Freebies are always nice

I haven't been online lately and it sucks because I'm on mostly all the time. From being on Xbox, on the pc, or just being live on stickam I'm on the internet a lot! I recently got my modem replaced but the new one blows. It works for hours and then just goes off of connection. Today it's been out all day so I did the fun task of calling Tech Support on the phone. 3 hours and 2 transfers later, and I finally got me an appointment with my cable tomorrow. So until then I can't finish the battle with my friends online and I can't do all the fun stuff and chores I need to do online.

I figured I'd write this while I do have the internet. ( it's just popped online again for the first time today) I'm actually watching Wild Hogs, and can't figure out why the hell I rented it. When I opened up my movie envelope I saw and advertisement for Showtime for some show called Dexter. (never heard of it) I also saw on the bottom that Showtime is having a free preview from Sept. 28 to Oct 1st. So pop on the couch and get all of the Showtime goodness you can crave! The one show I've been renting from Netflix that's actually on Showtime is a show called Weeds. So far I like it and but I've only watched the first 6 episodes, so things can change.
Another good show is Master of Horror, so I'm hoping they show some episodes of that during the free preview.

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Halo 3 Countdown to the end.

I've been watching this countdown on G4 tv for the Halo 3, and right now it's T-minus 15 minutes and G4 don't know what the fuck is going on. Right now Master Chief is being escorted in with the first copy of Halo 3 on release date. G4 really needs to get their shit together when it comes to live broadcasting. I love the station with all my heart, but for an example the biggest part of E3 this year was the Halo 3 trailer, and when it played there was video difficulty and before that some d00d was talking about the trailer ( off air talk it seemed). That host Kevin saves that show, if they didn't have him G4 wouldn't be what it is. Anyhoo... are you waiting in line right now are can you hold out until tomorrow? OR? Can you hold out for awhile? Honestly I'm getting the game tomorrow, but I'm not as hyped about it as I was with some other games. Nonetheless I think I'm going to change my mind when I get all into it again like back in the day, and especially the 4 player C0-op single player mode is going to rock! I have my other 3 teammates ready for the adventure and it all goes down at 7pm on tuesday!


Question is...... do you?

Here is my other 3 squad....

FARTBURGER
southstpimp
sand Spyd3r
and me ... DrumInfected

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Poker more exciting that punches to the face

The past week, it's been UFC crazy with free fights on cable, new season of The Ultimate Fighter and this past UFC 76. I'm not goin to spoil it for anybody who hasn't seen it, but if I do try and post a Spoiler... there will be an alert. I know how it is to be spoiled before.... and it sucks. Speaking of sucking... I didn't really care for this UFC at all. There was one fight that I liked a lot but the whole fight card was pretty much MEH. This picture pretty much explains the UFC event.

I had a hell of a better time playin poker with my friend and actually hanging out, than the actual fight, but the company with some friends I haven't seen was pretty awesome. I spent the better half of 4 hours learning this new program for editing pictures and whatnot, but it was well worth it. the HTML on this blogger site is what cause me to learn this new program. HTML sucks on blogger.com and I would not recommend it really unless no other choice.

Last weeks Top 5 gamertag was put together half ass and I didn't think people would notice. Well... they did! Especially my bro who was 1st, his first week actually! I didn't even put the top 5 in Bold! So.... I could see his point. At least the week before I put it in blue tone! So this week I did it up, and spend a lot of time on it. But without further ado. the Top 5!

One Last cup of Halo Hype...and a pinch of Bamm!

While you are waiting impatiently for tuesday to come. I leave you with a great video that shows you what you can do with the Saved Films Feature.


In Rumor News, Guitar Hero III track list has been leaked. here is the whole track list.

Tier 1:
Foghat - Slow Ride
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Social Distortion - Story of My Life

Encore: Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite
Co-op Encore: Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Tier 2:
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Cream - Sunshine of Your Life
Heart - Barracuda

Boss: Tom Morello - Guitar Battle
Encore: Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Co-op Encore: The Strokes - Reptilia

Tier 3:
The Killers - When You Were Young
AFI - Miss Murder
The Who - The Seeker
Priestess - Lay Down

Encore: Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Co-op Encore: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss

Tier 4:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas

Encore: Pearl Jam - Evenflow
Co-op Encore: Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll

Tier 5:
The Dead Kennedy's - Holiday in Cambodia
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
ZZ Top - La Grange

Boss: Slash - Guitar Battle
Encore: Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Co-op Encore: Bloc Party - Hellicopter

Tier 6:
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
White Zombie - Black Sunshine
Tenacious D - The Metal

Encore: Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
Co-op Encore: Matchbook Romance - Monsters

Tier 7:
Slipknot - Before I Forget
Disturbed - Stricken
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's
Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Encore: Living Colour - Cult of Personality

Tier 8:
Slayer - Raining Blood
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - One

Boss: Lou - Guitar Battle
Encore: The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Bonus Tracks:

An Endless Sporadic - Impulse
Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
Bret Michaels Band - Go That Far
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommit Alex
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Fall of Troy - FCP Remix
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
The Hellacopters - I'm in the Band
Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha
In Flames - Take This Life
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
LA Slum Lords - Down N Dirty
Lacuna Coil - Closer
Lions - Metal Heavy Lady
NAAST - Mauvis Garcon
Prototype - The Way It Ends
Revolverhead - Generation Rock
Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee
Scouts of St. Sebastian - In Love
Senses Fail - Can't Be Saved
The Sleeping - Don't Hold Back
The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums
Superbus - Radio Song

There's been a couple big announcements at the Tokyo Game Show in Japan for 2007! One huge deal for PS3 is........ ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE????? Finally the PS3 controller will have rumble in the jungle in japan first and then the US will get it in early of 08'

I finally got my new camera but, I haven't really taking any pictures, besides test ones. I'm still learning how to use the damn thing.. it came with 3 books. A quick start guide, advanced guide, and the guide for the software program to edit pictures. It's a pretty bad ass camera though; I was goin to take a picture, but I got a lil lazy. Oh no... I just typed the word lazy and now I'm yawning and about to past about. Until the next flipside with 50% more pictures!

GamerTags Top 5 - 9/16/07

I'm a couple hours late in posting because I'm doing a massive overclean for my room. it's being totally transformed. But without further ado, here's the top 5 Gamertags of the week.

1. FARTBURGER - 6538 GamerScore points
2. DrumInfected - 6411 GamerScore points
3. sand spyd3r - 6046 GamerScore points
4. Ekstoluke - 3835 GamerScore points
5. Sk0al bandit - 3850 GamerScore points

Damn, my bro took first this week! I've been doing a lot of work in my room, is my excuse! Ekstoluke come in with a close 4th and sand spyd3r is catching up to me! I need to do werk.
Congrats Fartburger... you get another one of my hand me downs. I'll think of what it is in the upcoming days.

Brutally fun and new media player and webcam!

Microsoft had a teaser trailer countdown and on the page it said Brutally Fun. The countdown was opened at 1am central time and I have the goods. I picture is worth a thousand words, so let me just post it.
One reason I was thinking about getting a PS3 was for the re-done Ninja Gaiden Sigma, but I don't need it any more! Everyone, I bring you... Ninja Gaiden II!! This game is coming out in 2008, but Ninja Gaiden is one of my favorite games from the classic nintendo version to the xbox version. ( they did a great job and didn't let me down, and it was hard as hell like it has to be in order to be called a Ninja Gaiden game) This game looks way more violent as well with screenshots of heads and limbs flying, this ninja game will be sure to please all the ninjas inside of us. Click the flipside for more screenshots.

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Also I just took some time and added my Stickam Media player on my site as well. Whenever I'm live it will say live, and if now you can use the media player to move around and check out any audio, photos, or videos I posted all in the stickam player. It's pretty kewl so far and I'm getting used to it little by little. I'll try and get some photos and maybe a video up, just to have something for now at least. until then catch you on the flipside!

Sunday's Top Gamertag numbers Sept. 2-9th

Since Sunday is a lazy day for most people, (including me) and very boring to say the least. So I decided to start a Top 5 Gamertags points of the week. This is pretty much just for the people on my friends list on my Xbox Live Account, and for others to see! For those who don't know about Achievement Points, are awarded for the completion of game-specific challenges, such as beating a level or amassing a specified number of wins against other players in Xbox LIVE matches. Initially, retail Xbox 360 games offered up to 1000 points spread over a variable number of Achievements, while each Xbox LIVE Arcade title contained 12 Achievement totalling 200 points. If you want to be added to my list just type in my Gamertag DrumInfected and add me as friend.

So I'll be posting the Top 5 for each week. Later on there will be contest on getting the most points for the week. I'll let everyone know when that is, but in the meantime I'll be posting this every week. Also for those non xbox owners, I'll be figuring out something worthy of posting for the boring Sundays that past by us each week leaving us unfulfilled.








Top 5 Gamerscores of the Week

1. DrumInfected - 6411
2. FARTBURGER - 6338
3. sand spyd3r - 5541
4. Ekstoluke - 3835
5. RUSH RUSSO -2615

Well the only thing worth posting about to say today is that Tony Hawks new game, Proving Ground's Demo is coming out on Xbox Live Tomorrow.


Japanese love their fetishes! Take this new one for instance.... new Lucky star porn shrink wrapping!
There's only one hole.... for her to breathe, and looks like something more from a horror show than anything. Click the flipside for more on this (safe @ werk kru stamp)

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p.s. I found this on a gaming site.... I don't look for this shit...FYI

The word Hate is such a strong word

The word hate is such a strong word, but I'm going to use it. I HATE mosquitoes! Some people just look more flavorful than others and I am one of them. Whenever I get bit it swells up like an orange and that's without me itching it. My weakness is itching and stairs so the itching doesn't help either. That tennis racket thing you see is actually a electronic mosquito bat I picked up when I was in Vietnam. All the hotel employees had these in their hands whenever I was in a hotel, swinging in the air hoping to zap a mosquito to it's death. I know why it just says mosquito bat, rather than bug bat. I locked a fly in the bathroom with me so I could try and test it out on flies. It pretty much would just paralyze him for 20 seconds ( he was buzzing all over but couldn't fly) and then he was fine after that. I had to pretty much zap the fly for 3 minutes before he died, so for flies this is useless but who give a hoot about a fly.... those damn mosquitoes!

I just took a 5 minute brake, to kill 2 more in my room while I was writing this shit. I recently put a air conditioner in my room ( about friggin time!) and there is a hole somewhere letting the mosquitoes in. It's seems only mosquitoes come in too which suxs, because my room is closed and I'm getting bit in the dark, swinging this bat around hoping to kill them doing so. I pretty much taped the outer part of the air conditioner because I thought it was coming from the air vents but that's not the case because I tapped up ever vent and taped a screen over the vent and still they keep coming in.


One more day of this and hopefully this hole will be shut! I woke up today with a huge bite on my temple, my neck, the knuckle of my thumb, even on my damn Adams apple! WTF?

update - 9/5/07 4:39am: Just hunted down another bastard mosquito with a little patience and a golden retriever arm grabber thing. so that's a total of 13 mosquito's I've counted and killed so far in my room thus far in 10 hours+. I also got bit on the forehead while chatting a lil via messenger. They are so sneaky I couldn't see her come in for the landing on my forehead/eyebrow. I can't believe I'm talking about mosquitoes on the Internet but damn, this sux! I hate female mosquitoes , they are the ones that suck the blood for the eggs. I've been doing crazy research on the little flying demons from hell, and it's been getting pretty interesting. I can't remember if I wrote this or not but I ordered some mosquito products that are spose to confuse the demons from hell so they don't know where us humans are.

It's the 1st... Time for Must haves of the Month!

I'm finally back with enough energy and motivation to write this... barely. Haven't got much sleep the past days, since I stayed up for a whole day and woke up at 8am today. I haven't woke up at 8am in years, and if I am up at 8 in the morning, I'm still up from the night before! My friend wanted me to get in on his league for Fantasy Football, so I'm giving that a try this year. I don't really watch much football, ( I only started to watch because of my new HDTV and I had a little money on some games) but Gus said it would be a lot more fun when you do this fantasy stuff. I'll try almost anything once, just for the experience.

I've put Bioshock on the backburner a little, since when I try to get my time in on the game, more people than ever are trying to contact me on the phone and hangin out. I now know what I need to do when I need everyone's attention; say I'm going to be gone for a week!

First I'll talk about the movie you must see at the movies.... Superbad. It's about best friends on there last days of high school and they are trying to get laid before college. It takes place in a whole day kinda like dazed and confused and is laugh out loud the whole way through. I can't think of just one funny part, because the whole damn movie is hilarious. From the makers of 40 year old virgin add this one to your must see movies. Reason why i've been up all day yesterday was because Friday is usually the only day I can kick it with my brother since he moved out. The schedule I have doesn't really work out for him ( I don't think it works for anyone but me) so I had to get up at 11:30am to get prepared for the movie. ( you know how I do it) I actually didn't get no sleep so 24hrs, but I was ready to laugh at some funny's! We went to go see Balls of Fury, and if you like ping pong you'll prolly like this movie. It definitely had it's funny moments, but it wasn't no Superbad, I can tell you that right now. Had a good cast and as you would expect lots of balls flying. No spoilers here, but I would give it a C+.

I seen this crazy show on BET called "We Gotta Do Better" hosted by Charles Murphy. ( what else do you need to say) It features crazy ass clips featuring some Hot Ghetto Mess, and then Charles comments on them. Most of it was hilarious, but unfortunately it was the season finale. I'm sure there will be repeats though so keep your eyes peeled. Also I was unaware they made a second season to Wonder Showzen. It's a kids show for adults and pretty good on the funny scale. I actually seen a episode with David Cross and Zack Galifianakis ( comedians) which was called horse apples. From what I seen it was pretty good, so I'll have to look out for it on DVD, I already have the first season and thought they canceled it for being so raw. Good job MTV for making an actually funny show!

Now for the Must haves for video game consoles! First off, 360 news. This should've came out with the launch of the 360 since it's so useful. I'm talking about the The Xbox 360 Messenger Kit. This kit includes a backlit Chatpad that pops on to the bottom of your controller and a special headset that attaches to it. The two sell for $30, and I think that's a decent price plus the bonus headset. ( although it's a wired headset) This comes out Sept. 4th along with The Limited Edition Halo 3 Wireless Controllers and Headset. The controllers look pretty ugly to me, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to pay money for em.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix hit XBLA and the PSN this week. For those who have not played this game is one of the best underrated games from the PlayStation years. This game doesn't have much to do with puzzles, but it's rather an addictive game you can play for hours against your fellow challengers. I would describe it as a lil tetris flavor with 10 crack rocks and huge jems you can make and destroy and let crap fall down on your opponents screen.
Streets of Rage 2 also came out from the Sega classic collection. Good game, only 400 points too, while puzzle fighter is 800 points but worth every little point. A bunch of demos also came out on XBLA. Those include the new Medal of Honor game Airborne, it has a huge sandbox and you can pick where you land in the game via parachute. Also the Timeshift demo is out, the title says it all... you can control time ans shit. The new skateboarding game .Skate, NHL 08, Tiger Woods 08, Madden 08, and Blazing Angels 2 demo came out as well, so you can try before you buy!

for the Ps3, Warhawk came out finally and you can buy via the PSN, or pick up a copy at a store. puzzle fighter also came out on PSN, which I mentioned, and Lair came out but it got a 4.9 rating from IGN! PASS! Also the PS3 version of Stranglehold won't be out until the 23rd of Sept. The 360 version will be out on the 4th Sept, while the pc and ps3 owners will have to wait. I wonder why they keep on pushing it back? A bunch of stuff also came out on the PSN recently also, so if you own a PS3 check it all out!

For the Wii, Metroid 3 came out, and it's a must buy for sure. Pretty kewl style of a FPS ( first person shooter) since your using the wii-remote and the nunchuck. I had a feeling it would be good since Resident Evil 4 plays so great on the wii. Another must own title! Brunswick Bowling came out, but it's not even online compatible! WEAK! I was planning on picking this up, but no online? I want to play bowling with my friend in Vietnam! I couple Fishing games are on the horizon, I hope they are online and great gameplay! ( crossing fingers and toes)

Well, that's about it for me. I plan on playing some poker for labor day and spending time hanging out with my longtime friend Gus while he's in town. After that, maybe I can get back to my Bioshock. My bros been bitchin at me that I play a game for a bit and then go onto the next, which results in 20 games unfinished. I REALLY need to stick with one and beat it and go onto the next. That reminds me I'm still making my list of every game I beaten and played.... Coming SOON!

Consoles be sellin!

Just wanted to post that the Wii has now sold more units than Xbox 360 in half of the lifetime of the 360 has been out. here is a chart of the console sales thus far.



Other news, just to sell even more Tony Hawk's Proving Ground games, it comes with a Demo for Guitar Hero III with 5 tracks. here's the list:

Lay Down (by Priestess)
Even Flow (by Pearl Jam)
The Metal (by Tenacious D)
Hit Me with your Best Shot (as made famous by Pat Benatar)
Rock You like a Hurricane (as made famous by Scorpions)

Hell yeh some D!!! Good choice Activision

Time to get back to my Bioshock!

I'm ready for my trip to the underwater city!

Overnight Delivery of Limited Edish of Bioshock... Check... Preordered copy at GameCrazy for my brother's journey as well?.....check. ( 2nd part of his birthday gift) A little stugget I've been saving for 6 months just for this occasion?....check. 3 rechargable battery packs.... check. 4 cases of Nestea...check. Snacks for the long journey.... damn, I need to get that one still. Clean pair of shorts...check. Ready to shut out the whole world until I'm ready....check.

I just wanted to let you all know I'll be taking a leave of absence on my site for a little bit until I get enough of a bioshock fix that I can get back to the real world 100%. By now if you've been reading my site you know at least a little of the game Bioshock, but today, it is finally here on it's release date. And it is now 7:28am and I am playing the UPS waiting game. I kept on refreshing the tracking site like it was a contest to see who could click the refresh button the most; and I won. Right now my game is at it's last stop before going on the truck, and right now I'm at my danger zone.... I've been up for 15 hours and this is usually when I go to bed. I don't want to sleep because I have to sign for the package, and I want to sleep because I want to be awake.... what do I do???

I'm the kind of person that when I see something kick ass I want to tell all the people I know about it because I want them to enjoy it as much as I did/think I will. Bioshock is definitely an example; I have my bro and wolfgang that are goin to be playing it pretty much at the same time so I hope they will enjoy it as much as I will. It's almost like a 420 kind of thing were we puff in unison, only we are shocking people with electricity from our bare hands at the same time! Nothing much going on this whole week beside me being MIA. Another game called Two Worlds came out today too for 360. So far people have been saying it's pretty kewl and unexpected.... but I'll have to see for myself and let you all know. If you find out before me, let me know and I'll post your review on it.

Another kick ass game is coming out next week. Midway's Stranglehold the sequel to the movie Hard Boiled. This is a Authentic John Woo Video Game Experience, since John Woo was in on making the game as well as Chow Yun Fat doing all the voice overs and spending a great deal of time on the ame. I wanted to preorder this game.. I still might, but I think I can hold off on this game until I'm done with Bioshock. There's no reason to rush through a great game, so I'm taking my time. Well that's all I have to say for now. I'm sure I'll be posting little nuggets of info, and if I do you will know!

Now go pick up Bioshock and see what I've been jibba jabbering all about!

It's VC Wii Monday and more!

Every Monday 3 games are released on the Vitural Console for the Wii and here are the games this week!

Three new classic games go live at 9 a.m. Pacific time. Nintendo adds new games to the Wii Shop Channel every Monday. Wii™ owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points™ to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week’s new games are:

Metroid® (NES®, 1 player, rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 500 Wii Points): The first installment of the immensely successful Metroid series introduces us to the hideous title creatures and the slick, cybernetic bounty hunter Samus Aran. As Samus, your mission is to penetrate the space pirates’ home planet, Zebes, and keep them from destroying the galaxy with the dangerous life forms known as Metroids. Metroid has all the high-tech weaponry, creepy tunnels and crawly alien creatures that anyone could ask for. With its deep and complex game play, excellent music and a rare sense of setting, it establishes a frightening ambience that will haunt and entertain you for a very long time.

Shining in the Darkness™ (Sega Genesis, 1 player, rated E for Everyone – Mild Fantasy Violence, 800 Wii Points): Dark Sol has vowed to reign over the enchanted Kingdom of Thornwood, and only you can stop him. Find the powerful Arms of Light and battle the deadly beasts that keep your people desperate and starving in this epic journey for peace. Roaming the dark Labyrinth, you’ll seek out enemies and collect weapons, all of which will help you pass the test of the Ancients and become a shining knight. Get into the adventure with a stunning 3-D perspective, amazing cinematic views and fast-paced scrolling. You’ll move from battle to battle, solving puzzles and discovering secret items in this engrossing struggle between good and evil.

Cratermaze™ (TurboGrafx16, 1 player, rated E for Everyone – Comic Mischief, 600 Wii Points): Cratermaze is a comical action game set in a parallel world. While on a trip through time, you and your friends are confronted by Kublai, henchman to the evil Zenzombie. He traps your friends at separate points in the space-time continuum. Now you must fight your way through 60 rounds of mazes to save your friends. Dinosaurs, ninjas, robots and other enemies lurk within the mazes, spanning from primitive times to the future. Escape the enemies by digging holes to trap them in and then filling the holes to finish them off. Collect all the chests within the time limit to get the key and exit to the next round. With special items such as shovels and spring platforms, Cratermaze takes its game play to new heights, making for an unforgettable gaming experience.

I'm too lazy today and depressed that I can't play Bioshock so there will be no pictures today. I can't find a picture of me crying.

Update 3:57am... here's a new Bioshock Trailer for you to see in all it's glory of the ways you can use to harm the one harming you... so many weapons so many environment weapons so many fun times. I'm posting the TV trailer and the new one on using weapons.

Plasmid Powers Trailer


one last thing Bioshock.... They release a 60 page art book and guess what? it's totally Free for download! That will hold the Fanboy in me off until I get my Bioshock fix! The 60-plus page PDF, in low and high resolution options, is now available for download at the official Cult of Rapture web site. Dozens of pages of character, environment and weapon artwork await you. Be warned about not reading the Spoiler Obviously, spoilers abound, with a special warning to avoid the art book's foreword from Irrational's own Ken Levine. Be warned Looky Looky, but no Reedy Reedy.
I'm actually to scared to even look at the pictures, cause I want NO spoilers at all since I waited forever to find out MYSELF what Rapture is all about. Anyhoo here is the link on the...

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Update: 7:27 8/14/07 - 2k games ( makers of Bioshock ) apologize to the people that want to play the PC demo of Bioshock. Here is a quote from the publisher.

"We tried as hard as humanly possible to get it out to you guys simultaneously with the 360 demo, but we needed to make sure that it was perfect — that all drivers were ready, and that the game looked great on a huge variety of computers. Currently, the PC demo [is] in its final stages of testing and approval. We are pushing to get it out to you as soon as possible. It will be out during the month of August, and everyone is working at full capacity to deliver it to you before the game hits store shelves on August 21st."

So hold on tight PC owners!

BIOSHOCK demo is out!

Yes yes I stayed up and watched the official trailer for Bioshock on Spike TV and they had a speial announcement after the trailer. I thought it was goin to be something non exciting, but boy did they ever excite a man without getting a schwing! (waynes world reference wtf?) They announced that the BioShock demo is available now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


In other news I have to wait until Wed. to play the demo! NOOOOOOOOOO!!

Here's a link for the last trailer for Bioshock as well on the flipside

and that's all I have to say about that.

Today was a good day

Pretty short and sweet today. I found out my 360 will be arriving this wednesday!!!!! I wanted to play a little online poker to practice for my friends big poker tournament tomorrow and lil E pops up on the IM radar and has the same idear. Long story short I actually was down to 300 in chips, but ended up playing a super long heads up with this guy, and ending up taking the win! Now I'm bout to pop a couple flicks in and watch em and try and get a lil shut eye.


Today was a good day.

I'm Famous!

I ran out of watch instantly time on my netflix subscription and wanted to watch a movie NOW, and not pay 4$ either, so I hit up vongo.com it's another instantly watch site and they are offering a 14 day free trial right now, so I hit that up so I could watch a movie. I selected Scary Movie 4, (it was one of the only good new comedys they had so I picked it. I get halfway through and I'm just about to crack open a fresh can of Emerald honey roasted peanuts and and my laptop crashes. If you haven't ever had emerald nuts, they are the best nuts ever, and expensive! Just pick your favorite nut and buy a can. Anyhoo, There goes my whole night. stayed up until 4am trying to fix the damn thing. I still wanted to watch a movie and eat my delicious nuts, so I ended up paying 5$ to watch a PPV movie on demand..... what a crap night. At least the movie was in HD.... the movie was Dead Silence, from the director of Saw. it was ight.


Right now I'm trying this last attempt to recover my half broken already laptop. I have to wipe the whole thing out for this attempt. I'm about half way there and really hope it works. I need a new pc and laptop and don't have money for either. In other news, gaming website Kotaku
used a tip I sent them on meeting Uwe Boll (director that makes bad video game movies like House of the Dead.) for the It came from Lake Michigan movie festival and they wrote an article on it. I go by the name druminfected and Teekan, so if you ever see either of the tags, it's me!
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If your not doing anything August 12th at 9 p.m., 8 p.m. central, don't like it's sunday you ain't doin shit. the debut launch trailer of Bioshock will be shown on Spike Tv. 2K tells us that during Spike TV's original series "The Kill Point," a 60-second never-seen-before trailer for BioShock will air.Some "surprise announcement" by Game Head's Geoff Keighley will immediately follow the trailer, so look out for that as well. The game is coming out soon... Aug 21st, and and just look at my countdown 12 more days! I better get my 360 by then or I'll have to crash at a friends house with HDTV and a 360. In tech news, i'll be slowly installing a live webcam by stickam
it's a pretty kewl program for webcams and you can look at more than one webcam at a time! Slowly but surely, i'll be adding videos and then get to that live fun stuff too. Shit, I gotta still get my own damn digital camera and stop using my moms. I need loot! I'm goin to add a Paypal donate site too what the hell? People like giving away money.

Primitive Days, Birthdays and Paper Mario Nights

Had another fun filled weekend back up in Madison. This time it was my friend Nick's kid Jasmine's birthday. She's 4 now and what better age to get a computer! Wolfgang and I, picked up a My First Computer, I remember seeing those things and it looked pretty kewl, plus Leap Frog makes pretty good learning tools. We also picked up like 3 different games so she can tear it up with the knowledge. The kewl thing about it is she can also bring it with her on trips to grandmas house and what not. We also picked up a web camera for Nick & Katie, so we can see the family on the Internet and vise versa. That camera actually will follow your face... pretty kewl.... I want one!

After hitting up a couple of stores me and Wolfgang hit the road for the 2 hour journey. I'm finding myself hating to go long distances without any entertainment to make the boredom go by, especially music. Music is by far a must and good music at that. It makes the drive go by so much faster since your jammin out on some good ol tune-age. We both had our Ipods so hit had the way up and I had the way back.

The Birthday party was a pretty good time, and I also seen some faces I haven't seen in awhile so that was kewl as well. Kids have a lot of energy! Geez, I pretty much goofed off and played with Jasmine to wear her out to go to bed, and that was definitely a challenge! I think she stayed up till midnight and then the sandman came.

After the slumber party and a pizza for brakefast later, we hit the road back home. I finally get home and crash out hard and wake up and... Suprise no internets! So I call up tech support and go through the bullshit automated messaging support that never works, and then finally talk to tech support. After 30 min on the phone we came to the conclusion that the modem is shot. So, no internet! what the hell am I going to do? It feels so primitive when you don't have internet it's crazy how much you use it and you don't really realize how much you actually do use the internet for different things like porno, to email, to checking what the hell a bukkake is on wikipedia!

Well I'm back finally online with the internet and here is some gaming news! Today a new demo released and the name of the game is John Woo's sequel to Hard Boiled... Stranglehold. You lucky ones that have a 360, will have the glory of the first taste of this game. This is already on my Pre-ordered list, and another game on my hit list. This is a great moment that I hate not having my 360. REPAIR IT GOOD MS!


In more 360 news it's confirmed new premium 360's with HDMI inputs are already showing up in stores and Microsoft has confirmed this. I price cut, a HDMI input, a new PC 65nm chip? (maybe) MS is stepping it up right before Madden 08 comes out as well. Oh yeh PS3 will only have 30 fps while the 360 version will have double the dose.... yes 60fps!



Here's a couple of horror games that look pretty sick coming out. This first one is a PS3 game by the name of Imabikisou. Has a kinda RingU feel to it, but looks pretty dark and actual scary game to play.







Techland the makers of the FPS, Call of Juarez and Warhound just announced that they are bringing their shooting-stuff talents to the zombie-killing genre. I'm a zombie junkie,sucker, whatever is more addicted to zombies, this is another game that just got added to my Gotta get list. This is coming out on PC and 360 due next year takes place on a mysterious island. After a plane crash, you have to hunt through the zombie-infested paradise looking for your wife... I hope they make that wife or husband. Anyhoo, the game is said to have amazing damage modeling (think torn flesh, exposed muscles, broken bones), an "artificial life system" that will allow you to take advantage of the instinctive behavior of groups and individuals, an open, non-linear world and the ability to use the world around you as weapons.

And for the crazy funny video of the day. This is the definition of too many cats!

Grand Theft Auto IV Delayed To 2008

Just when there's good news, the bad news comes along right after the good sooner or later. Rockstar just announced that GTAIV to be delayed until the 2nd quarter of 2008!!!!! BOGUS! I'm sure I'll be entertained with the fall lineup enough to hold me off until 08, but delays are popping up left and right lately! As long as my child... Bioshock will be born on Aug 21st, I will be content.... for now. Another Delay is Lair (u play a dragon) for PS3. The Makers of Lair is saying, it's because they are fixing leaderboards, but I smell bullshiznit.

If you weren't home, or not up early enough to watch the first world series of videogames on CBS of all channels. I actually didn't get to watch it, and have been trying to find the footage so I can watch it. I watched a interview on how the WSVG on CBS was, and they said it was OK, but they paid more attention to the tricks people could do, for instance on Guitar Hero 2 guitar tricks, instead of playing the game competitively like it should be. The games that people where competing at were, Guitar Hero 2, Fight Night Round 3, W.O.W. and Quake 4. Here's a link for all the video game goodness on da Flipside.

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If you haven't seen the new Call of Duty 4, it's pretty damn sick looking and looks very intense! When they showed it at E3 they also announced that there will be a public beta for Call of Duty 4 very soon! But here's some bad news for people that don't live in America.... you lose.

In NON video game news, check out the first flying car! Finally the one thing I wanted to see before I die happen! These cars goes 50mph top speed and can fly up to high story buildings as well, and have special cars to save people from buildings. I couldn't add a video on my site so here's the link. The cars range from 90K, so start saving now!

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Here's a short little Machinima clip called, That was Dennis.




Back to some more game news. Electronic Arts are blaming the slow growth on PS3. EA boss John Riccitiello has said that while the company was all over the PS2, the lack of sales on the PS3 is hurting: " Point blank, this cycle is developing quite differently than the last cycle. The next-gen hardware build is going a little more slowly.

This time, there's been some unexpected strength with the Wii and the PS3 hasn't--yet--performed as well as we expected it to. That probably has a bigger impact than any other factor on our margins." Let the Blame games begin!

Alrighty then, I leave you with this last nugget of video clip. If you haven't heard about this Chocolate Rain video by Taz, then you live under a rock or don't have the interent or maybe your just to busy doin important shit? Anyway it's been a internet hit hype at the moment, and if you want to hear the orginal clip it's called Chocolate Rain by Taz Zonday. Ahh Fugg it, I'll post the orginal and this kewl video game mash up remix.

Original Chocolate Rain:

Chocolate Rain DDR Mashup


Well, tonight I'm goin to try and put some of my crap I don't need up on Ebay to make some extra cash. I have my whole dining room filled with stuff, so I really need to get on that. I could have a garage sale with all the stuff I have, but garage sales don't make shit compared to Ebay! That's my to-do list today. Ebay listings, Movie Time, and a lil bit of VG-action!

Roll ups and Appeals.... mmmm...mmm

I figured I'd write this up while I'm waiting for my dinner vietnamese rollups to be done, but some good news today for me and all the people who want to play manhunt 2! there is a chance! I actually preordered this game since it was spose to come out in July but sadly it received a AO rating (adults only), which the ESRB usually use the AO rating for games with boobies and snatches, but for a psy horror game? WTF? To get you people that don't know what's been going on, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony doesn't allow AO rated games, so Manhunt can't even be played! So Rockstar the company who makes GTA IV and Manhunt can either edit the game, and have puppies instead of chainsaws like the picture on the right, or appeal the AO rating, or be done with the game all together. Well good news today!

After nearly six weeks of silence since UK's Manhunt 2 ban, Rockstar has filed for a hearing with the Videogame Appeals Committee, an entity with the power to overturn the existing ruling by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification).

A date will be set for a hearing, in which the VAC panel will view demonstrations of the game while weighing each side's arguments. I really hope Rockstar can pull this one off and promise not to put any codes in like hot coffee or a code that shows your wiener. I'd like to play this on the Wii with all it's bloody horror glory, and say video games are a form of art.

Heavenly Sword demo came out on PS3 last week and I've seen some gameplay and it looks like God of War time three. PS3 title Heavenly Sword wasn't always a PLAYSTATION 3 game. Back in 2003, a "concept trailer" for the game appeared, and the game was apparently destined for the Xbox. The game's developer, then known as Just Add Monsters, made one game for Microsoft and then went bust. By 2004, GameSpot reporting that the game was in development for "next-generation consoles," while the company said it was looking for publishers. A year later, the game was a PS3 exclusive.



Here's a couple of last minute nuggets of news for ya. Nirvana's album Nevermind will be available for Rock Band after the games release. A new patch for Shadowrun is available which makes the load times under a minute now and other fixes as well. I leave you with some New Army of Two gameplay, a tight new Co-op game coming out for 360.

Major Announcements!

Yes yes yes.... some great great news today today! If you haven't heard Bungie was having a lot of problems getting the Single player Co-op 4 player campaign mode to work online. I was thinking to myself, Gears of War seem do to it fine, but this must be pretty tough if even Bungie can't figure out how to get a 4 player Co-op to work. Bungie said if they can't get it done by the release, they would finish it later and make it available via download. Today is some great news though, as I inform you that Halo 3 will indeed be 4 player Co-op with the single player campaign.

Here's the details, the game will support four-player co-op via both Live and System Link with up to two player per a television on split-screen. To access the game you go into the lobby and set the mode as Campaign and then invite your friends. Unfortunately, you won't be able to drop into an active co-op game. Click the Flipside link for even more info!

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In other news, my parents own this house and the fucking tenants burned it down yesterday night. It's actually in the Local paper today in the Journal times on the front page. The cause of the fire? She poured the used charcoal after grilling out in the garbage. The tenant thought it was all out. Definition of a dumbass .

Ok, back to some gaming news.... for those peeps that are into driving games and don't want to spend a shitload of money on a steering wheel might want to get this little accessory for your 360. This little do-dad lets you just nudge the controller, making the cars more precise to control instead of crashing into the walls!
Here's a link for a review on it, it's fairly cheap as well, so if you like forza games and don't want to buy a steering wheel this might be for you. Speedfreak accessory review.

Also in more Video game racing news Nissan Brings 2007 Cars to Forza Motorsport 2. The first nuggets of downloadable content for Turn 10 Studios' Forza Motorsport 2 will be available to download just hours from now, scheduled to hit Xbox Live at 2 AM PDT late tonight/early tomorrow morning. The first pack is free and features three Nissan rides, the 2007 sentra SE-R, Altima, and 350Z. Slightly less attractive for Microsoft Point misers is the Peugeot 908 race car which one can download from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 50 MS points, about 63 cents. Pretty cheap download on xbox live... that's what I like! Keep em low! Hit the FlipSide for more info....

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Just to let everyone know I've changed the comments to anonymous so you don't have to register to comment on anything ( lazy bastids) , so feel free to comment whenever! or add your email to add yourself to the mailing list.

Also! one last nugget of news... if you want to get a xbox 360 just wait until August 12th! There will be a 50$ price drop it is confirmed! I've seen adds on the internet from Circuit city, toys r us. it's crazy how the internet gets everything leaked weeks before anyone knows... the Internet is crazy! here's a lil pic of the Circuit City ad.

Well, I'm off to tackle a little Scarface before I cash out. I want to try that new mario strikers game that came out today ( also 300, and Hot Fuzz came out today!) that's also online playable too. I'm not really into sports games, but this game looks fun and got pretty good reviews so far, but you can never trust reviews... play da game!

Get on those Achievement points too, while you can! Because when I get my xbox it's on mutafuckas!

Second Red Ring of Death Strike Upon Thee

Second red ring of death you say? Yes... This is because this has happened before. The first one lasted almost a year before it bricked on me. I bought it at Circuit City and didn't by their protection plan at first and the lady said I had 30 days to do so. I soon then changed my mind when I heard motorboat noises come out of the 360 when playing DeadRising.

Sure enough not much longer the 360 starts freezing and then finally bricks on me with a red ring giving me the evil eye. So I sent it all back and they sent me a refund via gift card.

Not long after purchasing the 360 from C&C music factory, I get almost the same symptoms, freezing, then get a checkerboard like screen, and that's the 360's way of saying his last words before he dies. This box actually only lasted about 4 months before dying. This time though, it's actually free to repair by MS, but I seen the email says it takes 4-6 weeks to get it back... WTF? I surely hope not, because I might start a riot if I don't get to play BIOSHOCK the first day it come out! Shit I'll go loco if I don't get it before the demo comes out! Yes, the demo is coming very soon, and I'll let you know for sure when. If I don't get my xbox by then, please tell me how it is! Maybe you can record the gameplay while your playin it? Yeh I'm a little hyped about the release..... it's definitely my most awaited game of the year thus far.

I just got back from Madison and stayed up there for the weekend to hang out with my friends, and also for my friends B-day Katie. Only 24 years old... man I remember when I was that young, now I'm almost ready to get gag presents like fart pills and over the hill coffee cups. we got a barrel for the party and meat and corn on the grill and ice cream cones in the freezer, now that's what I call a fucking PARTY! I had a pretty good time when I wasn't working. I pretty much spent 75% of my 3 day weekend setting up Nicks new computer and new plasma 50 inch hdtv. getting all the software installed, the crap the added uninstalled, virus protectors, bookmarks,browsers, routers, all that fun stuff!

My friend Nick has always been outdated in the computer department.... you know, has a 56k modem and a shit pc that makes a high pitch noise that makes cats and babies throw up, when you turn it on. And also that piece of shit computer only would stay on for less than 5 min, before you got to hear the pleasant noise and it would just freeze up.

But finally he went all out; he got a new pc, a new plasma, and now is living the good life with a cable modem. So he has A LOT of catching up to do on the internet, and the whole family will be entertained for life! You don't realize how much you use the internet until your without it and need to know something. Just like my damn 360! Microsoft knows the 360 has a design flaw that makes some xbox's fugg up and brick, hence the new 3yr warranty. If they didn't have so many great games and those damn addictive achievement points I would just say fuck it and get a different console.

I find myself seeing a game that's on every console I own, but one has achievement points so I go for the 360 version. I own a Wii right now too, but I find myself playing the xbox 3x more than the wii. Right now at the moment it's because there's no games out right now, but that soon will change, but the 360 has such a great lineup this year that I will be definitely gamin it up hard the rest of this year! what a line up and what a treat what a treat!


While I'm awaiting for my 360 to be fixed, (and hopefully updated with the new heatsink placement away from the motherboard) I still have a handful of games that need my attention to beating, so that will definitely keep me busy like Bizzy B! Right now I'm in the middle of playing Scarface: The World is Yours for the wii. That game is pretty kewl, and has a ton of voice overs from celebrities we all know. Before checking it out, one gamesite game it a great score while the other one game it a lame score so I had to see for myself and me likes. Has a kinda GTA feel to it while enhanced scarface style, and looks like they put some effort into creating the game. So I have that and paper mario and shit, I still have to beat zelda as well! I also have God of War 2 i'm playing at the moment and Bully. That is until I found out that Bully will be ported to the Wii and 360 so, that game is on pause at the moment until I buy it for 360... so I get more achievement points ha ha! They'll be upping up the graphics as well too, so good for Rockstar that game is a good one.


Well peeps that own 360's, that gives you a chance to get a little ahead on some achievement points while I'm out for the count right now. The closest person closest to me is my bro, by the gamertag of FARTBURGER. he claims he will be doubling his points now that his is moved out of the parents house. We will see Jason..... We will see. I'm challenging you all to get more points and to try and get more than me. Congrats to Jason and Emily for getting a nice lil place to live and for Jason for getting the Fuck outta the danger zone we call my parents house. One day that will happen for me... again. On the news side, I'm going to be posting links on my site instead of mailing out stuff for the time being and see how it works out, just to test it out and see how it goes. I wrote a lil extra this time because I've been outta town.
Thanks for reading and see you on the flipside!

The first of the first

This is the first post on my new site I'm goin to do. I tried to do one on poker.... I tried to do one on music.... I tried to do one about everyday life.... and they all are DEAD now. So I figured why just make one damn site? Sound like it would be much more simple.

Well here it is! This is pretty much going to be a anything goes site for now until I actually have some categories, but I know for a fact I'll be talking about video games and video games stuff, followed by me ranting on certain things. I usually send out a mailing list as well with new info on games and what not, and if you ever want in, register and hit me up with a PM and your email!

Since this is the first post, this is mostly a test so this falls under the category... " this bores me "

But just to let you know, it's only a month until Bioshock, so I leave you with... The Bioshock Countdown!

See you on the flipside

-j0n