The other day i went into the local best buy to purchase some shiny new games for my shiny new PS Vita. Typically i prefer to purchase games digitally when available, but given the limitations of space on the expensive storage cards sony provide for the system physical copies seemed like the way to go. After some umming and aahing I walked out of the store with Wipeout 2048 and Unit 13.

Upon arriving home I discover that I have managed to pick the two games that come with online passes, presumably to hurt the evil practice of buying used games. No problem i'll just enter the code in here and....."The code you entered may not be correct or may be invalid."

It took me a google search to work out - as i had guessed that the issue lied with my PSN account being Australian and the game being purchased in the USA. Ok no problem, while I don't see the effects on the used game trade by region locking an online code, I guess i'll pony up the 15 dollars each for the downloadable online pass from the store, fair enough they got me. As an Australian i'm accustomed to the high price of trying to be someone who plays videogames. Wait a minute...according to this forum post i Googled - A US COPY OF THE GAME WILL ONLY WORK WITH A US CODE ON A US ACCOUNT. Phew that would of been another 30 dollars of free credits to Sony.

Isn't this a premium portable system? Is this not the system someone would buy if they say, spend a lot of time travelling internationally? Is there any other point to this aside from tricking the customer into giving them money?

So I just bought two brand new games with a large intent to play online that are completely useless to me.

I guess it's all my fault and I should of had the foresight to know that these two games came with online codes that are region locked right?

No wait a minute, fuck that. I researched to check vita games were not region locked before I purchased the system. Without an incredibly specific paranoia there is no fucking way I could of foresaw this. It wasn't even obvious these games came with codes.

This morning I went into the local place for trading in games (a small independent business) and sold my brand new games for what they would take them for, 12 dollars each ALL BECAUSE they came with codes to prevent the trading of used games. Naturally they wouldn't pay me any extra for the codes so I opted to keep them, and here is where you come in.

Ok not necessarily.

Here's the situation, I have these two online passes for the USA copies of Wipeout 2048 and Unit 13.

So if you own either of these games used or have any interest to buy a used copy I can supply you with an online pass free of charge.

You get the full game at a discount and I get the much needed satisfaction of robbing Sony of $20 after they robbed $55 off me. So PM me if you have any interest or feel free to comment below how bat shit retarded this whole situation is or how retarded I am for not using psy powers to predict this would happen.

My plan from here is to purchase a 32 gb card for $100 and purchase all my games digitally.

cant this game be made :'(
 
I've never been so excited and then dissapointed.
   
Just set it to HD and watch it, might be worth clicking through to youtube for a fullscreen. 
 
I would give a left testicle for this game to be made.
 
Edit = It just occured to me this could be regarded youtube spam, although its in the nexus forum but whatever.
 
So I just purchased Nexus the jupiter incident (this is the tech demo for the sequel which is apparently canned) off steam on a reccomendation in the comments of the flotilla quick look. I'm not too far into it, but so far it's pretty dam cool once it gets going. If you have any interest in space games (and i know some of you do) I would reccomend picking it up for the $9.99 asking price. Just try and overlook the silly name and kind of amateurish british cast of characters for the first few short intro missions until you get to the good stuff.
 

Can you imagine a more shameful blog title.
 
I couldnt.
 
So you should all play the sword fighting showdown mode on Wii Sport Resort with the Wii Motion Plus.
 
It's pretty much the awesomest thing on the wii, they should make more advanced games based on the concept. 
 

I'm starting a new community podcast, its called "bomb should have some pants on"
 
The irony is   noone on the podcast is allowed to wear pants while we record.
 
So far we have
 
Me = Host 
Virago = queen
Wallacethegreat = permanent fixture
Sweep (maybe) = british
J5 = Australian correspondant (evertime we call him he pretends he is in a blizzard.)
Jim_Dandy = every week we will call jim_dandy up to report on the "play of the week". Whatever the hell that means.
Columnbreaker = Columnbreaker will make up any silence on the podcast since he clearly has no internet voice.
Masuta = Every week we will prank call him to tell him how much better our podcast is. 

I think you all remember the last time virago, sweep, wallace and i were on a podcast and it was the greatest podcast anyone has ever heard on the internet. Ok... Noone remembers that, but it was pretty great at the time. 
 
Stay tuned.

    <Rowr>    > http://www.indiealive.com/media/pilot.mp3
    <Rowr>    BUY NOW
    <Rowr>    ONLY ONE EASY PAYMENT
    <Rowr>    OF 15 MB DOWNLOAD
    <Rowr>    JUST LOOK HOW EASY IT IS
    <Rowr>    TO LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST FEATURING SWEEP, VIRAGO, TOKYOCHICKEN, WALLACE AND MYSELF
    <Rowr>    O LOOK, HERES ANOTHER FINE CUSTOMER
    <Rowr>    WALLACE, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PILOT FOR THE NEW PODCAST WHICH HAS NO NAME?
    <Wallace>    THIS PODCAST CURED MY CANCER
    <Rowr>    THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS
    <Wallace>    THANKS UNNAMED PODCAST!
    <Rowr>    ;)
    * Wallace    skips away
    <Rowr>    AND REMEMBER KIDS
    <Rowr>    ITS THE START OF A BETTER FUTURE TOMORROW TODAY
    <Wallace>    WOAH MINDFUCK
    <Rowr>    hey wallace
    <Rowr>    im just going to screencap this and make it the blog
    <Wallace>    yes Rowr


*mad props to Johnny5 for hosting our pilot.

Someone at checkyourhud.com made this awesome, awesome chart. Full Size

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hey all, just a couple notes about the chart:

1. it's not complete. For example, companies like Nintendo weren't included because they never really merged with / split from any other companies. They've made some acquisitions over the years - and we're hoping to address those type of issues in a future revision of the chart.

2. Consider this one version 1.0. We're going to make changes, and additions to the chart as time goes on, and re-release it periodically. We're hoping to replace the names w/ company logos, as well as flesh the chart out a bit with some of the devs we didn't add this time around. Consider it a work in progress.

What The Geek

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While trying to decide whether or not i should purchase Raze Hell (a game that intrigues me) from the originals section of xbla, i realised that if the game came with any sort of achievement points, it would likely sweeten the deal enough for me to be swayed into the purchase...