Earthworm Jim HD's been out for the Xbox live marketplace and from previews, it looks amazing. Updated graphics and ratified controls make this version of Earthworm Jim one to get a hold of. Hopefully however, more of Shiny Entertainments back catalog will get a HD upgrade because most of their games were awesome. Some examples are MDK, Messiah, where a baby angel possesses humans under gods orders. Never really saw it, but in preview it said the baby could possess people and make them commit suicide, which was crazy seeing it in a magazine. But my all time favorite game is Wild 9.  

          By coincidence, I was looking into the Chiptune concept page and saw that it barely has any good music or artist to portray how awesome the chiptune music is. I'm going to include in this article some good artist and songs to showcase how good Videogame music and how musicians are using it now. Also, when I get the chance I'll try to update the page.
 
 

          I love Avatar. I remember seeing it in high school and getting excited over the martial arts and the movements expressing the bending. I would wait for new episodes and enjoyed the playfulness of the characters and Sokka's sarcasm. I wish there was more and got a little disappointed with how it ended, but I watched the whole show again on Netflix and it made me happy. 
           Unfortunately nothing of the movie is making me want to go see it. And I saw the Chow Yun Fat Dragonball Z. I would go see movies that were based on TV shows and games and give them the benefit of the doubt, because at least it resembled it. I drew the line on Avatar and so did everybody who thought that the actors didn't look the part. I would've went with the flow, but the Avatar kid look's mad all the time. That's not his whole character. Sokka doesn't look funny and the short clip of Katara and Zuko fighting looks lame. And it appears from the commercials that the movie encompasses the whole first season and everybody's pissed off. I can not believe I need to make the decision to not see this movie. For the first time, I will wait for the Blu-ray. 

   (spoilers, if that matters)  First thing that caught my eye was the 20 dollar price tag, and second was the fact that Saboteur was from the out of business developer Pandemic. The last game they made and the slightly positive buzz on this game got me to give it a shot. After a while, I realized how familiar this game was to Pandemic's previous title of Mercenaries 2. 
     So much destruction! I have been playing the story mode, or specifically, the main story mode and was distraught on how bland it is. The Train and bridge explosion level was exciting but it felt like this is all the game could come up with. I was going to reference the zeppelin level, but that was more of the players forcing the game to be interesting. What seemed unfortunate was that a couple of the Main story levels were over just as soon as they began. There was a part after a mission, another main mission prompts up saying to talk to Veronique, you do, level over.  Some of the Main missions are that simple. 
    What I was trying to get to was the ambient missions. If you buy all the maps and think that blowing up 30 or so snipers nest was a lot, wait till you see the map of France COVERED in Ambient dots! I thought that this was a completionist dream and fun. That was until I realized that it becomes annoying after a while. I noticed the similarity between The Saboteur and Mercenaries 2, the repetitive explosions are what save most of the games. Destroying things are more fun that playing the main story. Mercenaries 2 was about getting vengeance on your buttcheek and right now I'm at a level where I have beat Dierker in a race in The Saboteur. Didn't I have an exciting fight with him on a blimp?

             It's time to look for work and it seems an opportunity showed up working for Gamestop. There's a store where I live that has the "Now Hiring" sign out front and I'm conflicted. I have been listing all their faults since the first time I sold all my then gaming collection of N64 and PS1 games, and still only made half to afford the PS2. Scratched games, strict return policies, and recently trying to pass off locating a game underneath a counter and shoving it inside a gamebox as "New." I drew the line and decided not to return again because the manager, A guy I desperately tried to impress when I tried to get a job previously, Drool in front of a new game. I said banned, nothing but Amazon for me. I remember buying a four disc set of Koudelka and the game froze near the end of the 4th disc! I had passed the return dateand I couldn't see how it ended.
              But then I went inside to get my application and filled it out. I haven't turned it in because I'm mulling it over. Employee's get "Benefits" and they're in the control of power. Maybe it could be a dream come true of selling and talking about games like it says on their website. What I really want to do is just play games, but I just need a job to do that.

               Going through some old movies I noticed that Arcades where fun places to hang out. Being among friends and just being in an atmosphere specifically catered to the great love of videogames. Unfortunately, like in the movies, there is always one type of character that ruins the experience. Take note of these characters who ruined some possible childhood memories.

Gangs - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [1990]    This version of an arcade was actually pretty cool when I saw it (6yrs old) and wanted to go there, but then I learned that smoking is bad and so is stealing. Thanks Tiny Toons. [Bonus arcade, link<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QnvDwHtlgM>. Also, as with all that skateboarding and underage gambling there comes a price: being recruited into a gang.  Now the gang in question is The Foot, a name so silly and with a reputation for being beat up by Turtles that they have to be twice as dangerous as April o'Neil makes them out to be. But still, real gangs or just older kids that tend to have a bad reputation make having fun at an arcade dangerous!

I enjoyed Twisted Metal: Black just like everyone, but not for the combat. I enjoy the Twisted Metal franchise for the stories they tell. In TM2, I would cheat my way to each characters ending just to see the comic book vignette of how Calypso twisted the words of the winner for unfortunate, and sometimes hilarious consequences.  
 
 
 

I love magazines! Ever since I was a kid, I would ogle the magazines on the Supermarket racks. I first picked up a Videogame magazine for Tips & Tricks, but then I would just look at the pictures. My first Subscription was to PSM (Playstation Magazine) now P:TOM, Playstation: The Official Magazine. I loved PSM because of the Comic book Covers and The fun and exciting ways the art mixed with what the writers were talking about. I picked up a couple of magazines and have been satisfied, but a little overwhelmed to read so many and recently I subscribed to Game Informer. Of course I was buying a game at Gamestop and got tied in, but it seemed like a deal. Game Informer is an okay magazine, but I have recently tidied up my magazine pile and noticed that all my Game Informers have subsciption cards in the middle. I'm not particularly surprised since I now read twice as much news online and in print, but Game Informer for me lacks something. I considered GI as a newspaper because of its size and writting, and I haven't been kind to actual newspapers in a longtime. I read newspapers but they lack connectivity for me. I won't let go of GI, but it's going to be hard to finish one in the future.

I can't believe that THIS song is in THIS game! Caught me off-guard but its a sweet song in a scary game which should make it scarier. Well either way I'm playing (the song) to go to bed. 

I subscribed to Play Magazine around October of 2009 because I love their artwork, but I stopped getting issues around February 2010. I went to their website and its down. I went to look at their other publication Geek Monthly, and its also down. As far as I can figure Fusion Publishing lost those publications to Bankruptcy. It's really bad too because those were some great magazines. Play especially had some awesome art.  On a related note, there is an article concerning the discontinuation of Play magazine by bitmob.com.

http://www.geekmonthly.com/