• 19Aug 09

  Red Ring of Death

  A moment of silence for my dead XBox 360 please.

  • Posted Aug 19, 2009 2:00 pm GMT
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• 20Jul 08

  Survey module on each page?

  
  Whenever I read the comments section for a news item, I see a lot of replies like: cool, not interested, dumb etc.
  
  Why doesn't gamespot stick a survey module at the end of each news item with these options; cool, not cool, worthy, not worthy, not interested, interested etc. ? The options should depend on the article of course.
  
  This would clean up the comments section a whole lot. Because most comments are simply worthless.
  And hey, they already do it now for their headline item, so why not do it for all items?
  
  So how was this blogpost:
  
  1. Intersting
  2. Cool
  3. Crappy
  4. Dumb
  
  You decide.

  • Posted Jul 20, 2008 1:26 pm GMT
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• 19Jul 08

  Wii Music, is it a game?

  Is Wii Music a game?
  
  Personally I don't think so. So what is actually a game?
  Here's what a game should have:

  
  1. Goal

  A game should have some goal to accomplish. Like saving the world.
  Each game has some sort of story line that must be completed in order to finish it.
  Or else why are you playing it? You don't play a basketbal game to just throw a ball around

  2. Challange

  Getting to the goal should be a challange. If you don't want to be challanged, then simply go
  to a movie and sit on your ass to reach the end, which is the credits section of the movie.
  If something is a challange, you will be more satisfied when you accomplish the goal of the game.

  If a game doesn't offer these two basic elements at least, then it's not a traditional video game IMHO.
  
  So what is Wii Music?
  
  Wii Music is a digital toy !!!
  It's like the drum I got as a kid that could play a complete song just by hammering on it.
  BTW, that toy was awesome. And kids will find Wii Music awesome as well.
  
  Parents will enjoy giving this toy (not game) to their kids.
  
  And therefore I predict that it will sell a **** of copies this X-mas.

  • Posted Jul 19, 2008 6:04 pm GMT
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