And I am back.

After a long time away i am now back.  I am stillplaying videogames like crazy and since I only have one job I actually have time toplay them.  Just got Fable 2 and Little bigplanet.

Fable 2 was great a little easy and then ending kind of sucked but over all I liked it alot and will be playing it for a long time.

As for little big planet I beat the story line in one sitting and now i have to go through it all again so I can unlock everything.  The create a level is amazing. there is no other way to put it.  I have been waiting for this for such a long time and it has lived up to all of what I had hoped ity would be.

PMOG

This thing is one of the most odd things i have ever been part of.  It is called a PMOG.  Going to differ sites you can get differ missions depending on who put them there.  you can lay traps and portals to other sites.  you can level you character and buy stuff with the money for compleating missions.  very cool and different.

World of Warcraft Beat?

Well WoW (World of warcraft) has taken the MMO market almost compleatly.  It has more than 10 million subscribers and it dosn’t seem like it will go down anytime soon since the next expansion pack will be coming out.  In a meeting Activision CEO Bobby Kotick  states that it would take a $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 investment to even have a chance to compete with WoW.  Is there anyone company that could chance that much money to take WoW down and not even be sure if it could be done.  In my opinion WoW will fade away but not for a very very long time.  Just like EQ(everquest) did, at one point ti dominated the market but after time newer and better came out.

Red Alert!

C&C Red Alert 3 has been announced today. It is considerd to be the best RTS (Real Time strategy) game by many people. I for one have been a fan since the first C&C but i prefer the Tiberium time line.

EA seems to be listening to its fans by making this game and following the guide lines for the next Red Alert. Red Alert is well know for having some of the crazyest units. From Dolphins with lazers and teslacoil torrents. This game is going to be no different, it is going to have armored bears and transforming tank, and that is just what was announced on day one. I will be following this game till it comes out.

P.S. Who needs Spore anyway?

The Start of a Beautiful Thing.

Well here is my first post entery for my blog, created for my New Media class.  This first post will be about the way games have changed from being Linear communication to to Transactional media.

Back in the 8-bit era(mainly nintendo) you would get a game play it, finish it, then that was it    when you go back to play it, it will always be the same.  You could talk to friends about it but that was about it.  The only way Nintedo, or any game companys could tell how people liked the game was by the sales.  The came Super Nintendo, Genisis, and many other systems (jaguar, and 3d0 mainly) but they were still the same.  It went all the way up until Ps2 Xbox and Gamecube.   Developers could then read the internet for thoughts of ways to imporve a game and they could make a sequle with the changes but they could not change the game after it was realeased.  Now with the newest generation, being PS3, 360, and Wii the game can change.  You need the internet but changes can be made.  With the demo of burnout being realesed many people were not happy with the online multiplayer, the felt not enough people were aloud to play in the same city.  So witgh in a few days a patch was realesed and instead of 4 players being in one city it was bumped to 8 players.  In the new game Turok, an achievment where you had to kill yourself, a monster, and a teammate was changed due to complaints.  you no longer have to kill the teammate to get the achievment.  With this generation it is a Transactional Communication Model.  And it is a very good thing, at least to me.