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Miiverse is Now Available Online

"Miiverse is a service accessible via Nintendo's Wii U game console that lets you communicate with other players from around the world."

Miiverse is the Wii U community for sharing content. Its interesting because it recently became available from any-ol browser. Its really cool to look through the content people have posted and so far seems to be user created fan art.

A few cool communities I have enjoyed:

Super Mario World: https://miiverse.nintendo.net/warawara/14866558073024996828

The Legend of Zelda Series: https://miiverse.nintendo.net/warawara/14866558073007174237

Its awesome to see Nintendo opening up its systems to a broader web.

https://miiverse.nintendo.net/

Escape from Burger Town

Zac Gorman, the one man wrecking-crew behind the awesome Magical Game Time series released a new web comic "Escape from Burger Town." Very cool and worth checking out. I really enjoy Gorman's style, even if I don't always know what he is trying to say with a given strip. Art need not be accessible to be compelling.

http://escapefromburgertown.tumblr.com/
http://magicalgametime.com/

Money, Money, Money!

http://images.bestbuy.com/BestBuy_US/images/products/6577/6577073_sa.jpg

Earlier this month I bought a new laptop from Best Buy. Just received a $25 Rewards Zone reward certificate.

I think I'll roll that into a $50 Steam card and get it half-off lol.

Just a random post today. Yay for free money!

Portland OMSI After Dark

Last night I went to OMSI After Dark. The After Dark events up the age restriction to 21 and serve some local beer and wine as well as some local delicatessen selections. They also have an area dedicated to local the local Portland gaming scene.

Last nights event featured a wall of retro games sponsored by Ground Kontrol and the upcoming Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Also showing was Guardian Games as well as the Portland Indie Game Squad. I was able to play a few awesome Indie Games from local PDX'ers such as Clobbr, Major Magnet and PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew.

Clobbr

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Xbox set to announce "A New Generation"

http://image.engage.xbox.com/lib/feca167070610c7c/m/4/13890-A-3.gif

Microsoft is now emailing teasers about "A New Generation" to be revealed May 21st 10am PDT streaming on xbox.com and Xbox Live #XboxReveal

Infographic: Console Prices Adjusted for Inflation

Whew, did anyone buy own a Neo Geo or 3DO? I remember totally thinking it looked like hot shit in the store but I can't think of any game people really raved about on those platforms. What impressed me most about the 3DO was that it could play video in a game, that totally blew my mind. Come to find out just slapping some video in a game didn't really make it awesome but then again how else would we get games like Sewer Shark?

I picked up a PS3 well after its launch and on a pretty awesome sale for $250. It came with Guitar Hero III and a $50 Best Buy gift card a very good deal. Now I am wondering how much the PS4 and Next Box will ship for on launch day?

hardeyez wrote on 04/24/2013 at 07:15pm

Wow, Sewer Shark ... I was so excited about that game, until I was able to play it in store and was bored after 15min...

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/25/2013 at 12:02am

Yeah, some games don't always translate to be as awesome as they seem at first. I am kind of glad my parents didn't have a ton of money to spend on the latest "hot" consoles as if I had my way I would have bought that junk.

CapnCurry Supporter wrote on 04/26/2013 at 05:36am

The one I had a hole in my heart for was the Game Gear. Never got my hands on it, but spent a couple years just imagining how awesome it would be to have video games somewhere other than home. Funny to think how these days the more novel experience is being somewhere you *don't* have access to video games.

Not "better", mind you. Just more novel. :)

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/26/2013 at 04:37pm

The Game Gear was cool. A friend of mine had one. The color part was pretty epic but it had a few downsides to the Game Boy.

* It was huge compared to the Game Boy. Makes sense, it had a color screen and all. But it felt really big in my junior high hands.
* Mortal Kombat was really choppy and slow. None of the Game Boy games I played felt like that.
* If memory serves the battery life wasn't as good. Again, more things to power so that makes sense.

CapnCurry Supporter wrote on 04/26/2013 at 05:21pm

I wasn't really thinking about battery life, and never saw Mortal Kombat. The real big comparison I had to make was between the Game Boy's Mario game - cool, but not whoa - and the Game Gear's Sonic the Hedgehog, which at the time was pretty Whoa.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 04/26/2013 at 05:28pm

Yeah the Mario Land that shipped with the Game Boy is pretty low rad compared to sonic on the Game Gear.

That said, the Game Boy launched a year earlier than the Game Gear and compared to the Tiger Electronics handhelds, the Game Boy Mario Land was mind blowing. That said, many games came later like Link to the Past and Warioland 6 Golden Coins that really showcased what the Game Boy could do.

But yeah, compared to Mario Land, Sonic was way more impressive.

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Chiptopia: The Best of 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer

"This collection covers over a decade of groundbreaking work by the chipmusic bands 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer. After 14 years, 5 tours, and countless studio albums between them, 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer has amassed a healthy body of work. This album represents the best of their combined efforts in chipmusic."

If you love chipmusic and want to check out some good stuff you may not otherwise be familiar with I recommend the recent collab album by 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer called "Chiptopia." It is over at Bandcamp and you can pay what you wish for the music. Really enjoyed this on my first run through.

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Rachet and Clank The Movie Announced

Ratchet and Clank the movie is set to hit the big screen in early 2015. This makes sense as the game is quite cinematic already and in the "Pixar quality" realm.

https://www.facebook.com/RatchetandClankMovie

Are you interested in watching the new Ratchet and Clank film or are you holding out for the next Bob Hoskins & John Leguizamo Super Mario Brothers 2 film?

Shy Guy Goes on a Date

I mean they are both Bowser's minions, sooner or later something like this was going to happen? Right?