What game are you playing now?

What a retarded idea. Any idiot kid could realise you could shake a pedometer and get quicker results!

We do something called the GCC (Global Corporate Challenge) at work, and the idea is to do 10,000 steps a day and record your progress online.

When we got the pack with all the goodies delivered in, my buddy started walking over towards me while making beeping noises that got faster as he got closer.

When I asked wtf he was doing, he said it was just checking if his pedo-meter was working.

Funny bastard :sour:

I'm sure some do - but the idea of giving a kid an in-game reward for being active is a really good thing. Need more things like that.

My kids got a kick out of theirs for awhile, not that they didn't already spend a decent amount of time outside playing.

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I'm sure some do - but the idea of giving a kid an in-game reward for being active is a really good thing. Need more things like that.

My kids got a kick out of theirs for awhile, not that they didn't already spend a decent amount of time outside playing.

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If only some company, possibly Japanese, invented some kind of motion sensing games console..

The original pedometer that works with the original gold/silver goes for over a $100 on amazon. So pissed I lost mine :mad:

Word is that the console Nintendo is about to announce will have touch screen controllers, wonder if they're dropping the motion stuff...

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If only some company, possibly Japanese, invented some kind of motion sensing games console..

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The problem there being that it doesn't get them out of the house, doing something that doesn't involve playing video games (while still rewarding them in a game).

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The original pedometer that works with the original gold/silver goes for over a $100 on amazon. So pissed I lost mine :mad:

Word is that the console Nintendo is about to announce will have touch screen controllers, wonder if they're dropping the motion stuff...

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I don't really like that idea very much.

My son's friend was able to create a private server for MineCraft. They'd tried the largest server but it was too "big", and a smaller server had a bunch of players who would break into their creations and steal stuff. So, a few 15 yr olds are building their own new world, cooperatively, and will open it up to new people once it's established. If they want, maybe/maybe not.

I have no idea how all this works (or even what it means, really), but it's amazing to me that they're doing this. And having such a blast! :D

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well, this is a huge fucking let down. Internet spent days figuring out all the Potato ARG clues, and it alls leads to a sales push by Steam that boils down to "the more people who spend $40 on a bunch of indie games that no one expects to play after getting Portal 2, the sooner you may get portal 2.

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Turns out this may have been rigged, but now all the potatoes people were earning in game are now being consumed by GLaDOS, so something may happen within the next few hours.
A few new ARG clues have also come to light in the last 24 hours, more heavy hints of a HL2:E3 announcement.

:shifty: I kinda enjoy Crysis 2 a lot. Whodda thunk. I'm pretty sure it's because of the Stealth feature of the suit and the over the top booming voice over when you activate shit.

Also little use to just jump out and start gunning down people left and right since you're always vastly outnumbered and your suit's energy only lasts for so long.

Thief on steroids. I give it :up::up:

I find that playing with my self is more satisfactory than gaming these days. It's especially fun in two-player mode. That said, after selling off my standard WoW account populated with T3 60's before the release of the current expansion I've found that hobbies like gardening and photography are more thrilling but also lonely. :( I just can't seem to summon the determination to play through any game these days.

^ Good game. :up:
EDIT: at Crysis 2

Stealth is awesome, but the armor can be fun too, in a "hey can I survive jumping off this building and shooting a rocket into that crowd below at point blank range?" kind of way. :D

So I finally decided to try Fable 2 again, and it's really rather fun. I wonder why I didn't like it the first time.

Also, my daughter just started Portal 2, and it looks totally brilliant. I'm trying very hard not to pay a lot of attention, though, since I'll want to play it too, probably.

Trying my hardest to enjoy Portal 2, I really am. Yet for some reason after about 5 minutes of fantastic gameplay, my framerate completely crashes, rendering the game unplayable. I've installed new drivers and this computer used to be able to handle Portal 1 completely fine, yet even it has the same problem. Anyone know what the hell's going on? :confused:

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I'm trying very hard not to pay a lot of attention, though, since I'll want to play it too, probably.

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I don't know about the PC yet, but the PS3 allows split screen co-op. Not sure if the PC makes it possible, or what the controllers would be, but once my PS3 game comes I'll install its PC copy to check.

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Also, my daughter just started Portal 2, and it looks totally brilliant. I'm trying very hard not to pay a lot of attention, though, since I'll want to play it too, probably.

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I'll play co-op with you lolliyyy!

(maybe, depending on what platform you bought it for)

I bought xbox.

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Seemed like a good idea to me.

:D

Just got portal 1 :)

Mortal Kombat.
It's cool!

Er, Kool.

What's the scoop on Angry Birds? I hear millions of people are playing this on their smart phones, while unwittingly being tracked by servers who sell their identity?

I don't know about selling your identity :bulb: but the Apple App store did use to be pretty lax on what they could do with the info they gathered, and the Andriod is so splintered, there is no telling whats going on.

If you want to play it, just google for a flash game called Crush the Castle. Angry birds is a puffy rip off of that game.

Hell, half the time I think Apple doesn't allow flash because if they did, their App Store wouldn't be worth shit.

Me? Wanting to play Angry Birds on a smart phone? You're kidding, right? :haha:

Just saying if you want to see the mechanics behind why its addictive. Angry Birds is on the PC now too. The Intel App store offers it.

Seriously? I've got a kid "addicted" to Scrabble on his phone, and MineCraft on the computer. Do I need anything else? :sour:

oh yeah, he's also "addicted" to some form of Family Feud or Jeopardy for American History and government. Keeps asking me questions like "Name the first POTUS born in a hospital"....."In what state did the our Civil War begin, and name leading generals"....."When is the last time congress agreed to declare an Act of War?".....

Words With Friends is the ish, Geeg!

And you probably deserved acceptance into university with some financial aid, more than your buddies, NGS. Is there an ish for that?

I don't know, but thanks for the kind words. :)

Finished Portal 2 yesterday, back to Minecraft today because the 1.5 version was released. Powered minecart tracks finally! No more need for the Autocart mod! I just wish they'd get the Nether working online.

Finished Portal 2 single player this morning. I managed to resist playing it yesterday. I woke up early this morning to work, but instead managed to just-one-more-puzzle my way through the rest of the game. Need to do co-op now.

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Finished Portal 2 yesterday, back to Minecraft today because the 1.5 version was released. Powered minecart tracks finally! No more need for the Autocart mod! I just wish they'd get the Nether working online.

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I finally make a mine booster that works, and they go and add this. :D

I haven't started Portal 2 yet. I did, however, finish the main quest of Fable 2 - that was anticlimactic. I am debating getting the DLC for it, because I think I want to play around with this hero some more, and I miss the damne dog (funny considering how I thought it was inthe way at first) and I chose to be unselfish thinking it would actually benefit me.

Of course, I also want to try having an evil hero.

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Finished Portal 2 single player this morning. I managed to resist playing it yesterday. I woke up early this morning to work, but instead managed to just-one-more-puzzle my way through the rest of the game. Need to do co-op now.

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So soon? :eek:

Does that mean it's not really worth the price?

My daughter feels it's worth the price (she hasn't finished it yet).

I still haven't played it.

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So soon? :eek:

Does that mean it's not really worth the price?

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I got through it so soon because I couldn't stop playing it. That has to speak to its quality. I played it a lot on Tuesday, and some Monday night too when it was released. The single player took me a bit more than twice as long as Portal 1 I think, and almost the entire ride was top quality. I still have co-op to play through, but I think it's worth it.

Well I'd better finish Crysis first anyway.

Loved Portal, so I feared a dud. Glad to hear it isn't :)

Amazon finally shipped my PS3 copy of Portal 2 today. Pre-ordered on the 13th and it still took them 4 days after release to get it out of the warehouse. Thats the last time I get a big title from Amazon, especially since BestBuy and WalMart lately have been matching the deals.

Sorry to hear you've been deprived. Amazon's usually been pretty good about those things when I use them. I always get the box on release day.

Amazon applied the $20 preorder credit to my account this morning, I used it to order Epic Mickey CE (only had to pay $8!).

Its set to be delivered the day after Portal 2 :confused:. Me thinks Amazon oversold its Portal 2 preorders and didn't tell anyone...

I can't wait until I'll have the time and focus to play a real game again. Until then, I've been lately addicted to the Mahjongg game that came with my Winodws 7. God I'm old.