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It is with a rather zonked state of mind that I address you today.
I haven’t slept all night. I started working on GGF last night at 10:30 pm and didn’t stop until 7:30 am, when I decided to go stun myself awake with a cold shower.
Another hour to neaten it up before I get ready to start my day with a morning meeting, and then an afternoon meeting, an evening event and a night engagement.
I see mushrooms dancing in my peripheral vision. GGF is zonked out her mind! Hurray.
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Table of Contents
- Video demo of Braid on Xbox LIVE Arcade
- Fable II Pub Games is out!
- Sheylara at World Cyber Games (Again)
- Too Human is too popular!
- Ask Sheylara
- Win a cool Friendster thumbdrive!!
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Video demo of Braid on Xbox LIVE Arcade
Oh, gosh. It takes freaking forever to make videos.
But here’s a video of me explaining the gameplay in Braid.
I love this game. I’ll talk a little about it in case you don’t like to watch videos.
So, Braid is an Xbox LIVE Arcade game which you can download for a small fee.
It looks like a 2D platformer, but it’s actually a puzzle game. You can die but you won’t die. That is, when you get eaten by monsters, you can rewind to when you haven’t gotten eaten, and then continue from there and try not to get eaten again.
Running around the world and not dying, you collect jigsaw puzzle pieces to make nice pictures. The pieces are scattered around the world and they just annoy the heck out of you because you can see them but you can’t get at them.
You have to really crack your brain in this game. And then crack it somemore. Until your brain hates you.
But I like the music, the graphics and the gameplay. It’s unique and refreshing. If you like abusing your brain and stomping on monsters’ heads, get it.
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Fable II Pub Games is out!
That’s right. This is the arcade mini game thingy which you can play now to earn gold for the Fable II game that’s coming in October.
Here’s a boring video I took of it. Well, watch it if you want to see what the mini games look like.
There are three gambling games and you’re given 500 gold to start off with. If you lose it all and go into debt, you’re in trouble when you start Fable II.
It’s freaking hard to win money. I’ve already lost like 300 gold. Haha.
Oh, well. Have never been good at gambling, anyway.
But I like the games. The graphics and sound effects are really cool!
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Sheylara at World Cyber Games (Again)
I mentioned last week that Bryan De Silva from RazorTV interviewed me for a segment. The video is out!
We did an interview and then we played Guitar Hero 3.
Bryan made funny faces. IT’S ALL IN THE VIDEO.
And I made victory poses.
That was on Thursday.
On Saturday, I went to WCG again because the Xbox ambassador had to make an appearance and tell everyone to subscribe to Xbox LIVE.
We did that on the main stage of WCG.
More interviews.
And friendly matches.
Offstage, I played several matches of Project Gotham Racing 4 with Xbox fans.
Which I sucked at. But it was fun. And no one booed me, nice chaps, all.
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Too Human is too popular!
I received a record number of entries for last week’s Too Human giveaway. There were 46 entrants. Wow. Didn’t know this game was so popular!
You know what… I’ve got the game in my hands already! Mwahaha!
I got two copies on Tuesday but, get a load of this, I haven’t had time since then to even open the box to kiss the disc.
In any case, I can’t publish a review of it yet because the game hasn’t officially launched and I don’t want Silicon Knights coming after me.
So… WHO IS THE LUCKY WINNER OF A BRAND NEW COPY OF TOO HUMAN?
He is… Kurow31!!!
(Or maybe he’s a she. I have no idea.)
Congratulations!!!!! You are very lucky because you’ll be playing Too Human two days before the rest of Singapore (that is, assuming you live in Singapore)!!!
The USA launch is Aug 19 while Singapore stores will only stock it on Aug 21. But I’m allowed to give it away on the 19th, so you’ll be getting it on that day if we can arrange a meetup.
Will be contacting you via e-mail!
Please thank the Singapore Xbox Team for your prize!
The rest of you who didn’t win, don’t be too disappointed. There will be more giveaways in the future!
Alrighty?
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Ask Sheylara
Ask me any gaming-related questions! Post them in the comments or e-mail me, I don’t really care. I will try to answer all questions (unless I get like 500 questions a day).
James Millbower asks a Wii question:
I have a modified Japanese Wii set that appears to be fully-bricked. Can it be fixed like a semi-brick Wii set by inserting a Japanese game with a firmware update that is higher than my Wii version? If it can be corrected, where can I buy a Japanese game in the US?
Sheylara Says:
I’m afraid I have bad news for you. There is currently no fix for a fully bricked Wii. Well, that’s actually why they called it a “brick” in the first place. Sorry, pal.
Chak asks an Xbox joystick question:
Do you have any idea where to download drivers for Xbox joysticks to use on the PC?
Sheylara Says:
I didn’t actually answer this question for Chak because he answered it himself before I could do it, lol. But I’m posting it here anyway in case anyone ever wants to ask the same question. You can download the driver here.
Lambert asks an Xbox LIVE question:
What’s your Gamerscore?
Sheylara Says:
Er… please don’t ask. If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you. No, actually, ask me in a year’s time. That will give me time to, uh, actually have a number to tell you.
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Win a cool Friendster thumbdrive!!
Look at this cutie!!
The sad part is that it has a capacity of only 500MB.
But the happy part is that it’s one of those thingamajigs you can take and show off to your friends and piss them off because they can’t buy one even if they had money.
Unless you sold it to them at a very high price, in which case, you should share some of that doosh with me, okay?
So… who wants it?
Yes, same old same old. Post a comment saying you want it before next Friday!
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And now… PLEASE GO READ MY XBOX BLOG. I mean, like, regularly. It’s very lonely.
Aww.
