Calibur Edition

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:53:03 GMT

Acording to a french site, www.xbox-mag.net, Xbox 360 games and acessories got priced for Europe, and it goes like:

AMPED 3 60 €
CALL OF DUTY 2 64.99 €
DEAD OR ALIVE 4 59.99 €
FIFA EN ROUTE POUR LA COUPE DU MONDE 2006 60 €
GUN 60 €
KAMEO 59.99 €
KING KONG 62 €
MADDEN 06 60 €
NBA 2K6 60 €
NBA LIVE 06 60 €
NLH 2K6 60 €
PERFECT DARK ZERO 59.99 €
PERFECT DARK ZERO Edition Collector 69.99 €
PROJECT GOTHAM RACING 3 59.99 €
QUAKE IV 64.99 €
THE ELDER SCROLL IV : OBLIVION 64.99 €
TIGER WOODS 06 60 €
TONY HAWK’S AMERICAN WASTELAND 64.99 €
TOP SPIN 2 64.99 €

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Carte pré-payée Live 2100 pts (Market Place) 24.99 €
Carte pré-payée Abonnement 3 mois 19.99 €
Carte pré-payée Abonnement 12 mois 59.99 €
Micro casque 19.99 €
Facade (silver, sun, woody, hot rod) 19.99 €
Disque Dur de 20 Gb 99.99 €
Cable Av advance 24.99 €
Cable AV HD 29.99 €
Cable VGA 29.99 €
Batterie rechargeable 14.99 €
Kit Batterie + Cable 19.99 €
Télécommande universelle 29.99 €
Carte mémoire 64 Mb 34.99 €
Manette filaire 34.99 €
Manette Wi-Fi 44.99 €
Adaptateur Réseau Wi-Fi 79.99 €

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:00:33 GMT

After plenty of searches i found no answers to my doubts about the next-gen systems and games. So i made my own comunity about next_gen so that people that have doubts or questions about the subject to have a place where to go and try to get some answers. The comunity is about all 3 next generation systems (Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Revolution). So go and check it out.

Xbox 360 gets Priced

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:08:29 GMT

Microsoft anounced today that the xbox 360 will come in two versions. One costing $299 U.S. Dollars (299€ for europe) will come with the Console, wired controller and standard AV-Cable.
The value edition of Xbox 360 will cost us $399 U.S. Dollars (399€ for europe)and will be packed with the Console, a headset, wireless controller, 20Gb Hard Drive, Hd-Av Cable, Media Remote, Xbox Live Silver Membership.

Components got priced also. Let's take a look at them:

- 20Gb Hard Drive ($99.99 U.S. / 99.99€)
- 64Mb Memory Unit ($39.99 U.S. / 34.99€)
- Wireless Controller ($49.99 U.S. / 44.99€)
- Play & Charge Kit ($19.99 U.S. / 19.99€)
- Rechargeable Battery Pack ($11.99 U.S. / 14.99€)
- Wireless Networking Adapter ($99.99 U.S. / 79.99€)
- Headset ($19.99 U.S. / 19.99€)
- Universal Media Remote ($29.99 U.S. / 29.99€)
- SCART AV Cable ($29.99 U.S. / 24.99€)(Europe Only)
- S-Video AV Cable ($29.99 U.S. / 24.99€) (U.S. Only)
- VGA HD AV Cable ($39.99 U.S. / 29.99€)

I don't have much money so i may save a little more $ to buy the Value edition of Xbox 360 because it worth it. I would have to buy those accessories later on so, it get's less expensive if i buy it all together.
So, those are the options. With one will you buy?

My goodbyes to you...

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:38:55 GMT

I look trought the window, and you're not there anymore... I miss you. Farewell * B.

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:35:29 GMT

It's working. www.gamewhat.com has the boards open for Anime, Movies and Games related discussions. So go right on and post a few comments. Also, we are trying to get people to colaborate with us, so if you want to give us a help, go ahead, your more than welcome. You might even get to be a moderator depending on your writting skills.

Gamewhat.com crew, believes the site will be up and running by the end of august. Then, we will deliver a better and bigger selection of features concerning Anime, Movies and Games. And remember, we want YOU, because your opinion matters :)

What if...

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:35:51 GMT

Computer Science (and science in general) is evolving fast, Windows XP is great (comparing to others microsoft Operating Systems) but isn't it time to go to the next level? When will we see an OS like in the movies? A 3D Windows. It seems Microsoft is working on it with his next Windows installment code name Longhorn. So, in a chat with mansond, some questions pop up. Questions like if there was the need to "upgrade" Windows Xp now or just work with it since, like mansond said, "if it ain't broke don't fix it". But then again, computers are getting more and more powerfull day by day.

Very soon, that future can become our present. Will we want it? Acording to mansond, "too much power sometimes can turn to bad things", "like in the movies". Movies like Terminator, when A.I. took over control. It's a very possible future. Yes it is. Even knowing that, would i want to go ahead and move on to the next step in "virtual reality"? Yes. How could i rest, knowing that the future is in my "backyard" and not try to reach it. How not try to reach closer and closer to our personal dreams or even the ultimate dream? The utopic dream of imortality. Where not gonna get there standing very still right? We will make it happen. I think that's what drives Human kind into evolution. If we know it's possible, then we will make sure it does happen.
I'm not in for that imortality stuff but i really would like to "get into the future", even if it turns out to be bad.

Another thing about most people is that they can only feel things that happen to them. Most don't care what happen to the rest of the world, even if they say otherwise. Do they do something for the homeless? Do we do something? In the pursue of happyness, we are willing to give up to the rest of our lives just feel that dream, even if it is just for a moment. Look at cloning for instance, it's futuristic, we've seen it on movies, we know that really bad things can happen, but we did it anyway. What i think is that only if we had lived the future, we would try to make things diferent. We are stuck in this vicious circle that is our nature.

It's hard not to think about war when we think about the future. War looks looks always to be so iminent if we give it a serious thought. Who knows how WWIII will be fought. Will it be the machines? Will it be a clone war? Virus war?... If it happens soon, one of the loosers will be the one writting these lines.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955)

The Virtual War Begins November 2005

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:20:03 GMT

Yes. That's right. The Countdown begun for a new console war. Rushing to the next step in virtual reality, Microsoft and Sony exposed the new hardware that will make (or not) dreams come true in E3 at Los Angeles last month. Microsoft is leading the way into the high-def with the brand new Xbox 360, followed by Sony who is expected to launch is next Playstation (Playstation 3 obviously cause of the lack of imagination) sometime in spring 2006. Nintendo is keeping quiet about his Nintendo console, codename Revolution that point's to a late 2006 launch. No spec's of the final hardware were given for the new Nintendo but here are the links to the Ps3 and Xbox 360.

For what i've seen, from pictures and videos from games, both from ps3 and xbox 360, they are very similar and impressive and they are just a glimpse of what can be done with that hardware. Next-gen graphics seam to be the next step in the right direction into the virtual world. But all is not roses, and lets not forget that this is a war and for most of the videogame addicts, war costs are expensive. So Most of us will have to decide wich one to buy. Not an easy task.

I started into gaming long ago with a console like those they sell in the market with a gun and all and games simililar no arcade, nintendo and sega. Then i moved onto Sega MegaDrive (Sega Genesis), then Playstation, then Nintendo 64, then Dreamcast, and now the recently deceased Xbox. But i haven't played only with this, this is what i owned. I've also played Super Nintendo (Snes) and Saturn too, and the Pc of course. In all this years i realised something. There was only one trade mark that cared about gamers and not only on the comercial value of games. Nintendo, yes, the most improbable winner of the next war. Far goes the glory of the 8 and 16bits wich oposed Sega and her long rival Nintendo. Comparing them, the diferences where obvious in titles that were on both consoles. The richesness of the visuals in Nintendo were superior. You ask why did i bought a MegaDrive instead of a Super Nintendo? Well, i guess because there were more games for it, and there was Sonic, the titles were more arcade style. I liked that. So that's it (very very brefly) my videogame road.

So wich one i would like to see to win the next round? No second thoughts. My decision goes to Nintendo. Wich one will i buy? Xbox 360. Why? Xbox Live, Halo, nice hardware, 2005. 4 Reasons. Would i like to have Ps3? Hell yes. Why? Final Fantasy, Gran Turismo, hardware potencial. 3 Reasons Would i like to have a Nintendo Revolution? Definitly. Why? Super Mario Bros., the game experience, great visuals. 3 Reasons.

So who do you want to win the next-gen war? Post some thoughts.

His Infernal Magesty

Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:59:46 GMT

    H.I.M. (His Infernal Magesty) were formed in 1995. This Finnish band (yes, from finland :p) reinvented the Goth Rock style by reaching the fans with their mystical love lyrics. Ville Hermani Vallo, songwriter, vocalist and founder of the band, along side with Migé Amour, Lily Lazer, Gas Lipstick and Zoltan Pluto (this last one being replaced later by Emerson Burton).
    Anyway i'm writting this because i like they're music, not all of it, because they have some musics i can't identify myself with, but they have some special ones between and i guess that's why they reached the place of popularity tthey have now. Because they reach a wider range of fans, not only the gothic fans. "Resurrection", "The funeral of hearts", "Whicked Game", "In Joy and Sorrow" (especially the string version for this last one, continue to work that magic Ville) just to name a few that i like. I've played these songs in my computer, in my car and in my mind in many lonely nights. Although i have no need for them anymore, they didn't lost they're kind of magic, and if i look in the night sky, they still make me feel there is something better and bigger than this place we live in. Somehow the darkness of this musical style brings a certain peace to my heart after extracting the essencial parts from it. Other Gothic band's (that i'm not going to refer today) take the same effect on me and only recently (5 year or so) i've discovered my link to it. I guess we all have a dark place in our soul that hides in the shadows.

                                                                                                                                       I'm not alone anymore, thank you Maggie *

If you where an imortal...

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 04:16:20 GMT

How many times would you stare at the everflowing river of stars above, when it would be forever there, staring back at you?

How much time would it take for you to forget a moment in time, when there would be no more time, and no more beacons in the past to guide you through the future?

How easely would you give in to caos and ilusion, when all that was left was the emptyness of an unpurposed existence and the pain of the long lost human bonds?

What would you do with your fragile imortality...

Imortality - A "job" for heroes? A curse for the human mind? Would you want such thing? Please, take a peek into your thoughts about the subject and post a comment :)

Best games ever played

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:52:23 GMT

Today i'm posting the list of the best games i have played. I've add them in chronological order. They are here not because they have better ratings than others games but because they marked me for some reason. Anyway, gaming is about having fun, alone or with others, right? So here it goes:

1985 - Super Mário Bros. (Family Game) - It's the same has the nintendo version.

1991 - Sonic - The Hedgehog (Mega Drive) - I've Played it on the Mega Drive (Pal version), its the same has the Genesis (Ntsc version), for those wondering what is a Mega Drive)

1993 - Doom (PC)

1994 - Dragon Ball Z - L'appel du Destin (Mega Drive)

1994 - Raptor - Call of the Shadows (PC)

1994 - Tyrian (PC)

1995 - Battle Arena Toshinden (Playstation)

1995 - Tekken (Playstation)

1995 - The Need for Speed (PC)

1996 - Command & Conquer - Red Alert (PC)

1996 - Formula 1 (Playstation)

1996 - Screamer 2 (PC)

1996 - Soul Blade (Playstation)

1996 - Star Wars - Shadows of the Empire (Nintendo 64)

1996 - Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Playstation)

1996 - Super Mário 64 (Nintendo 64)

1997 - Castlevânia - Symphony of the Night (Playstation)

1997 - Final Fantasy VII (Playstation)

1997 - Goldeneye 007 (Nintendo 64)

1997 - Gran Turismo (Playstation)

1998 - MediEvil (Playstation)

1998 - Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)

1999 - Aerowings (Dreamcast)

1999 - Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)

2000 - Ecco the Dolphin - Defender of the Future (Dreamcast)

2000 - Quake III Arena (Dreamcast)

2000 - Resident Evil - Code Veronica (Dreamcast)

2001 - Dead or Alive 3 (Xbox)

2001 - Halo - Combat Evolved (Xbox)

2003 - Burnout 2 - Point of Impact (Xbox)

2003 - Grand Theft Auto - Vice City (PC)

I'd like if you post the best games you've played, so we can compare list's. I've Posted 31 games. So post the names of the games you like best. :)

The fall of Adam

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:49:04 GMT

It started here, long ago.
It gave birth to heaven and hell,
the everlasting fight between good and evil.

Here lays the human mortality
of the undying soul,
trapped in nomad heart's

May we gather our names in a box
and leave it in the ocean
for we are no more than liquid dust

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