, I could make it so that if a player ran through my level at a certain pace, he or she would hear the song play perfectly. Running at the wrong pace would cause the player to hear the song play in a choppy fashion.


4) Just Add Water — The game features an impressive content editor. It integrates all its objects within a certain style of calculated physics. Objects teeter and roll with mathematical precision. But there’s one element that’s not in the game yet — liquids. I can’t flood a level with water and watch how that affects everything I generated. Instant non-purchase? No way. Evans told me liquids are possible: “If people want that, we can do it.”


5) The Gifts That You Can Give — Not only can you use “Little Big Planet” to create any imaginable gaming object that would fit in a 2D playing field, but you can also make the blueprints for any such object. Those blueprints — really, the object itself — can be uploaded to other gamers. Better than that: you can make the blueprints a collectible item in the levels you create. Better still: you can associate such objects with leaderboard requirements. So I can challenge the world to score a certain number of points in a level I’ve made and then automatically reward anyone who achieves that mark with a trophy object that I made myself. I wonder what I could force people to receive if they play my level poorly…

I'm in Liberty City and I'm out of control!

Dear Mother,

Life is quieting down a bit in America. There was some trouble with a few new friends, but we worked it out. I have a nice loft near a great park, and it's right across from the water. I have two cars. A nice two-door named a Sentinel, and a great 4-door called a Sultan. I hope the crops are good this year. The cost of living in this city is pretty much $0, so I spend much of my free time shooting pidgins in the ass and annoying construction workers by driving fast cars over ramps and other equipment that they use.

-N

Rocking The Dragon

The Dragonball Z: Burst Limit (DBZ:BL) demo was released today, so after downloading it over some GTA IV playtime I decided to give it a spin. I want to tell you now, I'll be giving my impressions of the demo, and this will be a bit bias since I'm a huge DBZ fan and a fan of the Budokai series. First thing that hit me was the intro. When I heard the music I immediately recognized it to be one of the Japanese DBZ openings, and probably the best DBZ opening song (yes, even better than "Rock the Dragon"). The opening was done extremely well, with many famous scenes of the show playing in harmony with the music while also showing small parts of fight scenes. The best intro of any DBZ game, easily. It really made a good start for the demo.

So, I get to the menu, skim the controls, press A, and get to the Z CHRONICLES menu. From there, I selected the first real fight of DBZ, Goku vs. Raditz. I watched the small scene, very fateful to the show, and BAM! I was launched into the fight without warning, just like a real DBZ fight. I immediately noticed that the Budokai engine had received a huge overhaul (as only a Budokai fan like me could notice) and now the controls were tighter, more responsive, and smooth. The fights are also much faster, just like a real DBZ fight, and this added a whole new level of intensity to the game. In the midst of the duel between me and Raditz, I paused to check the command list. Then I realized that Budokai now boasted a movelist like a real fighter, and was no longer a button masher for the kiddies. After I started to utilize these moves, I noticed a brand new feature in action, Drama Scenes. When either opponent trigger certain requirement(s), it will launch into a small few second cutscene which will add an effect to the user once finished. For example, after Raditz started to blast me with a special attack, my Piccolo drama scene triggered, where he jumps in and kicks my opponent, adding damage and taking fatigue from him. This new feature could end up being cheap if not kept balanced, but it definitely made it feel more DBZ. I finally finished Raditz off with a super Kamehameha, earning myself a Z ranking afterward.


Next up was Yamcha vs. Saibamen, a tragic tale indeed, but still fun as hell. Yamcha is definitely a speed player, with fast moves and movement, coupled with the Wolf Fang Fist and his signature Spirit Ball (Ball, not Bomb, there's a difference!). I had a very fast paced battle with the Saibamen, but ultimately longed for a tougher opponent. I actually found Yamcha's full moveset more diverse and enjoyable than the early Goku's, but that's a preference. If you find the fights boring in this new game, you are probably a novice to fighters and button mashed, so let me give you a few tips to make things more enjoyable. Look over your full moveset, use it, use your specials, use aura burst, use pursuit attacks, and go airborne. Long list, I know.

DBZ:BL really impressed me today, especially since I walked into it not expecting too much. This is a must have for any DBZ fan, and definitely a try for any fighting fan. It has all of the qualities of a fast paced fighter and is extremely faithful to the Dragonball Z franchise. It was the most fun I ever had with a DBZ game, playing the Raditz fight about 10 times and the Saibamen around 5, and this was only a demo. You really have to try everything you can to enjoy this game, because once you get all of the controls and techniques down, it becomes an incredibly fun fighter. I won't be able to pick this up first day, but I WILL pick it up eventually. For those of you who are, look for it on store shelves on June 10, for 360 & PS3.

EDIT: I went this whole time without an "OVER 9000" joke, I'm proud of myself.

Xbox Live Spring Update

The new features of the Xbox Live Spring Update through the link, over 80 of them. The list is extremely long, so I'll post the highlights.

5. Introduce a group chat (4) for Private Chat and conferences through Video Chat.
8. More fields present in Personal Profile - recent achievements, interests, games, movies, links, custom section.
29. New button on Marketplace for optional dashboard features - uses Storage Device memory.
30. Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID.
31. Option to purchase Membership for charities (includes benefits).
32. Integrate file-sharing for selected titles on Xbox LIVE and Games for Windows - LIVE.
36. Web feeds integration - text, images, audio. Includes support for specific item codes on Marketplace.
1. Option to delete titles from gamercard with 0 gamerscore and 0 achievements (excludes some titles that will be re-added to launch another title).
2. Organize My Games at the Games Library section better (includes disc-based titles) - sort by genre, platform (Games for Windows - LIVE), percentage completion.
3. Support to display friends leaderboards for disc-based titles.
4. Show dates of an achievement unlocked when comparing.

Kotaku states this as a rumor, but other sources deem it true. I hope it is.

Banjo and Kazooie 3!

Look at this link check out the vid and pics! I can't wait.

Androgyny in Video Games (Mainly J-RPGs)

Is going overboard. It's primarily a problem in J-RPGs, a genre saturated by rehashed games and a wapanese fanbase, but still a genre that is notable. Nobody knows where it all started, since Japan has always been comfortable with androgyny and sexuality. I'm guessing that it is deeply rooted in Square-Enix games, primarily the Final Fantasy series. There are many other offenders, all from Japan, and usually makers of J-RPGs. Androgyny being bad is a matter of opinion, but I think it's getting completely overboard.




Let's start with these two nice little images from the upcoming "Fianl Fantasy XIII: Versus". The first thought that crossed my mind when I witnessed these was "These girls look weird...", then it hit me. They're f***ing guys. Ok, what is wrong with the FFXIII character designers. This is just ridiculous, they make Boy Bands look like lumberjacks. Their hair, their faces, their bodies, their clothing, just everything is screaming androgyny. Look, I don't think every dude out there should look like a manly man, I don't mind it when characters look a little girly, but this is just too much for anybody but you're typical yaoi fangirl. I just don't get it.

I have no idea why Japan loves these androgynous pretty boys so much. J-RPGs may have a huge female crowd, but it's still primarily male and this is not what males enjoy, even homosexuals probably find this annoying. It doesn't add any depth, personality, or uniqueness to a character when you make him appear more like the opposite sex. I know artists have visions, and they like to express themselves through their creations. I respect that, and I can tolerate a long-haired pretty boy, but please make it apparent that he's actually a boy! And once again, it appears that only Japan has this obsession, and it truly confuses me.

Well, maybe this was just a poorly written rant on androgynous characters in J-RPGs, but I think I'm addressing
a trend that is truly out of hand. I like J-RPGs, I really do, maybe not the ones of the Final Fantasy variety, but I even respect that series. I'm not saying "ZOMG androgyny is teh gay, make my doods manly!!1!1", I'm just saying that it needs some toning down before we can't tell the girls from the guys.

P.S. I have nothing against homosexuals, yaoi fangirls, the Japanese, androgynous men, or Square-Enix. The first two images are from FFXIII:Versus, the third from FFXII, and the fourth from FFVII: Advent Children. I hope I didn't offend anybody in this post, but I'm just really fed up with this trend right now. If I offended you, my deepest apologies, and grow a spine.

3 reasons why I would buy the Xbox 360

Every now and again as a gamer you have to ask yourself this question, "What's on the other side?" Well since most of the "CONSOLE WARS" stories are over and the internet isn't exploding about a recent Gametrailers (third party) comparison I decided to reflect on my console of choice and imagine what it would be like on the other side. Without further delay here are my top 3 reasons I would buy the Xbox 360.

3. Achievements/Gamerscore System
Now, I hate most highscore systems out there, but achievements are different. Even though most hardcore gamers make out to be so, achievements are emphasized as a way to get more out of your game, instead of a way to inflate your ego. Adding replay value to my games is more than enough of a reason to buy a 360.

2. In-Game Voice Chat
As you probably already know if you want to chat with your friends on PSN then be prepared to stop everything your doing to do so. Many people do not consider this a major flaw, but I do. It's just the way Xbox Live keeps you seamlessly connected with your friends that is moving the online industry forward.

1. All The Games I've Missed
There are three types of gamers, casuals, fanboys, and REAL gamers. If you are a real gamer then I trust you don't turn a blind eye to the opposing console's exclusives, I didn't. You would have to be a fool to say that the 360 did not have a strong line-up Winter 2007. Which is why this is my last reason. As I sit here and type I realize that I will never know what it feels like to sit down and enjoy the good qualities of the games, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Gears of War 2, Fable 2, and Halo 3.

EDIT: Hey thanks for the link Xbox 360 Information!

Poll Update

Quick update on the poll. The current placings are:
1.Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
2.Resistance 2
3.Fable 2, Fallout 3, and Too Human
4.GoW2, Spore, and Other

EDIT: Changed some of the positions based on recent developments. So maybe some of pirateninja's comments are irrelevant now.

I was glad too see my pick at number 1, and surprised by a few other things. The poll is PS3 dominant, with the top PS3 exclusives of the year heading the pack. Fable 2 and Fallout 3 are fighting for third. Too Human managed it's way past Gow2 and other. Spore was left in the dust, unsurprisingly due to our non-existent PC Gamer base. I know a few of us double and even triple voted, but it doesn't change much in the end. Can't wait to see how the poll develops.

MGO Training

Exclusive Video From Reload92

Weekly Recap

Well here it is, the weekly recap that I alluded to in my earlier post .

5. At number 5 we have a story from videogaming247.com which announces the retirement of Surfer Girl , a blogger that semi-accurately predicted lots of things in the video game industry.
What I Think: Meh, who cares? I never liked Surfer Girl because I saw many instances that she incorrectly predicted when and what games would be announced and so on. The only things she predicted correctly were things I could've predicted myself.

4. At number 4 we have Yahtzee's video entry for this week "Mailbag Showdown". He did this for two reasons, the throes of Brawl fans that invaded his inbox and that he needed a little more time to play GTA IV.
What I Think: I personally thought that it was hilarious. Although Brawl fans and this guy will tell you different.

3. At number 3 we have an article from joystiq.com announcing that DOOM 4 is in development.
What I Think: Never played a DOOM game (gasp) so you can guess that I don't care.

2. At number 2 we have another article from joystiq.com announcing that the Bioshock movie is in development, and that Gore Verbinski will be directing. They also report that Take-Two executive chairman Strauss Zelnick has been quoted as saying that this project will actually be made (referencing the Halo movie).
What I Think: Even though I don't own a 360 and have only ever played a demo of Bioshock, I think I'll actually go to the theaters to see this.

1. Finally at number 1 we have the premiere gameplay video of Gears of War 2. And here it is now, courtesy of gametrailers.com

What I Think: Well after looking at a comparison from Gametrailers I'm proud of Epic for stepping out of the "gray zone", if you know what I mean.

Well that's about it for Attention All Friends Weekly Recap.

But not for the lure of the Forbidden Fruit...

Today, I'm talking about gold buying. No, not the $1,000 per ounce commodity that commercials don't shut up about. I'm talking about WoW gold. Guild Wars gold. FFXI gold. Runescape gold. The kind you pay real money for. The fake kind.

To those of you familiar with the Massively Multiplayer Online scene, you should be aware of this process. For those of you who don't, it goes a little something like this:

Player feels a little down. Player decides "hey, lets get a shiny new sword!". Player isn't the wealthiest (insert any MMO) player. Player gets message from (insert Asian gold-farming company here). Player decides "hey, I've got 15 bucks! lets get some gold!". Player buys gold. Another one bites the dust.

Most of the time, transactions play out like that. It doesn't stop there, however. That player's money goes to some guy running a "sweat-shop", full of computers, with maybe one worker for 3 or 4 machines, running macros and farming gold all day. You've undoubtedly seen them, the players with absurd names who all move in the same patterns constantly, repeatedly, at all hours of the day. These are also the players who will spam you with constant messages about purchasing that gold. Perhaps 1 player in 100 will actually purchase gold; but we're talking about a game with millions of players. A game with it's own sophisticated economy. Once you have maybe 100,000 out of 10 million with absurd wealth, that begins to shift the balance of power. Rare item distribution doesn't follow any sort of circular pattern.

The disruption these operations have caused have game-altering, even international consequences. The popular in-browser MMORPG Runescape just recently had to drastically reshape it's auction system, PvP system, trading system, and update it's EULA. All in attempt to shut down one of the largest gold trading centers in the world. For the most part, it seems to have worked. Complaints have gone down about being spammed by gold traders, and people are seeing less auto-miners and other farming macros around the game. Guild Wars, a game second in userbase only to World of Warcraft, actually had to block the entire country of Taiwan from accessing its servers. It turns out, almost every single spam/goldbot was traced there. Some even say the revenue gained from the gold farming prompted the Taiwanese government to support these farmers. Recently, the Taiwanese have been allowed back into the game on American servers. Spambots have become a nuisance again, though not as much as before.

So while games are fairly successful thus far at heading off the gold sellers, there are still any number of ways popping up every day that circumvent that progress. I guess the honest players just have to hope that eventually, our games will be (mostly) free of these insidious balance-wreckers.

Jack Thompson Gets A Slap To The Face

A recent study by the Federal Trade Commission has shown that game retailers have increased their enforcement of the ESRB rating policy. This directly contradicts claims made by Jack Thompson that game retailers sell M rated games to kids under age 17 all the time.

Here's the official report : FTC Report

More 360 news!

For all you Fable fans out there get ready to spend some time on the internet next week. Lionhead is releasing a big-ish thing which is rumored to be a group of gameplay videos, but who knows.
Stay tuned and we'll find out.

Gears of War 2 news!

In 2 days there will be an exclusive on Gears of War 2 on Gametrailers and Spike TV! It is supposed to be spectacular!

Playstation Day (The Three 2's)

Before I go blabbering away like a little schoolgirl I would like to give a shout out to playstationdirect.net, our new partners.

First off here's the gameplay video for Motorstorm 2.


Next, a new gameplay video of Killzone 2.


Finally, Resistance 2. Notice the 3X, 4X, 5x markers above their heads. It's supposed to give you bonus points for killing people on a streak. This could be a good or bad feature depending on how its implemented.

Small Updates

I have made some small updates to the blog to make it feel more compact, clean, and organized. Check back to this post for any more layout-related updates this week.

If these updates are received negatively, I will change it back or try to rework it with cooperation.

Guess What?

At this current point in time I am downloading the Haze demo off the European Playstation Store. I will post a whole preview (with video) tomorrow.

Note: This will also give me a reason to record some MGO Beta action!

R.I.P. Chad Wardenn

I am very sorry to report, that after finally reaching 1,000,000 views, the legendary super troll Chad Wardenn, the man who invented the term"PSTripple", has taken down all of his videos and closed his account. No one knows what happened, or whether he'll make a comeback, but for now Chad Wardenn is dead. Long live the first and the best Sony troll, we'll all miss you.

Stay ABAP, friends, stay ABAP.

What He Said

Basically the first part of my post is a copycat of Tha PirateNinja's. We've all been so caught up in GTA IV that we haven't even thought about the blog.

Secondly I would just like to make everyone aware that Blogger has added a new feature that could prove very useful. Now when you click post options and change the "post date & time" to sometime in the future, blogger will post it at that time. For more info check your dashboard.

Finally I'd like to give everyone an insight on what's coming next. First, (since I've finally managed to log on to MGO BETA) I will post an exclusive video of me playing in the training arena. Next, don't expect the GTA IV reviews for at least another week (DAMN YOU SNOW STORM). Lastly, I'm going to start doing a weekly wrap-up of the weeks top 5 stories.

Oh, almost forgot, next week I will (with the help of vgchartz.com) dedicate a post to analyzing GTA IV sales data.

PS: I'm trying to figure out a way for us to post small things that don't necessarily need a whole post dedicated to the topic. *Considers Twitter*

Well, back to being extremely frustrated with 3-star police.
EDIT: ALSO OH WOW 40 EXACT POSTS IN APRIL!

GTAddiction

First off, I would like to apologize to anybody who visits this blog for my irresponsibility in it's upkeep. With that said, I think that all of our authors have been distracted by GTA IV, and that's why this place hasn't had a non-link or video post in ages. I'm truly addicted to GTA IV, after already clocking in 26 single player hours, and who knows how many multiplayer hours. I haven't really been on the internet at all, but my addiction should slow next week to the point where I can start regularly writing again. I expect every writer to get over this addiction, because I can't keep this up by myself.

As for the Official GTA IV Review, it may be a while, this is the biggest game I've ever played and I want to cover it all. Until next time, friends, see ya later.

Jack Thompson Is No Longer Alone

Apparently there are people with ignorance equal to that of Jack Thompson.

Check out these two vids taken from a broadcast earlier on CNN Headline News.

Copy and paste. Sorry, couldn't link it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzr138ijmaQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqSCLrtioEl