August 17, 2007 – StuffWeLike

Buy kickass Covenant Weapons!

Right when you thought we’d spend some time without reporting news on Halo 3 merchandise, we hit you with this. These are full-size replicas of the famous Halo weapons, the Plasma Pistol (left) and the Plasma Rifle (right), both of which are decent weapons. I still want the assault rifle very badly, though. 🙁

These babies actually light up, recoil, vibrate and do all the cool shit that the things in the game do. And no, these are NOT props for the upcoming movie (which that real-life Warthog is). You can actually buy these!

They’re made of glossy rubber and plastic and don’t fire plasma as of now, though that must in development. The pistol is priced at $70 right now and the rifle is at $120. Buy them while stocks last, because there aren’t many of them yet. But just wait till the Covenant actually invade the planet. We’ll have plenty then.

[Via Digg. Buy it here.]

Nintendo Anti-Mexican

Mexican Workers

Over 15,000 counterfeit Nintendo products were collected today across 12 distributors in Guadalajara. Of those 4,500 were Wii game discs. This wasn’t the first time that Nintendo has worked with Mexican authorities to fight against counterfeits, Last month, Nintendo stopped a shipment of more than 5,500 counterfeit Nintendo products entering Manzanillo, exported from China. Prior to that, 23 stores were shut down and more than 56,000 counterfeit Nintendo products were confiscated, including 11,000 counterfeit Wii discs, in San Juan de Dios market in Guadalajara.

“Mexico is Nintendo’s largest market in Latin America, where the problem of video game piracy is widespread,” said Jodi Daugherty, Nintendo of America’s senior director of anti-piracy.

My Repaired 360 is IN

Green Ring of Light

I received my repaired Xbox 360 yesterday at 6pm. I opened it up to find the, as promised, 1 month free Xbox Live gamer card. After unwrapping the console I looked for the dent that my system had and it wasn’t there. No I didn’t receive someone else’s Xbox 360, I received a brand-new one! Microsoft appears to be fixing the Ring of Death issue by sending newly manufactured systems that fix the heat sync issue.

When I powered up the system I could barely hear it running! If you remember turning on your 360 for the very first time when you got it a year ago, it sounded like a beast. Whatever Microsoft did it seems to have worked. I haven’t played any games with the console other than demos off the harddrive, but I’ve left the system on for six hours straight as I downloaded more demos and the system worked like a charm.

I noticed however that when laying the system on its side and running it for hours, the side touching the floor was still very hot, while the opposite side was relatively cool. My suggestion for all you 360 owners out there is to stand your console up when you use it. This way you can get maximum airflow in and out of the system on both sides of the console.

Personally I’m going try and to keep my Xbox 360 off to the side rather than in my media center cabinet.

It took me four posts to cover this repairing event and I’m sad to see this saga come to an end. In total the whole process was 1 month and 1 day.

Considering that Microsoft has extended the warranty to three years, I might break my console on purpose to get the new hardware 3 years from now. Who knows how much Microsoft will have improved the 360’s architecture by that time.

GameThinker Records Your Games

GameThinker

We’ve got an exclusive interview with the founder of GameThinker.com, a forum where gamers can not only ask for strategy tips on games, but can ask for their games to be recorded and the video added onto YouTube.com.

Who are you?
My name is Nick. And GameThinker was founded by me. I have a partner he’s the guy who helps manage the game recordings.

Why did you start GameThinker?
I love gaming, games are all around me. I thought GameThinker would help previous gamers help on Xbox 360, PS3, or the Wii. I use to always need help on a strategy game. We are here to help all the users who enter our forum. Our main feature is recording people’s games. We will record your gaming for FREE. We can record any game that’s online enabled on the Xbox 360 console!

What is GameThinker’s objective?
GameThinker hopes to reach out to the new technology of recording people’s games. We hope to be able to get enough attention from the public and have our videos all over YouTube.com.

How fast can you create these game videos?
These game videos can be created very quickly, as long as you respond to us, we can record your game within 24 hours! We are also editing people’s videos to there likings. Adding music, text, etc.

You also have another project on your site called LifeHit. What is it?
LifeHit was a previous MMORPG I owned, but recently my server hard drive crashed and we lost everything on the server. We hope to bring it back up shortly.

What do you expect to get from GameThinker?
I expect to get the publics attention about this new technology we offer to our people.

What are your future plans with GameThinker?
My future plans with GameThinker is to become one of the top gaming forums out there. We hope to help everyone on their gaming needs.