Archive for the ‘Video Games’ Category
South Korean President gets free Xbox 360 from Bill Gates
When Mr Bill Gates met Mr President of South Korea, Lee myung-bak earlier this month, the outgoing Microsoft chairman brought a special gift to Mr President, a super limited edition of Xbox 360 inlaid traditional Korean mother-of-pearl design. In fact, 100 similar Xbox 360 are being prepaid and designed by a Korean artisan which to be used as VIP gifts. The head of the design company, Gookbo decorated the 360 with mother-of-pearl ume flowers and butterflies to represent patience and perseverance. It’s entitled as “Peace”.
image of and via fareastgizmo
Xbox 360 skinned in a alligator skin which creeps you out
People loves to mod their console. Change the skin, add LED lights, blink blink, bejeweled it and now some freak out there skin their Xbox 360 with the alligator skin. When I saw this I was like Oh My God?! What the hell is this? I thought it was unreal but for real it’s skinned, with a freaking eye on the power button which block away the 3ROD. Haha. Who would want their Xbox 360 in a crocodile skin and placed in their room? It’s holy shit creepy.
via Joystiq | image of Llama’s Game Console Forums
Wiimote chewing gum for geeks and gamers
The chewing gums are cased in this Wiimote shaped and desiged case. Look nice and I love it seriously. Geeks and gamers and Nintendo fanboy will love it a lot. Yes, I am a geek, wondering does it ships to Malaysia?
Available online at GK World or FractalSpin for only under $4 a “Wiimote”.
via TechnaBob
Xbox 360 leading in US console sales
Microsoft is showing off it’s Xbox 360 sales number. Stating that they had sell 10M consoles just in the United States which makes to be the first in top console sales on this generation video game console. People tends to think that Wii is the best selling console in the world, but wait a minute, I am talking about the number in the United States. As for Nintendo Wii, 8.8M units have been sold and PlayStation which only has 4M units sold.
Now, talking about worldwide, Nintendo Wii leads the market with 25M units sold, but Microsoft insisted that they sold the most for the current generation console. Nintendo Wii is not current generation because it doesn’t uses the high def format.
PlayStation 3 is chasing up too, with 9.2M sold worldwide since it’s release last year. Sony expects to sell another 10M consoles by March 2009. Good one!
Personally, I’ll go for PlayStation 3 and the Wii, don’t ask me why, I just like it. Xbox? I’ll wait for Xbox 720. LOL.
[sources from Joystiq]
Guitar Hero On Tour
I bet you heard about Guitar Hero before, the popular guitar rythm game on the video game console. It’s on Play Station, Xbox, Wii, PC, mobile and now it’s coming to the handheld, Nintendo DS! I was laughing at it when it was first announced a few months ago, who would want to play the Guitar Hero by tapping the screen and button just like the mobile version?
However, it’s different. It has it own guitar pad too. Though, this is different from the guitar on the video game console which has 5 button as this has only 4 button. You strum with the pick by tapping the touch screen. The guitar thingy is plug into the GBA port of the Nintendo DS Lite, sorry this is not available for the old DS.
Releasing in June and retail price is at $49.90 which come with the game, the guitar add-on, some stickers and a pick-liked stylus. Play-Asia is selling at $59.90, not sure why.
I like Guitar Hero game. Played from on my friend’s Xbox 360 before and it’s pretty addictive. But then I wouldn’t want to spend RM400 (US$150) on the game itself. Now I am thinking where to get a Nintendo DS Lite at around RM550 (US$170) to play this game? I am not getting this because of Guitar Hero, there’s new many nice game for me to try out on the DS etc. Pokemom, Osu! Tatakae Ouendan, Brain Age, Tetris DS, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and more. Buy or not to buy?
Baby laughing at Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii is really for all age. Even little baby knows about it and gives out a good laugh at people playing the Wii. You’ll laugh when you watch this. I laugh too! The baby is just too adorable.
Or maybe he is laughing at that guy’s noob skill. LOL, just kidding. Seriously, even though Wii is for all ages, but then for some games, the control is kinda difficult. I was first played the Wii at my friend’s house and I played a shooting game - Call of Duty 3. I still prefer using a PlayStation controller than the Wiimote and Nunchuk, it will be a bit tiring because 1 hands is raise, pointing on the screen and another hand sometimes need to shake to change weapon or reload.
But for some party games like Wario Ware, Wii Sports, Rayman Raving Rabbids, it’s just simple, nice and fun playing with friends. =)
