Conversations From Videogame Stores I

These are actual conversations that we have witnessed in Videogame shops, they are not made up and they have not been altered in any way.


To begin with, we have a conversation between a customer and member of staff in ePlay. We walked round the store for a minute looking for cheap Wii games, noticed a shiny new PS3 in their pre-owned cabinet and then spied in on this little conversation while the customer was playing on the shop's PS3 unit...

Customer: "What's the difference between this plasma and this HD thing then?"
Staff: "Dunno mate, but I do know that if you watch tv from the side of a rear projection, the screen goes black"

After this we thought we'd move over the road to look for cheap stuff in Gamestation. After buying a cheap DS charger we needed for our long car journey, we found ourselves brushed aside by some tall chap...

Tall Chap (loud): "You got any copies of X-Men 3 on Blu-Ray?"
Staff (guffaw): "Just a few..."
The member of staff opens a drawer two thirds full of brand new boxed X-Men 3 Blu-Ray discs,
Tall Chap (slightly shorter now): "Ah. One please"

We can only but wonder why Blu-Ray is claiming to win the HD war?

Confirmed: PS3 Gains Two XBox 360 Exclusives!

PS3 fans rejoice! You've got two more games to look forward to!

summed up in a title

Oh no, wait...
Yep, they're rubbish too...

"'[SCi Entertainment's] Board believes that a release of these products simultaneously on all three platforms (PS3, Xbox 360 and PC) including the two next generation platforms will benefit the long term revenue potential for these two strong franchises rather than releasing different versions at different times.' It's hard to say that this move is all that surprising. We've said time and time again the high development costs of current generation software are going to lead to an increase in the number of cross-platform software, as extending the possible player-base for a title is crucial for profit. From the looks of these two games, this is a solid win for the PS3: two more quality games to add to the growing list of the PS3's star software."

Kane and Lynch?

"IO Interactive's Kane & Lynch is a strange and mysterious action game that focuses on the relationship between two men on opposite sides of a deal gone wrong. The developer is best known for the Hitman series, so stealth and careful gunplay are likely to be the order of the day. As for Crossfire, information is somewhat scarce, but the Pivotal Games-developed title is a two-player co-op FPS that revolves around two government agents on a mission behind enemy lines." ... "From the looks of these two games, this is a solid win for the PS3: two more quality games to add to the growing list of the PS3's star software."

Lord knows what Crossfire is. But who cares? It's more stuff to bulk out the PS3 library!

Halo 3 Zanzibar Video: No Plasma Sword?

Excitement spread the internet yesterday as people tuned into the new Halo 3 video that's been leaked from one of the lucky early beta testers!

We cheered at seeing the new weapons in action, that amazing bubble shield and the interesting new vehicles. AND check out the size of Zanzibar! How much fun does that look now?

WE CAN'T WAIT!!!

We did however notice the lack of Plasma Sword, no longer stowed away in it's slightly hidden location in the giant wheel of doom. No, we are now faced with what we can only guess is the bubble shield?

Up top! (Stopping the video around the 4.30 mark)

Sitting on the left there! (Stopping the video around the 5.40 mark)

It certainly looks bubble-shieldy. It's a shame really, we hope that the sword may find its place in the game somewhere because while it did get a bit much in multiplayer matches, we still loved that thing!

Back in effect

You can finally crack open that bubbly you've been saving, you can renew your faith in the internet, and you can bookmark this page again, because we've finally remembered the password for our account, so we can post all those thoughts we had since the last time we logged in.

Of course, these thoughts might have to be filtered a tad, edited for consumption by the general public. I suspect you might be more interested in our opinions of crackdown and excite truck, than you would be about how we feel about the dodgy hob on the oven at GameOverYeah HQ.

But you can now rest assured, the amount of posts this blog will, for a short time at least, go up. Then it'll probably go down for a while, as we spend more and more time at the beach, then it might go up again as Pro Evo 7, Halo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 4 arrive.

Oh, and just so you know, we haven't bought a PS3, we may be a little bit silly from time to time, we may get excited about things like packaging, coloured lights and shiny metal, but we're not completely stupid. We just thought you should know.

At least not until Metal Gear 4 comes out.

Monty Oum's Haloid - The Most Impressive / Important Fan Video Ever?

We were wowed when we first watched this piece of videogaming brilliance:



However we didn't really like the ending, and so we don't spoil it for you chaps who haven't watched it yet we don't discuss why. It just wasn't very good. (The dancing bit after the credits is good! We don't mean that bit!)

But what of it? Well we're prepared to forget how it ends really because the bit in the middle is so dam good! (Not forgetting that we're not capable of doing anything past animating a poorly drawn dog / horse in Microsoft Powerpoint while we're bored at work, even that's difficult.)

We hope this has a bit of impact somewhere, that'd be good wouldn't it? We don't mean loads of geeks putting together poor imitations, with things like Super Halo Brothers, or Tomb Roids.

Think bigger!

Think about MS's dreams of creating the YouTube of gaming came with XNA - what talent out there could produce something exciting like this for us to download and play on our 360's?

Think of gaming implications - new genre ideas and companies like Microsoft and Nintendo doing one-off titles for Xbox and Wii that involve these characters. MS get an HD brawler, and Nintendo could have an immersive bullet time game, stopping and adjusting the camera view with the Wii-mote.

But at the end of the day, it's just a fan video.