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160 Gb PS3 Coming Soon

Posted on August 22, 2008 - Filed Under Electronics, gaming | Leave a Comment

80gb PS3’s will soon be dropping to the $399 prince point, I’m not sure what will be happening with the 40gb units. I expect they will drop the price to $349 until the remaining units have been sold and then it will be discontinued. Recent news of a 160gb PS3 coming in November [...]

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Drum Rocker

Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, gaming | Leave a Comment

Drums are fun. I can’t play real drums, yet anyway, but I’m doing ok so far with Rock Bands fake plastic drum set. Next month we get Rock Band 2 with some upgrades including optional cymbals for the drum set and an auto-calibration feature in the new guitar. A premium drum set [...]

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Used Stuff Updated

Posted on August 15, 2008 - Filed Under Business, gaming | Leave a Comment

I just updated the Used Games page again to include some new goodies we’ve gotten in this week and delete the stuff that sold. Items of particular interest are a Nintendo Wii (which honestly seems to be more of a weight loss products than a gaming system), some more Rock Band gear for the [...]

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Game Console Price Drops Coming

Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, News, gaming | Leave a Comment

Lots of rumors flying around about some price drops coming next month. The Xbox 360 Pro 20gb has already dropped from $349 to $299 which is just $20 more than the Arcade bundle that only comes with a memory card. Next month however the Arcade system could be as low as $199. [...]

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New Wii Game

Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, gaming | Leave a Comment

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a big fan of the Wii. It just doesn’t have the games I’m looking for, but there’s no denying it’s mass appeal and wide variety of games. Even cooking games are becoming pretty popular on this system and the last cooking game I remember was [...]

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Guitar Hero: World Tour

Posted on July 28, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, gaming | Leave a Comment

This fall can’t come soon enough for music game fans. With Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour competing for your living room space it could be a tough decision on which bundle to buy. So far we know that the RB instruments will work with GH:WT but I don’t know if [...]

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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

Posted on July 8, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, gaming | Leave a Comment

If you’re a Guitar Hero fan I’d recommend renting this. If you also love Aerosmith then it may be worth buying, but at the full price of 60 bucks for just 41 songs, it’s a little steep. Personally, I’m not a big Aerosmith fan so I opted to just rent the game. [...]

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Lego Indiana Jones

Posted on June 22, 2008 - Filed Under Fun, Uncategorized, gaming | Leave a Comment

I played the Lego Star Wars games a while back and this month saw the release of Lego Indiana Jones. I enjoyed the others so I decided to check this one out too. Overall it’s a very fun game. Like the Star Wars one you journey through a variety of levels [...]

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More Plastic Instruments

Posted on June 18, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, gaming | Leave a Comment

By the time this Christmas rolls around this year I think a lot of people are going to find their living rooms seem to be shrinking. Adding to the plastic instrument collection currently stocked by Rock Band and Guitar Hero, GH4 World Tour will be adding drums and a microphone as well. And [...]

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Carmageddon

Posted on June 9, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, computers, gaming | Leave a Comment

It’s an old game series by todays standards, and they kind of ruined it with the last installment, but Carmageddon 1 and 2 were damn fun games back in the day. The characters were pure cheese, reminding me heavily of Death Race 2000, trying to blow each other up (don’t bother with car insurance [...]

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Lots of Used Guitar Hero

Posted on May 23, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment, gaming, sellers | Leave a Comment

Quite a few people getting rid of Guitar Hero games and controllers over the last couple of weeks. I currently have a wireless PS2 guitar and Guitar Hero 1 game. For XBox 360 I have 2 Xplorer guitars, 1 Strat, 1 set of drums, 1 mic, 1 Rock Band game and 3 Guitar [...]

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Saga - Free Online RTS Game

Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, computers, gaming | Leave a Comment

It’s been a long time since I played an RTS (real time strategy) game on the computer, the last one I remember playing was Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 which came out a few years ago. The ones I played the most were Warcraft and Starcraft but since Starcraft 2 is still a [...]

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GTA IV First Impressions

Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under gaming | Leave a Comment

These are my very early first impressions with GTA IV, I’m sure my opinion will change once I’ve gotten more into the game. So far I’ve only played about an hour and a half and the driving sucks. It’s cool because it’s realistic, but I don’t play games for realism, I play games [...]

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It’s good to be a Console Gamer

Posted on May 13, 2008 - Filed Under computers, gaming | Leave a Comment

Holy crap. I was looking around at new PC games to see if there’s anything interesting to play. I quit EverQuest 2 a few months ago (again) and World of Warcraft bores me to tears now so I haven’t been playing anything at all on computer lately. When playing computer games I [...]

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