My collection of Pokémon cards. 

My Nintendo DS Lite is Dead

I found out today my Nintendo DS Lite is busted. What is a man to do?

I don't know how it happened. I took it out of my bag two days ago so I could play Dragon Quest IX. When I tried to turn it on nothing happened. I was worried and distressed. This DS belonged to my brother. He had upgraded to the Nintendo DSI XL, so I kindly took the "piece of junk" off his hands. I had a DS before, but there was no game really interesting enough to keep me foucsed, so I got rid of it. Now, with Dragon Quest IX, I was having more fun on it then ever.

I tried to charge it, but my charger didn't work on it. The light would flicker for less than a second and then darkness. I attempted to use my roommate's charger, and that failed too. Maybe it's the battery. I could reapir it. I've been meaning to do that for sometime now. Maybe it's best I just leave it alone and invest in a new DS. The 3DS looks pretty cool from what I've seen. Just hope it doesn't hurt my eyes with its 3D-ness without 3D glasses.

R.I.P my Nintendo DS Lite.

Zombies, Zombies and More Zombies!

Photo Credit: IGN

I purchased Dead Rising 2: Case Zero before class on Friday. I love killing zombies after a day of hard work.

I had played quite a few hours of Dead Rising when the Xbox first released. I enjoyed it more for the achievements and the game play, but It never got me hooked like Resident Evil had on the Playstation. I liked the fact that I could literally grab anything from the giant mall you were contained in and use it as a weapon. I could grab a register, blender, YOUR MOMMA...okay, not your momma. That would be pretty funny though, wouldn't it?

As I was saying, anything in the world could be used for your advantage. Case Zero continues with that and adds one more feature that had be jumping in my seat. Combinations!

The player can grab certain items and combine them to create weapons of mass awesomeness. The first creation  of zombie-killing glory was a baseball bat with nails. Once you create your weapon you obtain a card which reveals of picture of the weapon and its uses. There are two different kinds of cards which deal different effect depending on the card given. I then created a bucket with drills attached to it. That was the highlight of my Zombie-beating session.

The 3 hour game starts with the new main character, Chuck, driving into the small town of Still Creak with his ill daughter. She had been bitten previously before the game and the whole game is centered with you and your daughter attempting to leave the zombie-ridden wasteland. The world has been taken over by the undead and Zombrex is the new drug everyone is clambering for or its lights out for the infected.

The game is worth the five dollar price tag on Xbox Live. All the levels gained in Case Zero can be exported into a save from Dead Rising 2 which will be released on September 28.

This title is worth a look at, or should I say, this is a game worth sinking your teeth into!

Maybe? No? Okay....ZOMBIES!

Brainstorming Is A Bitch

I just came out the shower. Whenever I'm in the shower I tend to think about my work. Why I do that is anybodies guess.

I was thinking what I should be doing with the social media section for my on-campus news paper, The CHIMES. I have to admit that I was pretty stumped for the past few days trying to come up with something to do with Facebook and Twitter. I had been thinking that there wasn't a lot to do with Twitter and Facebook. You post what you are doing, or eating, or...ew...and what not, then you post a picture of something extremely random and you're done. But then I remembered, there are apps! Twitter has a slew of sites available to turn it into something different than what it was designed for. Facebook has thousands of applications which can change the tides of my thoughts.

I want to give my staffers some kind of work. I don't want them just posting things and that being it. I want them to do some research and find ways to prove my old thoughts wrong. Maybe I'll get them to find apps every week, like an App of the Week or something where they look for new applications to improve students productivity or usefulness of Facebook and Twitter and write small 250 word articles explaining them.

I want to make things better and more fun for them and myself.

I'm Selling My Xbox Today

You would do anything for the person you love, right? I sure would and I have. I posted my Modern Warfare 2 Special Edition Xbox 360 on Ebay just a few minutes ago.

Why would I sell one of the few things I cherish most in this world? I also cherish my girlfriend and when she isn't happy, I'm not pleased. Early last week I found out she couldn't make it to her second year of college because she can't afford a bus ticket. She already had a bus ticket from school but it is defective and she can't use it nor can she get a refund. Those bastards who sold her to ticket should just quit life, like now. I've decided that I love her way more than I love my Xbox 360, maybe, and will pay for her way to college.

The only set back to this is that I lose one of the few forms of entertainment I have here at Morrisville and I won't be able to write any reviews because I don't have a system to play on.

I have my damaged Nintendo DS Lite from my brother, but that isn't much. I do have Dragon Quest IX, so maybe I am set for the time being. I sure will miss my beloved console. Maybe I will buy one of the newer models with the extra cash I get if I sell the 360. Good luck with that.

UPDATE: She got the money for the bus from her friend and her sister. I'm still selling my Xbox because I want an upgrade, damn it.

What If A Zelda Game Was On The Xbox 360?

Life Size Link as seen on DeviantArt by Yuki-Myst 

Can anybody else picture it? The current incarnation of Link, in HD, battling a nasty version of Ganondorf on a mount. It could be so epic.

Why does Nintendo have to have one of my favorite characters in video game history all to itself? Share, with me at least. I wouldn’t mind taking a super-secret copy of The Legend of Zelda 360.   

No Sleep For the Fearless Wanderer

I could not fall asleep last night.

What did I do? Try and get some much needed rest? Hell no! I stayed up all night and played Fallout 3 in its entirety. I finished the last mission, Take It Back!, and purified the wasteland.

Even though I saved a whole population and gave them a chance at regular life, I have way more to do. I tried to finish it as fast as possible so I can get to the other video games in my back log. I might go back to it one day but for now  I think I will fall back from Fallout 3.