A next Metal Gear is... Huh?!

This image is taken from a new Konami/Kojima Productions teaser page. WTF? Are we getting another new Metal Gear already? So far, the best info I have been able to uncover is that it could be either MGS4 ported to Xbox 360 or the original Metal Gear Solid coming to XBLA.

Let the speculation begin!

Mr Metal

Braid = My head asplode.

Click to paper your walls

Well, this one sure snuck up on me. Of the two download only titles coming out this week(that I care about), I thought I was going to love Pixeljunk Eden. I played it, its neat and looks unique.
To be honest, from the small amount of Braid I'd seen, I wasn't that pumped. It looked a bit style over substance.

How wrong I was.

I'm not even going to go into the mechanics of the game, because I want everybody to go into it as cold as I did. The less you know the better. The one thing I will say is that I get a very 'Portal' feeling from it.

That makes me feel very good.


-Brother N-

Withdrawal

So as you can gather, My Xbox 360 is now officially dead.

I boxed it up yesterday and it's now crawling through the Australian mail system. So now I'm in the shitty predicament of being without my primary gaming console.

Day one was pretty effortless, I had a busy work day, got home late and didn't really think about it.
Day two, well, Its been less than fun. I had the whole day at home and now I'm starting to realise how much i relied on the damn thing. I have plenty of other gaming things, ds, ps2, Wii, but man, the 360 sure had a hold of me.

I was greeted with a giggly girlfriend with a copy the new Harry Potter flick...into the ps2 it goes...and boy does it look....fucking terrible. The ps2 is not loving the new tv.

And to make things worse I get a text message today from a friend to arrange some Team Fortress. It cut me deep.

I'm going to go try and relax with some methadone Zelda on the DS.

-Brother N-

Brother N's Microsoft Chatpad review

-Brother N-

The Red Ring of Death meets the Towel of R♦esurrection

Only hours ago I posted about my 360 getting the Red Ring, but then coming back to life. Well, this arvo, it died proper.

I linked to some Electronic Voodoo Majics, which was actually what's known as the towel trick/method. I thought, eh, It's worth a shot. If it works, super. If it doesn't I'll send it away to get fixed.

So here we go. Here's my poooor box wrapped in a couple towels. Poor box.




Fully Submerged. FRIGHTENING SHIT. After about 10 minutes the fan started to get really loud.




Shazam, it fucking works. Don't know for how long though. Hopefully this will keep me going until the HDMI versions have replaced the standard ones.




So there you go kids, wrap your electronics in a towel and they will magically come back to life. Guaranteed*.


-Brother N-


*Not a guarantee, ya idiot.

Near Red Ring of Death Experience

Stay calm and breath.....1...2....3....exhale.


I sat down yesterday after a standard day of work to have a quick game, to find a horrifying red eye winking back at me. It was the fabled Red Ring of Death. I sat frozen for a second, jaw agape, thinking back to the morning when I had bragged to a friend about my yet to die 360. Come on karma, I was only bragging! I quickly switched it off, hoping that it would just forget about the dramatic hardware failure that had just occurred.

I'm happy that Microsoft are willing to fix it for me, and I realise I could possibly fix it using electronic voodoo majiks, but honestly, it's just a bad time. Inconvenient.

We have Guitar Hero III tomorrow, Assasin's Creed next week and we have a regular crew playing Team Fortress 2 nightly. Not to mention I'm still playing Skate and I really want to get the last few Pinatas that are yet to grace my garden. Not now xbox!

I started to have what seemed to be a near death experience, but instead of thinking about what I had done in my life and what I was going to miss out on, I thought 'What the fuck am I going to do for the next month?'

I thought, maybe now I'll get to finish Bully, Okami, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, etc, etc.

Hell, I could finish some books I have started! I have a couple of comics backed up and hey! I could finish some of those paintings I started a while ago....This could actually be a good thing.

I switched it back on, and you know what? It fucking worked. It is currently working just fine.

I guess I could still do all those things I thought about...Or I could go Demoman for a round and get that Head of the class achievement!

All that stuff will still be there....when this thing eventually croaks.

Maybe I'll stack a bunch of towels next to the TV just in case.....


-Brother N-