6Cents

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Trophies Viewable on PlayStation.com

You can now display how 1337 you are to your Xbox 360 friends, by showing them all the Trophies you collected.

Playstation.com has now added the "Trophies" feature when you login to the website using your PSN information. It shows you how many Trophies you have accumulated and it also shows you the breakdown on every game. Xbox.com has had this feature for quite some time now, but you can never be too late to party I guess.

Click the picture to view my Trophies screen...

What do you think about the new feature?

-Maverick

Street Fighter Fever!

Have you been bitten by the Street Fighter bug yet? I know it has for me, and I'm glad that it did. Street Fighter IV (released on February 9th) has been a smash hit, selling over 2 Million copies worldwide. With good reason, this is the first Street Fighter in 10 years.

Every night, I get in about 7-10 matches before going to bed, its that addicting. Smoof and I usually spar online, trying to 1 up each other. Then afterwards, we talk in-depth about the characters we chose, why we lost and how we can be better next time.

Its strange how a fighting game can bring large amounts of people together. From shoryuken.com, gootecks.com, and so on, the rush of Street Fighter news, tournaments, and trash talk is overwhelming!

If you haven't picked this game up yet, or not sure if you can get back into a fighter, make sure you rush out to your local game store and plop down the doe for this one. You won't regret it. If you don't, come over to my house so I can flash kick you in the face. <3

-Maverick

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

In the zone

Killzone 2 is here! The much anticipated PS3 exclusive is amazing. Graphics, story, gameplay and online structure really satisfy the need for a top notch FPS exclusive on Playstation.

I have never played Killzone 1 and I am not one to go back to an older system to catch up on a storyline. So comparing it to the old would be rather difficult. Here is what I do know about it.

Visually it is stunning. It makes great use of the power of the PS3. You really get the feel of Helghan being a war torn world. Debris, broken down buildings, and make shift bridges litter the landscape.

The story is really good so far as I have played it. Plays like a movie and the characters develop nicely.

Gameplay was difficult to get use to at first. The basic setup seemed a little sluggish to me and I had to adjust the look speed a bit. However after a few hours off and online I have become much more accurate with the weapons. Speaking of weapons they are realistically accurate compared to which you are using (i.e. rifle, shotgun, LMG).

Killzone 2 offers up class play that has been very popular in recent FPS's like Resistance 2. Different classes, weapons and other upgrades are available upon ranking up. The first class available is the medic which is particularly useful after dying constantly as a regular soldier. There are also engineers, tacticians, scouts and more. Each with their own special abilities. Although with each class you can still select from any weapon you unlock.

Other things that I thought were galactically awesome were the ability to create squads within your faction. Once you are part of a squad you get your own channel to talk to your teammates on so that you don't have to fight for the mic with 15 other guys. Better yet though you are able to spawn on your squad leader wherever he may be. This makes it easy to back him up in a pinch or stage for an attack on an objective.

This one is a well rounded game and has been getting high scores from reviews. I would say it is a definite buy. You will be playing this one for a long time.

Revamp

Missing us? Don't cry! We were taking some time off and we are restructuring the way we do our podcasts. We are going to be shorter and more relevant to what is happening right now. Look for podcast cast number 9 coming soon!

Thanks for the Concern!

A loyal fan, xX_Deso_Xx sent me this message last night...

Thanks for the message, xX_Deso_Xx. I talked to the guys, and we should be up and running again by Sunday.

I know we have been gone for quite some time now. We have been busy lately, and haven't gotten around to getting back on the mic/blog. But, I assure you, we will be back in full force this weekend.

Stay tuned!

-Maverick

Friday, February 6, 2009

6Cents Video Game Podcast - Episode 008 - A Very Late Christmas

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This is super old news. Listen to this just to hear our beautiful voices :D

-Maverick

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

My home in Home

Just wanted to show some pics of my home in Home. I still haven't figured out what Home is supposed to be for everyone. So I decided to redecorate my home space.