It’s been raining almost every day here in the Northeast. The forecast isn’t looking much better for the upcoming 10 days, including July 4th weekend. Most of us in the US have off tomorrow and with the long weekend scheduled to be a washout, why not spend some time gaming?
Personally, I’ll be rocking out Burnout Paradise – Big Surf Island (review coming soon), UFC 2009 Undisputed, MLB 09 The Show, and I might even go back to Uncharted if the mood strikes. I’ve been wanting to play through the game again in preparation for the sequel later this year, so we’ll see what happens.
How about you? Will you be doing any major gaming this weekend? Are you taking games with you if you’re traveling? Are you not in the US and just think it’s a normal weekend? Let us know in the comments.
To all our US readers out there, Happy Memorial Day! To everyone else, happy Monday. In the US, it’s a national holiday to remember and give thanks to all who have given their lives in military service. Usually, it ends up being a day to get drunk and have BBQ’s.
We’re taking the day off here at Loot Ninja, so check back tomorrow for some hot shit. All of our regularly scheduled Monday programming will be running tomorrow, so get geared up for the Battle of Wits, check out all this week’s released in Week in Games, and get caught up on all kinds of fun stuff in gaming.
My ribs kick ass and take names.
Happy love day to everyone out there! Here’s to hoping you spend some time away from games alone and actually get out with someone you care about. Both my wife and I are sick, so it’s a full day of laying on the couch and watching movies. Not too shabby.
What about you? How are you all spending your Valentine’s Day?
I couldn’t go a whole week without gaming, so I brought both my PSP and DS Lite with me over the Holidays to keep me entertained. I left the morning after Christmas to see family in a few locations and got back late New Year’s Eve. Surprisingly, I got a lot of gaming in while away.
I played through the entire 50cc and 100cc Grand Prix segments of Mario Kart on the DS. I rocked all eight Cups on both sections and only missed 1st place in one race. Also on the DS, I played through Elite Beat Agents… again. It’s still one of my favorite portable rhythm games.
Over on the PSP side of things, I finished off my third play-through of God of War: Chains of Olympus. I’m a huge fan of the game and have been loving each time through with Kratos. I also got through a lot more of Patapon on my second play-through there.
I didn’t expect to get this much gaming in while I was away. Now if only I could have gotten that in with some of the console games I want to finish. Hopefully in January I’ll polish off a few that have been crying out for completion.
Better late than never, I suppose, but here is a holiday greeting from Capcom, M. Bison more specifically. A nice way of spreading some holiday cheer as we all furiously wait for SF IV to finally hit the shelves. Until that, enjoy.
The Holiday season is coming to a close, everyone has unwrapped everything from under their Christmas tree, Hanukkah bush, or your appropriate holiday celebratory vegetation.
Tell us fellow Ninjas – What did you get? What did you give? What have you been playing? Anything left on your wish-list? Hit up the comments and let us know.
I’ll start off by saying aside from various DS games I’ve been flat out on Fallout 3, soon to get a gift from me, to me, of Left 4 Dead.
Wishing everyone out there and your families, friends, and loved ones a very Merry Christmas!
We’re all out today spending time with our families, so don’t expect much from us today. Hopefully you’re out doing the same.
If you don’t celebrate Christmas, we want to wish you a Happy Holidays!
There are times when being a gamer doesn’t help out much in real life. Take the season of summer, for instance, when it’s too fucking hot to be outside, but somehow staying inside in the air conditioning all day to play video games instead of wanting to go for a walk on a beautiful, sunny, 105 degree day makes you the weird one. There are, however, those time in life when being a gamer is a great thing, two of which dawned on me this week.
1. CHRISTMAS
I was making out my Christmas list this week when it occurred to me; being an adult would suck ass without video games. You can say all you want about Christmas being all about joy, family, friends, and humanity’s ultimate salvation, and I will totally agree with you, but don’t the presents just make it that much sweeter? I realized that my Christmas list, filled with video games, video game accessories, and gift cards to stores that sell all of the above, could just as easily be the Christmas list of an excited 12 year old. When else in the history of all mankind has it been socially acceptable for a 31 year old man and a child to have similar Christmas lists and neither one be headed for the institution? It hit me that because of video games, I will always get to be a little bit of a kid on Christmas.
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If you’re in the US of A, today is the day we all give thanks for the Pilgrims coming and settling in our good country. How do we celebrate? Well, first, you get shit faced. Then, you watch football. Lastly, you eat enough that you need to unbutton your pants and you pass out in a food coma. Essentially, a normal Sunday for some of you out there, just on Thursday.
We’re all out today doing the above, so bear with us on a bit of a light posting schedule for the day. You’re most likely doing the same, so crack open a beer and bet against the Eagles 
In a recent sit down with the L.A. Times, Reggie Fils-Aime talked about the appeal of Nintendo products and if you will be able to find them this Holiday season. Of course the DS will sell like hot cakes and will be available throughout the season in every store but what about the Wii and Wii Fit?
Last year Nintendo was producing about 1.6 million units per month. This year Nintendo has ramped up production of the Wii to 2.4 million units per month worldwide, that’s a 33% increase according to Reggie’s math. Reggie was also able to get a bit of a jab in on an unnamed competitor,
“One of our competitors projects they will sell 10 million consoles worldwide this year. For us, that’s three months of production. We’re producing an unprecedented level of hardware to try to meet demand.”
Even with increased production it still might be difficult to find a Wii come December.
As for Wii Fit, the sales numbers have been extremely strong selling somewhere around 3 million units thus far. Nintendo hasn’t been able to keep up with the demand of this product either. Reggie states that they intend to dramatically increase shipment numbers but only 3 out of 10 stores will have Wii Fit in stock at this time.
This is a warning in some way to all of you parents, children and grandparents who want a Wii or Wii Fit this year, if you see either one on a store shelf gobble it up because it might be your only opportunity this year.
[Via L.A. TImes]
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