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GGF#21: Lara Croft comes to Singapore
Fri, 3 October 2008 4:44 pm![[Gamer Girl Friday]](http://www.sheylara.com/images08/gamergirlfriday.jpg)
Today’s GGF is very Xbox-centric because we have all been swept into this crazy Xbox vortex, with so many exciting events happening in the Xbox world this month! I’m all dizzy, I swear.
Today’s GGF is also a crazed hyena with rabies doing the 100-metre dash because that’s about what I’m feeling, right now.
So, if anything feels wrong today, please blame the chocolates I’ve been overdosing on to give myself imagined energy boosts.
Also, I have one bit of very important news to announce. But I don’t want to say it now because I want to make you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the issue to read it.
(Blame the chocolates.)
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Table of Contents
- Meet Lara Croft in the flesh!
- You could be the next face of Xbox!
- Rocking out at Xbox Xperience Zone
- Sheylara Bus
- Celebrating Halo 3 anniversary by dying
- Results of last week’s contest
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Meet Lara Croft in the flesh!
This has to be one of the best news all year for all you hot-blooded males (and maybe females, too)!
The latest official Lara Croft, portrayed by sexy gymnast Alison Carroll, is coming to Singapore this month!
Bookmark your calendar RIGHT NOW!
She will be appearing at X08, the biggest Xbox event of the year, from Oct 24 to 26, 2008.
And fans will get a chance to get her autograph and have photos taken with her!
Because GGF is updated only weekly, you should stalk my Xbox blog for more regular updates on Lara Croft’s appearance as well as X08 itself!
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You could be the next face of Xbox!
Okay, I’m lazy, plus I’m running out of time, so I’m going to plagiarise my own blog and copy wholesale what I’ve written in my Xbox blog, okay?
Okay! (I gave myself permission to plagiarise myself.)
Woah! Yes! You saw right! The Xbox team is now on the lookout for a new Xbox Xpert to join me in my mission to shape the Xbox outreach in Singapore!
This means that one awesome person will get to do all the crazy stuff I’ve been doing here, and Xbox gamers will have more opportunities to interact with the Xbox team in Singapore!
The good news is that you don’t have to be a female. Or a male, for the matter. (Of course, it would be nice if you had a specific gender but either one is fine.)
What we really want are people with passion, people with a desire to help bring gamers together, people with the secret ambition to convert every last human being in the world into being an Xbox gamer! Mwahahaha.
Kidding about the last bit. That’s just me.
Very importantly, you should be an Xbox gamer, yourself.
HOW TO BE THE NEXT XPERT?
For a while now, we’ve been quietly building an Xbox Xperts page on Facebook. Sneaky, aren’t we? So, what we want for you to do is go there and upload a 2-minute video telling us why you should be the next Xpert.
Be creative as you can, but don’t break any laws doing it!
For more detailed instructions, CLICK HERE.
To upload your video, CLICK HERE.
The winner gets to be my slave!!!
No, I’m joking. The winner will get to do fun stuff together with me! (I’ll keep the slavery to a minimum, promise!)
Enough talk, now. Let’s see some vee-deeos!=)
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Rocking out at Xbox Xperience Zone
Before anything else, here’s a video of me playing Rock Band at the Xbox Xperience Zone last week, at Challenger Funan! I’m on the drums.
This was the last song I “performed” before I left the event. We had asked for volunteers to jam with me, but the crowd at the time happened to be super shy, so my real friends (who were there to support me) volunteered, so that I could finish up, pack up and go home! LOL.
My friends are sweet!
The Xbox Xperience Zone is a new space created by the Singapore Xbox Team to allow gamers to try the latest games and learn more about the Xbox from trained staff in the zone.
The first XXZ was launched last week at Challenger Funan, in conjuction with the launch of Rock Band for Asia and Infinite Undiscovery, the popular Square Enix Xbox 360 exclusive.
It was also an opportunity to meet with Xbox fans and be totally decadent by playing games on the job!
Since Rock Band is such a cool game, I spent most of my three hours there playing it! Heh.
I also chattered on (I can’t remember now what I was talking about)…
…and camwhored with my standee!
We held two Rock Band competitions within three hours and winners walked away with exclusive Xbox 360 bags and watches!
The fans really loved it!
And check out this little drummer!
He had a lot of difficulty following the coloured bars on the screen, but he kept persisting and wanted to get it right. Good boy! But his father was so worried about his little boy hogging the drums that he kept telling his son, “Enough, boy, let’s go!” Good man! LOL.
And tons of photos with Xbox fans!
See, we had so much fun! A shame if you weren’t there!! ;)
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Sheylara Bus
Multitudes of people have been kindly informing me via SMS that they have seen me on this bus that plies Orchard Road.
I reply, “I don’t take buses in Orchard lah.”
And they say, “I MEAN YOUR PHOTO LAH, IDIOT.”
Okay, fine.
So, I’m on a bus and now, I have photos of me beside me being on the bus!
We had to cheat a bit.
The Xbox Team arranged for the Xpert bus to be made available to us one sunny afternoon, so we could take photos of it without having to go camp Orchard Road like desperados, armed with ready cameras on tripods.
So, here’s the bus! TA-DAH!!
Does seeing this bus make you feel an uncontrollable urge to pick up an Xbox 360 to play? It’d better, or we’ll want our money back from the Secret Department of Subliminal Domination. We had subliminal messages magically weaved into the images on the bus saying, “Play Xbox!”
Oh wait, I think I’m not supposed to tell you that.
More photos!
Right, enough of buses. Don’t later people say I sua ku, like never see bus before like that.
(That last sentence, by the way, was a very fine specimen of Singlish, which I’m sure non-Singaporeans will be very impressed with because they don’t understand what the hell we’re saying when we lapse into that.)
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Celebrating Halo 3 anniversary by dying
The first time I got into a Halo 3 multiplayer game was with a bunch of International strangers and it was my very first time playing that game. I didn’t even know what buttons to press and what I was supposed to do.
Needless to say, I died countless horrible deaths.
Last Saturday, I got invited into a game by a group of Singapore gamers whom I had gotten to know through Xbox LIVE. They were cool! They took the time to teach me how to play the game before they thrashed me!
First, though, we all gathered at the beach to take some screenshots because, unbeknownst to me, it was Halo 3’s first anniversary!
Screenshot by Merdeka
There was a lot of screaming and shouting as a few jokers started killing everyone while people were trying to get in position for the photograph. Then the dead ones had to respawn and run back to the beach, cursing and swearing.
It was hilarious.
At one point of time, one of the guys asked me to jump on the back of his vehicle for the photo.. So I did.
And then he drove off with me clinging on for dear life.
The others yelled at him and asked him to bring me back but he just laughed.
And then one of the other guys shot him dead and he fell off the vehicle.
LOL.
With 10 players in the game all talking at once, it was quite a mess!
Anyway, we finally managed to get some nice screenshots, and then we started the game.
I did quite well. In one hour, I managed to kill about three people.
In comparison, I was killed about 3,000 times.
Wootage. It was fun.
Screenshot of me by Merdeka. I’m gonna get pink armor the next time.
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Results of last week’s contest
I put up a Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000 as prize last week and asked readers to answer five questions to get into the lucky draw.
The questions didn’t deter people at all. I got tons of entries for this contest. Good job, guys!
I really enjoyed reading all the answers, so before I announce the winner, I want to publish some interesting answers from random contestants!
Why do you want this prize?
Honestly — I like this one because it looks so cool. It looks like some fancy gadget from the future. With this in my possession, I would be invincible! — modchip
Because I dont have a webcam and it would be good for me to camwhore with it when I get bored waiting for Sheylara to update her blog. Hahahah. — felicia
Because my cam that is suppose to be a genius is not really that smart anymore. — Lee Mark Anthony
Because it’s a webcam! And also because I don’t have one? This is the only thing I’ve bothered to enter your contest for. Doesn’t that show how much I want it? — jwong
Do you actually read Gamer Girl Friday or do you usually just skip to the contest section?
sorry Guy don’t really read but skip to contest section — Chow SW
Honestly, I would go directly to the contest page. — Syazana
I usually just read GGf and ignore the contests. — jwong
What’s your favourite game?
Er… X-com: UFO Defense *blush* — tiger4
Starcraft (I know I am kind of old dork who lives in the past haha. Now looking forward to Starcraft2) — Aicee
What’s your gender?
Haha! What a silly question. ^_^ — modchip
Urhm. FEE-MALE. A silly question indeed. — felicia
Male (Wish I was female though. They get all the good stuff in MMOs) — Dominic
I know this is gross but the one that gives out red stuff every month. — Syazana
The one that hurts more when you are kicked between your legs. — Dwayne Tan
What’s the first thing you’ll take a photo of if you win this lifecam?
My bitter half and she refuses to be called a thing. — Lee Mark Anthony
Some of the cute dogs at ASD - Action for Singapore Dogs. These abandoned dogs need more publicity because they need homes. — Dwayne Tan
oooh my dog and I? i have a crush on my dog!! hahaha — mok ying ying
Hmmm nothing. Not into photography — Aicee
My happy face — jefflee893
AND THE WINNER IS…
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Congratulations! Here are Lindy’s answers!
Why do you want this prize?
Because I lost my previous old and lousy webcam, and I want to get a new oneee!Do you actually read Gamer Girl Friday or do you usually just skip to the contest section?
I’ll read about cute games like patapon! Or game events too!What’s your favourite game? (Can be console or PC.)
For now it’ll be N+ on PSP!What’s your gender?
FemaleWhat’s the first thing you’ll take a photo of if you win this lifecam?
A mirrored version of the lifecam! =D
Lindy, if you’re reading this, please send me an e-mail to claim your prize (in case I forget)!
Thank you all for participating!
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Random photo for fun
So, here’s the important announcement: There is no contest today because there will be no GGF next week!
Sorry. =(
I am applying for a one-week leave and if you don’t give it to me, I quit!
LOL.
Seriously, I can’t do GGF next week because I’m travelling to KL and Penang for a feature film shoot and it’s going to occupy most of my time.
I will still update my blog as daily as possible during the week I’m there, to tell you all about the exciting torments that my director will be putting me through, but I will be out of the gaming scene, for sure.
I toyed around with the idea of making the Goonfather step in for me, and calling next week’s issue Gamer Goon Father, but then he told me that his idea of a good gaming blogazine looks something like this:
1. The Force Unleashed
Freaking good game. Buy it!!
2. Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway
Has great reviews. Didn’t try cos too busy playing The Force Unleashed.
3. Tom Clancy’s EndWar
Coming soon! But play The Force Unleashed first.
4. Fable II
Play THE FORCE UNLEASHED a million times and get all the holocrons!
The End
I’m of the opinion that you readers might just prefer that GGF takes a break for a week. Business will resume on Oct 17!
In the meantime, you should still continue reading Sheylara.com for daily rubbish and Xperts.com.sg for Xbox gaming updates!
Till the next time!
GGF#20: Sheylara and Xbox weekend
Fri, 26 September 2008 9:56 pm
I wanted to review Brother in Arms: Hell’s Highway in this issue, but I absolutely have no time for that. At least I’m on schedule this week, even if I’m posting this really late in the night.
The lead story this week is of the Xbox activities happening this weekend at Funan Challenger because I have to promote my own events, right? If not, who will?
Other than it, it’s just my usual half-baked review on this and that. I’m sure that makes you quite delighted. So, let’s move on.
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Table of Contents
- Catch me at the Xbox Xperience Zone
- Infinite Undiscovery – 1st hour impressions
- Feeling at home in PlayStation Home
- Intel gives amateur gamers a chance
- Results of last week’s contest
- Ask Sheylara
- Win a Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000 for Notebooks!!
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Catch me at the Xbox Xperience Zone
I suppose this is sort of late notice, but if you’ve been following my Xbox blog, you’d have known already!
This is a weekend for Xbox fans! Xbox Singapore has just launched a new concept retail space called the Xbox Xperience Zone. Trailers of upcoming games will be shown on screens around and you’ll also be able to play the latest games on big screens.
Photo by Nizam. Check out his blog for more photos.
The first Xbox Xperience Zone was launched yesterday at Challenger Funan (5th floor). With the launch comes a host of exciting promotions to tease you into parting with your money willingly. (Only for this weekend!)
And I’ll be making an appearance tomorrow to mingle with Xbox fans, play games, take photos, sign autographs, whatever.
In case you can’t tell, this is a hasty cut-and-paste job of me looking delighted, using one of Nizam’s photos. Cute, huh?
Some of the cool stuff you can expect this weekend:
- Rock Band Asia release! About freaking time is what I want to say. There will be a set on demo so come rock with me!!
- Launch of Infinite Undiscovery, the much-awaited RPG title from Square Enix. It will be available for you to try out this weekend and there are also limited edition CD soundtracks available.
- New low price for Xbox 360 Arcade at $399. This set comes with a 256MB memory console, a wireless controller and five Xbox LIVE arcade games. Good for people who are mostly interested in playing Xbox arcade games.
- Get exclusive Xbox premiums when you buy stuff!
I’ll be there from 2pm to 5pm tomorrow (Saturday), but the promotions last all weekend. See you there!
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Infinite Undiscovery – 1st hour impressions
Well, as the title says, this is only a first-hour impression, so you might not want to put too much stock into what I’m going to say.
First of all, the game has two discs, which is immediately intimidating or immediately attractive, depending on what kind of person you are.
I’m the first kind because I’m getting more games than I have time to play, so I need my games to be short.
I quite enjoyed the introduction sequence (although the first few minutes were pretty draggy). The style of drawing and the characters reminds me of Soul Calibur.
I waited to be wowed after the intro but the wow didn’t come. It was, instead, kind of peculiar.
You play Capell, a cowardly minstrel, and you start off in a jail, begging for food.
After the guard makes snide comments at you, a pretty lolita drops in from the ceiling. She bops the guard over the head, addresses you as Lord Sigmund and tries to rescue you.
And you’re, like, “No, no, I’m not a lord whatever. You have the wrong person, lady, so I’ll just crawl back into my cell now, thanks.”
Then, more guards come in and take out the lolita and you’re left on your own, defenceless.
Just as you’re about to become minced meat, you suddenly pick up the sword that Lolita dropped and you’re suddenly an accomplished fighter, despatching guards without effort (that is, simply by mashing buttons A and B).
The game starts off being action-packed and not making a lot of sense but then, I guess the title already warns us of that.
As you and Lolita (whose name is actually Aya) explore the prison grounds looking for a way out, the game tosses you pages off a game manual to teach you how to perform various actions.
I feel that this could have been done better. As it is now, the help interface looks quite retarded and pulls you out of the game world.
I had to read a total of 11 pages before my first battle, which was a bit of an information overload. I could only remember pages 1 and 2 by the time I was done, which was why I ended up mashing A and B to kill the guards.
Well, the good thing is that fight animations are fast and beautiful and make you look rather glamorous, especially when you do combos.
I think the game is determined to leave you gasping for breath at every turn. My heart never stopped pumping during the hour I was playing, as I frantically killed guards and tried to run away from a boss-that-cannot-be-killed.
Then, there was this trek through a pitch-black forest, illuminated by lamps at specific points. The mini map shows the way, but it gets blurred out when you step into a dark area unlit by a lamp, so that’s really challenging, not being able to see where you’re going (unless you cheat by turning up the brightness of your screen, which I didn’t try.)
After 25 minutes of bumbling through the forest and killing more guards along the way, with no save point in sight, the boss-that-cannot-be-killed suddenly made an appearance!!
I spent the next five minutes trying not to have a heart attack while I ran away from him, from countless guards shooting arrows at me, from bloodhounds, from irritating giant bees.
A few times, I thought I was going to die and have to make the 25-minute trek all over again because it was so dark and I kept running into walls and I couldn’t stop and fight because Aya said that the boss-that-cannot-be-killed cannot be killed, and I was actually knocked unconscious a few times.
Fortunately for the game, I survived the encounter and the game disc narrowly escaped a violent episode involving me and my hands.
Save points in games are very much like oases in deserts, wouldn’t you say?
The save point in Infinite Undiscovery is a blue glowy.
Well, what I would say is that Infinite Undiscovery is not for beginners (although there is an Easy mode for noobs, but I didn’t try that because some features are not available in Easy mode).
According to Wikipedia, the game throws you into many situations where you have to experiment with creative ways to pass a stage or defeat a mob.
You will eventually have up 18 characters to manage in your party, although you only control yourself. The rest are AI, but you can manually use any of their skills by using the Connect function.
For example, Aya has a bow and sometimes I need to take out something at range. It’s a useful feature to have but the interface is irritating. A lot of time is wasted going into the interface, selecting the character, selecting the weapon, waiting for the crosshair to appear, and then aiming.
Trying to use Aya’s bow skill killed me twice in the game. The action in the game is so fast that I just get creamed even before the crosshair appears.
Oh, there’s also the fact that the game makes you draw and sheath weapons manually. That means you press a button to draw and press it again to sheath. When it’s drawn, you can’t do certain actions like open chests or save game. When it’s sheathed, you can’t fight, obviously.
Some might find that realistic and challenging, but I find it downright annoying.
This game is not for the faint-hearted, really. But I think it would appeal to strategists. Gamers who like to apply smarts to outwit situations. IU promises that.
I picked up some apple things in the forest which I think I was supposed to use somehow to lure the hounds away, but in my frenzy to get out of the forest alive, I totally forgot all about them. I might have had an easier time if I had used them.
Last thing to say. The storyline is interesting. At the end of my deadly forest excursion, my party gets rescued by the gallant Lord Sigmund, who looks exactly like me (Capell), so there’s this mystery waiting to be solved.
Who are these two people and why do they look so alike? You start to think maybe they’re long-lost twin brothers that got separated at birth by some dastardly world-domination plot.
I guess I would have to continue playing the game if I want to find out. (Or I could read spoilers but i don’t think that’s fun.)
The game just needs to give me more save points if it doesn’t want me to die of heart attack.
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Feeling at home in PlayStation Home
PlayStation Home is really quite impressive at first glance. It’s now in beta, but it will soon be available to all PS3 owners at no cost other than some bandwidth spent downloading the software.
If you’re into customised avatars and such, you will spend a gadzillion years creating your avatar. The permutations are literally endless.
Here’s the primary list of things you can tweak on your avatar:
If you choose “Face”, for instance, you go into a sub-menu that allows you to tweak every part of your face.
And then, more sub-menus:
And more!
Like, it’s totally crazy, okay? I decided I didn’t have a gadzillion years to spare, so I just chose a preset face and spent two minutes changing my hair colour (I like pink hair!) and putting on a better-looking t-shirt. Then I went out into the world.
Here’s what greeted me first. My home!
Very nice! I always wanted to have a big, empty home!
The view out the balcony:
Sony sure knows how to pamper a gamer!
In your career as a PS3 gamer, you will no doubt pick up items to decorate your home with, through playing games or taking part in activities in the PS Home community, I don’t know.
Decorating your home is like playing The Sims, quite intuitive stuff.
The items I have access to now are really limited, so I got this rug and bubble blower for a start.
Here’s a hilarious bit of AI. I was trying to place an ornament, right? The program makes you move the ornament around in mid-air before dropping it down to be placed permanently. So, when I dropped this particular ornament, it would keep landing on its side and roll around the room.
It took me a few tries before I realised that I could move it nearer to the ground before dropping it so that it wouldn’t fall on the side.
My apartment from the outside:
The world outside is pretty. It’s like Second Life but prettier. The only annoyance is that I have to download each section of the world before being able to walk into it, but I guess that’s just an initial pain.
The loading takes forever, too.
You can talk using preset speeches or typing with the digital keyboard.
You can sit down in the square and watch a video.
There are adverts and posters all around, the sneaky joes.
You can interact with other real people. I’m not sure why some people appear to me as ghosts.
Maybe because it’s still in beta, loading stuff in PS Home really takes some time. It takes half a minute to load a single furniture item before I can see it and place it. I hope it will become more normal at release.
Overall, I think it will be quite a great place for the PS3 community to interact.
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Intel gives amateur gamers a chance
I sent the Goonfather to cover a gaming event on my behalf last night because I couldn’t make it.
And he came back to me with THREE photos of the four-hour event.
Someone needs to strangle him real bad.
So, anyway, the event was a gaming competition for game journalists and amateur gamers to compete in three games: FIFA 2008, Need for Speed Pro Street and Crysis, and to promote Intel’s latest Core™2 Extreme chipset.
The winner will be travelling to Hong Kong next month to compete against champions of six other Asian countries. How cool is that?
The Goonfather and Unker Kell took part in the competition but they didn’t win. They did, however, enjoy the samosas, mini pies and fried dumplings served at the event.
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Results of last week’s contest
I have five winners for the PlayStation Home Beta Test Account contest!!
Okay, not making much fanfare this week because I have already contacted the winners to set up their accounts asap. So, the winners are, in no order of importance or wealth or looks:
V
Swift
Jimmy
Naiveguy
Aicee
Congratulations, guys! See you in PS Home soon! :)
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Ask Sheylara
I’m back on Q&A duty this week because the Goonfather decided to go on strike after I made him a bus driver. But you can still e-mail him questions if only just to piss him off. :P He can be reached at 
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Anish asks a Wii question:
I have got a Japanese Wii. However, at times I get some errors which obviously I can’t read. This time I was dumbfounded with this error. Can you please translate this for me in English? What does this mean?
Sheylara Says:
Obviously, I’m not Japanese and I know very little Japanese, so I got my good friend Alvin (who is spiritually half a Japanese) to translate this for me. Your error message says:
“An error has occurred. Push the eject button. Take out the disk. Press the power button of your console. After the power is off, follow the instructions specified in the instruction manual.”
Well, you can’t say that error messages are often helpful. By the way, just because I have a spiritually half-Japanese friend doesn’t mean you all should start sending me more translation requests because I’m going to feel obliged to buy Alvin ice-cream if I continue misusing his friendship this way and it’s going to be all your fault!
zzz asks a music game question:
Would you happen to know if the drumset from Guitar Hero: World Tour would be compatible with Rock Band 2? The idea of splurging of two sets kinda kills me =x
Sheylara Says:
All Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 instruments will be cross compatible on Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles. Not for the Wii, though.
cheesepumpkins asks a Fable II question:
Is Fable 2 only on Xbox 360 or on normal Xbox too?
Sheylara Says:
It will only be on the Xbox 360 and no other console! Yes, that means everyone must buy an Xbox 360 because Fable II is so going to be the game of the year!
Spite666 asks a Fable II question:
When is Fable 2 comin out?
Sheylara Says:
Depends on which part of the world you live in. It will first be released in North America on October 21, 2008. Other regions will get it a few days later.
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Win a Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000!!
What a beauty. This Microsoft LifeCam NX-3000 for Notebooks could be yours for simply answering a few questions!!
The Contest
Answer the following questions and post them in the comments:
- Why do you want this prize?
- Do you actually read Gamer Girl Friday or do you usually just skip to the contest section?
- What’s your favourite game? (Can be console or PC.)
- What’s your gender?
- What’s the first thing you’ll take a photo of if you win this lifecam?
The Rules
- One entry per person.
- Closing date is Oct 2, 2008, 2359 hours
- Entries that answer all five questions satisfactorily will go into a pool for Mr Randomiser to pick from.
In case you’re wondering, I’m not collecting data or statistics for any purpose. I just wanted to make it slightly harder for people to win this because good things go to people who put in effort, right? :) At least, that’s how I like the world to be.
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I think the weeks are going by too fast. Don’t you think?
Week after week, the hours and the days just go by in a flash as I rush from project to meeting to event to writing to camwhoring. I hardly have time to form any memory of the whole week before the weekend creeps up again.
If you were to ask me now what happened from Monday to Thursday this week, I would draw a blank. I would have to consult my Filofax or read my own blog to remember what I went through in the week.
Do you think I’m going crazy or something?
GGF#19: The show off issue
Sat, 20 September 2008 7:43 pm
It’s funny how the events that prevented me from publishing GGF on time yesterday are the very same events that I’m gonna end up talking about in this latest issue of GGF.
I had an absolutely exciting gamer girl friday (literally), hardly marred by the fact that I was running on only one hour of sleep and walking around with a painful sprain in my spine.
That’s why today is the show off issue. I have lots of stuff to show off!
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Table of Contents
- Creator of Fable talks about Fable II
- Meeting the lead designer of EndWar
- Unboxing Warhammer Online Collector’s Edition
- The Goonfather rates The Force Unleashed 9/10
- I have a PlayStation Home
- Results of last week’s contest
- Ask The Goonfather
- Win PlayStation Home beta accounts!!
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Creator of Fable talks about Fable II
Peter Molyneux, creator of Fable (for Xbox 360) and founder of Lionhead Studios, is in Singapore for GCA (Games Convention Asia) this week.
I didn’t have to go to GCA to meet him because the Singapore Xbox team hosted him at the Microsoft office with a bunch of journalists.
I know I’ve said this about a few other games before, but Fable II is the game to wait for. I’m superbly impressed and amused by it. It’s a Fantasy MMORPG meets The Sims and will appeal to both hardcore and casual gamers, and both male and female.
I’ll show you a video of Peter explaining the game, in a minute. Just keep in mind that I recorded it with a mobile phone so the quality is really bad. The game in real life looks a zillion times better than it does in my video. Sorry about that!
This is only Part 1 of the video because I don’t have enough time to edit the rest. I have more than 30 minutes of footage. In this video, Peter talks about:
- The important role of your canine companion
- True free roaming in an open-ended world
- The ability to walk away from cutscenes literally
- How the game promises an emotional journey with a dramatic story
- The interesting combat system
- The unique experience points system
More videos coming soon! Keep your eye on SheyaraTube!
In the meantime, here’s a picture of me and Peter. He is such a warm, charming guy despite having intimidating acccolades heaped on him such as “god of gamers” and “godfather of the UK gaming industry”.
I’m holding in my hands a very cute premium which I have to mosaic because I have an NDA on it. And I can’t tell you why, either. The gaming industry likes to be secretive like that.
More photos!
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Journalists photograph Peter Molyneux
Peter Molyneux interviewed by a journalist
Okay, will talk more about Fable II again!
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Meeting the lead designer of EndWar
Besides Peter Molyneux, I also met the lead designer of the upcoming hit game, Tom Clancy’s EndWar.
Introducing Michael de Plater!
Michael is the creative director of UbiSoft Shanghai and he is also amazingly nice. He showed me a picture of his cute daughter!
We did a video shoot yesterday of me interviewing him about the game and him playing a demo for us. The video will be available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace when it’s ready.
I guess I’ll talk more about the game when I have a chance to try it out.
I will get to, soon. I have a VIP demo download pass!
You MUST try out EndWar because it’s going to revolutionise RTS games with its amazing voice command feature.
Set during a fictitious World War III, The game is more than an RTS, actually. It’s a combination of action, strategy and simulation and you’re so gonna feel like a real army commander playing it.
The general public will be able to download a demo around end October, before the game launches on November 4.
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Unboxing Warhammer Online Collector’s Box
Between meeting Peter Molyneux and Michael de Plater yesterday, I had about an hour to visit the post office (to mail prizes), fix my SIM card (yes, it’s fixed, finally!!) and pick up my collector’s edition Warhammer Online.
It’s damn heavy lah.
I almost died yesterday travelling all over Singapore lugging around an immensely heavy game box, my netbook, all my other gadgets and hardware peripherals, and my usual barang barang.
But I survived! So here I am to show off to you my coveted Warhammer Online Collector’s Edition.
Many gamers who picked up the box a day before me also complained about the heaviness of the box.
Let’s unbox it together to find out why!
The box:
Back of the box:
It slides out like the drawer:
Ooh. A big book!
It’s a glossy, hardcover art book showing pictures of Warhammer characters, weapons and monsters:
Aah! Another big book! No wonder it’s so freaking heavy!
Nice! A comic book!
Aww, the last layer, the game box and a figurine.
The game box is usually the most exciting thing in a CE package but I don’t really need it since I already have the WAR client from beta. But I can’t resist looking into it, anyway.
Aww. Now, all I need is some time to play the game.
I totally wasted my open beta and headstart access, lol.
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The Goonfather rates The Force Unleashed 9
I received a copy of The Force Unleashed for the Xbox 360 from New Era on Thursday. Yay, thanks! I didn’t have time to play so I made the Goonfather play it and review it for me.
“Woah! This is a damn good game!” he said while playing it. “I love it! I rate it 9 out of 10.”
“Why not 10 out of 10?” I asked.
“Er…,” he said, and then went silent.
Five minutes later, I spoke up, “Your answer very slow leh.”
“I dunno lah!” he complained. “You ask me stupid question.”
“It’s not a stupid question,” I said. “If it’s such a great game, you’d give it a 10. There must be some reason you gave it a 9. Like, something missing or something not so ideal.”
“I dunno. Because we must always reserve 10 for another better game.”
“Then no game will ever get a 10 rating from you!”
“Yah.”
“That’s lame.”
“Okay, how about this. I f****** hate the holocrons.”
“What about the holocrons?”
“They have holocrons in TFU. It reminds me of my nightmare days in Star Wars Galaxies when the game was all about collecting holocrons to unlock the b***** Jedi character.”
“I think it’s a bit different in here right.”
“Right. It’s a damn good game.”
There you go.
The Force Unleashed starts off with you playing Darth Vader for one stage. You’re sort of wandering around killing Jedi until you suddenly bump into a toddler who yanks your lightsabre off your hands without even touching you.
That toddler grows up to be the apprentice (of Darth Vader). From there on, you’re playing the apprentice and doing evil stuff under the administration of your evil godfather, Darth Vader.
You know what, this game doesn’t need a review. It’s a damn good game.
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I have a PlayStation Home
So, another exciting thing that happened to me yesterday was that Brian from Ogilvy e-mailed me my PlayStation Home beta test account.
WOOTAGE! Brian is awesome!!
PlayStation Home is a new community service for PlayStation fans to interact in an online world that mirrors the real world. It has been in development since 2005 so it’s not, like, news or anything. But beta acccounts have finally been released so there’s a lot of hype over it now.
You can create an avatar, acquire a virtual home, and decorate your home with trophies that you earn from PlayStation games, then invite your friends over to watch a digital movie or gawk at your trophies and nice clothes.
It’s kind of like Second Life for consoles, I guess.
Well, I haven’t had the time to try it out yet, but you could! I’m giving out accounts to PS3 owners in this week’s GGF contest. Scroll down to the contest segment for more details! :)
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Results of last week’s contest
Yes, yes. I know. You guys have been waiting till you’re blue in the face for the results of this very, very popular contest.
So, without any more useless ado, here’s… a picture of the PSP pouch some of you will be winning!
Haha. Isn’t it cute?
Okay, then, HERE ARE THE FIVE WINNERS!
Lindy
tiger4
abraxis
austingy
aig
So, there you go! Winners, please e-mail me your name and mailing address if you want your prize!
And when you receive your PSP pouch, please remember to shower it with tender loving care because pouches also deserve to be loved.
Thank you, and congratulations!
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Ask the Goonfather
Please e-mail the Goonfather at if you have any questions on games, girls and lame jokes (which he is very good at).
King asks a PSP question:
Can PSP use a 16GB memory stick?
The Goonfather Says:
Can. 32GB also can. But it’ll probably be very slow. It’s advisable to buy offcial Sony memory sticks for better performance.
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Win PlayStation Home beta accounts!!
I have a limited number of PlayStation Home closed beta accounts to give out this week, courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Hong Kong.
How nice!
These accounts are very coveted so I need to know that only the most deserving people will get them. (If you win, you’ll need to give me your PlayStation Network e-mail address and ID).
To win an account, please post a comment here telling me why you really need to win this. The most convincing answers will win!
I have about five accounts to give away, maybe more if you guys can be really, really convinicng.
So, let the contest begin!!
Last day to enter is Sep 25, 2008.
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Okay, this is the end and I shall not ramble on anymore so I can publish this issue right now.
Thank you for waiting till you’re blue in the face! =)
GGF#18: A bit of this and a bit of that
Fri, 12 September 2008 12:03 pm
I’ll be trying to keep GGF as short as possible, partly because it takes forever to load if it’s too long and has too many pictures, and partly because I have less time these days to play games and attend gaming events, resulting in having fewer things to blog about.
That kinda works out well, really. I’m sure you guys don’t really like reading blog entries that goes on forever, anyway.
Or do you?
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Table of Contents
- Sexy witch elf in WAR
- Pata pata pata pon!
- Question Number 3
- Soul Calibur IV customised costumes
- My Xbox 360 is quite naughty
- Results of last week’s contest
- Five PSP pouches to give away!
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Sexy witch elf in WAR
So, I paid $129 for a Collector’s Edition Warhammer Online to enjoy the game way earlier than most of the world (about two weeks earlier).
Servers have been up for CE owners for one week already, but I’ve been so busy that all I’ve managed to learn about the game is that Witch Elves are damn sexy.
I was very disappointed with the game when I first logged in (although keeping in mind that the game is still in beta and it could very well still undergo a huge face lift just before retail.
The graphics and animation are so yesterday, the character faces are ugly, the costumes are horrible (except for the witch elves’) and the gameplay is messy.
The moment I logged in, I didn’t feel like playing anymore.
There is no friendly tutorial to introduce you to the world, with an introduction sequence and an NPC to tell you what’s up. Instead, you’re dumped right into the middle of chaos to figure it out yourself.
But I don’t want to be too judgemental at this point of time. The retail launch could surprise me yet.
And I did manage to take this rather nice screenshot.
And I had fun flying halfway around the world to meet up with some guildies so we could try creating a guild.
We’re playing on the Darklands server, in the Destruction realm. Send me a “hi” if you bump into me, although that will be quite rare.
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Pata pata pata pon!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!! The irritatingly cute little eyeballs are back! That is, on the Goonfather’s PSP!
He hasn’t played this game for months and then, suddenly, he’s gotten himself addicted to it again. That means I’m hearing “Pata pata pata pon! FEEEEVERRRRR!!!” whenever he’s around.
What’s worse, he’s playing it on the PC, too.
Yes, you can play Patapon on the PC now.
It’s more of a demo, though, that gives you exactly five minutes of fun. And the gameplay is a very simplified version of the PSP’s game. But it has the same hysterical eyeballs oozing cuteness with every chant.
Go check it out if you want to get addicted and annoy your family.
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Question Number 3
Woot! Here’s the third question for the Norton Internet Security 2009 contest! :)
Question #3: People who don’t use Microsoft Windows are safe. The bad guys take advantage of Windows users because it is easy, and leave Linux and Macintosh users alone. True or False?
Only one more question to go after this!
If you haven’t signed up for this contest to win a Norton 2009 software, then GO SIGN UP NOW!
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Soul Calibur IV customised costumes
I recently ran a Soul Calibur IV costume contest at my Xbox blog and I want to share with you some of the creations submitted by SC4 fans!
The winner, DeZmonD88, submitted 29 costumes and made a really awesome video showcasing his costumes. Check it out!
He even created a Ronald McDonalds costume. LOLOLOL. Funny.
DeZmonD88 wins a chance to play SC4 with me on Xbox LIVE. (Actually, it’s not so much playing with me as thrashing me because I’m a noob.) He also wins a beautiful Soul Calibur IV poster.
Congratulations, DeZmonD88!
Nizam, who is Singapore’s Xbox MVP (Most Valuable Professional), submitted a creation which is supposed to be his rendition of me.
Er… I don’t think it looks quite like me, but good effort, anyway! :P Nizam wins an SC4 poster! Yay!
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My Xbox 360 is quite naughty
I didn’t know my Xbox 360 could be such a scamp until I had to write about his non-gaming capabilites for my iTest campaign.
In case you haven’t been following my iTest blog, please hop over to meet Aristotle now. See what I have to put up with besides the Goonfather.
Three entries already up:
Connecting your Xbox 360 to the Internet
Introducing the Xbox 360 to the PC
More coming daily.
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Results of last week’s contest
I wonder who’s going to win the Nokia USB charger!
Seems like many people are desperate for this item, for some reason.
Let’s look at some random sign ups:
This Nokia USB charger will be a godsend. I happen to have some spare USB ports lying around waiting to be screwed!
i wan leh. ! just give me la ! please !
k la BEG u ~ please~~
pleaseee pleasseee could i have that USB charger? :D
Mr Randomiser pleaseee give me that USB charger
I wonder if any of these people will win!
Okay, I’m going to roll the randomiser NOW. Hehe.
Ohhh…
The winner is #10!!
And her name is Melody!!
Sorry to the guys whose quotes appeared above. :(
But congratulations to Melody, who only wrote two words:
PICK ME !
LOL.
Will be contacting you via e-mail when I have a minute to spare.
Apologies to those who haven’t gotten your prizes. You will get them eventually, I promise, as soon as hell week lets up!
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Five PSP pouches to give away!
I gave one of these away before.
Now, I have five more! Oooh!
If you want it, just ask for it! :)
You have until September 19 midnight to post a comment!
Five people will be picked randomly to receive this cute little thing!
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You may have noticed that there is no Ask the Goonfather this week. Well, there are two possible reasons for this:
- No one is sending him questions to be answered.
- He is receiving questions but is pretending not to have received them so he can escape Q&A duty.
So, which is the correct answer? lol.
(This isn’t a quiz. Cos I don’t know the answer, either.)
Woot! I survived another week! Did you? =)
GGF#17: Random nice things to check out
Fri, 5 September 2008 2:01 pm
First of all, look who’s on the cover of My Paper today!
LOL.
You know what that means? It means that you should now head over to my Xbox blog because that’s what the ad is supposed to make you feel like doing.
You disagree?
Well, then, how about check it out anyway BECAUSE I SAY SO!!
Okay, you may now proceed to devour today’s GGF.
I mean, literarily speaking.
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Table of Contents
- Tales of Vesperia is THE game to play
- Give our Singapore champs a chance
- Question Number 1
- To party or to game. That is the dilemma
- Stalking Sheylara
- Ask the Goonfather
- Win a Nokia USB charger!!
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Tales of Vesperia is THE game to play
Tales of Vesperia is like a dream come true for me. It combines my two loves — RPG and anime — and I could not gush over it enough. But I’ll attempt to, of course, for such is the nature of Gamer Girl Friday.
First off, Yuri Lowell is unbearably cute.
A good-looking hero is of utmost importance for a game, you must agree.
Also of equal importance is a good-looking heroine to capture the hearts of geeks who spend too much time playing games, and impressionable young ladies looking for role models to cosplay.
Estelle fits the bill to a V. I mean T. Don’t you love her cotton candy pink hair? It makes me want to go out right now to buy a pink wig. Not that I’m one of the impressionable young ladies I mentioned earlier, mind you.
The two cuties look so good together they make me go “awww…”.
What’s that? You don’t really care about how cute they look, you say? You want to know about the gameplay and stuff?
You have a thing or two to learn about appreciating the finer things in life, you know that?
So, Tales of Vesperia is a freaking good game. There is nothing more to be said. Go and buy it right now. In fact, buy an Xbox 360 just so you can play this game and it will be your most well-spent $499 this year.
End of review.
Just kidding.
Tales of Vesperia is immediately immersive with its lush anime illustrations and intriguing plot. You play Yuri Lowell, the game’s main character, who manages to get into trouble with the authorities right from the start.
The game expertly weaves entertaining little cutscenes into the gameplay, which makes you feel like you’re playing an anime. The dialogues are humorous, reminiscent of great anime scripts, and the voiceovers, while dubbed in American English, retain the characteristic kawaii innocence of Japanese anime characters.
Amidst the fast-paced action and delightful adventure, there are liberal doses of comic relief in the forms of cutscenes and optional dialogue playbacks.
In the playbacks (I call them playbacks because you can press a button to play them or you can ignore them), the main characters banter about random events that just happened. Light-hearted and humorous, these playbacks bring out each character’s personality and allow you to fall in love with them.
One of the characters in your party is Repede, Yuri’s pet dog, and he gets to join in the banter, as well, although he speaks in barks, yelps and whines.
A new feature in this latest installment of the popular Tales series of games is the dynamic combat system.
During your travels, you will see mobs roaming about freely. You can choose to engage them or walk away from them (most of the time).
Once engaged, your party will go into battle mode and that’s when it gets really fun.
All the characters in the party (up to four) are controllable by live players. Just get your friends to bring their controllers and join in the battle!
Each character’s combat mode (except Yuri’s) is set to “Auto” by default, but you can set it to “Manual”. There is also a “Semi Auto” mode, which is Yuri’s default and is helpful for newbies.
But as you level up and gain new skills and weapons, you’ll definitely want to perform all those neat combos all by yourself!
Unlike the past Tales games, ToV features real-time combat, so fighting skills are important!
At the end of each combat, you’ll see some stats and the characters will utter some funny remarks to make you laugh, and the game continues.
Oh, yes. ToV is in High Definition, although you can’t tell by my crappy screenshots. But it’ll be a beautiful sight on your HD TV that will bring tears to your eyes.
Tales of Vesperia is out in stores now and is exclusive for the Xbox 360. There is no online multiplayer feature, but you can earn achievements for it!
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Give our Singapore champs a chance
Some complications arising in the recent World Cyber Games Singapore National Finals resulted in a few of our champions not having the funds to fly to Germany this November to compete in the Grand Finals.
That’s quite a shame because at least three of them stand a chance to do Singapore proud by returning with medals.
So, SCOGA (Singapore Cybersports & Online Gaming Association) has started a nationwide fundraiser for our cyberatheletes as part of its program to nurture homegrown talent and elevate the status of gaming in Singapore.
Now, then, please support our gamers and give them a chance to represent Singapore and do us all proud by visiting this site now to see how you can help.
Thank you.
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Question Number 1
This is the first question for the Norton Internet Security 2009 contest.
Question #1: If you do not purchase goods or services on the Internet, you can’t become a victim of cybercrime. True or False?
(Just answer “True” or “False”. Don’t have to elaborate, unless you really want to.)
Aren’t I clever to hide the question here? And aren’t you clever to have found it?
Okay, maybe not.
Now, please do not send me the answer until after the fourth question has been asked because I’d rather receive one e-mail than four e-mails from you.
(But you can send me the answer now if you do not intend to answer anymore questions.)
Okay, watch out for the second question… coming up… I’m not telling you when!
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To party or to game. That is the dilemma
WAR IS COMING REALLY SOON.
One can hardly believe it. We’ve waited for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning for eight whole years. Now that it’s almost at our doorstep, it feels unreal. Like we’re going to wake up tomorrow and be told that April Fool’s Day has migrated across the calendar.
But that’s not going to happen, is it?
Because Electronic Arts has already announced a Warhammer Online launch event on Sep 18 at Games Convention Asia 2008.
Which begs to question: To party or to game?
In the real world, it makes sense to have a launch party on the very day of the launch of a game.
But gamers do not live in the real world as we know it. Especially MMORPG gamers.
On MMORPG launch days, gamers are camping their computers at home, waiting to log in the very moment the game servers are open for business.
Who has time to attend a party??
Okay, maybe EA has timed it so that the event happens just before the servers are brought up so you’ll have time to party and then rush home to zerg the servers, but I don’t know. We don’t have exact times yet.
There is also the fact that Collectors’ Edition owners (one of whom is me, bwahahaha) will already be in the game, enjoying our expensive headstart privilege, which we have to make full use, haven’t we?
Of course, there are the posters, but I’m not sure how the lure of exclusive posters for the first 500 pre-order card wielders will stack up against the reality of actually playing the game.
What would you choose?
OH. This just in!!!
The WAR servers will be brought up some time tonight for the Preview Weekend Plus event, open to Preview Weekend players! Details here!!
Patch your beta client NOW!
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Stalking Sheylara
Yesh. I’ve created yet another way for nutcases to stalk me. Not that I want stalkers, but I couldn’t resist signing up for a 360voice.com account.
This is the very cute website that syncs with your Xbox 360 to tell the world when you logged in and what games you played, using the voice of your Xbox 360.
I never knew my Xbox 360 was so clever and witty. It can blog and it blogs well, too! Here’s the latest entry it wrote:
So, yes, go check out more posts by my Xbox 360. It blogs daily, too. How diligent!
But please try to keep the stalking to a bare minimum, thanks.
Thanks to Dimenxion for recommending this site.
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Ask the Goonfather
The Goonfather is on Q&A duty until such a time as he threatens to set my Neopets on fire if I don’t take him off duty immediately. In the meantime, he is allowing me to force him to answer questions that come in.
Please send your questions to .
Andy asks a comparison question:
Is it advisable to get a PS3 versus an Xbox 360 if I don’t care abt Blu-ray or online gaming? Seems to me that 99% of great games on PS3 will be on Xbox but not the other way round, and I am afraid if I buy the PS3, it will become obsolete like the Sega Saturn back then.
The Goonfather Says:
If you do not care about either, then get whichever you think is the best looking in your room. Or you can choose based on which controller you feel more comfortable with.
Among the three consoles, PS3 has the least chance of becoming obsolete. Anyway, I would recommend the Xbox 360 if you are a Singaporean. Though I am pro Sony PlayStation, the dedication of Microsoft to its consumers has moved me. Unlike PlayStation Asia, which doesn’t give a sh!t about you.
Zhixian asks a Patapon question:
How do you save the Patapon game?
The Goonfather Says:
It you look at your PSP, there is a small hole on both sides of the screen at the bottom. These holes are the speakers which also double as a mic. To the left hole, you need to say, ”Pata pata.” Then, to the right hole, you say, “Pon.” Then back to the left hole, you say, “Pata.”
Now, if you look at the bottom of the screen, an icon of the select button will appear next to the word that looks like “Save”.
Anonymous asks a relationship question:
Should I date my best friend’s sister? My best friend told me if I do, he will thrash me.
The Goonfather Says:
Well, first you need to define your meaning of date. If it’s just a meal and movie, I don’t see a problem.
Second, it depends on your relationship with your best friend. If he is against it, I don’t think you should consider him as a best friend. Best friends are like brother and sister, and what other way could there be to attain this status legally?
I’m also thinking, are you the type who openly share your sexcapades? If you are, then maybe he doesn’t want to listen to stories about his sister.
Steph asks a Wii question:
I was recently in Hong Kong and bought my twin boys Wii Fit. I also bought them Wii Freeloader because the man in the store said it makes them able to play any game in English. So far, our game is only in Chinese. Is there a way to convert the Chinese to English or do I need to go out and buy a Wii Fit in America?
The Goonfather Says:
The only way to play Wii Fit in English is to buy the English Wii and the English version of Wii Fit.
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Win a Nokia USB charger!!
Here is this week’s giveaway!
Offcially, it’s called the Nokia Charger via USB Port CA-100 (I don’t know why it has to be so complicated) and it can be used on the following Nokia models:
Mobile phones: 3250, 6070, 6080, 6101, 6103, 6111, 6125, 6131, 6136, 6151, 6233, 6270, 6280, 7360, 7370.
Multimedia devices: N70, N71, N72, N73, N80, N90, N91, N92, N93, N95
Others: E50, E61
This handy gizmo allows you to charge your phone on your PC or laptop, but I don’t need to tell you that, do I?
If you want it, please post a comment for it. One winner will be picked randomly! How very exciting!
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The coming week is going to be hell week for me. Let me list the things I have to do:
- Blog on Sheylara.com.
- Blog on Xperts.com.sg.
- Blog on a new IDA microsite for a new campaign that will be launching on Tuesday (will tell you more soon).
- Play Tales of Vesperia.
- Play Warhammer Online.
- Attend meetings, events, photoshoots, interviews and whatnot, as usual.
- Hang out with my dear friend Elyxia because she’s scheduling a rare pop in Singapore towards the end of the week.
Well, how I’m going to fit everything into 24 hours a day, I DON’T KNOW.
But you can help me by being understanding if I don’t reply your MSNs, e-mails, comments, Xbox LIVE messages, gaming requests, Twitter messages, SMSes, voice messages, etc, immediately.
Thank you for reading Gamer Girl Friday and we’ll see you next week, different time, same place! =)
