USATODAY.com – Best in 2003 gaming: Picks to push your buttons: “Crisp, spot-on game controls, inventive graphics and entirely satisfying gameplay make Viewtiful Joe the surprise pick as game of the year.”
USA Today picks Viewtiful Joe as it’s Game of the Year for 2003. I concur.
Alright, we got a new game to play! It’s called Outwars. You can be a gangster, a pop star, or a monster. You get stronger by either recruiting thugs, winning fans, or eating people. How do you do that? By getting people to click on your personal link. So whether you’re thinking of playing or you’re not, click on my link to check it out:
http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=1462042
I’m a gangster, so you can be recruited to my posse. If you decide you want to play the game, you can fill out the little form at the bottom of the page and become a gangster and recruit your own thugs! It’s pretty cool so take a look.!
Midway is coming out with a sweet new Gamecube game which is a collection of over 20 classic arcade games. I wasn’t too impressed until I read the game list which includes Smash TV. This game will be worth the price alone, everything else is gravy. I don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to play Smash TV, one of my all-time favorite games, but finally, I’m gonna be able to play it. I am pumped!
I’ve been busy looking for a new host for my website. Roadrunner gives me 5 MB, which I thought was pretty weak to begin with and I’ve already filled it up, preventing me from posting more pictures. They offer more space at the cost of 1MB for $0.99 /month. That’s not horrible, but I think I could get a better deal by either switching cable companies and going with Wide Open West or find a web host. If I go with WOW, for $59.99 a month, they offer basic cable and 1.5 Mbps cable modem access. That comes with 3 IP addresses and 10 MB of space. That’s decent, but not a lot more than I’ve already got, it would just be cheaper. I’ve found a couple places to host online, I just haven’t decided which way to go yet. If I could find something for less than 30 bucks a year, I’d go the hosting route, that way if and when we move I can maintain all my stuff in one place. I am also changing the name of the site. It’ll no longer be “Nice To Know You”. It’ll be “shimmer”. I’ll explain why the change later, but first I have to think of a cool address. www.shimmer.com, .net, and .org are already taken (obviously) so I have to come up with something clever. We’ll see what happens. I’m busy doing other important things. Sort of.
I say I’m busy with other important things, but the truth is I’ve just been playing Splinter Cell on the Gamecube. It’s a pretty cool game, I know all the Xbox fan boys were wetting their pants over it, but I wouldn’t go that far. The graphics and sound are tight and the control is chunky at first but it’s second nature now. Everyone made a big deal about real-time lighting, which can only be done on the xbox, but I think the graphics look just fine on the Gamecube. There are some spots where there are some clipping problems but they don’t detract from the game. I just think it’s cool to act like a covert ops agent, free to dispose of the bad guys at will. Grabbing someone from behind and forcing their face into a retinal scanner must be pretty fun to do.
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