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Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010 with Gun Bundle

Gamers — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:25:31 +0000

Mini-games featuring fast-paced hunting action of waterfowl, upland birds, small game, and 13 multiplayer mini-game shooting galleries.
Bundle includes the Top Shot Wii sawed off shotgun peripheral.
Comprehensive reward system will give instantaneous feedback for your performance. Use cover points to earn high scores and earn club points to unlock new areas.
Incredible terrain challenges including sheer cliff faces, escape avalanches and cross raging streams.
VITALS Shooting Mechanic simulates controlled breathing, enabling you to dial in your crosshairs and lock on for the perfect shot.

Product Description
Use this All-In-One Game & Gun Combo to become the ultimate big-game hunter! Travel the globe across five continents as you hunt the world’s greatest trophy animals. Your hunting and survival skills will be put to the test as you face dangerous game, treacherous environments and more! The included firearm peripheral, the first officially approved by Nintendo, makes this the most realistic hunting game to date!Amazon.com Product Description
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Cabela’s Big Game Hunter 2010 with Gun Bundle

Red Dead Redemption

Gamers — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:26:03 +0000

The Dead Eye targeting mechanic, allowing the player to slow down time for shot accuracy, as well as ridable horses and more than 40 kinds of animals that you can hunt or be hunted by.
Expansive open-world gameplay set in the final years of the American Wild West.
Massive play area filled with NPCs, made up 3 unique regions composed of towns and outposts filled with characters with varying looks, accents, etc.
Morality system based on honor and fame generated by the players actions throughout the game.
Western themed mini-games including showdowns, gambling, hunting bounties, cattle herding and five finger fillet; and an assortment of period specific weapons.

Product Description
Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic, set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government and the spread of the Industrial Age. The story of former outlaw, John Marston, Red Dead Redemption takes players on a great adventure across the American frontier.Amazon.com Product Description
Red Dead Redemption is an open-world, third-pe… More >>

Red Dead Redemption

Mario Kart DS

Gamers — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:24:40 +0000

Race and battle with up to 4 karts at once — or enjoy 8-player multiplayer action through your Wi-Fi Connection
Tour courses from classic Mario Kart games — as well as brand-new tracks and arenas
All the crazy items and frantic speed players have come to expect
Five different game modes allows for endless ways to play.

Amazon.com Product Description
The ultimate Mario Kart race is on…and online via your Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in Mario Kart DS. Drawing on more than 30 courses and battle arenas from every game in the Mario Kart series – not to mention tons of new ones, Mario Kart DS allows you to play as Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Toad, Bowser and Shy Guy as you put the pedal to the go-kart metal, grab coins to max out your speed and blast rivals with t… More >>

Mario Kart DS

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Gamers — Tue, 04 May 2010 22:26:02 +0000

Explore iconic settings from Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forrest, Hogsmead and, of course, Hogwarts castle. Hogwarts castle is a grand, immersive 3D environment and the largest, most detailed LEGO game location every built.
Play as Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger as well as other favorite characters; over 100 playable characters.
Attend lessons, cast spells, mix potions, fly on the broomsticks and complete tasks to earn house points.
Conjure up fun with a friend and play through Harry’s first four years at Hogwarts as a team with Drop-In, Drop-out co-op play.
New look and feel with the stylus-based movement and spell-casting. 2 player ad-hoc co-op.

Product Description
Build the adventure from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament and experience the magic of the first four Harry Potter stories – LEGO style! Explore Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learn spells, brew potions and relive the adventures like never before with tongue-in-cheek humor and creative customization that is unique to LEGO videogames!… More >>

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Just Dance

Gamers — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:24:49 +0000

Burn calories, stay fit, and enjoy a fun workout all while having a blast with your favorite songs.
Just Dance features more than 30 licensed tracks, ranging from iconic dance hits such as “You Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer to modern day pop with “Hot N Cold” by Katy Perry.
Scrolling lyrics lines so players can sing along to the beat.
Step to the beat and learn real-life dance moves from music spanning the 80′s, 90′s, Disco, Rock and more.
Raise the roof with anyone and everyone you know via fun 4 player party modes – with simple controls, anyone can pick-up and play.

Product Description
Just Dance Wii

Amazon.com Product Description
In Just Dance players learn real dance moves to songs they know and love across a wide genre of music over the past sixty years. Requiring only one Wii Remote per player, up to four people can break it down at a time, as they follow on-screen choreographed moves set to classic dance tracks, covering a wide variety of musical genres and bringing everyone to the… More >>

Just Dance

3D Dot Game Heroes

Gamers — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:26:31 +0000

Rendered in beautiful 3D pixels, 3DDGH takes the unforgettable 8¿bit art gamers know and love and brings it intact into three dimensions.
Using a powerful character creation tool, players can design and animate their custom hero. Combinations are endless!
Modeled after some of the most popular games of all¿time with painstaking detail.

Product Description
From the makers of the award‐winning Demon’s Souls comes the ultimate retro gaming experience: 3D Dot Game Heroes. An homage to the all‐time classic action/adventure and RPGs, 3DDGH delivers incredibly satisfying old‐school gameplay, beautiful visuals, and endless inside jokes, winks, and nudges for people who grew up in the golden age of gaming!Amazon.com Product Description
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Super Mario Galaxy 2

Gamers — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:33:39 +0000

Skilled players will want to collect new Comet Metals, which will unlock harder levels with even more challenges
Mario collects stars as he travels from galaxy to galaxy, sometimes upside-down, sometimes floating from place to place. Every level is new, but the game retains the charm, sense of wonder and beauty in line with Mario’s history
On some stages, Mario can find an egg, smash it open and hop onto the back of Yoshi. Yoshi can use his tongue to grab items and shoot them back at enemies, or to snag attach points and swing across chasms
Yoshi has an interesting diet. When he eats a Dash Pepper, he gets so hot and frenzied he can run up steep inclines and vertical walls. When he eats a Blimp Fruit, he inflates like a balloon and floats to new heights
New power-ups include a drill that Mario uses to tunnel through the planet’s surface all the way to the other side of a planet

Product Description
Launch into a new universe of gravity warping worlds in the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time! Yoshi joins Mario as they traverse a wild variety of galaxies exploding with imagination, helping out our hero as he gulps enemies, runs at super speed, or inflates like a blimp to reach high cliff tops. Whether Mario’s leaping into orbit around tiny micro-planets, tumbling through rooms with constantly flip-flopping gravity, or drilling through craggy worl… More >>

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Gamers — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:33:39 +0000

Skilled players will want to collect new Comet Metals, which will unlock harder levels with even more challenges
Mario collects stars as he travels from galaxy to galaxy, sometimes upside-down, sometimes floating from place to place. Every level is new, but the game retains the charm, sense of wonder and beauty in line with Mario’s history
On some stages, Mario can find an egg, smash it open and hop onto the back of Yoshi. Yoshi can use his tongue to grab items and shoot them back at enemies, or to snag attach points and swing across chasms
Yoshi has an interesting diet. When he eats a Dash Pepper, he gets so hot and frenzied he can run up steep inclines and vertical walls. When he eats a Blimp Fruit, he inflates like a balloon and floats to new heights
New power-ups include a drill that Mario uses to tunnel through the planet’s surface all the way to the other side of a planet

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Zhu Zhu Pets: Special Edition with Baby Hamster

Gamers — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:29:10 +0000

Explore the Slide Park, Skate park, nursery, bathrooms and more. Drive around little cars, zip up ramps, spin down slides, run in the hamster wheels, and get into all sorts of crazy situations.
Includes the limited edition “Baxter” Zhu Zhu Pets baby Hamster (non-motorized) figure.
9 different Zhu Zhus to play with, including Patches, Nugget, Winkie, Jilly, Scoodles, Pip Squeek, Mr. Squiggles, Chunk and Num Nums, plus 10 babies.
Play with multiple Zhu Zhu toys, including the Hamsterball, Car and Skateboard.
30 unique levels filled with secret passages, food, coins, upgrades, and babies.

Product Description
Where will YOUR Zhu Zhu zhu-oom? Pick your favorite Zhu Zhu Pet and explore your very own humongous hamster city! Nurture them, feed them, hear them chatter and love them as you scoot and scamper through an awesome maze filled with chutes, tunnels, twists, turns, ramps and jumps for endless fun for everyone! Each Zhu Zhu Hamster has its own unique personality and whimsical sounds. Help them scoot, scamper, bump n’ boogie through the crazy maze as you unlock more c… More >>

Zhu Zhu Pets: Special Edition with Baby Hamster

Game On Now!

Prisqua — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:41 +0000

It has been a while since being able to spend that much time playing video games.� As our first gaming console was the Playstation 2, I was always into Playstation games such as Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, The Devil May Cry, Time Crisis and Gran Turismo until JAG got me onto xbox live (we were playing co-op games about 4-6hrs almost everyday).� At home my son & I� had one rule: PS3 was mine and xbox 360 was my son’s. And JAG hated the PS3…

Playing video games makes me forget about everything else and shooting zombies or anything else for that matter is just a great stress reliever in my opinion.� But first I had to recover my Gamertag…

When playing Halo 3, my Son was using my Gamertag because his was “somehow” banned to play this video game only. With my back and forth traveling to the USA, I had not been able to play any video games for months.� So my dear Son thought I would no longer need my xbox live account and decided to change my Gamertag’s name!!!

There was also issues with the fact that our credit cards details were on the xbox which was not easy to get the details removed, so my son would buy Microsoft points from time to time… My ex and I put a stop to that by buying prepaid points’ cards…

But I was still a bit upset� with the fact that he had changed my name.� With time on my hands I decided to recover my Gamertag while in the States so that I could play games and also to revert my Gamertag to my name. In doing so, my Son was unable to access my profile from his xbox and after receiving a few “hate” messages, I had the feelings he was very upset…

I went and bought some Microsoft points from Kmart as it costs 800 points to change a name.

To cut a long story short, my original Gamertag was made in Australia so you cannot use points bought in the USA. You cannot change the country of your Gamertag so Microsoft help desk advised me to either get a refund from the shop where I bought the points which was negative or to create a new Gamertag.

My son had bought quite a lot of Halo 3 related downloads and I felt terrible knowing that he was so upset about the whole thing so after some reflections I decided to let him have my account and to just create a new one with my name as before.

So now everybody is happy again and I just have to work on getting some new achievements.� Not that I had that many since I only started playing xbox live mid-2008 but for instance I know that I won’t replay Gears of War or Castle Crashers… But that’s ok, plenty of games coming out all the time…

Favorite games I have started to play again are Call of Duty 4 and Left 4 Dead.

I also started to play Batman: Arkham Asylum after watching JAG play the whole game and Prototype but I am having difficulty with the controls.

My son and I never got the chance to play co-op video games together so lately we have been spending a bit of time teaming up on Resident Evil 5, one of my favorite games and really enjoying playing with him. I particularly like it when he is actually teaching me something on the game…

I love co-op games…