Buying Mass Effect 2

To say I can’t wait to get my feet back onto the Citadel, wander around the Wards, perhaps go for a pint in Chora’s Bar and chat up that foxy Asari Consort, would be mildly inaccurate. Mass Effect is one of my favourite 360 games and after reading all the positivity surrounding the second episode it looks like Bioware have taken their already high bar and launched it javelin like over the moon. Hopefully missing the cow or else the animal rights activists may well burn down their offices. I am very excited at the prospect of playing Mass Effect 2!

Mass Effect 2 could quite possibly turn out to be my game of the year so you’d expect me to be queuing up for a launch copy. You'd be wrong. My plan is this, I’m going to I catch up on all the 360 games I’ve yet to start/finish as well as finishing New Super Mario Bros Wii and getting stuck into Tatsunoko vs Capcom on the Wii. Then, in about 7 or 8 months time, I’ll buy Mass Effect 2. For a tenner. Oh and Bayonetta too. For a fiver.

Not buying Mass Effect 2 at release either? Well, while you’re waiting come and check out the Forum. Everyone’s welcome and hey maybe an Asari Consort or two will join us and keep us all warm and cosy. Or not.

Real Transformers

Now these guys really are committed to their hobby.

Or should that be.... they should be committed!

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The Way of the Exploding Eardrum

Whilst looking through the archives over on the Gameov3r Forum I came across an old post of mine about the first time I was impressed by speech in a video game. Ghostbusters and Impossible Mission were 2 games, both on the Commodore 64, that I'd recalled.

Reading this I was reminded of a speech related gaming incident. A pant filling, speech related gaming incident. This is another Commodore 64 game and this incident happened the first time I loaded up the game.

Picture the scene, I'm sitting at my Woolworths own brand, fake teak, computer desk in front of my C64. I press Shift, Run/Stop on my trusty Commodore breadbin followed by the play button on the tape deck. All going well so far. Found:Exploding Fist is confirmed on screen and then colourful lines begin their dance down the screen. Nothing unusual and I remember having my head firmly buried in the fold-out instructions trying to learn all the moves. Then this >>> appears on screen and a Bruce Lee-esque yell comes screeching from my 14" portable TV's tiny speaker, piercing the tranquillity of my room. I almost fell off my chair with surprise! I didn't really fill my pants, honestly I didn't, but I did jump out of my skin!

There are a few things on the Gameov3r Forum that might make you jump. In fact there are a few members that might make you jump too but only if you feed them after midnight. So avoid that and come over for a chat and a drink at the bar. Using a synthesised voice is optional

girl gamers

Mari Yaguchi rocked to fame in the late 1990s as a member of idol group Morning Musume. (Check her out in the video for Morning Musume's Jyosei Kashimashi Monogatari.)

Now, Yaguchi records solo tracks and appears on popular program Quiz! Hexagon II. She is also a columnist for Famitsu, where she writes the column "I'm A Gamer." According to Yaguchi, "I want to write about how girls too are passionate about video games."

Source kotaku



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