Archive for September, 2007

Halo Three is in my Xbox 360.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on September 25, 2007 by MarkEightThree

It’s six in the morning and I’m still playing Halo 3. In between having massive amounts of fun, I’m thanking baby Jesus that my Xbox 360 hasn’t RRODed yet.

I’m a total unapologetic nerd, so I feel fine admitting that in order to get the full experience, I’ve actually saved the two bottles of Mountain Dew Game Fuel that I picked up in Michigan [couldn't find it anywhere in the Toronto area, arrggh!] so I could chug them down while finishing the fight. Shoot me.

As for the game itself, it’s awesome. I’ll write more about it once I find the time [aka I pull myself away from my long enough to do something else]. However, you can rest assured that the game has so far been fun, challenging, and although nowhere near as pretty as Gears of War, sexy as hell. There are about a million Xbox Live options that will take some getting used to, but thats all in due time.

Anyone looking to meetup in Halo 3 [or throw down some UNO, which I've become crazy good at lately] add me as a friend on Xbox Live and we’ll get to it.

Iron Man unveiled at Apple Trailers

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on September 10, 2007 by MarkEightThree

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The new Iron Man trailer is now available on Apple Quicktime and it’s pretty sweet. I wasn’t ever a huge fan of Iron Man in the comics, but I always did think the whole look and concept was pretty pimp, especially when he crossed over into the Spider-Man Animated Series with War Machine to help take out Carnage.

As for the trailer itself, it does a great job of showing Stark’s famous duds as well as the comedic side of the film, which I’m sure Jon Favreau will nail. The part where Stark gets his photo taken is delivered perfectly, dry humour and all.

Although Favreau has yet to show he can do well with a big action blockbuster, he did direct one of my favourite episodes of Undeclared, and he’s not Mark Steven Johnson. If you want a good laugh, check out the special features on the film’s DVD as apparently Ghost Rider is EXACTLY how they wanted it to be and it’s perfect in their eyes. Please keep this man away from Captain America.

Click here to check it out.

Seriously, I’d no longer Spear her.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on September 10, 2007 by MarkEightThree

4tsc50x.jpgIt wasn’t too long go that Britney was populating the fantasies of every straight red-blooded male in North America. Now, it just looks like she has the gut of one. Not to rag on her or anything [she has had two kids], but what in the hell is she doing to herself?  A lot of people viewed her performance at the MTV VMAs as her last shot at reclaiming the fame she once had, or at the very least getting a big jump on the road back to it.

Instead, she flopped hard, almost literally at one point as she fell backwards [purposefully] and it looked as if her backup dancers had trouble getting her back up. Sad. I want to feel bad for her, but the fact is that she was given this great opportunity and she went ahead and fucked it up. Every gossip blog was reporting on her ‘preparations’ for the big performance, which pretty much consisted of getting trashed every night with Diddy and her new beau Criss Angel.

Please, Criss, just make her disappear.

Halo isn’t here yet. Metroid will have to do.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on September 9, 2007 by MarkEightThree

metroid-prime-3-corruption-20070711111656966.jpgCan you feel it? From magazine stands to Slurpee machines, there’s no escaping the metallic mug of Master Chief. Although I only recently started drinking the Kool-Aid [or should that be Mountain Dew Game Fuel?] of the Halo cult, it’s hard not to get excited for a title this anticipated. Granted, most of the hype is courtesy of the Microsoft marketing machine, but to it’s credit the Halo series has been stellar so far and the closing chapter of the trilogy looks like the best entry yet.

In the meantime, I’ve been keeping myself busy with the final act of another sci-fi trilogy, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The controls do take a bit of getting used to, but once you switch over to the more advanced setting and invest an hour or so into the game, the precision of aiming with the Wiimote is unsurprisingly excellent [aside from a few clunky actions you perform with the controller to unlock doors]. As for the gameplay itself, veterans of the Metroid Prime series will know what to expect.

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