NEXT GEN CONSOLES

[TaylorT]

Did anyone have any problems logging into XBox live last night? It would pop up with the "Connected to xbox live" thingy, but then the marketplace tab was blank and still had a "Connect to xbox live" button showing. Clicking that would attempt to log me in again, and no error was shown, but it would return me to the blank page with the connect button.

Edited April 22, 2008 by TaylorT

[windy_miller]

Nope but I'd bet it was a routine upgrade and maintenance check before GTA4 hits the shelves.

[windy_miller]

Has anyone got the "Little Rocket Man" achievement in Half Life 2: Episode 2?

I'm tempted to go back to the start and collect him!

[Leprekorn]

Has anyone got the "Little Rocket Man" achievement in Half Life 2: Episode 2?

I'm tempted to go back to the start and collect him!

[AndrewD]

anyone getting a wiifit?

[Jaybles]

anyone getting a wiifit?

[Lithium05]

Why would anyone want that? im genuinely curious

Edited April 23, 2008 by Lithium05

[Purple Monkey]

A guy I know was on about wii fit at the pub on friday, he said he's excited about it coming out and all that, and I couldn't figure out why!

I sent him that video you (was it you?) posted on here from sarcastic gamer, and he found it funny but said "If that's the only reason you're not getting it you're a fool"

Personally I'm not getting it because I don't see the point!

ETA: On a different not I finally unlocked the ability to play as my Mii on Mario Kart last night

[Jaybles]

A guy I know was on about wii fit at the pub on friday, he said he's excited about it coming out and all that, and I couldn't figure out why!

I sent him that video you (was it you?) posted on here from sarcastic gamer, and he found it funny but said "If that's the only reason you're not getting it you're a fool"

Personally I'm not getting it because I don't see the point!

ETA: On a different not I finally unlocked the ability to play as my Mii on Mario Kart last night

Edited April 23, 2008 by JayBNO1

[Halcyon]

Gaming wise its not got any decent and original gameplay, most of them look like a bundle of tech demos.

[Lithium05]

The status of My order for GTA4 on play.com has gone from "pre-ordered" to "Order Placed"

Is anyone getting the special edition that comes with the official GTAIV Bells and exclusive rockstar whistles?

Edited April 23, 2008 by Lithium05

[lost]

Regarding wii fit, I'm hoping other applications come out that use the wii board, I would love an SSX type game which used both the board for steering and the remote for tricks.

[steveo]

anyone know when these cod4 maps are comin out for the ps3.....im sick of waitin for them

[Jaybles]

Linky

Notice this story was 2 weeks ago but i found it interesting.

Sounds like they are eating those things up over there

The PSP last week sold more units than 360, PS3, Wii and DS combined in Japan.

The Japanese, who were last year snapping up DS units like they were essential life support machines, grabbed an astonishing 129,986 PSPs off shelves in the week ending March 30.

That's more than double that of the previous week, and more than the total sales of all the other current-gen consoles, including DS, which only managed 58,916.

Next down on the list was Wii, with 48,785 sales, then PS3 with 11,206 and the typically trailing 1547 unit sales of 360, according to Media Create figures.

[dan666]

Did anyone have any problems logging into XBox live last night? It would pop up with the "Connected to xbox live" thingy, but then the marketplace tab was blank and still had a "Connect to xbox live" button showing. Clicking that would attempt to log me in again, and no error was shown, but it would return me to the blank page with the connect button.

[berk]

Regarding wii fit, I'm hoping other applications come out that use the wii board, I would love an SSX type game which used both the board for steering and the remote for tricks.

[Lauz_Abbott]

i am quite tempted to buy wii fit but im not sure if i would use it enough!

[Greeny_Musicchild]

Linky

Notice this story was 2 weeks ago but i found it interesting.

Sounds like they are eating those things up over there

The PSP last week sold more units than 360, PS3, Wii and DS combined in Japan.

The Japanese, who were last year snapping up DS units like they were essential life support machines, grabbed an astonishing 129,986 PSPs off shelves in the week ending March 30.

That's more than double that of the previous week, and more than the total sales of all the other current-gen consoles, including DS, which only managed 58,916.

Next down on the list was Wii, with 48,785 sales, then PS3 with 11,206 and the typically trailing 1547 unit sales of 360, according to Media Create figures.

[steveo]

any one at home with a ps3....i here these cod4 maps are out today is this true i hope so

[Lithium05]

any one at home with a ps3....i here these cod4 maps are out today is this true i hope so

[lost]

Don't know if anyone follows Jack Thompson's attempts in the states to get various games banned.

Well according to a US news site the religous nutter has just written a letter to the mother of Take-Two Interactive Software's CEO:

Dear Mrs. Zelnick:

Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.

Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29: “We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…” Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.

What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.

The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.

With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.

But maybe the explanation for your son’s corporate sociopathy is to be found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:

“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”

Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”

There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.

Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.

Sincerely, Jack Thompson

Edited April 24, 2008 by lost

[Huevos y Bacon]

any one at home with a ps3....i here these cod4 maps are out today is this true i hope so

[Huevos y Bacon]

Yes, they're there. Also a demo of a Capcom Rocketman game and some other stuff I've forgotten instantly.

[Lithium05]

A new low I believe??

[brighteyes]

Yes, they're there.