Never Not A Nerd

Everyone who knows me beyond a handshake, has commented on my ridiculous obsession with Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer. I think about the game almost constantly and watch numerous videos on Youtube to see what new tactics are being formulated. Despite my disgusting love for this game, I have been almost ready to take a break for a while because I am sick and tired of playing the same maps over and over again. Each day that passes, I realize that I am playing Estate for the umpteenth time and I just need something new and fresh. It seems like I have less than two weeks before I will be ensnared once again.

According to the viral site, www.mapathy.com, the new maps are coming on MARCH 30, 2010. There is no news or screenshots yet, so you will have to hang on to your bacon but the site promises to update with details very soon.

Thanks to Game Informer for making this huge announcement.

The magic makers over at OnLive have announced that the service will begin June 17th of this year and the subscription price will be roughly $15. Onlive allows people with less than stellar PCs to play games their PC wouldn’t normally be able to handle by actually running the game on a remote machine.  Something like that.  It all sounds like magic-man nonsense to me.  I hope it works well though.

Do it with everything you own! DUH! At least that’s Activision’s plan. After their ‘Hero’ games hit saturation level and stopped making them billions of dollars Activision had to ‘go back to the drawing board’. With the lackluster sales of Tony Hawk’s most recent game they couldn’t go there. So, they thought ‘Hey, Call of Duty just made us even richer than we were, by a lot, why don’t we exploit that and make the public sick of that franchise?’

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I was going to just update the last post, but I feel this deserves its own.  Sony is now recognizing that the error 8001050F is being caused by a clock bug in older PS3 models. Check out what Sony has said about it…

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Last night I tried to sign on to PSN to add an old friend who’s gamertag I saw on Facebook. My PS3 gave me an error message saying I was unable to sign into the PlayStation Network.  Having this happen to me before at my last apartment due to my internet connection being less than reliable (thanks Verizon) I got frustrated and tried to sign in about 5 more times before I gave up.

Later I checked my Google reader feed to find out I wasn’t alone and this is happening to PS3’s everywhere.  Not only is it not allowing people to sign into the PlayStation Network, but it is preventing anyone from playing newer games with dynamic trophies.  That means No Heavy Rain, No Dante’s Inferno (just tried it), no Bio-Shock 2. Some are speculating this is a hardware issue for the older ‘PS3 Fats’ but Sony hasn’t updated PS3 owners on the status of the fix since last night when they said they were  “…work(ing) to restore service to all”.  I’ll try and update as updates become available.

I know it’s been known for a while that Yoshi was going to be in Super Mario Galaxy 2 , but now we have a new trailer for the game featuring more Yoshi goodness.

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Nintendo made a few announcements in the way of game release dates that I think are going to make Wii owners that don’t like going out in warmer weather very happy.

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So X10 is super over, but stay with me while we catch up.  Here are the ‘bigger’ announcements during the event.

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Thursday night in Las Vegas the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences held their 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards. This is the award show in the video game world that actually matters, unlike Spike’s Video Game Trailer Show. Here are Thursday night’s winners.

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A new trailer for the single-player campaign in EA’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2 hit the internet yesterday afternoon. Click the cut to check it out.

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