Today Microsoft has made a massive update to the system software of the Xbox 360 by released the New Xbox Experience update or NXE. There are a slew of updates most notably a completely redesigned graphical user interface, customizable avatars, movie streaming, download queuing and much much much much more.

Introducing Xbox 360 avatars!

I’ve yet to to see the new updates in person and I already expect many limitations for Xbox 360 users who are outside North America, Europe and many major territories. Continue Reading »

As I have stated before the FIFA franchise of football (soccer) games is very popular here in Jamaica and from my review of Fifa 2008 you can see that I enjoyed playing it, especially with friends. FIFA 2009 was released a few weeks ago and ever since the demo was released in September about a month before the release of the full game in October I’ve been playing it.

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Over the past day or so I’ve been getting multiple spam comments from a series of ip address and I am clueless as to how to stop them. Searching the blogosphere has made me realize that it seems to be a problem that targets wordpress blogs and there is no way to stop it right now other than banning the ip address from visiting your site.

The ip addresses are 94.102.60.150, 94.102.60.151, 94.102.60.152 and 94.102.60.153 and all the comments seem generated from a random name and email but are all producing a weird mixed set of numbers and letters. From traceroute abd Whois information I know the ip address originate in the Nethelands or the capital city of Amsterdam to be exact.

I’ve not blocked the ip address yet, I’ll see if more comments arrive over the course of the night.

The super Nintendo is one of he most well received video game consoles, not because of sales alone but for the many of today’s current generation gamers who got their first or some of their early video game exerience on Ninteno’s Super Family Computer (Super Famicom). A very skilled fan of the SNES has made a portable version of the device which is one of the best I’ve seen recently.

You can see that many of the design elements were taken from the original Super Nintendo

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Stardock has announced their latest computer game that is in the works. Elemental: War of Magic as the name suggests will be a fantasy themed game and for that alone I am getting very excited. I’ll be following the progress of this game as it’s not expected to be released until 2010. I have enjoyed many of Stardock’s DRM free releases such as Galactic Civilizations II and most recently Sins of a Solar Empire (which I need to start playing again).

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Operation new computer is running awfully behind schedule and the hope now is just to complete my new PC as a Christmas gift for myself. I picked the graphics card this week a EVGA Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT to go along with the other parts I’ve bought so far, next on the list is a LCD monitor.

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Over the last few weeks I have been playing Atlantica Online open beta. A few days ago the game fully launched to everyone but unfortunately I’ve seen my time for playing Atlantica get less and less although I am not losing interest. I’d recoment that MMO fans download and give Atlantica Online a spin and even if you are not a fan of MMOs but would like to try out a new game you can play at your own pace especially with friends.

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Dead Space Downfall is a new horror sci-fi animated movie based on and is a prequel to the well received  Electronic Arts video game called Dead Space - which I am playing right now. Dead Space: Downfall follows some of a the crew of the Ishimura, a large space ship called a planet cracker which mines deep into planets to extract valuable ore. While preparing a planet for cracking on the edge of known space a strange artifact is discovered which is thought to be a religious marker of some sort. Not long after the artifact is discovered a massive increase of violence, missing persons and death engulf the crew and so the story of survival begins.

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Daniel from DanielPrimed.com contacted me a couple days ago to be a part of his interview series. He wanted to get Jamaican view of gaming and a view of the gaming scene in Jamaica and I was all too happy to oblige. Here are excerpts of the interview:

Daniel: What sort of games do you find to be popular in Jamaica? Is there any particular style or genre?

Kirk: All genres are enjoyed in Jamaica but I find that shooting games, racing games and fighting games stand out a little more. There is also a huge following of FIFA players.

Daniel: These types of games tend to do well as multiplayer titles, I guess this goes back to that social element of Jamaican culture? Continue Reading »

It was inevitable, but the Nintendo DS has surpassed the Game Boy Advance in sales worldwide. Figures recently released by Nintendo put the number of Nintendo DS sold at the end of Q2 this year at 84.33 million compared to the 81.36 million the Game Boy Advance has sold.

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