I found this looking around for laptops that were good for gaming. This is the nice “under $1000” price point yet probably will out perform my current desktop for gaming. Click below to order. Perfect for that Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
I’ve been getting some e-mails and IMs about music games, especially way back when I did my review for Guitar Hero: Van Halen, about which series I prefer and which instruments. Another common question is the best price to get for them. With Rock Band 3
PS3 Firmware 3.41 Released
Jul 27
Just now added to the PS3 was Firmware 3.41 which adds “Recommendations” to the Playstation Store. It will base these on what other people are buying combined with ratings. Kudos to Sony for what seems to be a reaction to the Destination Arcade. I tried checking it out for myself and it seems that it has not quite been implemented yet, maybe in time for the Tuesday update? Word is that a PSP firmware is due as well with more security stuff.
SingStar doesn’t seem to get a lot of love on other sites so I figured I’d post a little info that may help some people out. SingStar has finally received the 4.4 update that was supposed to be released back in June. It adds Online Battles to play online against friends, Vibrato detection, and the best feature (in my opinion) is the addition of creating SingStar Remote playlists via the PSP. The Community updates are listed after the break.
I know I haven’t posted a review yet so normally I don’t post stuff like this, but it’s a good deal so I had to. Lead and Gold is free to play all this weekend on Steam and there’s even a discount to purchase the game if you like it. I got it at release and haven’t spent as much time with it as I’d like so this weekend will be a perfect opportunity. So far I’ve had a lot of fun with it, so you all should check it out. Post your thoughts below.
Destination Arcade, a visual browser for all things Xbox Live Arcade, has been released just in time for this year’s Summer of Arcade promotion and it provides a vastly updated way to browse XBLA games – whether you are looking for something to buy or pick something to play in your own collection. Should we take the time (and hard drive space) to download this, or just do things the way we are used to?
Are you old enough to remember when games didn’t have ratings? Do you remember one of the major reasons they do now? If you said Mortal Kombat, you would be right… but I’m talking about Night Trap. Yes, Night Trap starring the late Dana Plato came out on the Sega CD at a time when video games were thought to be “kids toys” and took people by surprise because it had realistic video of real people (although the quality is laughable by today’s standards) in a horror video game of sorts (it was mostly a parody but that is beside the point). Why am I talking about Night Trap in a review that is not for Night Trap? Well because it spawned a string of barely interactive FMV (Full Motion Video) games and we can now relive those glory days (??) with Bloody Death on Xbox Live Indie Games.
Don’t forget everyone that today sees the launch of Destination Arcade. This is something you can download here that is a much better way to look through and recommend games on Xbox Live Arcade by using what they call a “visual browser.” For some strange reason though it will only be available during the Summer of Arcade promotion. It will continue to work afterwards, but why only available then makes no sense to me, so make sure to go and download it now. Also as a reminder today was the release of Limbo, the first game of Summer of Arcade and if you buy all the games in the promotion you will get 1200 MS points back.
Are you a fan of Left 4 Dead or Killing Floor? How about twin-stick shooters? Do you have Steam? Download this game!
Avatar Rockets on Xbox Live Indie Games has been updated. Going to bed now but will try it out tomorrow to see what has changed. In the meantime if you don’t know the game, click here to read my review of the game before the update.
[UPDATE 7-22 @ 2:36 AM] So I have been checking the last few days and whenever I load the game up it does not say anything about an update so I am curious if I had bad information or if the update process is not working. Anyone out there have any info?
