I have time to kill and I wanted to revisit The EVO Virgin blog that I was trying to post last year. Due to a combination of laziness, sleeping, laziness, playing fighting games, writing for IPLAYWINNER, laziness and not giving a shit sometimes, I never really continued past day zero. Now I will just go over the rest of the three days at ground zero in a more condensed form so I don't have to w...
I have time to kill and I wanted to revisit The EVO Virgin blog that I was trying to post last year. Due to a combination of laziness, sleeping, laziness, playing fighting games, writing for IPLAYWINNER, laziness and not giving a shit sometimes, I never really continued past day zero. Now I will just go over the rest of the three days at ground zero in a more condensed form so I don't have to w...
It’s been a couple of weeks since EVO 2012 finished but I promised myself to write a blog of my experiences especially since it’s my first ever EVO! I hope you guys like it! Introduction Despite being involved in fighting games since 2010 with local and regional communities, it’s been now where I am able to fully declare my love for it by going to the biggest event for the genre in the world. I...
From Blasterpiece Theater If you missed the event, here is a summary and video of the conference. Game Reviews - E3 2011 Nintendo ended the press conferences for E3 before the main convention began with more games coming to the 3DS as well as announcing the anticipated successor to the Wii. Kicking off was a full orchestra playing songs from The Legend of Zelda series in preparation for the 3DS...
From Blasterpiece Theater For those who missed the event, here is a summary and video. Video Game - E3 2011 Sony ends day 0 of E3 with a conference of new games as well as a focus on their latest handheld successor to the PlayStation Portable dubbed the PlayStation Vita. Prior to kicking off the show with games, Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton comes by to talk about about t...
From Blasterpiece Theater For those who might have missed the conference, here is a summary as well as video of the event. PS3 Games - E3 2011 - Rayman Origins Publisher Ubisoft celebrates its 25th anniversary with a press conference featuring their latest series entries such as Brothers In Arms and Assassin's Creed. Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil creator Michel Ancel with the assistance of a...
From Blasterpiece Theater For those who missed the conference, here is a summary featuring the major aspects. Wii Games - E3 2011 - Star Wars: The Old Republic Electronic Arts represented the second press conference in day 0 of E3 with some heavy hitters including their sports entries and the popular Battlefield series. Mass Effect 3 is one of the major headliners of the show with Bioware execu...
From Blasterpiece Theater For those who missed the conference, here is a summary featuring the major aspects. Xbox 360 Games - E3 2011 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Microsoft kicks off day zero of E3 by playing safe with Xbox 360 Kinect games and capabilities but brings their big guns such as Halo in their press conference. Starting the conference has Infinity Ward's community manager Robert...
From Blasterpiece Theater Developer Konami prepares for this year's E3 with a showcase of the games to be featured at the event as well as fans to anticipate in the future in a very conventional fashion. To get the gaming press as well as fans hyped up for the latest game, some press conferences occur before E3 begins with others during. Konami is one of the least popular companies out of all t...
WonderCon 2011 with people! For comic book fans, last week was WonderCon 2011 at San Francisco, CA. On behalf of me and my friend's college newspaper, we visited the event to check some stuff out. I had experience in going to San Diego Comic-Con International last year, my friend aka Editor-In-Chief was having his first exposition experience in general. While checking out some general stuff ove...
Whether it was gaming, journalism, or whatever, I really liked this year. Yeah I lied about hatin with the title and all but onward to my dumb retrospective blog about a year that's filled with damn numbers, baby shaking, Daigo Umehara getting beat by America, and GDLK MURDER FACE TOKIDO. DAT SHIT WAS CRAZY Mah top 10 games of 2010 More details on my list page . Red Dead Redemption Super Street...
Well I have been working on a review of both these bands' albums for a bit but never had the time. Since I am going to Comic-Con tomorrow and will do a blog about every day starting on Wednesday, I just used today to finish my reviews. I hope to get a lot of picture and remember what I had done there. It's gonna be my first convention ever and hope shit's fun at San Diego. Halo: Reach will like...
10. Boris - Smile (2008) Left: US release (Southern Lord), Right: Japan release (DIW Phalanx) It's unusual to release different versions of the same album. Both American and Japanese versions have the same songs but they are constructed differently, not just in structure but how are they played. "Statement" blows out the pure desert stoner rock while "Message" goes noisy industrial based. Other...
When I had my Xbox 360, I was stuck mostly playing my games on a crappy 13" Magnavox TV. Some times when my parents are not home, I would play it on my 50" Sony Vega Rear Projection HDTV. I hated playing my games in 480i with only a couple of games that can be letterboxed. I couldn't take it anymore and wanted the HD quality but on my monitor. Good thing Microsoft sells the cables. Last Saturda...
Tomorrow is the day. It will be the anniversary of the Marine Corps.' formation and most commonly, the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 . Sometimes it's weird to say or type that whole phrase instead of just having Modern Warfare 2 . Ever since it's announcement back at the Game Developers Conference in early 2009, people have been in debate if the game should be placed under Call of D...
Ah yes the most anticipated game of 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is coming real soon into our boxs of graphical intensity. After Infinity Ward's CoD 4: Modern Warfare was well received from fans of the series as well as people who play the game only because of its popularity, for sure the sequel will be much more popular and infamous than it's engaging predecessor. For a moment, the pre-...
This time they are built for war Being active since the 1990s but gaining prominence not just from the hardcore scenes but the metal scenes all around the world during the new millennium with 2001's mathcore monster Jane Doe , Converge knows what they want in a new record and we all love it everytime. The only thing we can do about it when we wait is just never expect anything and enjoy everyth...
Color Me Blue The Georgian sludge metal scene has gained some prominence within extreme metal. Built up from the NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana) influences of Eyehategod, England's doomy Black Sabbath and even New York's Swans, the Georgian scene has turned into a characteristic entity while still praising the evil yet Southern rock grooves. Throughout the second half of the decade, there were la...