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A Fiery Valentine’s Day

Posted by on February 14, 2012 1 comment

In case you haven’t heard, it’s Valentine’s Day, and this blogpost is dedicated to a little something I made for my girlfriend, Laura, and if you want the abridged version of this story, you can skip straight to the gallery.

I decided I would make her a Fire Flower as a Valentine’s Gift, as there’s a romantic little love story behind the Fire Flower which can be summed as “She’s into games. I’m into games. Girls like Flowers. Gamer girls like Fire Flowers. Gamer Guys give Gamer Girls Power-ups. “

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Nintendo’s Online Network down for months, nobody noticed

Posted by on May 15, 2011 Comments Off

For the record, this article’s a satire of Nintendo’s Online System. If it were actually down for months, no one would actually bother to write about it.

NEW YORK – Following the month-long PS3 blackout, where gamers where unable to log onto the Playstation Network due to the attack of an Anonymous hacker who may or may not be involved with Anonymous, a single Nintendo fan noticed while trying to play Super Smash Bros Brawl online that the network was down, and had been down for the past 8 months, and noone had noticed.

“I really hadn’t tried to use any of Nintendo’s games online” replied one gamer, which then added “Their stupid friend code system makes everything annoying anyway”. Another Nintendo fan said “You can play online with the Wii? I thought that was only for Xbox and PS3, all Nintendo games only work with local players anyway” and another added “The only online service I tried to use was the Wii Shop, but because I cannot transfer my games to another console I purchase, I decided to not buy anything on the service and stopped using it years ago”.

Nintendo executive Reggie Fils-Aime did not want to respond to our calls but his secretary said “He’s busy trying to catch up with all his PS3 friends, leave him alone, it’s been a tough month without PS3′s Online Service”.

With the new Nintendo Console being announced at E3, gamers everywhere wonder, will Nintendo finally put on some pants and deliver a decent online network? Or will they continue to stick their heads in the sand?

Stay tuned.

My Pokemon Friend Code, let me show you it.

Posted by on March 9, 2011 Comments Off

My Pokemans, Let me show you them.

I couldn’t resist the release of Pokemon Black and White, so I cleaned the old DSLite, bought the Black version (Which I hear is more technology-inclined, where as the white one is nature-inclined).

It’s a pretty good game so far. Different from Diamond and Pearl, and Heart Gold. Everything’s 3D now, and everything is brand new.

The game feels a lot more fluid than previous versions, and the connectivity options are well integrated, but there’s one caveat which any Nintendo player knows about: Friend Codes are still in this game.

I hate the fact that Nintendo chose longer-than-phone-number codes for each game, instead of a unified Gamer Profile like on Xbox or Playstation.

So I made one of those fancy Trainer Cards. It’s blank because the trainer card generators I found online haven’t been updated to include the new gen, but that Friend Code should be valid for Black and White.

If you add me, drop me a comment here with your Friend Code so I can add you back. So far I’ve got one single badge, and my highest is level 16, so I’ll skip online battles for now.