Mike Carabajal

News and notes

September 13, 2004

First off it has been made official that a new Elder Scrolls will be released. Elder Scrolls Oblivion [url=http://www.elderscrolls.com/splash/index_00.htm/]get all the info here.[/url] You excited? I am.

Also tomorrow is the release of the super anticipated RPG Fable, I have already read some reviews and I like what I see, but will this game be victim to its own hype and idealistic attempts at redefining the RPG genre? I am confident it will be a great game and I cant wait to pop it in the Xbox.

*edit* The 14th is the ship date for Fable, it will be in stores on Wednesday the 15th. My bad.

Go Cowboys!

September 12, 2004

Dallas Cowboys football starts today. And our Fantasy Stats should be jumping tonight. Go team Snackbar, go Cowboys!

Invoice: 1

September 11, 2004

To: Santikos Theatre

For: Resident Evil Apocalypse.

Qty/Price: 1 ticket and a soggy pickle at $13.00

Description: Wasting my fucking time and money.

Charge: $1000000000.00 (unmarked US currency)

*signed*

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Gaming goodness

September 8, 2004

If you look at the SB Wall of Shame you will notice last year’s Madden game. The game itself was in our opinion EA’s worst Madden outing. This year ESPN Football in desperation brought out a great installment of their football franchise at the competitive price of 20 bucks, so you almost had to purchase it. Well Madden, answered with its best ever incarnation of the king of all franchises.

I will have to write a review, but I am very impressed with Madden 2005, the new additions, small as they seem, add to a now (in my opinion) complete franchise mode. Everything I have ever wanted to do is now in the game, editing players, uniforms, strategy, player progression, storylines, I am content, extremely content. The game play is nothing like last year’s. I am not sure if they tweaked the engine or that last year I sucked at Madden but 2005 is great to play, great to run, catch and play defense. This game is as COMPLETE as you get. ESPN has a good, really good football game, but it’s not remotely in the same ball park anymore. Many would tell you otherwise, or argue how even the two are but in my humble opinion, its not even close. Pick it up.

Congrats

September 7, 2004

So ends Pretz give away week. Thank Pretz for being a champ and setting this quick give away stuff up. Arithena won the last giveaway for a game of thier choice off EB Games website. So mad props to those who participated and won. We will get back to our bigger week/2week long give aways as soon as we think of a cool way to give out our next big prize, which will indeed be awesome. I am talking big time.

On other news I got to spend some time with Star Ocean as well as Lineage 2, both worthy of a look, though nothing from each stands out in particular.

Thanks to Melissa (Ariathwen from the forums) in C-State for showing me a great time. Hugs and kisses.