Archive for the ‘Oddball’ Category

BAM! And the Ads are gone.

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

72 levels await.

To celebrate almost 12 months without substantial content, the fairly crap widgetbucks ads have been removed and destroyed. It’s fairly likely that they will never return.

That’s pretty cool! Almost as cool as the Nintendo’s lack of a decent online gaming facility for the Wii.

Keep smiling people, and don’t even pretend you have broken the super smash brothers addiction. Everyone knows you still play it.

e3 will be cooler than ever!

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Early floorplans for e3 2007 have been made available for inspection. The question on everyone’s lips is, “Will the new e3 be cool?”T he following diagram [orignally from NintendoGal] proves that e3 is definitely going to be cool in 2007.

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Extreme Virgin Kuwait Wii Prices

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Rather Expensive Toys

Feeling a hole in your pocket from all the extra Wii accessories? Well feel bad for Kuwaiti’s, prices for a Nintendo Wii from a Virgin Megastore are more than you’d expect to pay for a USD. And a window clean from the college guy at the lights on the way home from the store.

Virgin is charging a massive 299KD for a Nintendo Wii. That’s a little over one thousand US dollars. An additional Wiimote and Nunchuk? Will set you back a cool $155 USD each. Yep, you could buy a Nintendo Wii in most countries for the price you pay in Kuwait for a single controller set.

Read the Kuwaiti.com blogpost.

Parents Hot Footing Over Wii Porn

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

The return of the bright red text
For Laurn Schroeder, protecting her first grade girls is a priority. “[They’re] innocent, and we want to try and keep them that way,” she said.

But maybe not so innocent…

But because the Wii, the PS3 and other game consoles have Internet access, it’s easy for kids to access porn.

It’s easy to avoid porn as a kid these days. Heck, thanks to proxies with inbuilt nanny systems and sites such as Yahooligans!, showing your children an internet without pornography is easy-cakes.

Lady, supervise your children when they are in a situation where they might access foul materials, and you will be all set for a family friendly Wii web browsing experience.

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The Sony Blunder Time Line

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Hardcore Sony Art

Every now and then there is a website article that stands out from all the mismatched patchwork of random that makes up the internet. This one, is simple. Its just a chronological time line of Sony’s mistakes in recent times.

From sinking Lik-Sang to labeling the Wii ‘more fun‘, all of the great moments over the last few months are listed with links to relevant articles.

View the time line here

Kudos to Sony though, their attitude despite all the negative media directed to them is upbeat. Well, either its an incredibly resilient mood, or perhaps Sony just took articles like Analyst: “I cannot imagine a PlayStation 4″ with a sense of smugness, knowing that evenĀ  the most intelligent beings couldn’t fathom how insanely brilliant the PS4 is going to be.

Disturbing Xbox 360 Red Light Serenade

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Since we posted the Xbox360 Necrophilia Video, we have refrained from posting bundles of Xbox360 mock-videos, as it was felt that enough damage was done by the aforementioned as it circulated the web.

However, months have passed and we discovered the latest piece of media that detracts respect from the Xbox360 to be amusing. So without any further ado, courtesy of YouTube and Digg, The Xbox360 Red Light Serenade performed to the mellow tunes of ‘Roxanne’ by The Police.

[The Author also has another bizarre video on his YouTube profile. It involves a crab and a sledgehammer.]

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Kill the Twilight Princess Postie

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Sick of the Postman in Twilight Princess? Well finally you can kill the bastard. That’s right folks, its time to own a random NPC. Method used to kill the wandering irritant? Make him fall into an incredibly deep pit. Its crafty and invokes at one point a one frame per second side effect, but it is totally worth it.

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Dell Makes 1up Its Bitch

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Who's the BITCH now!

According the the crazy-ass kids from Destructoid, Dell has purchased 1up.com.

“Jiminy Jillikers Radioactive man!” Of all the companies expected to purchase 1up, Dell wasn’t at the top of the list. Still, as long as Dell maintains 1up in its current form, then the site will continue to survive.

You can check out 1up with a dell logo here - http://dell.1up.com/

Twilight Princess Progress Report

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

The Twilight Princess Report Card
How close are you to completing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess? Simply fill out the web-based form and submit to recieve and approximation of your completion level.

You have completed 90.416% of The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.

You can find out your percentage here

Bowling the Perfect Wii Sports Game

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Somehow I think that taking this guy on at Wii Sports bowling might be a little frustrating. Partly because he plays on a CRT, but mostly because he can bowl a perfect 300. That’s twelve strikes in a row. Sheesh.

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