N+Sausage: The Complete Saga

The complete N+Sausage saga is here, featuring our favorite little ninja: Bob. The mini-series was short-lived and rarely loved, but thanks to everyone who gave it shot. :)

TIME Magazine Names Home a Top Gadget of 2008

TIME magazine has named Home as their #10 "gadget" of the year. I first want to point out that Home is not a gadget and shouldn't be on this list even if it was the most amazing thing in the world. Now that I got that little "issue" out of the way, I'll list some more problems. From the brief description I read, it seems that TIME has seen a very different Home than everyone else. They describe it as if they were a publicist at Sony and never even touched the "gadget". I don't see how a product that hasn't officially come out as of 12/8/2008 can be one of the top "gadgets" of the entire year. Maybe this is TIME's way of making up for not including MGS4 on their Top Ten Games of 2008 list...

Some fun facts for Home,

• It has not officially launched in 2008(as of 12/8/08).
• If it does manage to launch in 2008, it will still be in beta.
• There is nothing to do in Home.
• Did I mention that there really isn't anything to do in home?

"Top Ten Gadgets of 2008 - #10: Home"

 ...and by the way...I've "played" Home since I'm in the closed beta. It feels awfully nice to be hated on the internet, makes me feel all warm and gooey on the inside.

Real Life Lancer Murders Pumpkins

Have you ever wondered what a real lancer would look like...or maybe how one would work in the real world? Now your dreams have come true thanks to some idiot most likely residing in "Idiotsville", USA. I guess this will come in handy for deer hunters; they can kill 'em and carve 'em in one quick motion.

The New Age of Video Reviews

I can only hope that we start seeing more videos like this...seriously, this is gold.

GTAIV + 8 RPGs = This

Thanks to GTAIV, 8 people with RPGs, and the Bombing Run...I was able to make this lovely video. Enjoy the wonders that come from someone experiencing extreme boredom.

Fallout 3 Prank Call

Someone decided to prank call a radio show by describing a dream that happens to sound a lot like Fallout 3. The show that was "pranked" is Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and this all went down last night, November 28th. I guess this is an interesting listen, at least to members of N4G... You guys(and gals) sure love this kind of "news."

Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix = Worst Demo Ever

I'll keep this short and simple...the "demo" for SSF2T:HD Remix (sorry, but I can't be bothered to rewrite that title) is absolute crap. This demo is essentially the beta that went out a few months ago without online play. You're stuck with only Ryu and Ken(I don't care what you say, they are the same exact character) and you can only play offline versus. That's right, no playing against the computer for you young SF fan. If you happen to be one of the many gamers without an extra controller(+ friend) then you are shit out of luck. Congrats to Capcom for bringing us quite possibly the worst demo ever; this even beats out demos that only let you play for 30 seconds.

I guess all the people who only have a Playstation 3 don't have to be upset about the lack of a demo because owners of the 360 didn't get much more. This is just Capcom saying, "It's Street Fighter...if you're going to get it, you're going to get it. We don't need to give you any kind of decent demo." Thank you Capcom, thank you very much.

XNA Community Games = Online Only?

As you already know, XNA Community Games went live with NXE on November 19th. There were only a handful of games in the beginning, but now there are almost 60 games on XBLM. You may also already know that these games are priced between 200MS and 800MS points, but you may not know that these games can only be played while connected to Live. Apparently community games can only be launched from XBL and that may screw a lot of gamers. If you have a router with only one ethernet slot then you obviously only play online when not "surfing the web". This poses a problem for those of us who do a majority of our gaming offline and hopefully some kind of fix will happen soon, but I won't be holding my breath.

Pixelated Sausage + Gold Lancer + N4G = This

If you look below, you'll see that I posted a story about the pricing for the Gold Lancer that is exclusive to the Gears of War 2 limited edition. I found it funny that Microsoft was "charging" 99999MS points for the DLC obviously to stop people from wrongly stealing what is supposed to be exclusive to the LE. I also decided to post this on N4G to try a get a few extra hits as well, but I never expected anything as ridiculous as what happened yesterday.

I got my story approved on N4G late Saturday night and didn't expect much from it (honestly, it's a stupid story). I woke up the next morning and noticed that I already had a little over 2000 hits, more than I've ever got in a single day (by a long shot). The most surprising part of this entire "event" is that the story eventually became the #1 story on N4G. It makes me a little sad when a story as stupid as this can be #1, but when me and my friends over at Distributed Failure do an interview with Yuri Lowenthal (voice of the Prince in PoP: Sands of Time) it barely makes a ripple.

I really don't have anything else to say, but I'll leave you with a few stats and some ridiculous pictures. Total number of hits for Sunday: 11,685. Highest level of "degrees" on N4G: 1040. Total number of hits in Pixelated Sausage history: 23,100 (including 576 from today). That's right...I got more hits in one day than I have had in my entire existence. It's amazing and sad at the same time. In comparison, the Yuri interview landed the site about 600 hits.

Buy the Gold Lancer...for 99999MS Points

Do you want the Gold Lancer for Gears of War 2? Did you not purchase the limited edition and now feel helpless? No more worries, you can now purchase the gold lancer through Microsoft's website for the low, low price of 99999MS points! That is roughly $1250...did someone say "Great Deal!" because that's what I'm seeing. Note : Sarcasm.

I am guessing that this is some kind of glitch or just a way of dealing with special limited edition DLC content that comes with a game. Either way, I find this pretty funny and would love to see someone actually pay that much for this lovely gun.

Linkage to Crazy

EDIT: For everyone finding this story/site through N4G...if you're interested in finding some new podcasts, you can check out my podcast: Distributed Failure: Ep.36