I got invited to the PlayStation Home closed beta today. Woo?
Right now, my dude is dancing with about twenty other dudes (almost all of us wearing the same shirt) in PlayStation Home. I'm having fun watching it, but it's obvious Home, in its current form, has some flaws. I don't feel like playing Second Life on my PlayStation Triple, and don't let any Sony PR rep make you think that it's any more than that. Home is a social experience (don't call it a game), and I'm not sure if that's what the PSN needs right now.
When I first booted Home, I made my dude. After a very short tutorial I moved to the central plaza, where I danced around some bubble machines, watched a Far Cry 2 trailer (in stunning not-high-definition... I'm looking at you Phil Harrison), and started doing the robot at the "Listen@Home" speakers. I hope you don't have a problem with only dudes in a social game; I haven't seen a single female character yet. So yes, dancing is with a bunch of dudes and electronic music.
There are other areas you can visit in Home, but instead of downloading everything when you first install, it's broken up based on where you visit. The initial install is only 77MB, but you download other areas as you go (translation: you don't have to download an EA Sports or Eidos space).
Hold up everybody, while typing this a chick started dancing near me. She's dressed kind of like a whore though; it's probably a dude.
Well that's it for my first hour. Did anybody else get into this beta?
Let me market to your young, hip generation of Second-Life players! You do play Second-Life, right?
Valve's celebrating ten years of Half-Life by pricing the original Half-Life at $0.98, from now until sometime Friday. Boot up Steam and get on it! I never played the game, so I think I'll give it a try.
I am not in Detroit, Michigan, but Detroit, Animal Crossing. My last two towns were named Cubetown (GC) and Da' Hood (Wild World). I wanted something more ghetto than Da' Hood, so I went with Detroit.
Check out my house. Any users supplying negative comments towards my obviously fantastic house will receive the banhammer via JonDavis, who will do anything I tell him to do.
Somebody just tried to debate the overall quality of Fable 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 with me. Here's the good part: the person debating me has not played either game but has an idea in his head that somehow his opinion is more qualified than mine. I mean, I own both games but what the hell do I know.
I'm pretty sure that I have found the dumbest Internet argument ever. You guys have anything worse?
"Congratulations and thanks! Because you are a Game Informer Newsletter subscriber, you were randomly selected to receive a beta code for LittleBigPlanet. Check out our hands on impressions of the LittleBigPlanet beta at GameInformer.com and then download it for yourself."
Downloading! Woooo! Game Informer didn't even make me enter some dumb trivia contest. I am seriously very excited about playing this game, because to hell with waiting an entire month for the finished product.
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I'm just about to leave for my local GameStop to pick up Mercs 2 (360). I called them to make sure it's in stock, and after informing it is in stock the person I was talking to said "Make sure to bring in some old games to trade in to make it cheaper!"
Seriously? Maybe you guys won't find that as annoying as I would since I'm against trading in old games, but still... ugh.
Okay, so now that the dust has settled on this whole Vivendi thing, it's pretty clear Brütal Legend wasn't right for Activision's Tony Hawk/Guitar Hero s*** lineup. While Tim Schafer says "Brütal Legend is fine", I feel horrible for him. This is two for two, if anybody is keeping score (Psychonauts got dumped by Microsoft). Now it seems pretty clear that the game is getting bumped to early 2009 for marketing reasons (new publisher, new marketing campaign), so my Game of the Year 2008 is now the Game of the Year 2009. And no, that fact isn't up for debate. So while I wait for some new information on the game, I have been viewing the trailer repeatedly. Also, I'm a generous person, so you can watch it again too. Of course, I have the trailer in HD looping on my MacBook right next to my PC, so the experience isn't quite the same, but the flash version I uploaded a while ago is still pretty damn nice for its size.
I just checked Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2's leaderboards, and apparently the scores I made back at the game's launch are not as solid as I originally thought. Actually, now I am at the bottom of four out of the six total friends leaderboards. Still, those scores do not matter. This is because I am still owning all of your asses on the Uno leaderboard.
Still number one!
That's me up at the top, if you didn't notice. I know you're jealous, but go ahead and deny it in your comments. 10 Comments
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