I have been asked a lot lately “Where you been ICE? You haven’t been posting as of late, why?” My answer is I have been busy trying to accomplish a new feat in gaming. Im on a quest to beat as many games as possible this year while I have taken time off work to continue my schooling at Full Sail University. I have already racked up a nice list and continue to try and complete my quest. I do however keep getting side tracked by the glorious NHL 2010 and NCAA 2010. I imagine this years sports titles will slow me down as well.  Starting April 12th I will record my accomplishments and thoughts on each game I have completed and give constant updates on where and what I am working on currently.

I do however have a few sites I would like to share with you and please take the time to visit each. These sites are for gamers and trust me you will enjoy these suggestions. www.raptr.com this site is the Facebook of gaming, any gamer that considers themselves gamers will enjoy this site. It records what games you play and the time you spend on each. Surprisingly in the last month I have spent 110 hours on NHL 2010. I wish this would have came out when I first bought my systems it would have been nice to see the time I have put into different games. Everyone should be a member of this site, please take the time to sign up and enjoy this gaming Facebook.The next site is www.leaguearena.com this site takes sports titles and makes leagues out of them. I was looking for something more to enjoy my NHL 2010 and ran across this site and www.thenextexp.com  the sites are similar however the NHL league is better on League Arena. The people that run the site at The Next Experience are complete morons and completely rude. The NHL league is a utter mess and the leader refuses to answer simple requests with respect. I recommend you steer clear of The Next Experience if you want league play join League Arena. The site is better and the people that run that site are professionals.So here are a couple sites to enjoy as gamers. I hope to see you sign in and enjoy these suggestions, also visit this site often to see my journey through beating as many titles I possible can. Starting late April I will be posting often to give my thoughts and views on the beaten games in my path.

Thanks, ICE

 NO HD????

This company was started over 120 years ago in Kyoto, Japan, by Fusajiro Uamauchi (the great-grandfather of current Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi) the business made and sold Japanese-style Hanafuda playing cards, which are smaller and thicker than Western playing cards and often include elaborate pictures like those on the faces of Tarot cards. This company entered the gaming industry over 24 years ago with innovative ideas and top-notch technology. The release of Wii in the current industry owns 48.7% of the current gaming console markets.  

The Wii system has inferior graphics and inferior online ability technology based, the system is inferior. The Wii’s success was not focused on the core gamer. The systems innovative control style and creative games is the key to the success of this system. The management style of Nintendo continues to focus on what made them a recent success, ignoring the core gamers in the market. Nintendo recently announced that they would not release a system that supports HD. I understand that Nintendo feels it does not need the support of the core gamers to be successful. However I feel the management needs to understand the current changing technology. 

 I as a gamer appreciate everything Nintendo has done for this industry and I understand their different way of thinking. I would be horned to work for a company that isn’t shy about thinking different and succeeding with a different view. I feel this company needs to stay centered and understand that there are many key parts in producing a successful gaming experience. Game-play I feel Nintendo has a good grasp on however Graphics is a important part in that experience as well. How many of us played great games on older consoles? Why are we not currently playing them now? Technology is important to all gamers proven in the recent sales numbers. The sales numbers of consoles as of September show the PS3 outselling the Wii and success of the other two consoles continue to grow as the price of technology becomes more affordable. I purchased a Wii upon first release like I do every system. I consider myself a core gamer, following the industry with every new release and playing anything I can get my hands on. I found the Wii fun at first, something to entertain when company is around. Over the past two years I found myself playing it less and less, the graphics were not as good as on other systems the controls for me were easier on the other systems. I simply enjoy the other systems more. With this announcement of Nintendo not supporting HD makes me step back as a consumer and see that this company is not on the same page as the gaming industry. Which in the past has given them success; however if they choose to continue to ignore simple technology I fear the glory days of Nintendo will end.

ICE

 References:

 http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/11/06/No-HD-For-Wii.aspx 

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/77?ep=77 

http://www.vgchartz.com/

I watched this film called Nerdcore Rising, it was a different form of hip-hop, it reminded me more of old-school hip-hop. This film mentioned a site called Song Fight. I searched the internet and found this new addiction. www.SongFight.org this site gives you a phrase and within a week you must write a song and produce it and post it for people to vote and review it.  You win nothing and the site has a small following but I just couldn’t help myself. I found myself writing a song and preparing it to be released but never got the balls to post it. Week after week I was nervous, I was doing all the hard work and never posted it. This week I took a chance, I posted my first song “Who Needs Sleep” a tribute to DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince’s “Nightmare on My Street” it is only up for a week and I think I did pretty good for my first internet release. Those who know me know I love music and like to be creative, however my creations are not always perfect, but I try. If you get board check it out and look and vote for me Ice The Man. I hope to see you on.

Thanks Ice

It seems this season thus far has been short on good shooters.  This is the year of great sports games. As the NHL season grows near to the release of NHL 2010,  I fear my time dodging bullets will be cut even worse. How will I find the time, upon the best NFL game I have ever played, in Madden 2010, the greatness of NCAA 2010 online franchise and now the NHL 2010 with their team play online. WOW, I might as well start signing my checks over to EA now. Trust me I am no EA fan boy, I have always thought of them as the evil empire, throwing money around to secure licenses made me sick. Competition breeds excellence, that was always my thoughts, but maybe they needed to be left alone for a few years to get it right. They are in the right direction with this years Madden NFL license. They have always ruled the NCAA football, boxing, and NHL franchise in my eyes. However one sport they have yet to dominate in is Basketball, and yes 2K10 is to be released soon. They have giving me a slight insight to the game with the release of the NBA 2K10 combine and so far I am impressed to the point of pre-ordering the NBA 2K10 as well. With all these great sports titles when will I find time to dodge bullets in the new Modern Warfare 2 coming out in November? That game better be great to get me off these awesome sports titles. Remember when there where only certain times of year you would play sports games? You would play them to break up the repetitive shooting games. They were more of a break then a time sucker. That was back in the prime of the Tom Clancy games, and COD releases. Now with the Tom Clancy series being pushed back to the spring of next year and the great sports titles I feel my time will be running short with the new Modern Warfare game. Don’t worry I will be there the day of release but the game better have more then 5 maps and the draw must be longer than a few months or I will be back to wining Super Bowls and National Titles in no time. Maybe its just my age catching me or my nostalgic view of how great I once was at sports that catch me so easy, or maybe its just that after over 20 years Madden is finally a great game and games like NHL is calling to my MMORP Sports side and we are on the edge of something great in the sports franchise. The ability to have an online frinchise with 31 of my friends and 12 on NCAA is unbelievable, the ability to play NHL with 5 other people as a team is amazing and now that NBA is taken lessons from the NHL series I can only imagine what is on the horizon. I can only hope that when the Modern Warfare 2 is released it shakes everything up and my world goes back to its original state. If not I guess I won’t be dodging bullets, I will be to busy making my sports Hall  Of Fame.

Stay Cool,

ICE

NCAA 2010

This is only one of the few games that gets better every year. Sports titles release every year and always improve the things that need to be left alone. This series however has always made the right steps, improvements are slim but they gave the support were needed. I think this teams needs to have long talks with the Madden teams so they can get on the same track.  I could not wait for this season to begin, the additions of Coke Showdown mode has me wanting to never put this game down. The online dynasty mode is better then last year with the ability to invite 12 other players into an online dynasty and you don’t have to always play each other. It is the same as the offline dynasty, you just play with your friends favorite teams as real human players. I have room for you in my dynasty just hit me up. I plan to get through all 30 years before the next one is released. From what I understand Madden is adopting this dynasty mode which means we will always have draft uploads for all 30 years of our Madden dynasty. Well what are you waiting for pick up your copy quick. Join me and millions of others as we push our team to the top in the Coke Showdown, or join me in my dynasty to become the best college dynasty ever. Hit me up..

ICE..