Winter-een-mas is upon us, and a Happy Holiday Season to you all!. In case you have no idea, Winter-een-mas is a celebration of video games and players created by Tim Buckley over at Control Alt Delete. The esteemed Holiday runs from January 25th through the 31st.
So how about you all grab a controller and fire off a few rounds to celebrate the most beloved of Holidays? Doesn’t matter where you are, you can still celebrate 
It’s been 15 days now and Xbox Live still isn’t back to normal. It’s hard to believe that it’s just more users over the Holidays, since most people have gone back to work and school and the service is still messed up. According to the Xbox Support page right now:
Xbox Live and Zune Marketplace users will experience billing related transaction failures, including but not limited to: Purchase of premium download content, music, and account management, including account creation, renewal, and recovery; additionally users may experience issues with matchmaking and statistics related transactions.
Don’t plan on buying anything from the Marketplace right now, because you can’t. Matchmaking is also messed up, so if you’re trying to play online, you might not be able to get into a game. I personally can’t login. So I guess I won’t be doing that Halo 3 co-op I had planned for the day.
Does anybody really think one arcade game is enough for this insane amount of downtime? There’s already a lawsuit going against Microsoft for these problems. It all seems stupid to me… how could they not have the foresight to see the need for upgrading the servers?
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy New Year for 2008! Make your resolutions now. We’re holding you to them this year. My resolution for 2008 is finish up a lot of the games I’ve shelved to make time for new ones. I have a bunch, so we’ll see how it goes.
What are your gaming resolutions for 2008? Are you going to buy a new console? Stop being an ass online? Start being an ass online? Who knows, it could be anything. Let us know in the comments.
Since it’s Holiday time, Sony needs a vacation too. That’s why we got such a huge update last week on the PlayStation Store. I’m sure not too many people will mind this week anyway, with tons of games coming your way for Christmas. I had hoped for some new Rock Band tracks, but it doesn’t look like I’ll get anything I wanted this week.
Stay tuned as we’ll bring you the details of the first update of 2008 next week.
Wishing all of our readers and fans a Merry Christmas! Hope you all got what your wanted from Santa, and hopefully I will be providing ass woopings online from those gifts you received
I’ve been away seeing family, but expect reviews coming soon for the Warhawk expansion pack and Rock Band.
For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, happy Tuesday!
Thats right, for the month of December you can take your unused Wii points and turn them into gifts. Simply log into your Wii Shop Channel and look for the VC game you wish to give to a buddy. You then have the option of either downloading the game for yourself or giving it as a gift. You can even send a message with your gift and receive a thank you message, pretty cool idea that encourages people to not leave their house ot go shopping. Nothing says Happy Holidays like Punchout or Tecmo Bowl in your stocking!
Just like Clark Griswold, I’ll be taking my Christmas vacation this year. I’m leaving in a bit to go see family (both mine and my wife’s) and won’t be back until the day after Christmas. You might hear from me while I’m gone (if you’re nice, you’ll get a review of the Warhawk Omega Dawn Expansion Pack…).Supposedly the gift of music is waiting for me as my Mom told me to bring my PS3. Bought the Metallica track pack for Rock Band in anticipation. Can’t wait to see people trying to play who have absolutely no idea. I’m sure impressions and videos will follow :)To all of our readers, if I don’t speak with you, have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah (even though it’s over), or whatever you celebrate. I’m partial to Festivus myself. I have the annual airing of grievances and feats of strength scheduled for when I get back.
I was at a Christmas party with friends this weekend and we did one of those Yankee Swap deals. Our limit was $10, and everyone got some pretty amusing gifts. I think what I ended up with was definitely the winner though. Yeah, you guessed it from the image above… I got Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. HELL YEAH. This is how we gamed in the dark ages people.
After a couple hours of drunken Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em tournaments, I ended up on top as the champion. I have some torn up knuckles to prove it. The game is definitely not meant for big adult hands. I’m gonna have to come up with some extension for the handles so I don’t cut up my hands again. Oh well, it was all in the name of classic gaming fun.
OK folks, here’s a chance to know what we know without flailing about the web like a jackass.
Not that you do that. We love you. Yes, you.
The Wii didn’t do as well as projected but since nobody can friggin’ find one, its no real surprise now is it? One of the surprises was the increase in handheld sales. These numbers killed. In fact. With the exception of the phantom Wii, all the projected sales for the month were surpassed. Is this a result of people trying to get ahead of the holidays? Or a trend that will carry us past the snowfall? Read More
Thats right boys and girls, Forza Motorsport 2 is looking to get some brand new downloadable content right before the holidays. In this new pack you will be getting 11 new cars and a new track for 500 MS points. So if you saved up some MS points on your Xbox 360 or are just looking for another reason to dust off that copy of Forza here is a pretty good one.
