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Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3

July 31, 2009 at 9:09 AM · 1 comment

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Did Treyarch jump the gun? Not satisfied to let Call of Duty: World at War fade into the long, dark quiet of obscurity (well, that’s an exaggeration, given the intense love a lot of gamers have shown toward the title!) while Infinity Ward turns up the heat on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the [...]

Earlier today, I was strolling through a Best Buy [BBY] store, meandering through the games section (as most adults, and even some children, tend to do), when I began noticing several DVD-cased PC games with a blue-banded cover along the spine (the top 1/5-1/4 and the bottom 1/5-1/4). I pulled several of the titles off [...]

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack Now Available

April 9, 2009 at 10:30 AM

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Well, it has been a bit more than just “a few days” since we last mentioned the upcoming arrival of Halo 3′s Mythic Map Pack, the one that allows for all of those extra Achievements (with attendant Achievement Points!) and new amounts of of multiplayer hilarity… Fortunately, the Mythic Map Pack is now available, from [...]

Earlier, I had posted about Snipt.org and a WordPress plugin that “embeds” code from it.   The Action, Part 2: Gaming the Service for the Fun of I.T. Of course, if somebody is allowing you to embed code from a remote location in a faithful manner, the natural next step would be to strip out [...]

Call of Duty: WaW… Free Map…

March 2, 2009 at 11:18 AM

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Wow… In all of the noise from the bazillion (seemingly) DLC’s– really, just songs– for Lips and Rock Band and their ilk, it was very easy to miss a nice gem of a free downloadable map for Call of Duty: World at War. This goes nicely with the other multiplayer maps that the game comes [...]

Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack

March 1, 2009 at 9:46 AM · 1 comment

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The excitement for Xbox 360 gamers that has been building about the expected Mythic Map Pack for Halo 3 culminated  with an announcement seen on Xbox LIVE that the map pack will be released shortly: first, as a bonus for the people buying Bungie’s Halo Wars Limited Edition on March 3, 2009, and then a [...]

CNBC $1M Portfolio Challenge

November 17, 2008 at 8:00 AM

in Convergence,Gaming

Remember that lil’ ol’ stock trading game that CNBC [GE] has had on a few previous occasions? Well, it’s baaaack, starting today! Earlier, I’d mentioned that Flip is already ramping up his blog to handle the new game; with the new rules, he’s devised a new system for crowdsourcing, hopefully to get some readers into [...]

Remember when I mentioned the start of McDonald’s [MCD] Monopoly game? Well, the time has come for the game to wrap up… if you haven’t punched in all of your codes online yet, you should probably get it done ASAP. Hey, don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Flip is Back… at Flipping

October 29, 2008 at 7:22 PM

in Gaming,Meanderings

… at least, game-wise (in the CNBC $1M Challenge game). It looks like, about the same time as my post about the ‘game, Flip is getting back into the action with this third iteration of the game. This will probably be an interesting 10 weeks of twisty-turny nausea (and maybe even a bit of vomiting), [...]

Return of the CNBC $1M Challenge

October 27, 2008 at 6:38 PM

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It’s been a few months already since the close of the infamous CNBC $1,000,000 Challenge game. Remember the last item on Javamancy about the game? Well… It’s baaaack! You can sign up now to get ready for the action, which starts November 17, 2008. At this time, the currency trading part of the game is [...]