Marco Ortega

Super Hero Film!!

August 31, 2004

For those of you who are big fans of City of Heroes, you can now make your Hero famous. City of Heroes is having a film festival open to all City of Heroes subscribers. Using your hero and in game footage, you can create a short film revolving around your unique hero. They will have different categories of genres to participate in. The main prize is a DVD camcorder along with some other cool stuff. This makes me wish I still had my hero. For more info you can go to www.cityofheroes.com.

The Lineup

August 27, 2004

Nintendo has released their holiday lineup for the GBA SP and it’s Gamecube. I will be expecting Sony and Xbox to follow the lead here soon. September is a few days away, so I guess now is a good time as any to start saving up or working hard at school for good grades. September has a ton of games being released, the most anticitpated of all being Fable.

In other news, I have started pre-loading Half-Life 2 on to my PC. This morning I was greeted by a message prompt from Steam asking if I wanted to preload it. So the progress has begun and now its taking forever. I will keep you guys posted. A report from last night, The Crew got together for a nice little dinner at Chili’s to celebrate Pickles Birthday. And let me say it was a great time.

I want to be the first to wish my best friend and INTERNET ICON a happy birthday. PICKLE HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO!! The big two four!! I hope you have an awesome day. I know me and the crew got something planned for you. You rule!!

Who cares!!

August 25, 2004

Just to inform all you Sims fans out there, The Sims 2 has just gone gold. I know all of you are running to the stores to put in your last minute pre-orders. Honestly, I can freaking give a rats butt about The Sims. I have trouble enough managing my own life, let alone some freaking CG character. Ridiculous…I hate that entire series.

In other news, like Pickle said a few posts ago. We will be having some uber cool contests and giveaways in the months to come. Oh did I mention we are planning to give away copies of Halo 2. Not that I am counting or anything but there are 75 days until Halo 2 is released!!

Source

August 20, 2004

Being a fan of Counter Strike, I have decided to download CS Source Beta. I personally am not a huge fan of Valve and their antics. Postponing Half-Life 2 for over a year and a half was ridiculous. Charging humble lan centers insane amounts of money to have copies of a mod is just plain stupid. But I must admit, I am very pumped to get Half-Life 2 and the new CS mod. I will keep you posted on all that jazz. There is no set date on the release of Half-Life 2, but the talk is, it will be out in a month or so.

In other news, I have reserved my copies of Fable and Star Wars Battlefront. KOTOR will have to wait for a few weeks.