• 21Jan 08

  Faux Bands

  I was reading over Alex Navarro's blog at http://www.theheadofalfredogarcia.com/ where he had uncovered a pretty sweet game. Here are the rules:

  1. Go to the Wikipedia random article page. Whatever the title of the article is, that's your band name.

  2. Check out random quotations. Go to the very last quote on the page. The last four words of that last quote are your album title.

  3. Hit up Flickr's "interesting photos from the last seven days" section. The third picture on the page, no matter what it is, is your album cover.

  4. Use Photoshop to combine all these things into something coherent looking.

  With those rules in mind, I made a few of my own albums. Check them out below, or you can head over to Alex's blog and check out the ones he made.

  

  

  

  

  Oh and by the way, all of these band names / album names are copyrighted so by some chance I start a band one day.

  • Posted Jan 21, 2008 7:07 am PT
  • Category: Music
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• 14Jan 08

  Navarro and Gamespot Part Ways / Year in Review

  Been a while since I've updated my blog here. Anyways, if you haven't heard, Alex is leaving Gamespot due to the somewhat recent events of Jeff getting fired, which is still messed up. As far as I'm concerned, Gamespot just doesn't have a personallity right now. Sure they still have Ryan, Shoemaker, and Vinny, but they've really lost some of the biggest faces of Gamespot. I think now I'll use Gamespot as a news site and check out they're reviews, but I think I'm pretty much done watching any of they're productions. Hotspot with Jeff Gerstmann was one of the funniest and informative podcast ever. In fact, it is the only podcast I've ever listened to. I doubt that Ryan will become a regular guest on there, and even if he was, without Jeff its just a lot less funny. My only hope is that Jeff and Alex will get hired at another video game site and do a podcast, bringing with it the humor that made Gamespot my all time favorite.

  On another note, I have to say that I completely dissagree with Mario Galaxy taking the GotY. I mean I'm sure its good, but not the best. This year has been absolutely amazing for games. Bioshock was great, CoD4 was amazing, Crysis raised the bar on FPS, Halo 3 gave me that Halo high that the original managed to create, Rock Band is just flat out awesome, Guitar Hero III was great, Skate brought a breath of fresh air to the skating genre, and WoW:BC is still a game that just as fun as ever. I started playing Mass Effect about a week ago and I must say I'm enjoying it. The game has some very serious frame-rate issues at time, but so far it looks promising in its story.

  Lastly, I'd like to throw out my nomination for the GotY. Now I haven't finished it yet and I will probably hold off in doing so, but I'm going to have to give GotY to Crysis. This game has taken in-game physics and intractability with the environment to a whole new level. Graphically, the game is a masterpiece. It almost looks perfect. The reason I'm holding off in finishing it is because I need to update my computer to run it so that it plays very well and looks as good as it can. Just the gameplay mechanics, grouped with a great environment with amazing physics and graphics just pushes this game far beyond any that I've seen to date.

  • Posted Jan 14, 2008 8:38 am PT
  • Category: Games
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• 31Jul 07

  The Godfather Review

  Just posted my review of The Godfather for the Xbox 360. I have to be honest and say that that game was a whole lot better than I expected. It really took a unique approach on its combat controls and it really paid off. Also, just the feel of the game and how you can whack people in all these gruesome manners is a blast. This is one of those games I put in the same category as some of the Western games such as Red Dead Revolver. It may not be the perfect, but just the genre itself makes it worth playing. (That genre being mob games.) Deserves a rent at least. Read the review for the whole story.
  • Posted Jul 31, 2007 10:12 am PT
  • Category: Games
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