Gamer Guy with Two Cents

Afternoon folks. An 8 year old child last Thursday killed his grandmother of 87 Marie Smothers. The Louisiana sheriff's department implied the child's activities in a violent virtual world may have led to the killing. That game? Grand Theft Auto IV Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/marie-smothers-grand-theft-auto_n_3821879.html   Under state law the child cannot be charged for shooting his grandmother, children under the age of 10 are considered "immune from criminal responsibility". "It's not a crime if he's under 10 years old. We're still trying to figure out how to help this juvenile and his parents, it was determined that he did the shooting and it was an accident. He thought it was a toy gun, a play gun" said East Feliciana Parish District Attorney Samuel D'Aquilla. The boy was playing GTA right behind his grandmother, at some point the boy picked up a .38 caliber handgun and shot his grandmother from ...

Evening folks. It's all about Microsoft in this post. Phil Spencer has responded to Andrew House's "Shifting  Message" comment during Gamescom and CVP Phil Harrison. Phil Spencer Responds Source: http://www.gamespot.com/gamescom/microsoft-responds-to-sonys-shifting-message-comment-6413418/ Phil Spencer was speaking with Eurogamer about Andrew House's comment made near the end of Sony's Gamescom presentation. " While others have shifted their message and changed their story, we were consistent in maintaining policies and a model that is fair and in tune with consumer desires." In which Phil Spencer told Eurogamer: "The two-way conversation that we have with gamers is critical, if we weren't able to listen then I don't think we're really creating the ecosystem that means people want to come into the platform. Other people will do and say what they're going to say. FIne. We're running our program." -----...

Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to my 2nd Borderlands 2 Weapon Loot Guide. Today, we will be looking at the weapons of pure elegance and art. Mailiwan. Corporation Motto                              "Where form meets function" The Maliwan corporation believes that combat is an art, and elemental weaponry is the paint. If you need to burn, fry, or melt your enemies, Maliwan will be your weapon du jour. Though their initial damage may not be spectacular, Maliwan delivers damage over time like no other manufacturer on Pandora. Not to mention incredibly sleek, sophisticated Maliwan aesthetic---when your enemies see a Maliwan weapon in your hand, two thoughts will pass through their mind. "Damn that's a sleek-ass gun," Followed by                                           "Oh god, why am I ...

Good morning folks. This is an update post about what's going to be happening with the blog and what reviews will be posted later in time. College for me is starting again tomorrow and I have more classes then the last time I was there, so that means I'll have less free time to post news updates and reviews. Right now I'm playing three games for review. Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past Dead Rising 2 And Ghostbusters: The Video Game I'm not going to be finishing them in any particular order or by a certain time, they'll be done when they're done. I don't want to rush through the games just for the sake of review to move on to other games, no I want to start from the beginning and make it to the end. Also what some of you may have noticed is the change in template for the blog. I changed it back for the easier customization of the background for the blog to give it more of a personal touch, Dynamic Views didn'...

Good afternoon everyone. I those of you still on summer vacation enjoying the last weekend before school starts and for those of you who wrapped up their first week of back to school. Hang in there. Today I've got two videos of new game play for the new game Dying Light and Grand Theft Auto Online as well as what Capcom's approach could be to any future Resident Evil titles. Let's begin. Dying Light What do you get when you combine Mirrors Edge with Dead Island? This. Dying Light looks really cool, this is going on the list of games to play next gen for sure. I also suggest watching the trailer for Dying Light featuring Woodkid's song "Run Boy Run" It's a really cool trailer with a really good song. Looking forward to it. Grand Theft Auto Online Gameplay I must admit, I've never played Grand Theft Auto before. With all these new trailers to GTA V and GTA Online, I NEED to get this game for sure. Collecting cars, riding bi...

Good afternoon everyone. I have decided to begin a marathon review of my entire Legend of Zelda collection. A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess, I will play each game in random order however. I finished Twilight Princess an hour ago so let's begin. Story Taking place one century after Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, we meet our hero Link in the peaceful forest province of Ordon where he is working as a ranch hand, who has been given the task to present a gift from the village to the Princess of Hyrule. Before Link is set to deliver the gift, strange things have been happening in the forest outside of the village, mysterious creatures and sounds coming from deep within. During this time the village is attacked, the children kidnapped and Link left to try and save the kids. Link however discovers that the forest is blocked by a wall of darkness, he is taken into the world to somehow be transformed into a beas...

Good afternoon everyone. Today was the multiplayer reveal of Call of Duty Ghosts.We got to see a glimpse into what the new multiplayer has in store for us, what improvements and changes have been made with this new entry into the series and of course we heard a rap song to go with the trailer. Here's the trailer that was shown. There are 7 new multiplayer modes, 20+ new killstreaks, 30+ new weapons and over  twenty thousand possibilities for soldier customization, which includes customizing your own female soldier. Of course some of the new weapons we'll be seeing in the multiplayer was also shown. A new tier they introduced is the Marksman Rifle tier, which includes semi-automatic rifles and scoped semi-auto sniper rifles. The new scope system is called "Dual Render" now when you're sniping you'll be able to regain some peripheral vision that you would normally lose when aiming through sniper scopes in past games. There are also 35 perks...

Good evening, tonight I am reviewing a delightful tale about the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Now if there are those in the audience tonight who suffer from insomnia, Mr.Hitchcock was kind enough to inform us of the cure to such a dreadful ailment. These tablets must be taken internally and can only be used with this tool. For tonight's entertainment, I present to you the review of the 2012 film "Hitchcock" Story Hitchcock takes place in the year 1959, when Hitchcock was filming his masterpiece "Psycho"  . The movie shows the struggle that Alfred Hitchcock went through in order to make the film. The film opens up with the premiere of his latest film "North by Northwest" he comes out of the premiere and is asked by a reporter "You're the most famous director in the history of the medium, but you're 60 years old, shouldn't you just quite while you're ahead?" Hitchcock realize...

Good afternoon folks. Once again Microsoft has changed something about the Xbox One, it involves the Kinect and Andrew House is expecting that Sony will not be generating losses like the losses generated with the PS3. Let's begin with begin. PS4 Losses Unlike PS3 Losses Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/sony-not-expecting-ps3-like-losses-for-ps4-6412760 Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House said that Sony will not be expecting a loss that was generated by the PS3. "We will not generate anything like the losses we did for the PlayStation 3"  Mr.House told Bloomberg. A report on the losses generated from the PS3, Sony lost more than 3.5 billion dollars in 2007 and 2008 after the PS3 launched in 2006 for 600 dollars. CEO Kazuo Hirai has said the system did not become profitable until late 2011. Sony aims to avoid PS3-like losses for the PS4 in part due to a smaller investment in the PS4 relative to the PS3, CFO Masaru Kato said on a recent...

Good evening Today was a very interesting day for gaming news about the Xbox One and PS4. Quite exciting actually with some new revelations about both consoles, oh and yeah the last thing I wanted to talk about was the last piece of DLC coming to Black Ops 2, not for the multiplayer maps in the DLC but for what the new zombie map is going to be. So thanks for joining me today(welcome back for those who read my post on Pat Robertson) Let's begin. Major Nelson unboxes The Xbox One Today a video was released today, showing Major Nelson of Xbox unboxing the contents of the Xbox One. In the unboxing he surprised viewers to announce that the Xbox One wired headset will be boxed in with the Day One Edition and Standard edition of the Xbox One. Nothing is really unexpected here(except for the security lock, headset and sticker) The surprise though was that both Day One and Standard Edition bundles of the Xbox One would be getting the mono chat headset, previousl...

Yes folks, you read that title right and this is something he actually said. Pat Robertson who is the host of  'The 700 Club' was doing a Q&A section in the broadcast when one of the question was about what the bible says about "virtual sins". Here is the video. So if you've killed someone in a videogame, it's the same as doing it in real life. Oh yes of course, I killed a soldier in Call of Duty with one cut of my knife, it's the same thing as doing it in real life. In a video game the characters you see are not real, when you kill someone in a videogame that someone in most cases will come back again and will do the exact same thing it did before you took it upon yourself to kill that someone. In Borderlands 2 for example when you kill Hunter Hellquist of the Hyperion Truth Network, leave the area and come back after 10 minutes he's back doing the same thing he was doing when you first encountered him, the same thing does not ha...

Good morning everyone. Now before I begin with this post, yes I know I had a previous post that had "Why I'm Buying a PS4" in the title, this is the expanded version in a sense. One of the reasons stated in the post I made was because of the games. This is adding to the reasons I'm buying a PS4. The Price 100 dollars cheaper than the competitor? Yes please. A lot of people buying the PS4 are also buying it for the price. Add me to the list of people who are buying the PS4 also because of the price. The price of the PS4 would not have been 400 dollars if Sony had the Playstation Eye bundled in with the PS4, they decided to remove it for the lower price. I live on a budget, 400 dollars is a comfortable price for me. Reason 2? The Games When I saw the games for the PS4 vs the games for the Xbox One, the games for the PS4 interested me the most. Some games that have also been PC only titles that others are going to be able to play. Games...

Good morning everyone Welcome to my review of the Starz series Magic City. The story of corruption, murder and sex. Story Set in 1959 Miami, Florida after the Cuban Revolution. We are introduced to Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel the Miramar Playa. When Ike was building the Miramar he didn't have enough money to make the Miramar the hotel he wanted it to be, so before it was finished he made a deal with the most notorious mob boss of Miami Ben "The Butcher" Diamond. Although the Miramar Playa would not have been what it is without Ben Diamond, Ike is looking for a way to get rid of Ben Diamond and cut all connections to the mob. Ben on the other hand is doing his best to show Ike that getting rid of him will not be the best decision. Series The series itself is a mixed bag. The story to the series is very interesting and watching Ike struggle to be a good man while fighting his opposite Ben Diamond is a fight y...