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Horsie to pointy guy six

ChessBeing a big fan of games on both boards and consoles, I’ve been following closely the latest joint venture of Sony, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast; The Eye of Judgment. This is basically a tactical card game that can be played using the PlayStation3 to help out with the book-keeping and spicing up the game with battle animations. The result looks very much like the chess-like game seen in Star Wars - parodied so brilliantly somewhere in Season 2 of Fururama. Anyway, here’s some initial impressions of the game.
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The Use of Weapons

Weapons in this case is the Playstation 3. PS3 among friends. (And foes.) My old department at the University of Bergen has realised that they can use them to do research on in all their parallel processing power glory. I stumbled upon this article today proclaiming it (in Norwegian).
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Nintendo WiiFi Connection and Mario Strikers

Wii(Nintedo begged for this play on words, no?)

Anyway, one of my favourite multinationals starting with N launched their first game for the dear Wii playable on the Internet (if one don’t count the Opera Browser and the Voting Channel, of course) yesterday with the game “Mario Strikers Charged Football”. Not without its share of trouble here in France.
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The return of the GameCube (games)

GamecubeI bet there are lots of people in my shoes these days; never having owned a ‘Cube before, but suddenly, because of a friendly white little fellow, find themselves with a golden opportunity to catch up on some of the many brilliant exclusives the platform has fostered.
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Gglob on Wii, DS and PSP

Now Gglob should look better in the browsers of your favourite gaming devices thanks to WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack.
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Opera Browser for Wii dated!

The 22nd of December!

Gratulerer Johannes!

Wiimote recharger

With the batteries in the red on the my most used Wiimote I came across this gadget. A good idea. My general battery charger has just too much work these days, so my lazy self uses throwawayable batteries… Akk.

Wii! (Some early impressions)

TorK WiiPlaying.The first thing I did after unpacking the Wii was to … let it do an update of it’s software. That took forever. At least in subjective time. After that it had to go through another even bigger update. The teasing. Then it was time to start Wii’ing!

Weirdly enough it was not the extremely anticipated new Zelda game that was the first game my console saw, nor the zanily quirky pythonish Rayman contre les Lapins Cretins, but the reasonably quirky WiiSports. After a brief session in the Mii-creator (Homage in flash can be found here.) my brother and I was ready for some not so serious sporting.
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La Wii est arrivée !

Just a short post to brag that I did indeed get hold of a Wii on Friday morning… Along with Zelda, WiiPlay, Rayman and of course WiiSports. Fantastic stuff! More later.

Wii official euro date 8th of December

Seems my informer slash dealer was a wee bit hasty yesterday. Europe only gets the Wii officially the 8th of December according to Eurogamer. Well…




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