Skazzious Unboxing the 25th Anniversary Legend Of Zelda Nintendo 3DS and The collectors edition of Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword for Nintendo Wii
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Zelda 25th Anniversary 3DS unboxing & Skyward Sword Collectors Edition Unboxing
Posted: December 14, 2011 by Sk4zZi0uS in Consoles0
Duke Nukem Forever… FINALLY
Posted: June 10, 2011 by Sk4zZi0uS in Consoles, ReviewsTags: 1997, 2011, Duke, Duke Nukem Forever, Finally, Forever, Nukem
Today is the launch day of Duke Nukem Forever. I remember when this game was announced back in 1997, I was 11 years old and playing Duke Nukem 3D. The game sat in development hell, Changed engines more times than I can count. I mean it used to run on quake engine, quake spec machines, now you need a rig that was totally unheard of or even unthought of back then. I’m now 25 years old… I’ve played the game so Im sure you are all asking, was it worth the wait. OH HELL YES.
I wont go into detail yet folks but be aware there would have been game play footage upped already IF my capture card hadn’t decided to crap out.
No gameplay footage but here is the games opening.
I will expand on this post when I play through the 1st section of the game… again… 
damned its fun.
QUESTION:What were you doing when Forever was announced? What game were you playing… For me it was Duke3D in my middle school comp lab… I was 11…
News has hit the backstage parts of The Big Nerd Show, we can not talk about details but it looks as the PSN hackers are ready for a 3rd attack in which the plan to destory the PlayStation Network to a point where it will need to be rebuilt from the very start. This attack is somewhat up in the air, but it feels best to warn PS3, PSP and PLAY users and if it does happen to say that no one wants this and we are all very sorry. More News on this when we are able to talk about it.
I am, to shock all, returning to the Xbox 360 within the next 2 months. It’s apart of a plan to settle myself down a little, me and wife are looking at children (VF, very soon), I need to loose a shit-load of weight and the PC doesn’t help there, but and this is a big but, I don’t want to stop gaming. I want to crash infront of the TV with a controller and kill an hour. Play a real story driven game, maybe play a little online where I know I wont find a hacker (maybe a foul mouth teenager and no, I don’t swear when I play online) and I can still have a little bit of my nerdy, collect ‘em up witht he achievement/gamerscore system. I’m an unashamed achievement whore.
So I decided to look at what new Games For Windows Live games are out, so I can rack up a little Gamerscore before I get the machine. I redownloaded Dead Rising 2, I mean come on it’s awesome. I grabbed Section 8: Prejuiced as I loved the first game, yes I know that’s worng, but I loved a game. Now as the game is the same proce on PC as the XBox 360 XBLA game I knew that it would only have 200 Gamerscore, that’s how much the XBLA vesion has, and yes I checked. To my shock the Games For Windows Live version has 1000 Gamerscore, the same as a full retail game.
So with that said, grab it on the PC. You get more of that all important Gamerscore if that’s what your after. As the Games For Windows Live and XBox 360 versons are not the same, you can buy both (the game is worth way more than the £10 asking price) and gain a cool 1,200 Gamerscore if you nuts. I hope Bulletstorm is in the EA week long Steam sale, if it is I’m buying it. Simple.
As for me an my future with the website, I’m still going to write and do the odd video review. Don’t worry I’m just focusing on my family and health a little more. There’s nothing wrong with that!
The Sony Xperia Play
Posted: April 30, 2011 by Sk4zZi0uS in Android, ConsolesTags: Android, Phone, Play, Playstation, Sony, Xperia
Ok so today we have a wee treat for the mobile gamers out there… The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
So what exactly is the Xperia Play? Well its a handheld gaming smartphone produced Sony Ericsson running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), the device is the first device to be part of the PlayStation Certified program which means that it is able to play PlayStation Suite games. The Play started shipping globally in March 2011, with a launch lineup of around 50 titles, most of which are games already found on the android market that have been tweaked to make use of teh built in controls rather than on screen controls usually found in touch screen phone games.
The device is a horizontally sliding phone, slider below resembles the slider of the PSP Go. The slider features a D-pad in an indented area on the left side, a set of standard PlayStation buttons in an indented area on the right, a long rectangular Touchpad in the middle, start and select buttons in an indented area on the bottom right corner, an option button on the bottom left corner as well as two shoulder buttons (L and R) on the back of the device. The original form, has a long rectangular touch screen, as well as four buttons below, a back button, an option button, a home button and a search button. The device features a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a Qualcomm Adreno 205 GPU, a display measuring 4.0 inches (854 × 480), a 5 megapixel camera, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB internal storage, and a microUSB connector. It supports microSD cards, as opposed to the Memory Stick Pros used in PSP consoles.
Inside the box you’ll find a 16GB memory card, a screen protector, a Greenheart USB charger, a car USB charger, two USB cables, headphones and a 1500mAh battery.
I’m planning on using this as an pocket emulation platform as the Android market has a stack of old school console emulators available to download. Why didn’t I just do this on my Nexus One? Simple… The touch screen on the nexus one sucks and has trouble translating multi touch gestures when finger positions cross axis on the screen.
I will take a crack at some of the PsOne games when more become available.
Anyway take a look at the video. So far its a cracking phone but it does worry me when a company bundles in a screen protector. I like my devices to be able to survive without little extras and it should that sony has very little faith in the screen of this device. Could it be a scratch magnet?
Here it is, a full unedited copy of the email Sony has sent out. Just incase you don’t get a chance to get one yourself!
”Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:
We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:
1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;
2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and
3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.
We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.
Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.
For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.
To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.
We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Teams
Sony Network Entertainment Europe Limited (formerly known as PlayStation Network Europe Limited) is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited the data controller for PlayStation Network/Qriocity personal data”
In our first ever podcast for The Big Nerd Show me and Sh4z ripped apart the whole PlayStation issue by pointing out that the PSN users shouldn’t bitch about something they get for free and that Sony mishandled the hacking story by pulling the plug on PSN for over 7 days but things have now changed and it turns out that PSN was indeed hacked, massively hacked. Personal details, including Credit Card details may have been stolen and as someone who does have a PSN account, be it for the PSP Store and has used my Debt Card on it should I worry, should gamers as a whole worry and also a deep look at how Sony (mis)handled PSN.
Stories that effect nerds often don’t touch the main media, outside of some PR bullshit for Call Of Duty or the next console on the market. It was a shock to wake up today, turn on BBC News 24 as apart of my morning pre-work day to see that Sony and PlayStation was everywhere. I already knew what was going on because of Twitter, but this was insane, “experts” in console gaming were on morning prime time News talking about PlayStation. Talking about how this could destroy the PlayStation brand and the public trust in Sony.
The night before this happened I had been talking with my wife, Cheryl, about getting a PS3 for a week on trail to see what she thinks. To see what I think. I installed the PlayStation app on my Android phone and within 12 hours we both agreed that it wasn’t ever going to happen and I uninstalled the PlayStation app. I work in a busy, city centre workplace with the public and I had customers talking to me about how they are going to leave the PlayStation 3 for the Xbox 360. Some of these customers I have seen for years and they we’re trying to talk me into getting a PlayStation 3, now it’s don’t ever touch it again!
I tweeted about getting a Sony NGP, that’s not going to happen. A Android based tablet is all I want and Sony’s PlayStation Suite Software will be kept miles away from it. It’s a shame, but this is more about personal details than good games. People can and more than likely will be harmed in one way or the other over this. Be it in their credit score or their bank account.
This whole thing was poorly handled by Sony from the get go. Turning PSN offline without notice, waiting close to 7 days to say that it’s been hacked and then, at the end that players personal detail may have been lifted. It’s sick and Sony does that to answer for it, I know there maybe fan boys reading this and they say; “No Sony doesn’t own you anything!”
Don’t they?
Really?
My last address and a old bank account was linked to my PSN account. Sony should tell me why they let this happen. In a world of firmware updates, why wasn’t it picked up before and patched? Sony does owe us a lot of answers, because without then, the trust is gone and a lot of players will leave them. Answer us quick and tell the truth.
This reckless issue will dog Sony and PlayStation for years…
