Borderlands (XBox 360)

I bought Borderlands on Wednesday after much soul-searching (I didn’t finish Fallout 3, which is in a similar market segment, probably because it was too creepy). Fallout 3 is Role Playing Game that is also a First Person Shooter. In contrast, Borderlands is a First Person Shooter that is also a Role Playing Game.

Letter to Harmonix about their games (i.e. Rock Band, etc.)

Just posted this e-mail to Harmonix for feedback.

More XBox 360 details

Details below the cut.

And speaking of dead… my XBox 360 Halo edition: Toast

Yes kids, it’s the Red Ring of Death.

More details follow.

Aten’t Dead

I thought I should just drop a note and say I’m not dead. I am in fact 41 (so far for 10 days). Which is not dead, though some young whippersnappers (yes, I feel entitled to use that phrase now) seem to think so. I got news for ya, sunny Jim! ::shaking fist::

Yes, as the [...]

Planning geeky things

Here are a couple of middle-term geeky purchases I am planning.

Fable II Pub Games – just blind luck

So I downloaded Fable II Pub Games a few days ago and have been steadily accumulating inventory items and unlocking higher stakes games. (I probably will buy and play Fable II, probably with the birthday mad money my Mom sent me – Thanks Mom!)

This evening, while unlocking higher stakes games in Keystone (which is a [...]

Starting to get used to the HDTV

It was an effort. First I had to get everything hooked up properly and set the proper settings per input channel (some are in game mode most times, though Beautiful Katamari looks best in the TV’s super-saturated, super-postprocessed Vivid setting, and it’s not so time-sensitive/reaction sensitive to really sweat the little delay in display).

During this [...]

HDTV arrived

It looks huge. It is huge. It is gigantic for our living room.

I am engaged in advanced cable management tactics just so I can push the damned thing back another 2 feet.

But lest I sound like I am complaining, I’m not. It is in fact just right, only it’s just friggin’ huge.

The newly arrived Hannukah [...]

Thought about my XBox Live Gamertag

Just so those of you who might care know, I couldn’t recover my account info for my existing XBox Live account (Gamertag: Aciel), so I created a new one and will cancel the old.

My new Gamertag is: Tsao Mao