That ticker on ThreeSpeech expired, and i should've thought it through more....
"A Storm is coming"...
MOTORSTORM!!!
Yep motorstorm 2 got announced and set for a fall release date. Not that I really care, because I sucked at MotorStorm 1 and I dont think I'll be any better at the second. Plus, I have so many other games to buy this year.......
First of all, i noticed that the UK blog ThreeSpeech had a new feature: a countdown!!! Right next to it the text "A storm is coming.." appears. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Who knows. Hopefully its something interesting. We'll find out soon, because at the time I'm writing this there is exactly 23 hours 25 minutes left.
What else... I got a PM the other day that some random guy was tracking my contributions. Turns out he was a M$ fanboy. Not only did he rate a comment made by DPQ as thumbs down (that pissed me off) he also said something like "typical sony fanboy telling others to get a life.. oh the irony". I moderated him. It didnt work though, because it just so happens I have never needed to use the mod tool before, and now i did, and i didnt know what options to select to delete his post. And now, it wont let me moderate again.
Lesson: if there is a 360 fanboy who thinks they are going to come to my blog, rate my friends' posts down, and insult my manhood, they be WRONG!!!!! If 360 fans wanna talk to me, they can PM me, but thats it, because now i know how to use that stupid moderator tool and I'll just remove their writings and replace them with the nice [This comment has been deleted at the request of a moderator or administrator].
At lunch today someone came up and told me that "BS3 owners will begin to be charged $15 subscription costs for PlayStation Mall" (and yes, he did say PlayStation Mall, which I'm assuming he really meant PlayStation Store). I, of course, told him it was complete bull and said he needs to get a life because he starts rumors. Then, at the end of the day, another kid told me THE EXACT SAME THING. So I was like "Where did you hear that from". Sure enough, he told me the name of the kid that had told me at lunchtime, so that kid was continuing to spread rumors.
This is a perfect example of why 360 is all-american. in case any of you haven't heard on the news yet, pretty much most of this once-great country is now filled with retards who believe ANYTHING they hear from ANYWHERE or ANYONE. I mean seriously, in america, and especially in my high school: if you go tell a group of kids that cocaine was raining from the sky, it'd probably go something like this:
Me: "dude"
Kid: "what"
Me: "its literally raining crack out there"
Kid: "u lie"
Me: "I serious."
Kid: "really?"
Me: "yeah."
Kid: "I'm going to go get some!!!!!!!!!."
So its no wonder that people believe really anything they hear. Even if its totally obvious bullsh*t, they believe it. Not to mention that the average math grades in my school are around like 39% or something like that, meaning the most of my school is really failing math bad.
So what is my post about? Basically.. Americans are pretty much idiots (you may have seen TV specials entitled "Stupid In America" or heard the song "American Idiot".. its all true), so they spread rumors, and thats why we get 360 people in the forums and on comment rolls saying "OMG DID YOU HEAR THE PS3 WEIGHS 50 lbs (which is about 22 KG if anyone is wondering)?!?!?!"
If you don't have Windows Vista yet, then this video will outline the basic features that you can look forward to.
Well i was going to post it on here.. until I realized they didn't allow youtube embedded videos. So click here!
All signs are pointing to the fact that the PS3 is going to have a BIG announcement next week.
GDC 2008 is next week!!!!!!!!!! And, for a while, there has been a rumor that the next big firmware upgrade for the ps3 is coming next week, and supposedly 2.20 is the big INGAME XMB update. But that hasn't been confirmed.
On top of this rumor... KOTAKU, the People Magazine of gaming, discovered on Wednesday a new page posted, then pulled from, the US playstation site. What were these pages? Playstation network pages discussing "talk to others during gameplay, say hello anytime you're online or have a video chat with an Eye camera, USB camera or headset". It also had an entire brand-new page focusing on Playstation Home (and for those who have been following Sony closely, the ONLY OTHER PAGE that an English-speaking branch of sony has made is the ever-popular www.homebetatrial.com, which hasn't been updated since its appearing right after GDC 07).
So what is the announcement??? My guess is they have one or more of the following planned to be announced or discussed in detail:
I cant really make any good predictions though, as Sony has already proved they're pretty unpredictable.
Alright guys, I am coming back, FOREVER. It seems I overreacted last time, and I did give IGN a shot and I need to say that it is awfully lonely there. Plus the website is an extreme pain to get around.
So, I'm staying here, but a few things will change about my blog. i will make it probably a bit more personal and not always have such a "Gamespot sucks" attitude. in fact, i wont even mention GameSpot really. I will post my favorite games, IGN's reviews, etc. But at any rate, I really cant stand having that blog on IGN.
I'll explain in more detail later.
Last week, Jeff, a legendary GameSpot editor was unexpected fired from Gamespot.
The reason? Well, even though CNET Networks is trying to cover it up, the reason is because of advertising conflicting with a bad review.
Unless you've been in a coma for the past month or so (or possibly just busy or on vacation), you've seen the continuous flow of Kane and Lynch ads throughout the GameSpot website (as well as some on some other CNET sites). Well, to cut things short, the games sucks. Jeff wrote an honest review on it, basically saying it sucked and was "ugly" numerous times. After all, aren't you supposed to be honest in reviews?
Anyhow, he gave it a 6/10, a very mediocre score. Kane and Lynch's development company Eidos (who pretty much suck as well, no s*** that they'd make a bad game), was not happy with this review, and threatened to pull all their ads (along with the big money they're paying to have them up) from the site, unless CNET fired Gerstmann and made the review less intense. Now, to the average mind, it should be a no brainer: truth, or money? CNET took the money. Jeff Gerstmann's employment with GameSpot was terminated. Now, if it was some freelance article site, then it wouldn't be a big deal. But GameSpot is one of the most influential video game reviewers on the internet (in fact, the only equal reviewer is probably IGN). They have basically let out the fact that they will trade money for reviews in companies favor. Who knows when else this trick may have been used? Maybe Mass Effect got rated only 8.5 because a competing company paid to have it rated lower. Maybe... well, I wont go into many examples, but you get my point.
What do we do about this? Well, CNET Networks has just taken it too far this time, and they've obviously overstepped limits in the past. A petition will soon be started for the Boycotting of CNET Networks and all its brands as trusted review sources. What I am hoping this may do (and I'm hoping others will support me on this) is reveal truths behind CNET, and what really happens when reviewing products. And, haha, as far as download.com, the "safe, trusted, and spyware-free" download source of the internet? Well, I dont know about any other people, but I've downloaded a rather large number of programs from that site which installed malware and spyware on my computer.
Point is, CNET will do anything to get their paychecks in the end. Because CNET Networks is an american company, it is all of our right to weed their corruption. If this petition goes well, I want one thing to happen: I dont want to see CNET or any of their brands in Newspapers, Online articles, review collections, or anything that relies on their credibilty anymore, because credibility is something that they obviously do not have.
As soon as I get a link to a petition I will post it here. I will go into more detail tomorrow when i'm not so darn tired.
Yea you heard me!
As of today, playstation 3 owners can logon to store.playstation.com and not only buy stuff from the PC playstation store, but also login to any PSN account and do the exact same account management via PC that was formerly only available via a PS3 system. So, if anyone was concerned about the security of putting a credit card number into your PS3 (which probably has about 40 ports open to it), it should be safe now because you can do it over an encrypted HTTP (otherwise known as https) connection on your computer. So what I'm doing is just typing my credit card number into there, putting $50 into my PSN wallet, then deleting the info from the account.
well i'm excited as hell... I just got rock band and its sweet... COD4 is the best shooter this year (aside from Rainbow six vegas), I finally got myself to buy resistance and its a great game... Drakes fortune is out now I believe and I'll buy that... things are beginning to look very much up for PlayStation owners. It'll only get better, folks.
Well, i've encountered many glitches on this website, on both IE and Firefox, that make the website close to unusable. Among these are:
"Messages" in the top right corner of the page saying I have 1 more unread message than I actually have.
Comment posting not working for the GameSpot News blog and rumor control
Temporary Rank resets to level 1
Blank pages comes up instead of message page when I click the messages link at the top of the page
Search errors
CSS errors
bad links
And now, I have just come across the possibly most annoying one of all! I tried to watch a video for Uncharted:Drakes fortune (rated T) and it says that I cannot watch it due to ESRB rating. T is for ages 14+ and I am 16, and my profile age is listed as 16 I believe. So why doesn't this vid work? Especially when it let me watch Rainbow Six Vegas (rated M) videos with no problem whatsoever earlier this year?
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