Josh Smith Online

Last Week Wal-mart had loads of pre order games going for $20 to $30 below MSRP. The games included Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Burnout Paradise to name a few. I placed an order for each of them with little hope of actually receiving the product at the discounted price. Wal-mart pissed [...]

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Take a trip with me, the year 1998, the place a highschool with limited web access. Are you with me, you know on Candystand.com playing flash games based on sugary snacks and EXTREME parachuting. In case you forgot Candystand is still around, still sponsored by Wrigley’s but this time with the love child [...]

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If you used an early Microsoft OS you may have run into Jezzball a filler style game in which you had to trap balls.  Tonite I found Filler via Digg and promptly lost 2 hours.
My high score was level 43, just over 100,000.  IT is frantic and if you make it to the upper levels [...]

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image via Major Nelson’s Flickr stream
Robbie Bach just announced that the Xbox Live service hit over 10 Million users connected!  He noted that this was 6 months ahead of the scheduled time!  I wonder if this success had/has anything to do with the continuing Xbox Live service issues.  Thankfully all Gold members will be getting [...]

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I figure in 3 weeks Microsoft will announce a press release extolling the number of 360s sold over the holidays and the number of new Xbox Live members who signed up within the last week of December. Right now however I am disappointed that it takes 15 minutes for my home page on the [...]

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Lots of buzz happening now with the Xbox 360 and the XBLA as Christmas nears.  Most notably the release of the Xbox Live Arcade “Hits” which consists of a collection of XBLA games which have seen a price reduction just in time for holiday point binging.  The selection includes games which have been on the [...]

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Halo 3 SuperGeek
A few months ago I shared that I had entered the “WIRED Magazine Halo 3 Supergeek Contest”. I was lucky enough to be the Grand Prize Winner of the contest!! Since we already have one 360 and the blanket was hand made by my wife the new Halo 3 edition Xbox [...]

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Gripshift formerly for the PSP and the PSN on the PS3 is set to release on Xbox Live Arcade next month. Gripshift is best described as a puzzle racer with a time component and guns! I had a lot of fun playing it back when I owned a PSP and has heard a [...]

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Halo 3 user Ice V created an amazing Rube Goldberg machine n the Halo 3 map editor Forge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jje1m9DJp8k

Lovely, give this man the helmet which shall not be named.
Bungie Forums Discussion

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The Wall Street Journal had a great story today about the use of Monopoly to aid Prisoners of War in escaping during WWII. The British manufacturer of the game was approached and made a special edition of Monopoly with a red dot on the free parking which contained tools to aid in escape from [...]

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