I have successfully completed another episode of The Gameslave Podcast. I talk of OnLive giving stuff away, Blizzard donations and Angry Birds. And apparently I started making up words during part of the podcast and had some very poor grammar skills, please forgive (or not). Also there is no PSN talk in this podcast, I am tired of it by now.
So you may have heard of this small game called Portal 2. It is the sequel of the lesser known game, get this, Portal. Well, if you were one of the few people that actually played this game you may be interested in having gone to the lecture that the writer, Erik Wolpaw, gave at NYU recently. WHAT!!!! You don't live anywhere near New York and don't have the money to just fly out to New York for a video game lecture. Well lucky you then, NYU just happens to have posted the video online in its complete glory for those of us not fortunate enough to live near NYU. So set some time aside (1 Hour and 21 Min to be almost exact) and give it watch.
Game Center Lecture Series- Erik Wolpaw from NYU Game Center on Vimeo.
Ok, I make the update about the PSN, was getting ready to go to sleep for my early morning, and then I found this and had to share it. Someone made a model of the Portal turrets. The thing is complete with a laser eye, motion sensor, and line spouting. As if the soundboards were not creepy enough saying "Are you still there?" this guy has a full-sized turret to say it. Check out the man's Filcker page at Portal Turret to see more pictures. Watch out though, that thing may not be loaded but I still don't trust it.
Sony has been out of the online gaming for almost 3 weeks now, and it will not be back fully for a few weeks more. They plan to have the system back online in all its (hopefully) unbroken glory by the end of the month. They plan to slowly bring things back up, including functionality such as home (really?) and chat. No word on the store and Qriocity but we should hear more soon. Most likely we will see a firmware update with the return of the PSN. Until then you can go ahead and turn your 360 back on and play games on its fully functional network.
Well, we are officially one month from the Gameslave crew heading back to L.A. for another edition of E3. Last year, only Assimilator and I were able to go, but this year we have doubled in size and welcome my sister ZeldaQueen and Assimilator’s wife, Carebear, to their first E3 experience. I think this time around both Assimilator and I will be a little more prepared on what to expect; last year we were a little over our heads.
So, in preparation to E3, here is a list of things that I am looking forward to:
The new Nintendo console
This is big news, the unveiling of a new video game console will always excite video game fans and there is no doubt that I am going to be giddy with excitement to see what Nintendo has in store for us.
Mass Effect 3 
In light of some recent news that Mass Effect 3 is going to be delayed until Q1 2012, I’m still hoping I get to see a glimpse of what BioWare has in store for us for the final chapter of the Captain Shepard trilogy.
Gears of War 3
It’s kind of funny that I’m looking forward to seeing a game that I got to see at last years E3. However, I’m hoping this time we will get to see more of the single player story as well as possibly getting a playable demo.
Uncharted 3
See a common theme going? It’s rare that we as gamers get so many damn good trilogies. Uncharted is my absolute all time favorite PS3 game and can’t wait to see what Naughty Dog is giving us! November can’t come fast enough!
Elder Scrolls Skyrim
I’m a huge Elder Scrolls fan and have sunken many hours into the finely tuned RPG sandbox. I hope in Skyrim that we will get to see more guilds, to be honest, that was the best part of Oblivion, I loved doing all the quests for the different guilds, actually worked on completing the guilds quests before I even touched the main story.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
I’m not going to lie; I’m a huge MMO fan. I usually end up playing all new MMOs, at least the free included month, but always end up quitting and continue playing WoW. SWTOR is the first MMO that I feel has a good chance of me actually paying a few months of service after the first free month. If it’s anything like Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic that was released nearly a decade ago, we’re going to be pleased with this title.
The big announcement/big video game title
I’m definitely looking forward to the big announcement that catches me off guard, or a video game that mesmerizes me and didn’t even think about it before heading to E3. Last year, that game for me was Mortal Kombat. Wasn’t even thinking much of it, but after I saw it was blown away. I actually recently reviewed it, which you can read here, and gave it a perfect 5/5 score. So what big announcement or video game will surprise me this year, only one month to wait and find out first hand.
Leave your comments below and let us know what you are looking forward to at this years E3.
The Gameslave Podcast 71 has arrived from a not so far far away galaxy. We have talk about the new Star Wars related announcement, some video games and anime. Wow we almost have the full gauntlet on this.
Hit this link for the show notes.
So after the heavy information that has been coming out recently I thought today it would be nice to have something a bit lighter. So I give you a video from the folks over at IGN on a very important subject. How to not be a douche in the Portal 2 Co-op modes.
Man, Sony cannot seem to catch a break. Sure you know that the PSN was broken into user information was stolen. Sure you know that you may have lost your credit card that was used to buy games on the PSN to hackers. But did you know that the same thing happened to all of the Sony Online Entertainment services? This includes games such as Everquest 2, Free Realms, DC Online, and Clone Wars Adventures. They found out May 2 (in Tokyo time) that the information was stolen around April 16th while doing a security audit in response to the PSN outage. And if you are out of the country things can be worse. In addition to:
10,700 users in Austria, Germany, Netherlands and Spain may have had their dreict debt accounts breached. This would give the hacker access to:
Not a good week for Sony. So now SOE is down in addition to PSN (which should be up later this week) is down. Sony is working on a "make good" plan for its users and at a local level will work with their users to get them in identify theft programs. Hit the link for the full press release and check then check with your bank to make sure you don't have any unwanted charges on your accounts.
So I am sure that there is some actual news at there that I could report on. I could mock the PSN some more, maybe further speculation on Project Cafe, or even randomly speculate on Microsoft's next console. But that is not what I am going to do on todays post. I have not gotten around to posting (or writing) my Portal 2 review, but I did find these portal related videos. Do they give me some leway on the review until I can play the co-op portion?
PORTAL KOMBAT
Mario Meets Portal 2
This week I actually have played games, and they are not World of Warcraft (at least not all of them).
