Amazon really want you to own a HD Movie Player. You can buy a PS3 Console and/or a HD DVD 360 Add-on Player and get 8 Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD for free. At this point you really have no reason not to upgrade to HD Movie player.
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Wow, That looks really good. This looks like this will make up for the first one.
At first i didn’t really think to much of the New Track and Field. but any game that has Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head in cute form can’t be all bad.
Source | Kotaku
Retro Vision: Videos from Gaming’s Past #8
Game: Tetris
System: Nintendo Entertainment System
Year: 1989
I was checking out the Silent Hill: Origin Demo (It’s great by the way) and I noticed something when I went to the option screen. There is a gray out option called “ACCOLADES”.
It got me thinking. I know Sony is ggoing to Start their own version of Xbox 360 Achievements for the PS3 but what that carries over to the PSP as well. Could Silent Hill be the first game with these? Or is it just there to unlock extra content in the game. Damn if I know.. but It’s interesting.
Last weekend I picked up Picross from Best Buy, but didn’t get a chance to play it until this weekend. I was introduced to Picross through my friend, known to the world of gamers as “PimpSc00by”. She has imported the Japanese version of the game and was non-stop hooked on it. When we hung out, she explained the game and I was set on playing and owning the game myself. She let me borrow her Japanese version, but to be quite honest; it wasn’t a simple game to understand and being unable to read the directions didn’t help. The game was also different from my KiraKira: Music Hour; I would look up the gamefaqs and I’d get through it, this game; I just felt lost. Therefore, my excitement oozed out of me when I found out that the US version came out. Woo hoo!!
So what is Picross?
Picross is a puzzle game, unlike any other puzzle game I’ve seen. The game is full of boards between 5×5 to 20×25 squares that you need to fill in order to create an image. You figure out which boxes are to be filled in by the numbers to the left and top of the board. The easiest mode, including the tutorial start at 5×5 boxes. The Normal mode starts easy and slowly begins to get bigger. So far I’ve made it to the 15×15 board. Other than actually completing the board, you’re also trying to complete it as fast as possible. What do you get when you completely the image in under an hour? An animation of the image you’ve just completed. Shockingly enough, I’ve managed to complete these quite quickly.
There are other modes too. There is fun mode, and the major difference between this mode and the normal mode, is that when you make a mistake the game doesn’t let you know. In normal mode; whenever you shade a square you weren’t supposed to, it places an X on it and adds time to your end time. The added time isn’t cool either, at first it adds 2 minutes, the 4, then 6, then 8 and it continues adding 8. This doesn’t help you finish in under an hour. Anyway, fun mode forces you to be a lot more careful about which boxes you’re shading in.
Finally, there’s the daily picross… this mode however; has more than one activity. It doesn’t just contain the standard picross. The game also keeps statistics on how well you’re performing. I have yet to play this mode, since I can’t stop playing normal mode and making sure everything comes in under an hour… okay, I keep pushing for less than 10 minutes because I’m an overachiever.
The music in the game is simple, but entertaining. I believe that my only complaint really lies in the animations of the image you complete. The images are so pixelated; which makes sense since you’re filling in squares, but it doesn’t help to complete the image and its so wack that it makes you wonder if you really want to work for that animation. Like I said, I’m an overachiever, so I will work for it, but I don’t think its all that.
My recommendations are, if you’re going to get this game; be prepared to be focused. If you don’t do that well, then the game might not be for you. Also, I played this game on a train ride and it took me a while to remember that I don’t have to play with the stylus, I can also play the game with the d-pad. Stylus usage on a train is not cool… while I was trying to fill in my squares the train movement would throw me off and force me to color in some boxes that shouldn’t have been colored. Also, once you get to the higher levels, do the puzzles in color; they add additional sound effects. I love it and you get the hang of it mighty quick.
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