Everyone's special. Or not?

I have recently heard a rumor about the Xbox 360's upcoming firmware patch. The rumor I heard was that you can install games and run them without the discs on your 360. Of course, this is Microsoft we're talking about, so there is going to be some kind of copy protection. It might be something ridiculous, or just a CD code. Maybe you'll have to register your "gaming library" to your 360, not letting you trade in games or borrow them from friends. Sound familiar? Unless you have been living under a rock, this is like the PC gaming storyline these last few years. These two worlds are getting closer, and closer, and closer, to the point that at this rate in 3 years, you'll be shopping on Newegg.com for an nVidia 16000 for your XboPC. Not cool? Or is a good thing? It seems like a good thing to me, as it makes everyone's hardware reflect their surroundings and personality. If you know what I mean. On the PC side, we have been getting closer in the software world rather than the hardware world, and I don't just mean 360 Ports. Take wake-on-LAN, for example (although a rather bad example it is) which let's you turn on your computer from any thing plugged into your computer's network card, similar to the way one would turn on their Xbox. I am using an Xbox 360 controller for quite a few of my games. It can't be too long until the 360 and the mother of all platforms become one!


The PS3 is pretty much a combination of the PS2, Wii, and the PC. SIXAXIS motion controls, otherwise standard controller layout, and beefy hardware. The sleeknes comes from the PC too. The Wii is the only special thing out there (besides the PC) and it is currently lacking on the visual and online side of things. Everything else is in between. I don't know there the PS/Xbox controller comes from though. Hmm. Maybe it's the wake-on-LAN thing. If I bored you or offended you or spelled bored wrong, I'm not really sorry. This is just my opinion!



What I'm playing: Company of Heroes
Games I'm into: Mass Effect, Beyond Good & Evil

Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise

It has been officially announced this morning that Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise is real! Wow! And it's got nothing to to with trouble in paradise (as I understand anyways) but has lots to do with awesomeness. It has a crapload of new features, including two new enviroments, (Dessert Desert, Pinarctic) and a whopping 32 new pet thingys. It also includes this crazy cool new feature, that I don't quite understand yet, but what got out of it was: You can take pictures of animals or trees or weather and put them on some kind of cards that also work on iPods and Zunes(?) and then you can put them into your game and it makes them.....real. Yeah. You tell me.

Another cool thing is that nothing is unlock able. Everything is already unlocked. I don't know how that is going to work, but that sounds good to me. Not to steal a quote or something, but Viva Pinata 2 sounds just like the Viva Pinata Special Edition. It's getting a second chance to be great! The only bad thing is that it probably won't come out on PC for a long while, if at all. I guess I'll just stick with my cool PC games.

In other news, somebody has to convince Zaputh that he's missing a ton of games on the 360. We couldn't name of any when we thought about it, so a true console gamer needs to bust in and tell us that we are wrong and that we rock too. Yay.


UPDATE: Yes, it IS coming out for PC simultaneously as the 360 and (?) PS3 (?) versions of the game. As you can imagine, I am uber exited for this game. There is an awesome article about things we learn from gaming at 1Up.com. Read it right now. (no link 'cause I found out it was illegal to link to Ziff Davis Media Publishing Corp. content with some other...stuff...or something.....?

Bye for now-Loshon


What I'm playing: Company of Heroes: Remember the Poplars, Garry's Mod, Team Fortress 2

First Impressions: Saga

Upon the 1up Network give away of the new "MMORTS" Saga,(Silverlode) I was lucky enough to download a copy and get an impression. Two words: Not Finished. BUT OF COURSE you're probably saying now, IT'S STILL IN BETA. Oh, it's off the hook then. But that's what this beta is: not finished. But hey, it has it's potential, and every time I boot it up, it has to update, so I'm assuming that means they're working on it. Also, check out this nifty little article about the ESRB.

ANYWAYS, this game has some large flaws, the most notable being almost completely floating units. Eww! It's also, well, really hard to use and understand. I still don't quite get how to deploy my troops. And why does my "CP" number look like a date. It's like 04/23/150. ???? But it is still in open beta, so I'll give it a break. For now.

AND........nothing else to talk about, except GTA IV, but you know, I'm just not gonna go into that. I think everyone's had enough GTA 'talkin.
Bye for now.

What I'm playing: Day of Defeat: Source, Saga(duh), and
Company of Heroes.


SUPER DUPER!!