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Fail Fantasy!

Chelsea McLelland — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:07:03 +0100

Once upon a time…

There lived a young girl, whose dream was nothing more than to be allowed to touch the world she had seen her older brother enter many times. It was the first game she took an interest in, watching him play for hours. It was odd and the mother worried, her little child had always been one to play outside and frolic with the butterflies – but there she sat, staring at that screen in entrancement. What the mother didn’t understand was while that childRead More...

Real-Time Lag Makes You a Fag?

Chelsea McLelland — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:28:46 +0100

Do you ever feel like life just doesn’t want you to be good gamer? Life seems to be that way with me.

I have a disorder, nothing fancy or anything that can majorly affect my life, but something that does affect my game play. It made me realize that many people all over the world suffer from similar problems, if not worse. And that they are being scrutinized and judged on their skill level because of things that aren’t within their control. It isn’t fair. If someone is doing poor for Read More...

Why I Am Starting to Hate Gaming

Philip — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:37:57 +0100

Meh.

Two years ago I loved gaming. I used to enjoy playing awful games to boost my Gamerscore. I used to waste countless hours talking about video games on gaming forums. I was also delighted in meeting random individuals on the service known as Xbox Live. Now, however, things are cRead More...

Foiled Again!

Chelsea McLelland — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:47:43 +0100

I have long since had a plan to take over the world, as everyone should. In my mind, it was full proof. As we all know too well, a gamer is loyal to their console – their obsession is like one between a parent and it’s offspring. If taken from their media, people are cut off from the strands that had seemed to become a third Read More...

DIBS!!

Chelsea McLelland — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:19:04 +0100

Everyone has a favorite weapon.

I have been playing the Halo series for years, and somehow I feel a little left out in the calling. Someone usually says they will go for Rocks, Shotgun, BR or Snipe …and I am left behind, munching on the leftovers. The strange attachment people have had to specific guns has always been a mystery to me. I dRead More...

Name That Console

Chelsea McLelland — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:28:33 +0100

There is no silhouette to identify here, the names I am talking about are the ones we give the electronics close to our heart. It is the line between just a little break from the crowd and geek. The thing we sometimes fail to realize is, at first – we’re set up. The electronics planned for us to get attached to them.

You remember when you’re gettingRead More...

Rule #1: All Girls are Really Just Guys with Little Sisters

Chelsea McLelland — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:34:08 +0100

In the beginning a girl gamer is excited. There she is, giddy from the new console she just acquired and ready to get into the world of online gaming.

Within her childhood she's always been a little out placed. While her friends are playing make believe, her hands were around a super Nintendo controller, throwing turtle shells and swallowing little creatures to obtain their power; lost in that world until a parent gets fed up and unplugs it mid-level. She would get angry, tell them thRead More...

Bans for the Ban God! Gamertags for the throne of The Pro!

Anthony Christoph-Lindemann Jackson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:23:30 +0100

So, there has been a lot of things going around about a certain XBox Moderator named The Pro. I have heard from both sides of the table; a post by Einrich Peabody Houtenlicht on kotaku.com: "The guy is at work and to behave like that at work is reprehensible, I work in customer service and have had just as bad and worse said to me and I've never responded with threats like making it my mission to punish someone.

Bottom Line: A guy with an attitude like that shouldn't be moderatinRead More...

Gamefly Introduces FastReturn Service to ME!

Kyle (Monster) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:02:36 +0100

I've been using Gamefly's amazing service for the past 10 months and have enjoyed their huge library of new and old games. Today, I noticed something a little different. I got a text around 12:55 pm eastern from Gamefly that informed me they've shippeRead More...

Top Ten Movies of 2009

Aaron Marsh — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:49:39 +0100

At some point you have to cut the year off, and I've hit that. I could continue, picking up some of the movies I didn't get a chance to see (The Road, The Informant! and, most regrettably, A Serious Man) or continue rewatching and reshuffling (even though I've seen the majority of my list twice or more), but I'm stopping myself right here. If for no other reason than I have to get that decade list out there in a couple days...

But I digress... 2009 was a ridiculously great year forRead More...

Do you want to play Halo 3: ODST with Bungie?

Kari Toyama — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:07:04 +0100

You don't have to win anything to play with the Bungie folks. You just need $15 and another person to play with you. The best part: all the money donated will go towards breast and cervical cancer research.

This is all part of the 4th annual Fight Like a Girl Halo Tournament, and the Bungie dudes are all about savingRead More...

Halo 3: ODST Launch Party, Seattle

Kari Toyama — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:39:52 +0100

I was lucky enough to attend the official Halo 3: ODST launch party at the EMP in Seattle. The line started forming outside at 11am and the actual event didn't start until 6pm that evening! I heard later that there were over 600 people waiting in that line. Good thing I had a sweet Bungie pass, I snuck in the back door.

Curse of the Epic Fail: My Story of PAX

Ben — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:11:16 +0100

[Sorry for any typos or nonsense. I tried to write this all after getting back and I'm muy tiredo.]

If there is one thing that I’ve learned from two years of PAX it’s that the next time I see a line for a new Left 4 Dead game, just leave it alone.

Leave it alone!

But more on that later.

My second PAX, while short, was very eventful. Last year I went mainly because my friend Jeremy wanted to go and I didn’t mind having sRead More...

PAX 09: Edge Goes Bull Riding

Jason (Edge) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:41:04 +0100

srediskraD... ahem, Darksiders hosted a bull riding feature at PAX, and your's truely decided to sep up to the hell-bronco.

And then the bull got going.

And it bucked and bucked.
monst3r2005 8/12/09 8:00 PM

Awesome, thanks for the codes!

UBlogs are back in action!

Joshua Hyles — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

Some of you may have had some technical difficulties posting UBlogs lately. Well I'm here to tell you that everything should be fixed up and ready to go again! Get back to postin'!

The Bigs 2 Review

Josh Hallisey — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100

I would consider myself a pretty devout baseball fan. I mean my favorite team is the Florida Marlins. Sure we won the World Series twice, but I have to suffer through years of heartache before another chance rolls around. So in the meantime, I've been trying to entertain myself with a good baseball game for the Xbox 360.

I wish "MLB09: The Show" would make its way over to Xbox bRead More...

GAF Never Ceases to Amaze Me

Aaron Marsh — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:07:02 +0100

January 22nd I sent my request to the mods to confirm my account so I could finally start posting after a year (and change) of only reading the forums.

Today, here's what hits my inbox.

Dear MrGri3ves,

Unfortunately your registration at NeoGAF did not meet our membership requirements. Therefore your registration was deleted.

Sorry,
NeoGAF

Guess I'm a lurker for life now, huh?

Achievement Whore : Guitar Hero

Ryan (U2) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:37:02 +0100

Achievement Whore : Guitar Hero

In an effort to support the user blogs I shall be sharing a bit of my vast achievement knowledge from time to time. I shall name these blog posts Achievement Whore.

This week Guitar Hero World Tour and Metallica. Both games feature an achievement worth a massive 150 points for passing the career mode for each instrument. Most of us can knock out the Guitar and Bass careers. The drums should be set to easy and you can slap your way through. But if Read More...