PS3 bundle of the year

Well .. for me it is a PS3 bundle of the year. This is what I have been waiting for all this while. MGS4 was supposed to be out early 2008 but was delayed till Q2, 2008 which is the month of May-July. I was hoping that Sony will make a PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle and they did ... take a look ...


For the price, is still not stated yet but I know it will not be cheap cuz its a 80GB PS3 console. Here are oso some of the cool looking MGS4 banners and the release date is June 12, 2008 .. SNEAK OUT !!!

Just bloggin around ...

Finally had the chance to goto Keane's shop (SCE) at Kotaraya. My fren finally got her Rose Pink PSP after waiting for some time. She got a nice PSP package bundle which includes alot of goodies especially a very nice looking black bag. She really luv it and im glad she does.

I was so sad that she was able to play Patapon (English ver.), where I have to wait for my ori version to be release sometime this week. We when to Mcdonald's and Starbucks, grab ourselves some coffee and just chit-chatting away. I really enjoy chatting with her.

Then it was time for me to go back home and she was so kind to dropped me off at the Kelana Jaya LRT station.

My 1st The Spoils League

After half a year, I finally step foot into the new and improve Toybox at Taman Paramount. I have to say .. it looks great. Damn nice. I also completed my Spoils deck (Banker/Arcanist) and tried it out in The Spoils League. First, I did not really understand how my deck mechanic works but after trying out a couple of time, I seem to understand how the deck works and also the deck winning condition.

So .. the league started and my 1st match was against Jin. The deck he is using are Warlord/Rogue mixture. Its a good deck, fast and irritating :) I will always remember this ... he manage to counter my Voidal Poisoning :( and he won the match.

2nd round was against a player named Gary (cant really remember his name). He is using a Banker/Arcanist deck, just the opposite of my deck. I locked most of his cretures from attacking me. With the right cards out on my side .. 2 Rummaging Millipede was in play and with that .. i won this game easily.

My last round was with my old WoW TCG fren, Wei Wei. He is piloting a mono-Gearsmith with some Warlord cards. His deck able to produce lotsa token cretures and swarm me with it. As always, Voidal Poison really save the day for me and finally I get to play it. Voidal Poison FTW !!!

Btw .. I got 2nd place and I got The Spoils sleeves as a prize .. how cool is that :)

So .. thats all the league report for now. The Spoils is a fun and entertaining TCG.

Till next time ... Cheers.

Farewell HD-DVD

The war is over, the war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. The victor is Blu-Ray. Since Warner Bros decided to move toward Blu-Ray exclusive movies early this year, HD-DVD has begun tumbling down. In the recent news, Toshiba has resigned itself from supporting HD-DVD, for that .. HD-DVD is consider dead. Toshiba has always been a very strong supporter for HD-DVD in the past and I was hoping that HD-DVD will stay longer ... I guess not.

Anyway, Im still having my HD-DVD add-on at home and I wanted to sell it off but still reconsidering because I will be getting a PS3 by this coming April. I will see how lar. The good news is the price for HD-DVD movies will drop like crazy and most of it are at Amazon. Hooray for that :)

I bit u farewell HD-DVD.

One Man Can Make A Difference

One man can make a difference .. thats what Wilton Knight said to Michael Knight before he died in the original Knight Rider series in the 80's. Now a new Knight Rider series is out just this past few days and as always I got to watched it yesterday night. Is certainly a new and improve series, the car and the cast are just right. Some ppl said they would prefer the old car which is a Trans-Am but now ... a Ford Mustang Shelby .. much better. Here's KITT (Knight Industry Three Thousand).

I was surprise to see David Hasselhoff makes a cameo in this series. My goodness, he's old already :p

Also here are some of the new cast in the series. By order ... Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo and Sydney Tamiia Poitier.

I dont wanna spoiled the fun for u guys, just go watch it now. Cheers

Picture coutesy: IMDb

The Spoils (part 2)

On my previous post, I already covered the introduction of the The Spoils trading card game (TCG) and I said I would cover the faction details soon, here they are. There are 5 factions to choose from ... Banker, Rogue, Gearsmith, Arcanist and Warlord. Each faction got their own colors of choice.

Banker (Greed icon): As a trade, the Bankers are heavy influence gainers and spenders, and are not known for their COVERT Characters. For instance, playing Concealed Goon (a COVERT Character) will cost you 5 influence, whereas playing Nasty Butler (a low-speed Character) will gain you 4 influence. Bankers also like to draw a lot of cards (using either Cash Out or Beatrix Winterbottom), and have direct Character removal with some benefit to/choice made by their opponents (Irresistible Bribe being an example).

Rogue (Deception icon): As a trade, Rogues try to use their opponent's discard pile against them. And the way they facilitate this is to mill their opponent's library. One particular Character, Pluck, can snatch opponent's discarded Characters, Items or Locations for his controller's use. But it doesn't end in the discard pile; Rogues can take control of some cards their opponents control (an example of a Tactic of this type is Rapine). Some other traits of this trade are high-speed Characters, Speed manipulation, and removing opponent's discard cards from the game, as well as minor control (two examples being the Item Emergency Obfuscation and the Tactic Forced Recruitment).

Warlord (Rage icon): As a trade, Warlords are the straight-forward beaters and damage-dealers. They want to lay down efficient (strength to cost ratio) Characters to attack with while using damage dealing sources to clear the way. They also have cards that will help them to overwhelm their opponents with a sizable board control. They also have one of the most powerful Characters, the Dragon Tank, which destroys one enemy Character per turn and is a 10/10/4 as well, thus clearing the enemies away and doing tremendous damage.

Gearsmith (Elitism icon): As a trade, Gearsmiths use cost reduction in many ways to help spur them ahead (with cards such as Jo Ciendeilio and 1337! aiding them in this endeavour). As well as possessing selective tutoring (drawing specific types of cards), the highest number of Item cards, and Character token creator cards (called Micromajigs, with the stats 1/1/3), they have a "Node" theme that can become quite powerful but is particularly vulnerable.

Arcanist (Obsession icon): As a trade, the Acanists sport the most COVERT Characters. They can bounce their opponent's permanents and force them to discard cards (using cards such as Forget and Degenerate Molestation), as well as generate tokens that can be used from certain cards to bounce cards (such as Quotidian Ejector) or cause their opponent to discard cards. Another ability of these arcane experimenters is to manipulate the libraries and to retrieve specific "type" cards (an example being Servile Centipede, which, on coming into play from your hand, allows you to search for a Tactic).

Source: Wikipedia

The Spoils

Okie ... what is The Spoils. Its a new trading card game which I just learn yesterday with some friends of mine at Comics Mart in Midvalley. Since Im already drifted away from WOW TCG and UDE (creator of WOW TCG) also decided to stop supporting Asia community for the game, I decide to move along into The Spoils. I already got myself a booster box and with some help from my frens, I made a Banker/Arcanist Control Stall deck ... can anyone say "BOUNCE BOUNCE".

Here's the introduction of the game ...

The Spoils uses a number of mechanics in common with other collectible card games. Unlike many games of this kind, you start the game with a Faction card in play, which determines how you begin your turn and which actions you are allowed to take. These Factions have special abilities, unique to each Faction card. Currently, only one Faction is available to the public, The Tournament Faction. Special foiled versions of this card were given away at Gen Con.

Players need to amass Resource cards in order to play other cards. Certain cards are "Staple" Resources and any number of these may be played in a deck. As of yet, there have been no non-Staple Resources released. The Factions count as Staples as well, according to the bottom of the card. However, since these are set apart at the beginning of the game or whenever you shuffle your deck, the word Staple tends to refer to Resources. Most cards require between 1 and 4 of these Staple Resources in play to meet the threshold indicated by Resource icons on cards. The Resource icons come in the form of five trades.

To supplement the Staple Resources, players may play any card from their hand face down as a Resource; however, cards played face down in this manner will not count towards the Resource threshold.

Playable cards come in several types, not counting Staples: Characters, Items, Tactics, and Locations. Each of these types often have subtypes. To win the game, the opponent's Faction must be reduced to 0 influence. The Tournament Faction starts with 25 influence. The Faction's influence may be reduced by attacking it with Characters, or by using Tactics or special abilities. Characters have three stats: Strength (amount of damage the Character deals), Life (amount of damage needed to destroy the Character), and Speed (faster Characters deal their damage earlier).

There are 4 factions in The Spoils, they are Banker, Arcanist, Rogue, Warlord and Gearsmith. All are equally powerful. Here are what the actual cards looks like ...

Ill go into the details for all 4 factions another time.

Pata pata pon .. Patapon

Sounds weird right, u must be wondering what game is Patapon. Well .. music and rhythm game, where u follow the music and rhythm by press the correct button when appeared on the screen and with that u will excute the commands for the tiny liltle soldiers to move and attack. Certain level will have bosses, funny looking bosses I must say.

The Japanese version of the game is already out. Im just waiting for the english version to come out this coming Febraury 26, 2008. Cant wait till then :)

Cheers

Note: Picture coutesy from IGN.com

Some devil do cry after meeting Dante and Nero

The new Devil May Cry (DMC) series just hit the stores here and it's DMC4. I just got the game from Gamers Hideout yesterday and only had the chance to play till the 1st boss encounter .. the fire dude, cant really remember his name :p

The graphics are stunning but earlier I saw the PS3 version ... I have to say the PS3 version is much better and sharper. Gameplay still the same as all the previous DMC series, hack, slash and shoot demons, doing the unbelievable combo moves and collecting orbs.

There was a bonus DVD that comes along with it but I did not bother to get it. Have to pay RM30 just for it. Well .. im just gonna burn it from a fren. Hope the next DMC series will come for the PSP, just like God of War.

Cheers

Is this the new PSP2 .... NOT !!!

Was surfing the net recently and I came across this image. Is a PSP2 .. well, its a fake .. a damn good photoshop fake :). PSP2 will not be arriving anytime soon, perhaps by 2010. Really looks like a BlackBerry phone to me. The person who did this is really good, some more the picture on the screen is from Monster Hunter Freedom game.

Cheers

Back @ Work

Yup .. what the title says. Im back to work tomorrow morning after a long annual leave for CNY. All good things must comes to an end. I feel abit lazy to goto work tomorrow .. LOL, that happens after a long leave, its normal. Without work, no money and without money ... err !! u guys know the rest.

Honestly .. im just happy to get back to work.

Cheers

GONG XI FA CAI

It's festive season again and this time is Chinese New Year. Just would like to wish all my friends who are reading my blog to have a very happy CNY and also happy holidays. Im currently on leave till Sunday :) but I will still keep update my blog.

GONG XI FA CAI

Cheers

Killzone: Liberation

Recently I just bought my 3rd PSP game at Subang Parade. Its Killzone: Liberation. After hearing alot of players recommending this game to me, I had to go check it myself. Im glad I went to Subang Parade and found it on sale. The game is kinda old already and I assume that it will be really hard to find. This shop I went to had a copy available for sale and I grab it without any hesitation. I even bought a hard-casing for my PSP ... its a 3rd party brand. Hope it last long.

Try the game during the nite and its an awesome game. I really enjoy it and could not put my PSP down at all. Really addictive but in the end I just have to take a break.