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Long live print media. SWM 2.0 July August Issue 2010

Ain't she a beauty? It's not entirely accurate, but hey.... I have made an online version of the LEGO Giantbomb set from the mailbag! It's not ready yet, it needs a few more details, but when it's ready, I am planning a have an online party there for everyone here to come and trash the place! Any suggestions you would like to see?

Has the X-Wing flown it's last crusade against the Empire? My PC has just died. Not just any PC, my retro Gaming Rig, the computer I used to play the older classic games from eras long ago. So much older than the Wii's architecture or Bush's presidency. The power thing that makes the PC run with power has finally died, and I have no way to replace since it is so old, but I want to keep the cont...

Why do I want to play $50 for a new game when I can get an old game I never played before (so it's new to me) for $10?

VII means 7. So I finally finished Final Fantasy VII ! Hurray! Took me a lot of frustration, grinding, confusion, and fun. But I still have no idea what happened. What did I just see? The ending made no sense to me, and what's worse, I was incapable of creating my own substitute logic because there didn't seem to be one! SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content. I think I was suppos...

First of all: 最終的な想像7は悪いゲームである! それは大きい開始から始まったが、非常に退屈、にない楽しみになった。 私はそれを終えなかったし、決して別の3Dを最終的な想像のゲームと買わなかった。 Anyway, to FF13: Breaking through the front line! The second biggest game this year in Japan has finally been released. Everybody raced home to play it, even if they didn't understand Japanese. Note: I do not understand Japanese. However, I will attempt to explain what is going on in this g...

A few weeks ago, I started a fun project to make a short animated movie. But people wondered if it will ever really get done. Yes. It will. But I first need voices. One way I thought of getting new voices was to show off what the movie might look like. So I made that short demo to show a rough unfinished version of a hypothetical scene in that animated movie. Unlike the finished movie will have...

Today I bought a new game! The Game of the Year Edition of Civilization III ! I got it at a yard sale for $2, and it was in excellent condition, almost new with everything there, almost never opened. Awesome, huh? No. Because the day before I got The Movies for $6. And about a week before I got Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon for $10. And less than a week before I got Chrono Trigger , F-Zero , FF6 ,...

I tried out the Batman Arkham Asylum demo on my PC, since I would really like to try the game out. However, on the installation screen, it says my computer does not meet the minimum requirements for the game, having a 1200 Megahertz processor, while the game recommended a 3000 Megahertz one. However, I installed it anyway, and was not surprised that at low settings, the game ran in slow motion....

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/gttv-to-reggie-who-will-sell-more-nsmbwii-or-mw2/271357/#168 To keep it from sinking down to the bottom.

I just bought a brand new Acer laptop for $320! It sports a fantastic 16:9 display, the epic ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics card, 160 GB HDD, 3 GB Memory, all running under the AMD Athlon 64 processor! This is the first computer I won capable of Anti-aliasing, which is pretty much witchcraft, and can support the latest games!

Which game was it? It was 10 bucks at Walmart. Let me repeat that: A Nintendo made game was at 10 bucks at Walmart. When it's $35 everywhere else. Ever since Nintendo of America discontinued their Player's Choice titles (it's still going on in Japan), Nintendo games have been selling full price since they came out. Zelda TP is still at $50. But it seems Nintendo of America is quietly lowering t...

Today, the Cole Bros's Biggest Circus Under The Big Top came to my local town to perform! I haven't been to a circus in over half a decade, so I wanted to remember what a circus was like. First thing I noticed when I got to the parking lot, where Mexicans. Don't fret, I'm hispanic, so it's ok. When I got inside, all of the circus people were hispanic in some way, with the exception of the ringm...

If you think you got voice acting chops, come tryout for this animated full-length movie I am producing for Sundance Film Festival! Don't be shy! Come on! All you need is a microphone and the ability to speak English! YOU MAY EVEN HAVE FUN!

Yep.

What a terrible movie. I know it takes place before the first X-Men, but it didn't have to feel like it was made before the first X-Men. I could not believe how incredibly bad the special effects were. I literally have made better special effects on my computer. Not to mention the wire fights, and the terrible storytelling!

The ease of just playing Megaman 9 everyday without changing discs is great!

For me, it's halfway there. The site's technology is Gamespot done right, and works far better than any other forum I have tried on the internet. I can do so many things here that would be unthinkable in other sites, like posting videos or having reviews with all the same tools that the staff uses. The only thing missing is the unions. ;) But the half that is not there yet is the community. It'...

I hate those viruses that always ruin your computer and your day. Today, I got attacked by PERFECT DEFENDER, a virus that acts as a normal Windows security update. By downloading the security update (e.g. virus), the program will make every web page you visit a threat, saying this page is dangerous and could infect your computer with a virus, and then crashes the web browser. Very cheeky. Lucki...

Quite a game indeed! My first new retail game in about a year. I have been buying mostly downloadable games. But I got Wii Sports Resort today! And yes....it's incredible. Any questions about the game? I can answer them!

Episode 15 - Plot Twist Bowser wakes up. He gets up, and sees rubble all around him. "My castle!" says Bowser. "My poor castle!" He walks around, trying to find anything still intact. "I will destroy Mario, I swear!" says Bowser. "You always swear, it's not polite." says a figure behind him. "What?" says Bowser. He turns around. "You!" says Bowser. "Your machines! They don't work! They failed h...

HURRAY! Yesterday, I posted a topic asking Giantbomb users which games I should get! So I took that into consideration, ignored it, and bought Megaman 9 and Majora's Mask! So far Megaman 9 is my favorite..... This is as far as I got of the first level. Super hard! But unbelievably, not once I was frustrated, I just kept coming back for more beatings! This game gives an incredibe emotion that I...

Duke Nukem Forever. Yeah right. It was a recurring gag from the developer.

I used to write pages for Wikipedia, and was always annoyed when somebody would change it, saying this piece of information is unnecessary, or we don't allow trivia, or we don't feel this game is important enough to have a whole page for it. I am sick and tired of that, and I just stop going there. Information should not be limited. In the contrary, in the AGE OF INFORMATION, it is INFORMATION...

I don't like used games, I don't trust their quality because I'm not sure who their previous owner was, but I would prefer to buy a used game than a new full priced game. Games are WAY too expensive.

My entire childhood on one game. One of the best ideas Nintendo has ever had. I just hope they don't ruin it like they did with Phantom Hourglass.

It's installing! It looks awesome! And it doesn't work. My graphics card doesn't support Shader 3.0 So I erased the game. I hate that.

This new redesign of Giantbomb! These forums have always looked like the most technologically advanced in the web, but now it's even more incredible! There are still some small bugs and glitches, but this place is fantastic!

....and it didn't run on my computer. Took me 2 hours to download it (spread over three days). It was a waste of time, wasn't it?

It's a game that is historically very special to me. It is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002: Me and my cousins bought this game when it came out, in 2002, and we loved it. Unfortunetaly, our computer couldn't run it. So we had to settle for the old Flight Simulator 98. When we got a new computer that could run it, we found out that the disc was damaged (we put it away until we could find a new P...

Wii Bowling So yesterday we had another party. It wasn't supposed to be a Wii party, but only 2 hours into it, everybody was bothering me to let them play Wii. So we started playing, and we played all the way to midnight. The party started at two. We went from Wii Sports to the Sonic and the Secret Ring's multiplayer to Mario Kart Wii then LEGO Star Wars and then finally to Brawl. It's a good t...

Sure gives a great example to anybody that doesn't know much about games (the world) who casually turned in to the show. Next year, they better be decent (like the Oscars (in presentation at least)), so that it doesn't embarrass you as a gamer to watch. Jack Black was great though, even if nobody laughed at his jokes (but I did).

The first 10 minutes of the new Banjo game! Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts IGN's 8.3 is a great score, but not from a franchise that both installments outscored Mario 64! It also probably won't sell well enough to warrant a second try from Rare. *sigh* Well, there goes my last reason to get a second console. In other news, Obama is president-elect. People seem surprised. As it turns out, when yo...

All of it. The characters. The stages. The music. And all 48 friend codes I had registered to play with, including my own. This sucks.

Yeah. I want to see of they are shaping up to be good games.

Heroes was off to a rocky start but now it's just as exciting as the first season was! Fringe is generic but enjoyable. Sonic Chronicles should have been a big budget game on the Wii, not the DS. This is Bioware after all. Thanks to this flundering economy, I can't afford any new games now. The Clone Wars will be no-where as good as the 2D Clone Wars mini-series. It's too early for a new consol...

Easier to use than Imageshack. I wonder if it's trustful?

Everything!!!!! It's driving me mad. The problem is that people don't agree with me, the thing is that I don't agree with them!!! I thought Nintendo's E3 2008 press conference was quite decent. Burn me at the stake! I thought this was a nice year for the Wii. Send me to the looney house! I thought Brawl's online was great. Hose me to the wall with a fire hose! I said the best Star Wars games we...

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