It's the last day, of the last month, of 2008... And what a great year it has been (at least for getting super cheap dvds hehe). I got a good chunk of the movies and TV shows I really wanted, but there's still a fair few on my wish list. So roll on 2009!
And below are the dvds I got today (my final dvds of the year) as well as the amazing Crystal Lake Memories book that also turned up today.
Well that's Christmas over for another year and a great Christmas it was. No moaning family members as everybody seemed very happy and upbeat, the gifts were great (with a lot of cheeky funny ones hehe) and everybody was in good health.
Good times!
Here's what I got from Santa:D -
Sweeties
Money
A Razor
Books
Socks
Smelly stuff including my fav aftershave
A clock
Jim Jams
Toys including an RC K9 For The Win!
A few dvds hehe including the full James Bond set.
:D
I had asked My mum for Doctor Who dvds (My Dad got me season 1 and my sister Nicola got me season 2), she thought this was funny so she got me the toys to go with them:D lol! Haha good one mum :D
Oh and not in the pic is a 200g Toblerone I was munching :P
So thanks to all my family for all the great gifts xxx
I took this picture yesterday (Christmas Eve Eve) as I had a lot of my family together in my living room (a rare thing indeed)
From left to right -
My Dads father and mother
My mum holding my wee niece Jayde (mother is my sister Nicola)
My wee Sister Michelle
My wee niece Courtney (mother is my sister Nicola)
My wee nephew Brandon (mother is my sister Michelle)
My wee sister Nicola
On the floor is my wee nephew Dylan (mother is my sister Michelle)
Then on the floor is my wee nephew Aiden (mother is my sister Nicola)
And last but not least is my Dad
I am off course not in the pic as I am taking it:D
Click on the pic for a bigger version of it
or click HERE for an extra large version
AT LAST!!!
It's been a long wait, but at last the TV movie of Dead Like Me is out soon.
I hope this dvd sells enough to get them to make another season or 2 of one of my fav TV shows.
"MGM Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Dead Like Me on 17th February 2009 priced at $26.98 SRP. Ellen Muth and Callum Blue return for this film set two years after the TV series ended. The story sees the undead reapers introduced to their new boss, Cameron Kane (Henry Ian Cusick), whose new agenda creates disorder within the reaper clan. While Daisy (Sarah Wynter) and Mason (Callum Blue) fall prey to Cameron’s temptations, the infamous Georgia “George” Lass (Ellen Muth) creates more reaper havoc by breaking an important reaper rule: revealing herself to her Earthly family.
Features include:
A few cheap games at Play.com with some nice bargains to be had. I went for the Far Cry 2 play exclusive steelbook for £17.99.
***Offer ends 2nd Dec.*** (please note that there's also a few good deals at Argos for games like Saints Row 2 for the 360 at £19.99 if stock sells out at play, but expect even better deals as Dec goes on:)
Also expect more games to be added as the day goes on and for sold out stock to be taken off the site.
Click the pics for a bit more detail or just visit the page by clicking the banner above
A bigger update than most months thanks to a very generous HMV, and the trade in value it gave for old (very old) games :D
Below - Lots of Christmas movies this month to watch in Dec.
Below - Digipaks/tins and slipcovers (Love the HMV exclusive 3D HULK sleeve:D oh and Wall*E came with a Wall*E rubik's cube)
Below - More movies that can now be wiped from my wish list.
Below - Cheap TV sets from HMV :D
Below - Haha! That's a daft load of dvds to buy in 25 days, although a fair chunk of them were for old traded games and thanks to my wee sis Nicola for buying me a few of them xxx.. Still daft though hehe :D
So today was the big day for the worldwide rollout of NXE, the all new dashboard for the Xbox 360.
There was a beta version on the net for a while that you could download, but you were not able to go onto xbox live until today if you had used the update in this way, and there was a trial thing with about 10,000 people each time getting to test out the full thing for bugs.
So now that it's here what do I think? Well I like it, it's a lot faster than the other version and looks a lot better, the avatars look very silly and if you try to make yourself and you're male you're going to look gay no matter what you do, so it's best to have fun with them and make one up (I made Gospel Elvis from the 68 comeback)
I love the ripping the game to HDD and I really like all the art for each game as you look through stuff, it feels very nice and loads fast to boot... OK! It did load fast around 10:20am this morning but now they servers are a bit overloaded so there's error codes all over the shop. So if you want to check it out, it will be best waiting a few days to let things settle down.
Oh!
AT LAST! they let you delete those old arcade trial versions from your game history; it took a lot of years but they got there in the end.:D
All in all it's a great update and worth the wait.
Below - It's ME! Well it's Elvis, from the 68 comeback special (gospel section) uh huh thaank you very much!
T.C.B Baby! (Elvis famous Taking Care of Business)
Below - My dad on Xbox Live as 'The Yawning Man' living up to his name as he seems to be asleep. (this is how your avatar looks when you're offline)
Below - It now shows you in picture format what your friends are doing and if there's a party you'll see a number of avatars all in a group (probably giving you a mexican wave)
Here's some pics I snapped on this Guy Fawkes.
I was very far away and shot the pics through a window. They still turned out pretty good though :D (click each pic for a bigger version)
Ok, so it's Halloween today; It's the time of year I get to keep my mask on (my face) without people ducking behind a sofa or anything else that they can hide behind.
I love Halloween, I love horror movies, so Halloween is always about watching a few of them and I bought a LOT over this month, and since my DVD update is due today, I'll post those up later on.
Here's my wee nephews all dressed up, it's a good job they had a Halloween party a few days ago because since then, they have both fallen ill, so I can't see much trick or treating and sweetie eating tonight (get well soon guys xxxxxx)
My Sister Michelle did an ace job doing them all up though and her Tom Savini like SFX for Brandon the wee Zombie is just ace:D
Below: Tom Savini and Bub
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Dylan and Brandon get ready for Fright Night.
They are now in the following movies at a cinema near you soon.
Have great Halloween and be safe.
Fallout 3 is out tomorrow in the UK but my copy turned up today. Now I always love when stuff turns up early, but the sad fact is I kinda wish this was not out to Monday, as spare time to waste playing a game is not really there for the kinda hours this game is going to need.
Oh well, at least I have time today to take a pic of the box and the GAME exclusive figure you got with it. I'll not get much time to play this until Sunday as it's Halloween tomorrow and for my day off I'm going to spend it watching horror movies.
I got Fable 2 on Friday just past and have put more than a few hours into it over the weekend. Fable 2 is a great feel-good game, I love the graphics style and the music and sound is just amazing. (you can get 6 free tracks from the soundtrack HERE including the amazing title track)
I talked my dad into playing this game, so I hooked up with him in the game for some coop and now he is hooked on it, so I think I can say bye bye to my game disc for a few months... Oh well it was really fun while it lasted...
BUT!!!
FALLOUT 3 is out today in the USA and on Halloween here in the UK, so I'm sorry Fable 2, you were ace, but Fallout 3 is THE game I've been waiting on, forget GTA4 even, this is the one, this years holy grail of gaming for me. Sure it's only going to be the 4th game I've got and really spent time on this year (the others being Fable 2 of course, as well as GTA4 and Bully all on the Xbox 360) but this is it; I've hardly put any time into gaming so I would not feel guilty sinking about 100 hours into this baby.
I pre-ordered the GAME UK exclusive version that comes with a figurine, I don't get these editions ever really, but I'm getting this for the same price as the normal edition (less with the reward points) so I thought "what the hell!"
Anyway here's a couple of Video reviews for both Fable 2 and the IGN Fallout 3 review that's just been posted a few hours ago.
Fallout history video below
Fable 2 Gametrailers Review
IGN Fable 2 Review
This is just a small catch up post of some things I missed posting when they happened, and I'm only now getting around to it.
First off, my wee nephew Aiden was 5 on the 10th of this month and since uncle James would not move from the DVD section, he went all green and angry and hulked out in Asda... Don't mess with a 5 year old Hulk! :D hehe.
Next up, an update about my ROD 360 last month. Well my Xbox 360 came back after about 10 days and they changed the motherboard and the DVD drive and gave the standard free 1 month gold card. It's works great and should be put to plenty of use with the release of Fable 2 and Fallout 3 over the Christmas period.
NKOTB Concert.
My Sister Nicola is a HUGE (well was as a kid) New Kids on the Block fan. After she found out they were making a comeback (Old Men on the Block) she was more hyper than her kids, on a month supply of Irn-Bru and nothing else. She was even more hyper when she knew they were coming to Scotland on the 18th of Jan 2009 at the SECC. So off course she HAD to go and re-live her teenage glory days. But who would go with her? Well that 'WHO' is 'ME'.
Yep I'm going to see NKOTB in concert with her, I'm going to listen to all those songs that used to do my head in as my sisters blasted there songs day in and day out. The funny thing is? I'm really looking forward to it, and with all those now 30 something women there, I might just have to dress up as Joey McIntyre... Hey! In the dark with the pork pie hat on and singing Hangin' Tough, I could just pull it off;) (It's going to be REALLY DARK and they will be screaming so loud they won't hear me sing...:P)
And last but not least and uodate for today.
HAPPY 31st BIRTHDAY NICOLA
Here's A music Video for you :D xxxxxxx
My new phone turned up today and I've very happy with it. It came with a 256MB M2 card that I was not expecting to get (although it's only about £5 for a 2 gig sony one from play.com) so that was a nice bonus.
I also did not know it had video calling on this phone so that is also nice to have.
best thing though? My headphones from my W800i DO work with this phone weeee! So I'll not even open the phones you get with this phone.
I love the white backlighting and when you put on the camera, it goes blue at the front and all the buttons go blue, it's very nice:D.
More than happy with this so far:D
Click HERE to read why I had to get a new phone
And the date is? 19th Nov 2008
John Schappert, Corporate Vice President of Xbox LIVE, Services and Software, announced today during his Tokyo Game Show keynote that the New Xbox Experience will ship to Xbox 360's around the world (in 26 countries, localized in 11 languages) on November 19th 2008.
Click the pic for details on the NXE over on Xbox.com
