This week is Lan Party week. Starting on Friday me and 17 of my closest friends will be gaming for 3 straight days! Andrew “Hosscat” Reiter and Katie “Ladycat” Reiter will be our hosts once again in Festus. We will be playing Team Fortress 2, Enemy Territory Quake Wars, and Guitar Hero 3. This will be the 7th consecutive year for our big November Lan party. Last year we held the event in Creve Coeur in the recently abandoned apartment Chris and I were living in. It featured a cameo by the newly released Playstation 3, and one of the worst games of all time, Genji. The Reiter family (including the Alaskan brother) provided a huge pot of chili and a crave case of Whitecastle. Needless to say, towards the end of the weekend it got pretty smelly.
Nintendo fans are getting the shaft! A new controller with the unfortunate name “The Shaft” has just hit the market. This little peripheral is way cooler than that old clunky GameCube controller, and will no doubt improve your Mario Kart skillz.
Nightwish + Lord of the Rings trilogy = one awesome video. Check out this fan made clip which features some of the better moments of Peter Jackson’s trilogy set to the music of Nightwish’s Ghost Love score.
Joe pointed me towards the latest online viral video. Recently SNL parodied an obscure moment from now canceled The OC. No one would have ever thought twice about that scene until a satire of the moment appeared on Saturday Night Live. Now there are hundreds of take offs of the SNL spoof, my favorite being this Lord of the Rings inspired clip.
Assassin’s Creed came out this week. In this game you play a member of the Assassin guild during the Third Crusade in the late 1100’s. You take on the role of Altair, and inherit his mission to kill all nine of the historical figures that are propagating the crusades. The game features historically accurate parts of Jerusalem and allows for you to free climb, swing, and run around the ancient city. Unfortunately for me, I have no Xbox, which is probably good because KG preordered the Special Edition version of the game for me, for Christmas and I wouldn’t get to play it anyway.
Here’s a cool article on the real life group that Assassin’s Creed bases its game.
Get your Indie fix with this video from Band of Horses.
Holy downloadable content Batman! Harmonix has unveiled the information pertaining to the tracks and albums available for download from Xbox Live. I’ll definitely be getting the Punk pack which features The Clash and The Ramones. The pricing is slightly more attractive than the Guitar Hero download. It’ll be interesting to see if the competition keeps the price down low. Harmonix has promised new content every week after the game is released. I’m a bit skeptical if they can keep up with this ambitious claim, if they do it will be pretty amazing for the fans of the game.
