Hey there folks, just wasting the day away on the internet and I came across an absolutely mind blowingly bad website. Essentially it is just a money making scam taking advantage of the poor folks that got the red ring of death on their Xbox 360. It took me a bit to get to this site, so from what I can tell the author has created fake blog posts and written fake articles to try to drum up more suckers...I mean customers. He has created the perfect storm of being a complete and total piece of shit. I know that the most of the folks reading this page (Russ, Ben and Kav....) could recognize this site as a scam, but I can't help but think some poor kid has shelled out his own money on this scam or a similar one.

If any of you guys end up with the RROD just call Microsoft, there is no permanant fix that won't void your warranty no matter what the Chris Jone's and Fakey McFakenamersons of the world tell you. Just keep your console in a well ventilated area, don't smother the power supply, and don't open up your box and tinker with the insides. If you get the RROD, well, you have shit luck like me. But don't shell out your money for a miracle cure. You need to acccept the cold hard truth and call Microsoft and have them send you a coffin. Anyway, I am off to go buy some fucking Rogaine.

I never wanted to be the type of kid that wore a Nine Inch Nails shirt in high school. I loved the music, but was afraid of being judged as whatever the hell those kids are perceived as. In short, I sucked. Flash forward ten years and I still suck, but at least I don't care what people think of the music I listen to. Anyway, the downloadable track packs for March have been announced via OXM. I can not wait to scream me some March of the Pigs....
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This has to be one of the neatest little viral internet movielettes I've seen in weeks. People are doing some unbelievable stuff with soccer balls here, because it's fake. Still cool, though.

Check it out here at ADivertido.

EA has some close-up stuff that makes some of these seem a tiny bit more realistic on their FIFA Street 3 site in The Moves section.

We here at [8bit Review] love stupid cool shit. We simply can't resist it. As today seems like a pretty slow day for anything else interesting (just my opinion, sorry Animal Crossing and Tiberium fans), I thought this would be a good time to share a few cool pieces of junk I found along my info superhighway travels.
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Jesus fucking Christ. As you can probably tell by my tone, things are not going well in 360 land for me. As previously reported here. I have recently sent off my 360 to the Microsoft repair center. This was the second time my box shit the bed on me. The first time it was the red ring of death (RROD for the uninitiated), and this time it was the lack of any video output. I was angry, but level headed, but dear reader things have changed. I am spewing bile.... [ more.. ]

To her credit, she's owned up to her mistake and doesn't seem to be making any excuses about the comments she made regarding Mass Effect's "sexual content".

The New York Times can fill you in on the details.
The Gaurdian can help too.

The folks over at Microsoft are more than happy to discuss how much money they're making. It seems that once you buy one of their pieces of shit (would anyone in their right mind buy any other product with a documented failure rate like this?, you also buy a bunch of other crap to go with it. Games, controllers, earpieces to shit talk at your buddies. [ more.. ]

Out of the topsy-turvy world of dinosaur hunting comes news that you won't actually get achievement points for shooting your buddies. WTF? I was really looking forward to that. At least they're leaving the "Grab Bag" achievement in place. I can't wait to kill a creature, then a friend, then myself for some sweet, sweet reward points.

Wired will tell you more here.

In what reads like a grand announcement that'll change the face of shopping the world over, Sega and developer Emaar say they'll start putting themed arcades in Middle Eastern and North African malls. Big deal. We've been doing it here in the States for decades.

Sega and Emaar to open Middle East theme parks (Games Industry)

Hey folks,

Tim here, cursed with the arduous task of comparing and contrasting Harmonix’s stellar Rock Band to NeverSoft’s challenging but tired Guitar Hero III…wait just a minute here. I think I just finished. I mean I could have sworn I was just ramping up for an epic tale the world has not seen since The Iliad vs. The Aeneid, or perhaps even Ecks vs. Server, but it seems that instead of giving a long drawn out history of money grubbing corporations with egos the size of something metaphorical, I, your humble narrator, have succinctly told you that Rock Band is a far better game than Guitar Hero III and poor reader, you are forced to believe me, for I am in print, and until I get bought up and sub sequentially fired... [ more.. ]

Why is it that every developer, nowadays, feels the need to create an overdramatic, altogether pretentious, storyline that follows gameplay through a seemingly endless bout of crappy dialogue and derisory characters? Now, before you clench your mouse tighter than Great White masticating a seal pup, hear me out. I, as much as the next guy, love to explore underwater cities and slay monstrous dragons but games that currently profess a reputation for “realism” stray too far from modern-day issues and undermine the people who play them. [ more.. ]

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Hello Cyberworld,

I know. You're probably asking yourself do we really need another video game site/blog? No, you don't but we were bored and felt that other gaming sites are just getting out of hand. We're going to keep it simple and get back to basics: Gaming. [hence the 8bit, get it - it's a play on words] We'll be adding some features in the near future to the website but at all times we are going to maintain simplicity and stay true to what we've started. We're also going to have fun with it and will probably get pretty opinionated (watch for falling sarcasm) but at the same time try to stay as unbiased as possible. None of us are really fanboys of any particular system so this won't be a 360 chat room or a blog about PS3. No system bashing here, well, unless its deserved of course. For example we won't have any PS3 reviews up yet cause we're too poor to own one. Not a bash - just fact. My salary of unemployed can't handle the financial investment of a new gaming system. But I hear the price is dropping in '08 - another blog post.

Also, there aren't many of us so if you feel you can contribute in any way whether it be topics to discuss or even reviews send us an email at general@8bitreview.com. Hope you enjoy the site and blog and be sure to check out the forum as well at www.8bitreview.com/8bitforum.

thanks for reading,

Russ