Weekend Discussion

It's always a special day when you wake up late with a smile on your face, take a glance out your window, and then groan because three inches of snow arrived overnight.

Luckily, most of my plans for the weekend involve staying inside. There's Battlestar Galactica to watch, Dawn of War II to play, and countless other games in my backlog. I'm especially eager to try out Noby Noby Boy, as the reactions seem to be very ...amusing.

Here's hoping you all have a safe, warm weekend. And don't forget about the Frisco, TX Shackmeet next weekend. Laser tag, gelato and Maarten--you can't go wrong!

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    February 21, 2009 8:50 AM

    WD'd :(

    I had some friends over to play some Xbox last night and decided to try out some NHL Arcade 3 on 3 off of XBLA (also on PSN).

    I was playing SP before and I fucking sucked even on easy so I was skeptical on how fun the MP was. When we weren't playing against the AI it was a blast!

    The lowdown on the game: NBA jam style hockey game by EA. It uses the NHL 09 controls (skill stick) or you can seamlessly use the buttons to do what you need to do so it's easier for beginners and nothing to adapt to for NHL 09 veterans. Power ups, big hits, checking across the ice, fast paced and frantic. Unfortunately there are no NHL teams just red or blue but from there you can pick 3 NHL star forwards and a goalie. The character selection is a lot like NES' Ice Hockey where you have the fast skinnies and the slow but strong fatties where each star is ranked by fast, all around or strong. Same effects as Ice hockey too. Game modes are local play with up to 4 players or Xbox live play. There's no leagues or anything like that it's just an arcade game. Something really great to play when you have buds over.

    Check it out, queue up the demo: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/offers/00000001-0000-4000-8000-000058410975

    cookblaze: Still haven't figured out if I'm coming tonight yet but definitely check out the demo on this for a SF4 break :P

    P.S. Death Tanks is fucking atrocious

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      February 21, 2009 8:52 AM

      Yes NHL 3on3 is great fun with buds!

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        February 21, 2009 1:33 PM

        gonna play again tonight at cookblaze's :D

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      February 21, 2009 8:59 AM

      Interesting. I hear so many bad things but now I will give it a try. I was really looking forward to it.

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        February 21, 2009 9:04 AM

        as long as youre not expecting NHL 09.5 and know youre walking into a wacky arcade version of hockey it's really fun. sometimes the powerups are frustrating like mini goalies but it gets your blood pumping like a powerplay/penalty kill since there are no penalties. also it's great fun to lock your controller onto 1 guy when you play MP... it's funny when you freeze a player on the other team and he's stuck for 10 second

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      February 21, 2009 9:43 AM

      Yeah man, that shit was a lot of fun. I'll definitely be picking it up.

      Also fun? Being undefeated in MK!
      although I'm not sure if that's something to be proud of.

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        February 21, 2009 10:39 AM

        fuckhead :(

        this is why i hate fighting games ;(

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