Just a fun thread were we can brag about our gaming accomplishments.

I would like to start off by bragging about completing Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust for the Xbox 360 (and getting 800GS points in the process).

The game featured horrible controls and the most sadistic camera ever devised in a game. Still the story was fun. So long Larry. I will not be back for the last 200 points (well maybe for 40 of them).

does the new xbox 360 slim use the same a/v connector as the original xbox 360 because i have the vga,a/v,and s-video connectors and dont wanna have to rebuy them all for the xbox slim..does anyone know if the old one fits the new xbox?

I have been following the ever emerging news about the Windows Phone 7 and its Xbox Live abilities and I am quite excited. So much so that I will purchase one when released (hopefully later this year) at the full non-subsidized price of which I expect will run me about $700 Cdn.

Since the phone will features games, here is the current list of launch titles:

3D Brick Breaker Revolution (Digital Chocolate)
Age of Zombies (Halfbrick)
Armor Valley (Protégé Games)
Asphalt 5 (Gameloft)
Assassins Creed (Gameloft)
BejeweledTM LIVE (PopCap)
Bloons TD (Digital Goldfish)
Brain Challenge (Gameloft)
Bubble Town 2 (i-Play)
Butterfly (Press Start Studio)
CarneyVale Showtime (MGS)
Castlevania (Konami)
Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst (MGS)
De Blob Revolution (THQ)
Deal or No Deal 2010 (i-Play)
Earthworm Jim (Gameloft)
Fast & Furious 7 (i-Play)
Fight Game Rivals (Rough Cookie)
Finger Physics (Mobliss Inc.)
Flight Control (Namco Bandai)
Flowerz (Carbonated Games)
Frogger (Konami)
Fruit Ninja (Halfbrick)
Game Chest-Board (MGS)
Game Chest-Card (MGS)
Game Chest-Logic (MGS)
Game Chest-Solitaire (MGS)
GeoDefense (Critical Thought)
Ghostscape (Psionic)
Glow Artisan (Powerhead Games)
Glyder 2 (Glu Mobile)
Guitar Hero 5 (Glu Mobile)
Halo Waypoint (MGS)
Hexic Rush (Carbonated Games)
I Dig It (InMotion)
iBlast Moki (Godzilab)
ilomilo (MGS)
Implode XL (IUGO)
Iquarium (Infinite Dreams)
Jet Car Stunts (True Axis)
Let’s Golf 2 (Gameloft)
Little Wheel (One click dog)
Loondon (Flip N Tale)
Max and the Magic Marker (PressPlay)
Mini Squadron (Supermono Limited)
More Brain Exercise (Namco Bandai)
O.M.G. (Arkedo)
Puzzle Quest 2 (Namco Bandai)
Real Soccer 2 (Gameloft)
The Revenants (Chaotic Moon)
Rise of Glory (Revo Solutions)
Rocket Riot (Codeglue)
Splinter Cell Conviction (Gameloft)
Star Wars: Battle for Hoth (THQ)
Star Wars: Cantina (THQ)
The Harvest (MGS)
The Oregon Trail (Gameloft)
Tower Bloxx NY (Digital Chocolate)
UNO (Gameloft)
Women’s Murder Club: Death in Scarlet (i-Play)
Zombie Attack! (IUGO)
Zombies!!!! (Babaroga)

All Windows Phone 7 Live games will also feature 12 achievements for a possible 200 gamerscore points. I am planning on getting a good dozen on launch day.

Anyone else excited about the Windows Phone 7 series?

Hello,

I bought a bag and shoes...

I know we have a thread on displaying our favourite web comics, but this thread is for the how-to portion on creating web comics.

I am interested in starting my own weeb comic series, but I do not have much information on the best way to proceed.

I have characters and script created, but it is more the technical aspect that I am looking for input on. As what is the best way from start to finish to create a strip.

My current process is as follows. I sketch out a drawing on paper with my faithfull pencils and then ink the sketch. I then scan the inked out strip into Inkscape where I apply colouring. I then send the image to Gimp where I apply textures, filters and what not and create the word balloons for the completed script.

This process appears to take a very long time from start to finish and I would need to improve upon it before I can start putting out a new web comic every couple days.

Any suggestions from someone that does exactly this type of work?

The point of Mafia II, says producer Alex Cox, is to make you feel like the lead in a mobster movie--to be the video game equivalent of The Godfather or Goodfellas. That makes classy cinematic presentation and musical score; "mature, believable" narrative; and meticulous period details the order of the day: all the trappings of a classic gangster flick wrapped around an urban driving and shooting sandbox. For our preview, we played four chapters of the game; one of these included the consumer demo, which will be available two weeks ahead of the game and is described in our Mafia II hands-on from the Electronic Entertainment Expo.



Mafia II comes from studio 2K Czech, formerly Illusion Softworks, which brought out the first Mafia game back in 2002. The game is set in Empire Bay, which, at 10 square miles in area, feels like a miniature New York. 2K Czech splits the action between two distinct periods: an icy winter in the mid-1940s set against a World War II backdrop and a brighter, more colourful summer in the mid-1950s as Vito Scaletta, the star of the show, rises through the ranks as a Mafioso.

Vito is an Italian immigrant, a US soldier, and the only son of a deceased father who has left his mother and sister with debts they can't hope to repay. We get introduced to Vito in Home Sweet Home, the game's opening chapter, in which he arrives back in Empire Bay for a month's leave after recovering from being wounded in battle. It's February 1945, Empire Bay is snowbound, and Vito is met at the train station by Joe, a tubby hustler and Vito's old buddy, who later passes on his best pick-up lines in a way reminiscent of Roman, the cousin of Grand Theft Auto IV's Nico.

As Joe drove us away from the station, Empire Bay revealed itself as an attractive wintry cityscape. Attention to detail, especially period detail, abounds in Mafia II, right down to the clothing on passers-by and the wartime posters on the walls. The frozen streets produce a moody, austere atmosphere that fits nicely with the World War II backdrop. The convincing 1940's setting is completed by period-style, snow-topped cars (not real licensed models but inspired by iconic vehicles of the time) with contemporary news and authentic music on their radios. There are about 120 licensed songs, we're told, with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and Vera Lynn numbers for the 1940's era and rock and roll for the 1950s. Vito arrived home in Little Italy to the sound of "Let It Snow."



The apartment where Vito's mother and sister live is lavishly detailed too, as are the interiors throughout the demo, with care given to even grubby stairwell textures and mundane domestic details--saucepans in the kitchen, for instance, and health-giving beers and sandwiches in the fridge. After a rest in Vito's childhood bedroom and a change of costume out of his GI uniform and into a leather jacket, it was back out onto the streets, where we found Vito's sister being threatened by a loan shark. Cue a hand-to-hand combat tutorial and Vito's motivation: He needs a lot of money to get his family out of trouble--and soon. The melee combat is simple but handsomely animated, allowing light and heavy hits and a couple of basic combos. Holding down the A button (in the Xbox 360 version) has Vito nimbly dodge whatever punches come his way, and when an opponent is near defeat, a button prompt lets you trigger a knockout final blow.

Lucky for Vito, Joe is well connected. He's made a call to get Vito out of returning to the battlefield, promising some forged discharge papers, and, better still, he is Vito's first step into a life of organised crime. We're told to drive him to locksmith and apparent counterfeiter Giuseppe to pick up Vito's papers and a set of lock picks, putting us behind the wheel of a car for the first time. The car we drove, a close imitation of a wartime Ford model, seemed to handle authentically for a 1940s vehicle on treacherously icy streets. It skidded around corners and slid to a halt when we put on the brakes. A 1950s convertible we extracted from Vito's garage later in the game was punchier and louder. And though the cars are authentic, the minimap comes with all the modern conveniences--that is to say, a GPS-like route finder and objective markers.

Out August 27th, 2010

Any one going to try this?

The text above is from : gamespot

So who else on here buys more games than they have time to play.

My current backlog consists of:

Assassins Creed 2
Forza 3
Dead Space
COD WAW
Halo 3 - Briefly played this and don't understand what all the fuss is about.Will give it a proper go soon.
Splinter Cell Conviction
Left 4 Dead 2
Fifa 10
Burnout Revenge

I expect I have missed 1 or 2. With this in mind I'm glad there is hardly anything pending that I am looking forward to playing.

Does anyone else have the same problem?

I typically enjoy the madden games every year, however I haven't purchased one for about 4-5 years. My brother or one of my friends usually ends up buying it and I just play over their house. But not this year. I actually pre-ordered it and got it the other day. I'm very pleased with this years Madden. Anyone else pick it up that would be interested in trying a few games over Xbox live? I rarely do the online sports gaming thing but wouldn't mind trying it out with some friends. You can actually play over live 3 vs 3. Sounds kinda crazy but I have to try it out.