Halo 3 Launch

September 25, 2007 at 12:26 am · Filed under Games

So the biggest game of the year came out tonight and I went out just to check out the spectacle and the events going around town. Being just miles away from Bungie’s offices and Microsoft, they tend to put on various events for the fans. I did the same thing as I did for Halo 2, going to Best Buy in Bellevue and then driving over to the EB Games at Redmond Town Centre. I left the house around 11:00 PM with my dog Scout and set off for Best Buy. Since I have been through a similar even and a couple console launches, this really isn’t new to me, but it is fun just going out and seeing fans around town.
I first stopped by Best Buy and was pretty taken back by the amount of people in line, as it was longer then the people in line for the Playstation 3 last year and pretty damn close to the line for the Xbox 360. I saw Laura Foy of on10 doing interviews as well as former NFL and Husky great Warren Moon. The Red Bull Teams were out in full effect as well as the Mountain Dew Game Fuel troop handing out free samples. It was pretty exciting, as there were I’d say around 1200 people in line. It is tough to guess. Here is a map that will give you and idea:

After taking some photos and let some people admire how cute of dog Scout was we ran off to the car and set off for Redmond Town Centre. It looked fairly dead at first, but then I could see that they had the line go away from EB Games instead of around the ring, which was a disappointment as some might remember the cool panoramic photo I took at the Halo 2 launch at RTC. There were probably a good 300 or 400 people at the event at Redmond Town Centre. I walked around the ring a couple times running into various people I knew from local game studios and some old friends when I worked at Microsoft. It was pretty cool. Scout had a great time with all the people around until Bungie arrived in their buses and honked their horns and stuff. I wanted to get someone to let me take a photo of Scout and their helmet, but that didn’t happen. Check out the photos, congrats to all my friends who worked on Halo 3, and go have fun playing Halo 3 now.

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What have I been playing?

September 23, 2007 at 7:35 pm · Filed under Games

So I find myself having some time this weekend, so I decided to play a fair amount of games. I rarely get a chance to sit back and play games for an extended period of time with the fiancee, the dog, and my game going into crunch mode. So it was a real treat to play some games. So I ran over to Hollywood Video and picked up Skate for the Xbox 360, and download the betas for Crysis and Frontlines: Fuels of War.

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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 Beta

September 10, 2007 at 1:19 am · Filed under General

So I took the plunge and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 Beta and everything seems to be working pretty damn well.  Opera 9.5 Alpha crashed when clicking on Write Post for the first time, but is working now.  I really didn’t even look into the changes for 2.3, but I’ll have some time to fool with it later.

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Comments working again…

September 10, 2007 at 1:17 am · Filed under General

I just noticed that my comments weren’t displaying.  Silly me.

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WOOHOO!! PSP Unbricked!

September 8, 2007 at 12:57 am · Filed under Games

So months and months ago I bricked my PSP.  For those who don’t know what a bricked PSP is a PSP that does not boot due to corrupt update.  I was fairly pissed as the PSP isn’t a cheap toy and I just let it sit there and gain dust.  I thought about doing a return switch at some store like Walmart or something, but decided not to do so.  A couple weeks ago there was word that a PSP hackers group were able to make an application that would unbrick any PSP via a special update to the PSP battery.  So I got fairly excited and looked into it.  The program is called Pandora, which has you format a memory stick and battery to rewrite the firmware.  So I borrowed a friends PSP to make the battery and memory stick and BAM, working PSP.  I’m pretty excited to have it working again as there has been a fair amount of cool games to come out, and even some older ones that I never got a chance to play.  So Pandora Battery is awesome!  If you have a bricked PSP, try it out.

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