BattleBlock Theater Closed Beta

Thanks to The Behemoth I will be able to play this game before it is released on the Xbox Live Arcade. I've been waiting for this game since it's debut announcement back in 2010; don't quote me on that. I just got my invitation the mail (via outlook) stating I'm one of the lucky 1,000 people that is enlisted in the Closed Beta, and I can bring up to 2 friends or family members if I sign them up under my invitation as well.

Congratulations on being one of the first 1000 selected Beta Testers. The selection process is on-going and we're doing our best to get a good mixture of people into the beta test. We are starting with the first 1000 to give you a chance to invite 2 friends or family members to join you in beta testing. This will help create a more natural environment, since most people play with their friends when they do online multiplayer.

This post is short but sweet, to my self. It's late and sorry to the few readers that come here. Next time I'll make sure it's worth your wile. I'll be having a contest for a Halo 4 avatar shirt for your Xbox 360 or I might even have a contest for a LE Multiplayer Pack for Aliens: Colonial Marines for the Xbox 360. I don't know if I will yet because it could be a waste of time since maybe no one reads this non sense garbage. Stay Frosty.

Halo 2 Vista To Fight Another Day

Server support for Halo 2 is to continue until June 2013, until such time as 343 Industries looks at further support options.

It had previously been announced that Halo 2’s PC multiplayer servers would be shut down on February 5th. However, it seems the game has had a last minute reprieve with 343 Industries announcing an extension.

“Halo 2 PC support extended through June 2013 while we investigate further support options. Now go get those achievements,” tweeted the 343 designer David Ellis.

Hopefully they add P2P or self hosted servers would do it good. Maybe one day I'll be able to jump on this until they decide to make an anniversary edition for the next Xbox.  So go get those achievements while you can!

Identity Thief - The Movie

Financial bureaucrat Sandy Patterson (Bateman) is informed by his credit card company that he has gone over his limit when he tries to purchase gasoline. Later that day, he is arrested for missing a court date in Orlando, almost 2,000 miles from his home in Denver. In reality, his identity has been stolen by Diana (McCarthy), a con artist. In a desperate attempt to save his job, Patterson flies to her location and finds her. Patterson then drives across the country back to Denver with Diana to get her to confess her crime, exonerating him of the debt that she has racked up in his name. On the way, they are tracked by fellow criminals who want to exact revenge for schemes that Diana has pulled on them.

Personal Quick Review: 8/10 It's worth a watch. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious and makes this movie a gut buster! Sorry Jason Bateman!

Weekly Roundup WWE / TNA nonsense.

Aside from posts that I'll be posting randomly, I think I'll have a required post of anything on Monday's. It seems that's when I most frequently have a post is Monday night. I want to stay active on the interwebs so why not? This will be short and sour, because I know the few that look at my blog probably just browse for boredom and nothing really interesting happens over here, yet.

The thing I'll talk about this week is WWE '12 People's Edition for the Xbox 360. I got it for $25 on eBay, and that is including S/H. Now I thought it was really worth it since it came with a DVD of 2 episodes where The Rock returned to the WWE, a 'trading card' of The Rock and a voucher to download The Rock to play with in the game. Now it was brand new so I was excited that I get the exclusive character, The Rock. Come to find out I could have possibly gotten WWE '12 regular edition cheaper and downloaded The Rock for 80MSP, which is equivalent to $1, but I'm not complaining because I love collectors edition so I couldn't pass this one up since I just recently got back into the WWE after I stopped watching it about 5 years ago, and let me tell ya that I miss the era back than compared to this PG era. It adds nicely to my collection of Xbox 360 games that I'm collecting up now instead of trading and selling them, because you never know. It could be 'retro' one day. The last WWE game I played was 2007 I believe, which was called Smackdown vs Raw instead of solely WWE. I remember when Smackdown was PS2 and Raw was Xbox, and Raw sucked as a game because of the controls. Now these controls they revamped have become very sleek and smooth compared to what they were in 2007. I officially can't wait for my Stone Cold edition to come in the mail so I can start playing the fresh roster that I love to hate, hate to love.

Online for this game sucks because everyone just run grapples you and if you can't counter fast enough, then game over. I'd love to have a co-op Road to Wrestlemania because if you haven't learned already through a few posts is that I love co-op games over single player ones.Who wouldn't love some Tag Team action through the story to win the titles with a buddy? I know I surely would.

There's really now much to talk about right now besides I'm interested in the WWE again and might start watching TNA since a lot of the wrestlers I grew up with are on there now. I guess WWE thought they were getting too 'old'? Jeff Hardy is my favorite, back when it was Hardy Boys with Lita and Jeff Hardy just signed a long term contract with TNA last week so the rumors of him coming back to WWE got shut down. The last time I watched TNA was when Kurt Angle I think just joined it and it was an octagon or something of that nature instead of a square. I guess having more than 4 corners fucks up the WWE Alumni.

Happy Valentines Day anyone and everyone!

Farewell Halo 2 Vista

Halo 2 Vista will be closing its servers on February 15th, 2013. According to 343i, less than 50 players have peaked being online at the same time for the PC Version. I never got to play the PC version because my computer doesn't run anything besides web pages, I'm saddened to see the last online playable Halo 2 game to be shut down, unless you use XboxConnect of course! Hopefully they do announce a Halo 2 anniversary as well. Halo 2 is what made Xbox Live and I'd love to play it into the endless night once again like I used to a long time ago. I grew up with that game and besides it making me want to get Xbox Live, it also expanded LAN parties away from Halo 1. Halo 2 HD or Halo 2 Anniversary, whatever you want to call it, would be amazing if it launched with the next Xbox. It probably wouldn't do as amazing as when it first came out but I could see it doing some greatness, that is if they add all the DLC from the Xbox and the exclusive Vista maps to it. Maybe even adding cosmetic unlocks, public ranking system outside of ranked matches, and the choice to switch graphics like with Halo: CEA! Farewell Halo 2 Vista, hoping one day we meet again.

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Ranting v0.1

I'm going to have a weekly or bi-weekly Ranting segment where I shit on games/movies/etc.. that I have purchased or watched or anything really. This first one will be about a few games I purchased from GameStop and my local used game store.

I went to my local used game store and purchased Bulletstorm for 8.99, to realize that in order to play online I'd need to purchase a $10 online pass, well for the echoes part that is. I asked them about if it required one and they said no so come to conclusion was that I took it out of my xbox, deleted the 0 gamerscore history and now it's awaiting to be returned. I could pay $19.99 for a new copy that comes with the pass so why even bother saving that simple $1? I prefer new over used any day but when it's like a $10 difference then of course I'd go for the used copy. Now I really loved the demo so I was going to think I'd love the game but I'm not even going to bother with it anymore, I already have too many other games to play and I can swap it out for a different one that would probably play better, Mirror's Edge is on my mine. They had it for $12 so I might pick that one up. I played it when it first came out but traded it to a buddy for his Left 4 Dead because like I tell everyone basically on a daily basis is that anything with Zombies has me won over, and that's the truth.

I bought 1 more game from them and it was Rock Band 2. My drums were shit and my whammy bar on the guitar didn't work so for $75 I was definitely going to grab that game. Now I want to return it because it's in worse condition (playable wise) than my current one. Of course when you buy used you can't guarantee everything 100% but luckily they have a 2 week return policy, but only in store credit. That's a good thing for them because than they don't lose out on any profit. They'll get around $85 in merchandise back but I'll be taking a different $85 worth of merchandise home, so it's a win win situation. I might pick up a game boy and pokemon yellow while I'm at it! They have everything you could think of. That's that on my local used game store, now let's head on over to the GameStop part of this rant.

After I was done with the game store I headed on over GameStop to get Rock Band 1 for $0.99 and I browsed around a bit to see what else I wanted that was fairly cheap. They had Duke Nukem Forever for a few bucks so I snagged that, even though everyone gave it bad reviews. You think it wouldn't be a horrible game either way because Gearbox snagged the rights for it, and let me tell you they never disappoint on anything. Now I'm not saying it's a horrible game but it's not a great game either, but for $3 you can't go wrong. I played a match of multiplayer, which had about 10 people max on there and it was weird because the controls are different than what I expected them to be. This game had great potential but I think the fans wanted more out of it than it was given. Either way I'll keep it or take it back and grab the balls of steel edition for $20. I looked that thing up and it comes with a lot of goodies for just a $20 bill.

I kept browsing around and grabbed RAGE to see what it was about, I played 1 multiplayer session on that and talked to the guy about how the single player game was and he said it was crap. Without even touching it I put everything back in it's case and it's awaiting its return back to the shelves of GameStop. Upon checking out I asked the guy if he had any Tony Hawk games with covers, I can't stand those generic ones but the Platinum Hits I abide by sometimes. He pulled out Project 8 and I was excited. I really been looking for American Wasteland because that is by far the best game for Tony Hawk, besides THUG. I've been looking everywhere locally for Tony Hawk games with covers on them and this was my first one for $5 and I played a bit of it. I payed with my created skater and I guess I was obsessed with Travis Barker, because that's what he looks like. He's got the hawk, famous, tats, everything to resemble that you could think of for that game.

To come to the conclusion, I love used games most of the time because of things like this happen. When you get a new game, you are stuck with it unless you trade it in for crap cash or sell it to someone else for a little less than you payed for. All in all I love the outcome of my adventure and stay tuned for v0.2 :) Thanks for reading, maybe?

Blogs of the Dead

Hello and welcome to a one time segment of, Blogs of the Dead. Where we (as in I) talk about the death of blogs, from my point of view.

I used to see blogs as a public way to vent but on the internet. What I mean by venting is to post whatever your heart desires. From posting about your favorite band, to what you did that week, or how Hulu Plus is pissing me off right as I type this. The damn thing keeps stopping and I'm about to cancel the piece of shit. Well anyways is was your own page and you could do whatever you want. It was basically and still is a place to call your own or home when you are online. Some people use Blogs for so much more than just a personal use like I do, to talk about non sense. I do see blogs dying but I don't see them disappearing, just dwindling.

On to the matter of the subject that I am appointing to. What I mean by them dwindling is that Facebook pages and Twitter has taken blogging to a whole new level. They call Twitter micro blogging and Facebook it self is considered something like that. Tumblr took it to a whole new level by incorporating the easy post and feeds but while anyone can get a Facebook page, it seems like you can get a better group of followers through their instead of redirecting everyone to a different website outside of the comfort zone of Facebook. There are still many popular blogs out there that probably get more followers than a decent Facebook page, but in sense you see people making pages instead of blogs now a days.

I made a Facebook page but never got around to using it. I'd rather post crap on here where maybe 1 person reads a year since it makes me feel all special like. Posting more often would probably net me more people coming to my blog but I tend to only post once a week and sometimes less than that, it all depends on what life has given me around that time.

This was a small vent but to anyone that reads my blog, what is your input on blogs and Facebook pages? Do you agree with me or do you think they are as popular as they were 5 years ago?

Aliens: Colonial Marines

This game comes out next week on 2/12/13 and let's talk about the collector's edition. A lot of people are loving it and a lot of them are hating it, but that comes with all special edition copies of any game. Halo 3 for instance? I got a Master Chief helmet that I was so excited to put on, to only find out that it was just a case cover but it's better than anything because Halo is by far my favorite game so any Halo memorabilia has won me over no matter how awful it looks or sounds.

Enough about Halo, let's get back to the collector's edition to the new Aliens Colonial Marines game by Gearbox. The first thing that won me over is the highly detailed resin display model of an iconic Aliens power loader being attacked by a Xenomorph. That statue itself got me wanting the collectors edition to call my own. I'm a big Aliens fan and this will look nicely side by side with all my other collector figurines and stuff.

Next up on the list is a, not yet official, special artwork for the game case, a USCM dossier and the statue of course, all crammed into a limited edition display box with a foldout wrap around the display. There's also some exclusive in-game content that comes with the collectors edition. There's 3 multiplayer weapons, such as a flamethrower, smart gun, and an upgraded pulse rifle. Also an additional game mode thrown in, called the USCM Academy Firing Range. There's plenty more that comes with it which I'll list below, thanks to Gamestop's listing.

High Quality Resin Powerloader Figurine in Limited Edition Xeno Hive Box

Four Playable Movie Characters

Additional Marines Character Customization Options

Ripley's Flamethrower

Exclusive Multiplayer Weapons

Sonic Electronic Ball Breakers

Phase Plasma Rifle

Exclusive Game Level

USCM Academy Firing Range

USCM Dossier

Mission Brief

USS Sephora Schematic

Recruitment Card

LV-426 Recon Photo

USCM Iron-on Badges

USCM Graduation Certificate

A lot of the in-game content you get with the collector's edition, you will get with pre ordering it through gamestop. It costs $99.99 for the collector's edition but I do believe it's too late to even try to get it now, unless you are very lucky. I know my local gamestop stops special pre orders within a month or two from announcing it, probably because it's a small store.

Now enough about my blabber, check out the pictures of the collectors edition and pre order offers through gamestop below. This wraps up my weekly post and also check some of the links below the pictures for more info on this game.

Pre Order Content

Collector's Edition Image 1

Collector's Edition Image 2

Official Website | Aliens: Colonial Marines Achievements | GameStop Link

Note: I'm an Xbox Fanboy so majority of all my stuff will consist towards that side, no offense.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Revolution Achievements

These are the 10 new achievements that will be available once the new DLC is active. They are all linked to the new Zombies map, 'Die Rise', and the new Zombies game mode, 'Turned'. Happy hunting!

• High Maintenance 75G- In Die Rise, be the architect of their instruction.
• Vertigoner 10G- In Die Rise, fling 10 zombies in one game.
• Mad Without Power 30G- In Die Rise, reach round 10 before turning on the power.
• Shafted 35G- In Die Rise, use Pack-a-Punch and all perk machines in one game.
• Slippery When Undead 15G- In Die Rise, kill 5 zombies with a single shot from the Sliquifier.
• Facing the Dragon 10G- In Die Rise, face the dragon head-on before reaching round 2.
• I'm My Own Best Friend 10G- In Die Rise, revive yourself.
• Polyarmory 30G- In Diner Turned, get a kill with each primary weapon in a Public Match.
• Monkey See, Monkey Doom 15G- In Diner Turned, retrieve a chained Cymbal Monkey in a Public Match.
• I See Live People 20G- In Diner Turned, kill the human while its decoy is in play in a Public Match.

You'll be able to see these and all the original Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 achievements Here, complete with pictures and guides on how to achieve them.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 First DLC

Launching January 29th on Xbox 360 the Revolution DLC Map Pack will be taking up A LOT of your time. With four new Multiplayer maps, zombies map, and game mode, and an all new weapon, your schedule's already packed.

Season Pass holders will save a whopping $10 if you fork over 4000 Microsoft Points ($50) all up front. If you're like me, you'd rather spend all the money at once so you won't have to worry about it later. Since I have school tomorrow all day (college), I won't be able to play any of it till late at night and I'm most excited for the new bonus weapon (Peacekeeper SMG) and the Zombies game mode (Turned), and how it will hold up with Tranzit (the best zombie game mode ever!)

Now I'll leave you be so you can anxiously await the release of the new DLC which should be releasing in about 3 hours from now. Happy Newb Hunting!

Dad of The Dead

Imagine Robert Englund playing George A. Romero in the final Dead movie that Romero would write and direct along side Englund. I know it say's "Tom Savini's" and he has directed a few of Romero's movies but I think the other two guys would do a fantastic job, or even all 3 directing it while Romero would screen write it along with the help from them as well. Englund would play as Romero and then he would die at the hands of Romero himself, which he would be the original Zombie, and that would be the end of the movie. Now that would fuck with your head just a little bit.

The Orange Box Rant

Been playing The Orange Box on the Xbox 360 since my computer for some odd reason can not run any games without having horrible lag issues. I lost my save file from switching Xbox's and now I have to start the Half-Life's over, as well as Portal. I was close to beating Episode 2 but now it's all gone but I've been stuck playing Team Fortress 2. I love the game and the funny attitude it has with it. I know the PC version is so much better and I have it purchased, before it became free to play, but of course it's not an option as of right now. Let's hope they release that Steam Box by the end of the year.

Who else plays this game on the Xbox 360? It's still very active with at least 100+ players a day I see and yet it's never been updating with any DLC. It's hard to see games like that but I guess Valve has a great fan base with there games to do so. They should really release Team Fortress 2 by itself on the Arcade or on a disc with as much updates as they could add to it. I believe that would sell so well for them.

Look at Left 4 Dead 2 for instance. Left 4 Dead 2 has been out for 3 years now on the Xbox 360 and they just now reached the max memory for the game. The game started with just 5 campaigns and then added more by campaign and brought over all the original ones from the first game, making the total come to 13. Even with the last DLC not introducing any new achievements, people still bought it and play this game regularly. It just goes to show that a great game can last forever no matter what happens.

Now only if Microsoft would learn and invest in great developers. They should let them have the Arcade version of Team Fortress 2 with no limit on it and free updates for Valve. They could charge us 80MSP for each update or so that they could still earn revenue on it but Valve would get money from the in-game purchases of the Workshop. I wouldn't even mind if they put ads on the main menu like they do with the Xbox Dashboard just so they could earn there money back by investing in free updates on this great game. I believe it would be the #1 Arcade game of all time. Valve is an amazing company and they have excellent ideas but the Xbox just pushes it away with charging for updates, which is silly in my opinion. Microsoft is doing whatever they can to make a buck off of anyone.

That's the end of my story and I'm off to go play some Team Fortress 2 again.

Random Boredom

I've tried Tumblr, I've tried WordPress, and now I'm back on Blogger. Tumblr is more so for pictures, wordpress is for the hxc bloggers and I see blogger itself as a simple unique blog where I can post all my crap. On Tumblr I tried going for the 1 post a day thing but it failed, it was mainly just photos but Assassin's Creed 3 came out and I lost track of time. Now I'm going to be here but instead it will be random. There might be a post a day, there might be a post a week, I don't know yet but all I can say is I have a life and this is just for fun and to just post crap I want to. Now enough about this, go check out this link and report back. Haha

Emfulz v1.0

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