Rockstar launches site for Agent....kinda

Rockstar launched a website for their upcoming PS3 exclusive title Agent today. They havent released any information about this game except for the premise, it is based in the '70's and you are a spy, or as the name suggests, and agent. Well here is a link to the site..... Rockstar's Agent

Overrated Gamers (OvrG)

Whats up guys, a few people joined the Killzone 2 team and the Red Faction Guerilla team today, hello new members, so here's whats up. Once I have at least 4 members for each team, not including myself, for each team I will get schedules from the members and start setting up practice times. As for myself I am usually free from 12pm-3pm and 12am-5am, I work from 4pm-11pm so thats what I'm working with. If anyone has any questions you can either get ahold of me through game battles, or just e-mail me at overrated44@hotmail.com. Thank you everyone for joining up, I'm sure this will be fun.

Overrated Gamers on Game Battles

I have started an Overrated Gamers team on gamebattles.com, the link is over to the right side if you would like to check it out, as of right now I am the only member of Overrated Gamers on game battles and if anyone is interested make a game battles account and send me a message. Right now the only team that I have set up is for Killzone 2, I will also be creating teams for Red Faction Guerilla (PS3), Team Fortress 2 (PC), and probrably Left 4 Dead on either the pc or 360, so check it out and if anyone is interested go ahead and send me a messege and I will add you, hope to see you on game battles, take it easy.

Listening to gaming podcasts.

I am an avid listener to podcasts, and I am always looking for new podcasts to listen to, which got me to thinking, what is it about the podcasts that I listen to habitually that makes me continually listen to them week after week, and part of it is humor, if I can find a podcast that makes me laugh out loud while I am listening to it, I immediately hit the subscribe button on itunes. So I decided to make a list of the podcasts that I thouroughly enjoy, check a few of them out and subscribe to them to help these people out, they dont have to sit down weekly to just converse about video games, but they do, and it is purely for our enjoyment.

The first podcast that I ever listened to was 4-Player Podcast, I found this podcast by looking at Left 4 Dead videos on youtube, and found a certain video called "left 4 dead brad", after watching this video a few times and looking at the 4-Player Podcast youtube page I realized that they had a podcast, at this point I had absolutely no idea what a podcast even was let alone listened to one. The first night that I started listening to the 4-player podcast I literally was up until 4am, just listening to these guys talk about video games, and found it absolutely awesome, these guys run their own website, they also use blogspot.com, and they run their own justin.tv channel where they play games nightly. To this day I check their website on a daily basis waiting for the next podcast. Now on the the other podcasts I listen to, this is running a bit long so I will just list them.

The Cagcast, Co-op (a weekly video podcast by a few guys laid off from EGM), Control Point (strictly Team Fortress 2), Destructoid Video Game Podcast, Drunken Gamers Radio(hilarious podcast), The Fanboys (a very unique podcast), Gamers With Jobs (excellent podcast), Giant Bombcast (awesome podcast), IGN - Gamescoop and Podcast Beyond (both very good), Joystiq, A Life Well Wasted (a very serious podcast hosted by Robert Ashley, very good), Player One Podcast, Rebel FM (great podcast made by a few of the guys that were laid off from EGM), Sarcastic Gamer Radio, TalkRadar (GamesRadar's podcast), The Tetris Effect (a bit adolescent, but still funny), Good Grief (a 1up.com podcast) and finally, ListenUp(another 1up.com podcast, more informative than funny, but still good). Thats it, check out a few of these podcasts if anything you're seeing interests you. Thanks for reading, take it easy.

Pre Order Assassin's Creed 2.....and get stuff!

Today it was announced that if you pre-order Assassin's Creed 2 from......none other than Gamestop (who would have guessed that...) you get a code to download Palazzo Medici. Apparently this is a download only place within Assassin's Creed 2 that offers treasure, or some other pre-order bullshit. Anyway, Palazzo Medici is only available while supplies last so if you're into the whole Gamestop domination of the world, or just want extra stuff with your game such as myself, get the your local gamestop, or the gamestop website to pre-order Assassin's Creed 2.....

New PS3 firmware update tomorrow.

Playstation 3 owners will be prompted to update their systems tomorrow, no huge upgrades, but rumor has it that there will be some changes to the friend invite system for games, hopefully this is less rumor and more fact.

Game Battles

Well tonight, I threw my name, and blog all over the gamebattles.com forums, became a member, and attempted to find some people on there that want to play games in a competitive sense, and of course, I am at least assuming that if I find people to play with on the sight then hopefully..... they wont be ass hats, I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Killzone 2

I downloaded the second Killzone 2 map-pack today, and after playing for close to 2 hours, no one was playing these maps, I could just change the settings to take me straight to the new maps but I would like for them to randomly come up while playing on a server, this was also a problem with the first map pack, which I have only played those maps a handful of times.... Twelve dollars well spent?

Activision gives Sony an ultimatum

Today Activision announced that if by the end of the year Sony does not drop the price of their console Activision will put serious thought toward even so much as releasing games on the console. This is a huge hit for Sony considering that Activision is one of the largest third party game developers in the world. Just imagine the amount of money that Sony would lose without the release of games such as the Call of Duty franchise, now dont start tieing the nuice yet, Modern Warfare 2 is already in production and definately will be released for the Playstion 3 this fall. Upon reading this news today, I am absolutley certain that the price of the Playstation 3 will be dropped sometime within the year, most likely towards the holiday season in an attempt to boost sales for the console. Sony is already in a bit of trouble in the console war, and if they were to start losing third party developers the future of the console is in a lot of trouble. For those of you that have not yet purchased the Playstation 3 now would be a good time to start saving money for one, and I would wait just a bit longer for the purchase, because, in a business sense, it would be an absolutely terrible position for them to be in to start losing developers, first party developers have become the bread and butter of the consoles, but losing third party support, especially from a company like activision would dig a hole too deep to dig themselves out of, a price drop is imminent.

Red Faction : Guerilla Multiplayer

Last night after getting home from work, I listened to the Drunken Gamers Radio podcast and listened to them raving about the multiplayer aspect of Red Faction Guerilla, I was intrigued. I started playing and at the beginning I didnt quite know if I was enjoying myself or not. 3 hours later I realized how much time had passed and I was still playing Red Faction multiplayer, needless to say, I really do enjoy this aspect of the game. Even though it does take a little bit of getting used to, this is no Gears of War online, which I can't stand, mostly because I am terrible at it. This is fun, and the destruction of buildings adds to the deathmatch style of gameplay, is someone camping inside of a building, take the wall out etc... And alot of the mission based modes are alot of fun, mostly based on destruction, and of course capture the flag and things of the sort. Check out the multiplayer, its alot of fun, I am currently playing this on the PS3 and you can come destroy building with me if you would like to, PSN handle : overrated447.

Team Fortress 2

Just got done with an hour of Team Fortress 2 with Phil Koller from 1up.com, nice guy, and alot of fun to play games with. Hopefully I will get a chance go kick his ass at Team Fortress 2 again (joke).....

New Microsoft Console?

Rumors have been flying for the past few days that Project Natal isnt just an add on for the Xbox 360, but actually the first step towards Microsoft's new console. Details are a bit lacking but from what sources are saying, if a new console is released with Project Natal the actual motion capture camera will also work with the good ol' xbox 360 that we have all sent back to Microsoft due to a red-ring. Sorry, got a bit off track there. If Microsoft does release a new console it is expected to be revealed at GDC next year, we'll just have to wait and see.

17 year old girl drops out of school to play Counter-Strike

I guess the Swede's have all the fun, now if only I had been lucky enough to join the world of professional gaming while in high school, could have saved myself alot of time....

The Agency

The Agency is an MMO of which we have never seen before, we all know about the fantasy genre of the MMO , World of Warcraft, Warhammer, Everquest etc.... But this is a more modern take on the MMO genre with a spy background with a more modern setting, you start out with two faction, the Unite and the paraGON. Within your starting factions you begin with missions gain experience and work your way to making your own spy agency. As a person that made an attempt at getting in to the whole "World of Warcraft" thing and just could not dedicate the amount of time to a game that just couldnt keep my attention for more than an hour or two I am fairly excited about this game, and who doesnt want to be a spy? The Agency isnt set for release until 2010 so we have the entire rest of the year to wait anxiously for more details and hype until the actual release. Who else loves the waiting game?

Laughing too much at stupid stuff.

Just thought this was way more funny than it actually is and figured I would tell you about it. Kevin from attack of the show's e-mail is mayorofg4@g4tv.com, hilarious, I dont know why.

Playboy Cover

So if anyone watches attack of the show habitually such as myself you know who Olivia Munn is, and apparently she is going to be on the cover of Playboy Magazine, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only geek out there that is pretty happy about this.... Not a creep, I swear.

Yahtzee Croshaw actually likes inFAMOUS!

Prototype, a little too late?

With the release of Prototype this tuesday I have been asking myself for the past 2 days, should I buy this game or not. The main reason behind thinking about my purchase isnt whether or not it will be worth my hard earned money, but rather, do I have the time to sit down and play this game considering that, in the past 2 weeks, I have also purchased 2 other open world games. As you might have read before, I did buy and finish inFAMOUS the day of its release, and that isnt saying that I'm not still playing it, I have started a second game and am currently playing through as an evil character. Now the other open world game which I have not finished, and the game most of my gaming time is going in to is Red Faction Guerilla. Now back to my original point, do I really have time for yet another open world game at this time? I dont really know, I am usually quite strict with myself to get games on release day, a bit of an obsessive compulsive thing with me, but still, I dont know if I will be picking this up day one. Another though be it less important factor into my decision of a purchase is that, I have yet to see any reviews go up for Prototype, from the gameplay trailers and what not the game looks impressive, but I usually like to have some idea of what I'm getting myself into when buying a game full price the day it is released. This has saved me some money in the past (*cough* Star Wars the Force Unleashed). I supposed I will make my decision after leaving class on tuesday morning, will report back once my mind has been made up.

God of War 3, too violent?

So this video hit the web a few days after e3 and alot of people are now saying that the violence is a bit too much. Now this is just my opinion but isnt this what the next generation of gaming, we have movies out such as Hostile and pretty much any over the top movie's involving rape, the murder of children, and things that are much more gruesome than the video above, what are your thoughts?

Red Faction : Guerilla

I dont know if anyone played the old Red Faction Games on the PS2, I know I did when I was much younger, and the main draw to these games was the destructable enviroments. Once again destruction becomes a huge part of the game but a bit different, in the latest Red Faction installment it is absolutely impossible to break the ground (you could in the first two Red Faction games), but any building you see is completely destructable and not just shoot a rocket and crumble destructable. You have to be somewhat intelligent in order to bring a building to the ground, take out two tower posts and the tower will just lean to one side, or blow out two walls of a building and it will still stand. The entire Red Faction Guerilla game is based on the destruction of the environment, by taking out building you pick up the scraps that are left behind which on mars is apparently a kind of currency. I have played about 3 hours of this game and so far I am thoroughly enjoying it. Some would think that blowing up buildings regularly would get old after a while, but it doesnt, every structure is different, and the ways in which you take them out change regularly with the introduction of new weapons after the completion of missions. This game is extremely fun, and the multi-player aspect of it is a ton of fun, you can play deathmatch or mission based multi-player mostly based on the destruction of the other team's buildings, its alot of fun. Anyone that enjoys blowing things up, which most gamers do, should pick this game up, or at the very least rent it and see how you like, either way, you should play this game, the advancement of destructable technology is really awe inspiring. Check this game out, you won't be disappointed.

Castlevania Lords of Shadow

Castlevania Lords of Shadow was announced today, with Kojima helping out with it, I wet myself slightly.....Enough Said.

Final Fantasy VII on PSN

Alright, this isnt exactly exciting news but it is for me. Final Fantasy VII was released on the PSN after the announcement at Sony's press conference at e3 today, and this is incredibly exciting. Final Fantasy VII was the video game that got me in to gaming, this was the first game that actually brought up feelings within me that I had never imagined a video game could. I bought it the minute it was placed on the PS Store today, and the minute I started a new game the feeling of nastalgia was immense. This is absolutely my favorite game of all time, and yes some people might say that it is overrated (get it) I still love it. I will say, if ANYONE has not played this game, get it and buy it, its only $9.99 on the PSN and it is an absolute masterpiece, pick this game up. Ill talk more of e3 tomorrow, have to go play the Uncharted 2 beta here in about 20 minutes.

E3 Day 2, Nintendo.

A bit of a weak showing from Nintendo today, with the exceptions of Mario Galaxy 2 and a new Metroid game, I will say though, Metroid looks very good.

Electonics Gaming Expo (E3), Microsoft key-note.

E3 began today, and I am not going to write much about it simply because during E3 there is just too much exciting news and I could write a 10 page paper on just the happenings of day 1. So I am just going to tell you the couple of things that I found exciting during the Microsoft presentation today. One being the facebook/twitter implementation in to the xbox, this is an extremely smart move on Microsofts part, millions of people use both of these networking tools and bringing them to the xbox will be nothing but helpful to Microsoft, it isnt a system seller, but it will make things a bit more convenient for gamers to keep up with their social networking. Another huge announcement today was Metal Gear Solid coming to the xbox, Metal Gear was one of the biggest games that the Playstation 3 had over the xbox and now it is on both consoles. If anyone remembers correctly Microsoft had similar news at last years E3 with Square Enix and Final Fantasy. I found it a bit odd that there wasnt much said about this. Kojima went on stage, told us of the announcement, and finally, walked off of the stage, nothing more was said. This is most likely due to the fact that the new Metal Gear will not be an xbox exclusive. Being an owner of both consoles I have to say, when the game is released, I will be purchasing it for the Playstation 3. Thats about all I have for today, I'm not going to get in to the EA conference neither will I the Ubisoft conference (which I am watching while reading this). I will be back tomorrow to put forth my opinions on the Nintendo/Playstation 3 conferences. Enjoy the rest of E3

Late To the Game

2 months ago I became the proud new owner of the Playstation 3 Console, my first game purchase for the system was Valkyria Chronicles, my second being Metal Gear Solid 4. Tonight at 3am I completed Metal Gear Solid 4, and must I say, MGS4 has jumped its way in to my top 5 favorite games of all time. I havent had so much feeling for a cast of characters in a video game since my first play-through of Final Fantasy VII in 1997. I am also somewhat positive that I have never had such a wide spectrum of feelings during a game as I did with MGS4. Part of the reasoning toward my positive view of this game is the constant fan service provided to anyone that has played any of the Metal Gear games before, whether it's a flashback or simply talking about an event in the past if you have played a Metal Gear game there is something in this game that will make you grin with a vast feeling of nastalgia during this excellent experience. So, if any of you Playstation 3 owners out there have for some reason not found your way through this game, go play it, there isnt a doubt in my mind that you will never regret spending money on this title. Hopefully Kojima will announce a Metal Gear Solid 5 during E3 this week, a man can dream can't he?