That left aside, I am really looking forward to entering this school. The last time I actually started in a class without knowing anyone in it from earlier times, was in Oslo; age 7. Will be a different experience, hopefully.

Also, I just want to say, it's not often I am down. But when I am there is one song which can always cheer me up. Ever heard about Arcade Fire? They're a pretty sweet indie group from Canada, or something... Anyways, I recall seeing them at Roskilde (07'?). Before their performance I've heard nothing about the group or their music. But anyways, I remember comming wet, (yes, it was pouring) and drunk to their gig. They were about to fire up "No Cars Go", and somehow I was able to wander of from my friends, (see, drunk) but didn't care much, as this was a killer song.

Aaaaaaand I stumbled through a delicious cake recently. It's a flash based game called "Desktop Tower Defense". http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp?addict

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WiiWare has been up for about 2 weeks now. Every monday WiiWare gets an update of one or two games to its collection. One of the debuted title of this dying-waiting service was the famous free flash game "Defend Your Castle." I bet you have been wondering, is it worth it to spend 5 dollars on a game that i can play for free? Well, there is an open answer for that question. Defend You Castle Wii still has the same addictive gameplay that its counterpart has. However, this game offers much more than the original. Starting with new enemies and elements of protecting your castle. It also has new animations and better graphics with a new style.  One of the only if not the only downside is that you don't get all the blood spills in the Wii version. Actually you dont see any blood at all. But even without blood you are going to even laugh while playing this game. Hint: Let a lot of enemies gather around your door, and just put a suicidal bomber in there and kill them all. Trust me is hilarious the first couple of times you do it.

What's New?

In addition, the game has multiplayer for up to 4 players. So the player who kills the most enemies becomes the king of the castle. Therefore, he will be making all the decisions, and controls the castle until someone else comes and reclaims it. So is basically like a co-op competitive game. You all play for the same purpose against the same people, but you still compete between each other.

Gameplay

I know you have probably wonder how the Wiimote IR compares to the mouse. Well, let me tell you that at least for me, the Wiimote IR feels a lot better and more natural than the mouse, and I think is easier to control. So basically you point to one of your enemies and press A or B to hold them. After you are holding one of them, just throw him somewhere up in the air. To use the suicidal bomber just press A or B in the little circle bomb they have and it will explode. The gameplay is easy, but at the same time addictive. In conclusion, If you are looking for the cheapest most valuable game in WiiWare right now, you are thinking of Defend your Castle. If you want to have fun with an easy and addictive game to control, you are thinking Defend you Castle. If you have dream of picking people up and throw them in the air, or put a bomb where there is 50 enemies and see they faces explode all around you, you are thinking Defend your Castle. For all that is rest, save your Wii points :).

I figured this would be a good video for a Monday morning!

Release date: 12th May 08

Price: 500 Wii Points only!

Platform: Wii

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This WiiWare game "Defend your castle" looks hilariously fun, just for the graphics. From Bits and Bytes. And omg "helth". Lol.

And via Wonderland, NES controller coffee table!! Too... much... awesome!

Just a quick note before I begin my post today: This is not going to become a habit. My goal in the morning of getting up early every day is not to provide me with more opportunities to blab on this "thing," but to write short stories, fiction novels, or nonfiction essays that push my skills as a writer and provide me with adequate creative venues. I do not intend to blast my subscribers with nonsense thoughts and minor life events on a daily basis. Eventually, these kinds of posts will be once, twice, maybe three times a week, and the rest of my mornings will be spent crafting stories you will get to read when they are finished.

But, for today I just wanted to tell you about my day yesterday. Thanks for reading.

I'm a little bit tired this morning. Of course, it's all my fault this time. I was going to defrag my laptop after clearing some space off the hard drive (several gigabytes worth) so I wanted to back some stuff up online before going to bed and beginning the defrag. OK, most of what I was uploading was already mostly backed up online, but not full resolution. You see, I have some really good photos that were the result of good luck and timing that I wanted to share so I put them on my DeviantART account last night. Not all of them, mind you, but it's a start. I think I'll upload a few at a time for the next few weeks until all the good ones are up at DeviantART. For now, you can view my web albums in two locations.

The first is my Google web album, the second is my Kodak web album. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the Kodak service and I think I'm going to start using the Google/Picasa service more often. I even prefer the DeviantART site more than the Kodak one, but I feel bad uploading anything to DeviantART that isn't art.

I wish I could share more than just this one photo with you here. OK, I could share more than just this one photo with you here, but adding more photos would be a lot of work and I'm too tired to do it right now. Be grateful for the one photo I managed to get up here.

Doesn't she look like she's just loving that cereal? For more photos of her enjoying the rice cereal, check out the the Picasa/Google web album. You can download a full resolution copy of this photo from this DeviantART page.

Yesterday was a pretty good day. We took it easy. In the morning, after breakfast, we played some of that great game, Defend Your Castle, then we went to the store and prepared for a picnic in the park, which could have gone better. Overall, it went well. Sometimes, though, I forget that my legs get super white compared to my normally tanned skin because I wear pants a lot. Yesterday, at the park, I wore shorts. My shins are in a lot of pain right now.

After the park we came home, rested, got some work done, and then fed the baby some rice cereal for the first time, which went extremely well (as you can see). After that, the five-year-old decided he was done being nice and following rules for the day, so we had an early dinner and put him out of his misery with an early bedtime. Then we watched a two hour movie in just under five hours (not bad with the baby). You know the rest of the story - I stayed up too late updating my DeviantART account with some good photos.

Well, I'm happy to say that I can finally return a movie to a friend. We have borrowed movies from her before, and the last time was a disaster. We returned the movie in good condition, so it could have gone worse, but we held on to it for far too long (many months). This time we managed to watch it in something like three weeks, which is great.

The movie wasn't my style. It was a drama, which is already a huge deduction in points on my part, and it didn't really get me pulled in that well. I rate dramas and other movies that don't appeal to me on their ability to pull me into the story (the plot and other story elements have to be crafted really well) and evoke an emotional reaction from me. This one did evoke that emotional reaction from me, but I wouldn't have been devastated if I had walked away from it halfway through, meaning the story could have grabbed me better. This is not, by any means, actual criticism for the film, because this is simply a question of taste. The friend who loaned us the movie, for example, just loves this movie. The story must have really pulled her in, it must have connected with her deep down, and it probably evoked a stronger emotional reaction from her because of it.

Overall I'd say it was well made and fun, but not for me. I enjoyed watching it, I'm glad I watched, and I'm glad I don't own it.

Oops, I suppose you'd like to know what movie we watched last night now? Ha. Silly me. We watched "The Holiday."

Well, as much as I'd like to extend my writing time this morning beyond the hour I usually write, I think I'm going to lay back down and close my eyes in the hopes of falling back asleep and waking up feeling like I slept a full eight hours in stead of less than four. Or, I might finish writing, or not, and find that the day is starting whether I like it or not, and have to skip on the rest until we get home from church. Either way, my bed and I will probably be seeing each other before the actual end of the day.

If I don't make it back to bed, I feel that I might cry. I know, my fault. Tonight, nap or no nap, I'm going to bed at ten. That's final.

Wiiware, el canal por el que la consola Wii de Nintendo va a obtener juegos independientes, se estrena hoy en EEUU y el 20 de mayo lo hará en Europa.

La apuesta de Wiiware es un poco diferente a la consola virtual, y similar a otros servicios de Microsoft y Sony con sus consolas. La compra será por medio de puntos.

Lo interesante de esta propuesta, como ya está avanzando también en el campo de las aplicaciones para los diferentes sistemas operativos de los teléfonos móviles, es el acceso que se da a desarrolladores no ligados a los grandes, a las consolas o terminales en el caso de los teléfonos móviles.

Wiiware tiene mucho sentido en una consola como la Wii de Nintendo, pues da pie a la gente a desarrollar juegos que no tienen por qué ser espectaculares sino originales y divertidos, que es precisamente por lo que está destacando la consola de Nintendo.

De momento los juegos que estarán disponibles son: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, LostWinds, Defend Your Castle, Pop, V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack y TV Show King.

OK, I have decided to buy this game no matter what Clouette has to say.

LostWinds

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As a King

Defend Your Castle

Pop

TV Show King

V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack

IGN.com is reviewing all of them quickly, most earning a score around 6 or 7, but so far with LostWinds in the lead with an 8.2 out of 10. Now I kind of wish I saved those 500 points I had on Sunday for Defend Your Castle (the only 500 point game of the bunch), but Super Mario Bros. 3 probably is a much better game...

By the way, Final Fantasy up there has downloadable content features... nice. Nintendo's finally starting to understand.

And as a final note, the Nintendo Channel was also given an update with new videos (mostly of the WiiWare titles) and DS demos. While it's a bit disappointing to see Ninja Gaiden gone from the lineup, new demos like Apollo Justice and Iron Man have caught my eye. If the Nintendo Channel keeps getting awesome updates like this every week, I'll be one happy gamer.

By Josh60502

Defend Your Castle- XGen Studios - 1 to 4 Players - 500 Points
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King- Square Enix -  1 Player - 1,500 Points
Lost Winds - Frontier - 1 to 2 Players - 1,000 Points
Pop - Nnooo - 1 to 4 Players - 700 Points
TV Show King- Gameloft - 1 to 4 Players - 1,000 Points
V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack - High Voltage Software - 1 to 4 Players - 700 Points

Also worth noting is a new increment in Wii software pricing. Pop's and V.I.P. Casino's tag is set to 700 points; just shy of the usual 800. Maybe we'll see games for under 500 later down the road.

Source: GameTrailers.com, IGN.com

Defend Your Castle- XGen Studios - 1 to 4 Players - 500 Points
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King- Square Enix -  1 Player - 1,500 Points
Lost Winds - Frontier - 1 to 2 Players - 1,000 Points
Pop - Nnooo - 1 to 4 Players - 700 Points
TV Show King- Gameloft - 1 to 4 Players - 1,000 Points
V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack - High Voltage Software - 1 to 4 Players - 700 Points

Also worth noting is a new increment in Wii software pricing. Pop's and V.I.P. Casino's tag is set to 700 points; just shy of the usual 800. Maybe we'll see games for under 500 later down the road.

Source: GameTrailers.com, IGN.com

Nintendo launched their much anticipated WiiWare store today. If you've been living under a rock this past year, WiiWare is a dedicated store where third-party developers can sell their games developed specifically for the Wii console. As opposed to virtual console, which is just a marketplace for emulated games made for other systems.

Nintendo launched the new store today with 6 titles. The info is below:

• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Square Enix, 1500 Wii Points)
• LostWinds (Frontier Developments, 1000 Wii Points)
• Defend your Castle (XGen Studios, 500 Wii Points)
• Pop (Nnooo, 1-4 players, 700 Wii Points)
• V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack (High Voltage Software, Inc., 700 Wii Points)
• TV Show King (Gameloft, 1000 Wii Points)

Hopefully, Nintendo's WiiWare channel will mature like PSN and XBLA. Fanboys are really looking forward to all the original titles that can be pushed through this channel. But for now we can settle for My Life as King and LostWinds.

-Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (1,500 Wii Points)

-LostWinds (1,000 Wii Points)

-Defend your Castle (500 Wii Points)

-Pop (700 Wii Points)

-V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack (700 Wii Points)

-TV Show King (1,000 Wii Points)

To learn more about WiiWare, be sure to check out Nintendo's official site.

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Prepare to Defend once more. XGen’s legendary classic is coming to your Nintendo Wii™ via WiiWare™ on May 12! The Barbarian hordes have amassed their forces once again to challenge your domain. Will you and your court rise to the challenge, or stand aside as the invaders raze your Castle to the ground?

* 4 Player jump-in cooperative gameplay - Defend your Castle with up to 3 pals!
* Compete with your friends for kingship - Get crowned for dominating other players and earn the right to manage the Kingdom!
* Completely new visuals and animation - “The graphics now have more style, colour and life to them, as if they were drawn by a three year-old hyped up on sugar with unlimited supplies of Crayola.” - N-Europe
* Enhanced physics & particle effects
* Repel even faster and more massive waves of invaders
* Not a port of the original - Defend Your Castle has been re-created from the ground up to utilize the unique capabilities of the Nintendo Wii™ and Wii Remote™
* Unlimited levels - Continue to grow the strength of your Kingdom indefinitely
* Play on your big screen TV, from your couch!
* All this and more for only 500 Wii Points™

Day One Purchase...

Game: Pillage The Village
Developer: XGen Studios Inc.
Platform: Flash
Website: http://www.xgenstudios.com/

Yesterday was President's Day, and all of my clients in the US were thusly not working, so yesterday was definitely a day for gaming.  I had intended to do a review of Protector, but I stumbled onto Kongregate and decided to partake in the challenge listed under Featured Games, and since the last time I had played it I wasn't writing this, today I present to you a review of Pillage The Village.

Pillage The Village is a "prequel" sequel to Defend Your Castle, a very simple pick up and throw the enemies into the air that are attacking your castle/wall/base, etc. type game.  This game goes all out though and is a hell of a timekiller.

The controls are relatively simple, you can use your mouse to pick up a villager and hurl them into the air.  Some villagers are smarter than others and come with parachutes, jetpacks, grappling hooks, and other means to prevent the untimely death you're about to bestow upon them.

A few levels in, the coins you've been collecting off of corpses come in handy as you can put them towards bigger mana pools for your special spells, richer villagers, or buy spells of a good or evil nature (Lethal injections, dropping giant anvils on your villagers, etc.) in which to wreak havoc on your kingdom.

After hours of playing this game, my mouse started to respond strangely to the bottom half of the screen, preventing me from picking up more coins, though I imagine it very well could've been my browser than the game itself, aside from that there really wasn't anything wrong with my playing experience.
Overall this revisit of Pillage The Village was time well wasted, and I'm likely to play it again soon.

Addiction Level: 9 - I spent like 6 of 8 hours at work playing this yesterday...
Graphics: 7 - A good, simple artstyle.
Sound: 6 - It fits, nothing spectacular.
Gameplay: 9 - Easy to pick up and play.
Replayability: 8 - There's likely not much to do once you beat it, but it's going to take you a long while to get there.

OVERALL: 7.8

Let me explain. To start with, the obvious pro of WiiWare is that it offers up Nintendo's version of smaller scale and budget games to be downloaded for a smaller cost than most games do today, which has the potential to allow for some very creative concepts that can, theoretically, be cheaper to make and easier to release. Significantly outweighing this, on the other hand, is a number of crippling cons. Looking at the first batch of games themselves, the vast majority of the launch titles seem to offer little more than your average flash game one would normally play on the internet... for free. Defend Your Castle actually was a flash game at one point in time, and I'm pretty sure I've already played some variation of Pop on addictinggames years ago. The deeper launch titles, such as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King and LostWinds, look more promising depending on whether or not you're okay with less game for less price (which sounds okay to me, and should make sense to a lot of people, since Madden manages to sell how many copies every year? and that's with the price going up!), but are marred by a bigger issue: space. Final Fantasy takes up over half of the Wii's flash memory alone, and that's without any of its expansion packs. So basically, if you want to buy two WiiWare games, you could quite possibly be out of luck, and that may not even take playing actual games (the kinds you have to go to the store to get) into consideration.

What's more frustrating is that we already knew this was an issue since we've had Virtual Console games since the Wii was released. The Wii has an incredibly limited amount of storage space, and the only official solution is to transfer data onto SD cards, which as it turns out erases any saved data you may have had, rendering the fix rather pointless. Knowing Nintendo's typical strategy, a real solution will probably never see the light of day, as Nintendo has a habit of just ignoring problems and hoping they'll go away on their own. So it doesn't really matter how much potential WiiWare games themselves have, because any progress made there is immediately lost by this obvious problem that should have been taken care of first in order to garner any credibility.

And as long as I'm almost on the topic, Virtual Console is a great idea, but would be even better if Nintendo would actually release indisputably classic games like they claimed they would.