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Winku Coming Soon

Winku, a creative retureant by the Pong/Chuck E. Cheese creator, Norman Burnshell, will change the way games are looked at. Or at least that's it's goal.

The resturant seems cool enough to work: customers can order food from a TV Table, than play music, games or movies with each other. Norman wants to shift the focus of games from "guys in there underware" to groups of freidns having fun "together".

And it might just work. As all three consoles claim the next-gen will try to incorporate more of the "non-hardcore" fans, the time seems ripe for Winku to succede.

The first one opens latter this year in LA. I plan to go there eventually, and then I'll give a little report.

Metal Gear Creator Loves 360...Newsweek Hates It

In the latest round of console war battles, two "forces" took sides today. One matters more than than the other.

For 360
Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear creator

Aganst 360
Newsweek

SW:ROTS: The VideoGame

I also got a chance to play the videogame of ROTS this weekend at a freind's house. Heres a review:

Graphics
Utterly horrible. Really, it's pretty bad.

Controls
Nice, but tends to lead into button-mashing histaria.

Camera
No control. At all. And it sucks.

Gameplay
Would be awsome on a GMA or PSP, but on Xbox it just gets boring, fast. The movie clips are cool though, and it does feel like your in the movie. Plus, RPG-like leveling up makes the game a tad bit more deep. But it's still just knee level.

Multiplayer
It has a 2 Vs 2 Jedi dual that rocks...but again is plaged by the above (Controls, camera, etc). You can play as a lot of cool Jedi, like Old Obi-wan, Dooku, Vader and Grevious...but wheres Yoda and Palpy?

It also has a 2 player co-op that sucks. I personaly think they made it wayyy to hard even for two people...and the one person dies, game over rule still sucks.

Overall
This game is just not worth the $49.99. Maybe $19, but not full price. It may have been better before the movie was out, but now, just go see the movie. With pocorn, it'll probably cost the same, and be alot better.
About a 6/10

Madagascar Movie

I saw Madagascar this weekend, and I must say I was impressed. Sure, it still has to sink down to the "poo" joke level at times, but there are several parts of the movie that are much more sphisticated. It's no Pixar movie by any means...but it is in the same field as say Shrek. I really would recomend any parent to take any child to go see it....as it was deffinatly worth the 10 bucks in laughs. Not quite ROTS type...but still good.

In the field of ROTS, I'm planning to go see it for a third time this weekend, in digital. It's playing in Irvine, about 45 minutes fro m my house. I'll blog about how it looked. If anyone else has alreadly seen it, please e-mail me your thoughts.

This Blog's Almost a Year Old

Which reminds me...where are the applicants for the StarD Tourny? I really wanted it to take place for the 1 years benchmark...but so far NO ONE has e-mailed me ANYTHING. I've got some cool prizes lined up...and depending on how many people sign up the better they get. Right now I'm looking at either a PSP or an Xbox 360 for the winner. (Yes, you'll still have to wait till the November Launch date...I'm not that cool).

Email (Stardrummer@gmail.com) to sign up!

School is Almost Over!

I can't belive it's June alreadly. The year is only about 6 days from being over! Yeah! June 9 can't come fast enough.

Remember when I started blogging wayyyyyy back in August? My first couple posts were on the first week of school. Perhaps I should blog the last week in the same way. How's that for the closer.

After All This Time...NO, I'm Not Dead

OK, I'm officaly back. These last two weeks have been, frankly, pure hell in my life. So much to do, so little time.

But, anyway, now I'm back. And as long as my internet dosn't crap out on me again, I'll be here for a long, long time.

It's good to be back. Now, for a rapid amount of small posts... watch out! Take cover!