Operation Moonfall wants Majora's Mask in 3D

 

We all know the failure of Operation Rainfall, as sad as that maybe, but a new group has surfaced with a more fitting name and a more achievable goal. Operation Moonfall wants to get The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask to get a remake similar to that of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.

The movement was encouraged with a little help from Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma, who had recently said that the Zelda game could get a 3DS remaster if there was sufficient fan support. Hence, Moonfall was born in an attempt to make that support known.

Fans are emailing Nintendo at [email protected], phoning 800-255-3700 and signing this petition to get things moving. Fan site Zelda Universe is leading the charge, so keep an eye on them if you're interested in how this develops.

I myself also want this to happen since I thought Majora's Mask did a very clever thing with time and how you would juggle what essentially limited time you had to save the town of Termina the fate getting a moon with a creepy face dropped on them.

Quash finally gets an Xbox 360

Yes, finally! been planning this for months but there's always that game to buy or a bill to pay that prolonged me from buying my Xbox 360. I had the money for the unit, so I made sure I'd get it by the end of the week to prevent me from spending the money. It's beside my PS3 and their both staring at each other wondering which will be used the most.

Of course, most of the attention is going to be on the Xbox 360, I have to test the unit out for any problems. I got the Xbox 360 Slim with 250GB Hard Drive , and it's Kinect ready. I didn't bother getting the Kinect because getting it would bring me over budget, plus I didn't get the 360 to become the controller, I wanted it for its exclusive games and Xbox Live. Kinect is an amazing product, but i can't afford to get it right away, maybe in the future I'll grab the Kinect to dance like a fool.

First game for my Xbox 360? well this was a no brainer for me. Halo: Reach was my instant pick when they asked me if i was getting a game. I also wanted to buy Alan Wake together with Reach but the store was out of stock, bummer i know,  but when i brought the unit home though, my cousin offered his Alan Wake digital copy, he told me to just download it and play the game on his account. Thank you Martin for Alan Wake. Sadly, I can't play the game on my account, so all the achievements i earned goes to his account, which is cool since all i want is to play the game, saves me some money, or I might get some other exclusive game.

For all the Filipinos out there, I bought the Xbox 360 in iTech in their Glorietta 3 branch. iTech is pretty much the next best thing if Datablitz doesn't cut it for you. I hardly make purchases in iTech, but each time, they provide great service. The clerk that assisted me when I was testing the unit at the store was very well-informed and kept giving me what to do and what not to do. Their simply not those sellers that has no idea what their selling.

The total damage in pesos was P19,500 in total. The 250GB Slim will cost P15,290, but since I paid in cash, i get a discount which brough the price down to P14,500. I also bought an extra wireless controller with a play and charge kit that cost P2,700, then Halo: Reach which cost about P2,000, and a HDMI cable for P300. The pice was perfect, it fit perfectly in my 20k budget. Grabbing the Kinect would have brought the price somewhere between 22k to 25k. So far, I'm happy with the buy. Perfect time to get the 360 since not that many interesting games are out right now besides Catherine, and Gears of War 3 is coming out soon.

Going to end this post now, need to start episode 4 of Alan Wake.....

Gears of War: The Board Game

Ever have that feeling when you want to just hack some Locust scum in half with your chainsaw bayonet but with not Xbox 360 near you to boot up Gears of War? Esdevium Games has solved your problem with Gears of War: The Board Game.

Based on the hugely popular Xbox 360 franchise, this product tasks up to four players with completing randomly constructed missions by working together.

The game comes bundled with over 200 cards, 75 tokens and 30 plastic figures based on both the COG forces and the Locust horde. Players will be able to use classic tactics from the video games, including Roadie Running from cover to cover and ripping enemies in half using the Lancer.

Xbox addict 'dies from blood clot'

I just read this a little while ago on Yahoo! and thought to share it.

The family of a budding computer programmer have on Saturday launched a campaign to raise awareness about the health risks of playing online computer games after their son died following a marathon session on his Xbox.

A post-mortem revealed that 20-year-old Chris Staniforth -- who was offered a place to study Game Design at Leicester University -- was killed by a pulmonary embolism, which can occur if someone sits in the same position for several hours. Deep vein thrombosis normally affects passengers on long-haul flights, but medical experts fear youngsters who spend hours glued to their consoles might also be at risk and have urged them to take regular breaks.

What I don't like about these sort of articles (aside from the whole death part) is that when people read the title, they instantly blame gaming as a whole. It's not the game's fault, it's our own negligence that brings about these kinds of tragedies. So remember guys, take care of yourselves, take regular breaks after every hour or so, and happy gaming.

Weekend, what are you playing?

July is over and August is here. Oh how time flies. What are you playing?

Migoy: After coming home from work Saturday morning, I hit the sack and slept like a rock through the morning. Went out during the afternoon looking for things that could better my broadcasting setup so I didn't really do any solid gaming as I just booted up games to test stuff out. But since I was out, I had my trusty PSP with me and with it some Super Saiyan action. I put back Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 Another Road which was my first PSP game and was the game that got me hyped to save up for a PSP in the first place. Just some good clean fun punching dudes with a force that could destroy mountains and blasting people with beams of light. Kamehameha!

Quash: Last saturday i finally did it, I bought myself an Xbox 360! an early early birthday present to myself. It's an Xbox 360 250gb slim with no Kinect, I'll make a post about it soon about the details, but this weekend I'm playing Halo: Reach and Alan Wake, the first games for my Xbox. Just activated my one month free in Xbox live gold and tried out Reach's MP, next I'm going to start my first playthrough of Alan Wake.

Arlie: This week I started my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2 as the default male Shepard. I am already 30 hours in-game, doing all the sidequests possible and all the loyalty missions. In my next playthrough, I'll play as a female Shepard maybe in Insanity difficulty.