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04
Jan
10

My Faves: Top “Found Sounds” of 2009

Like Russ, I also discovered a whole bunch of bands that completely blew me away this year, but couldn’t be added to the list due to the fact that these albums were all released outside of 2009.
For me, 2009 was a year that really cultivated my love of instrumental bands, so this list contains a number of albums from instrumental bands in various forms.  Enjoy!

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01
Jan
10

The Official 2009 Game Of The Year: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves


And there you have it folks, the recipient of our 2009 game of the year award. The process used to determine which game would reign supreme was a fairly straightforward one:

  • Each writer selected his top six games
  • Each writer assigned 6 points to his #1 game, 5 points for the #2 game (etc, etc)…
  • A little mathamagicks
  • Game with highest cumulative score wins!

Here’s the top 6:

Uncharted 2: Among Theives

Assassin’s Creed 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

The Beatles: Rock Band

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Battlefield: 1943

Individual lists and point totals after the break!

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01
Jan
10

My Faves: Top “Found Sounds” of 2009


Every year, I stumble upon albums that weren’t released that year but are still damn good. Some are new acquisitions, some are albums that I’ve had for a while but never gave them their due; either way, here is my list of non-2009 albums that were part of my 2009.

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26
Dec
09

My Faves: Top Songs of 2009

Here are my picks for my favourite songs of this year. These songs aren’t in any rigid order per se, though generally speaking, the further down the list a song is, the more I liked it.

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23
Dec
09

My Faves: Top 15 Songs of 2009

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18
Dec
09

My Faves: Top Albums of 2009

This week we’re happy to present you with three individual Top 20 Albums of 2009 lists, from all over the globe. Agree? Disagree? We don’t really care, but leave your comments below.

Here we are on our third Top 20 Albums of 2009 list, though hopefully I think you’ll all agree that each list is refreshingly different.  My list is perhaps quite heavily weighted towards UK bands, as well as a few minor label bands, so apologies if  a couple of these albums are a little difficult to track down.

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16
Dec
09

My Faves: Top 20 Albums of 2009

This week we’re happy to present you with three individual Top 20 Albums of 2009 lists, from all over the globe. Agree? Disagree? We don’t really care, but leave your comments below.

P.S., My list is the best!
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14
Dec
09

My Faves: Top 20 Albums of 2009


This week we’re happy to present you with three individual Top 20 Albums of 2009 lists, from all over the globe. Agree? Disagree? We don’t really care, but leave your comments below.

My previous top albums lists: 2008 / 2007 / 2006

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30
Nov
09

Threevue.com’s Top 25 Xbox 360/PS3 Games List

From the outside, this may seem like just an innocent list of our top 25 Xbox 360 and PS3 games so far, but behind the scenes at the Threevue HQ, putting this list together almost tore our family apart. Screaming and yelling, alliances bound and broken, dozens of passive-aggressive emails, and more hair pulling than a Ricky Martin concert. But, after all that, we present you with this: the final, definitive, last stop, nothing else matters, get-on-your-bikes-and-ride list of our top games of this console generation (what’s a Wii?).

Here’s how we got here. Each of us submitted our individual top 25′s, added them up according the reverse numerical order in which we ranked them (#1 = 25 points, #2 = 24 points, and so on), and crowned the highest scorer as champion. So here you are. Read them. Digest them. Enjoy them. But above all, agree with them.


25. Assassin’s Creed 2 (Xbox 360/PS3, 2009)
Assassin’s Creed 2 proves what the original promised, as well as fixes its shortcomings. Actually, I would say it is the biggest improver of this generation. Every facet of gameplay has been retooled to make it easier for you to become that deadly assassin, serving dish after dish of cold revenge. (Giang)


24. Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360, 2008)
4 survivors – thousands of zombies. With the Left 4 Dead series Valve has made the best zombie games to date. The common misconception about L4D is that you can just blast your way through the game without regard for ammo or allies, but on the harder difficulties players see that it takes just as much strategy as any military FPS to successfully make it to the safe-houses. All of this along with the revolutionary A.I. Director make for a game that will no doubt be emulated far into the future. (Tyler)


23. Call of Duty 3 (Xbox 360/PS3, 2006)
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: Call of Duty 3 got an undeserved bad rap. This came out when people were starting to figure out the differences between Treyarch and Infinity Ward, and because it came from the former, it didn’t get its full respects. I loved it simply for the fact that it had split-screen online multiplayer, which is something we haven’t seen in a COD since. (Mark)


22. Mirror’s Edge (Xbox 360/PS3, 2008)
Coming in on the heels of a game like Portal, Mirror’s Edge was the right game at the right time for all of us out there who knew there could be more to the FPS genre than headshots and sticky grenades. Not that there is anything wrong with those games, Mirror’s Edge just broke out of the rut by being a game where you needed to outrun instead of outgun. The gorgeous visual style and the fresh, addictive, time-sensitive puzzler nature of the title earn it a place on our list. (Tyler)


21. LittleBigPlanet (PS3, 2008)
This is most probably the cutest game ever made. You play as this adorable Sackboy in these beautifully and meticulously created levels. You can also create your own beautiful and meticulous levels with the fully-abled level editor. You then have the ability to share those beautiful levels and play with your adorable Sackboy friends. It’s a small, small patchwork world, where everything is miraculously held together by string and glue and Stephen Fry is the voice of God. (Giang)


20. Halo 3 (Xbox 360, 2007)
Rounding out our top 20 is Halo 3, the game that fans love to love and everyone else loves to hate the fans. All bickering aside, this is a polished FPS with a butt-ton of features, even if we couldn’t figure out the storyline. To this day, it’s one of the most fully featured games available and easily worth its admission price. (Russ)


19. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3, 2008)
Metal Gear Solid 4 closes out the story of Solid Snake in true this-gen fashion: more graphics, more gadgets, and more awkward localization. This is a game only fans of the previous games can truly appreciate, and being that we’re all fans of the previous games, it worked out just fine for us. In the end, it never addressed some of the fundamental issues with the series, which we both respected and were annoyed by, and we can’t wait to see what Hideo Kojima works on next. (Russ)


18. Battlefield: Bad Company (Xbox 360/PS3, 2008)
Another modern-day war FPS which provides an alternative to Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.  Whilst this game has a solid – and humorous – solo campaign, the real draw is the multiplayer, which despite only having  two different game modes, is deceptively deep and extremely replayable. (Steve)


17. Battlefield 1943 (XBLA/PSN, 2009)
The arrival of BF:1943 was like someone had gone into my brain, learned exactly what kind of game I wanted, took out a few features I was hoping for, and sold it to me at a reasonable price: a download-only, multiplayer FPS for only $15. I feel a few more maps, weapons, and features would have put it a little higher on our list, but I still love it for what it is. (Mark)


16. Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360, 2005)
Call of Duty 2 was that first “wow, so THIS is next-gen” moment for a lot of us here at Threevue, and it still holds up well as a solid WWII FPS four years after its release. I think we all most fondly remember the blistering difficulty of playing through the campaign on Veteran and the sweltering sense of satisfaction with every reached checkpoint. Hell, I’ve still got half the game to finish on Veteran, and I’m looking forward to the pain/elation it’ll bring. (Russ)


15. Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360/PS3, 2008)
A racing game for people who hate racing games.  Burnout Paradise is a robust, well-featured, open-world arcade racer with tight, responsive controls that make it as appealing to newcomers as it is to veterans.  This game combines a beefy single-player component, a ridiculous (both in terms of scope and imagination) online experience, a (mostly) friendly, teamwork orientated community, and a ton of DLC - a significant amount of which is free! (Steve)


14. Peggle (XBLA/PSN, 2009)
Peggle was #3 on my personal list, a frankly, I’m disappointed to see it drop all the way down to #14 on this one. Everything about this game was just pure fun, it made me feel good when I played it, and the addition of online multiplayer made it infinitely replayable. I love you, Peggle! (Mark)


13. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (PS3, 2007)
This is a game that has a spirit and exuberance that you don’t find in many games these days. You just can’t help but fall for the dreamy Nathan Drake and get caught up in his escapade for his ancestor’s treasure. Along the way you encounter the roller coaster of any classic adventure movie, but the game escapes any clichés. There may be a thousand pirates standing in your way but that’s not going to stop you from playing this through and through. (Giang)


12. Dead Space (Xbox 360/PS3, 2008)
Personally, I had Dead Space a few spots lower on my list, but that’s not to say it doesn’t deserve to be much higher. This game looked beautiful, was terrifying, and gave us all we ever wanted out of a good third-person survival horror game: the ability to move and shoot. I think if we all went back and played this now, it would be higher on the list. (Mark)


11. Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360/PS3, 2008)
GTA IV came out in the middle of a crazy year of crazy-good games, and was subsequently buried on most GOTY lists. I think there was a lot of backlash after this game came out for being “just another GTA” when we were expecting so much more from all the hype (it got more perfect 10′s than Larry Flynt). When I really think back to playing, though, I remember that it was a huge, very well made game, and probably better than it gets credit for. (Mark)


10. Mass Effect (Xbox 360, 2007)
Whilst Mass Effect may not have been the first FPS/RPG hybrid in existence, it certainly strove to revolutionise the genre when it released.  It may not have been perfect, but Mass Effect‘s real strengths lay in its compelling story, its in-depth dialogue system, haunting moral quandries, and its convincing, well-realised universe. (Steve)


9. Rock Band 1&2 (Xbox 360/PS3, 2007/2008)
The Rock Band series is less a video game and more a music experience – its balanced implementation of four different instruments offer everything from a DIY drum training module to the perfect excuse to party with music-minded friends and a little sauce. And with its constant stream of DLC (1,000 songs and counting), it’s the gift that keeps on giving. (Russ)


8. Assassin’s Creed (Xbox 360/PS3, 2007)
When I hear someone say that there is no more originality in today’s games, I point them directly to Assassin’s Creed. This game was so unique on so many levels that most people were able to overlook the negative components, like the flags, repetition of missions, and the goddamned horse riding. (Mark)


7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360/PS3, 2009)
COD:MW2 took everything that we love about the first Modern Warfare and cranked it up to 11. The multiplayer specifically was beefed up, and even the single player was taken to a higher level of radness that I didn’t know existed. I gave general preference to the first games of a series in my personal list, though, and part one came out a few spots above. (Mark)


6. Braid (XBLA/PSN, 2008/2009)
Just when the deluge of games that were “gritty”,”real” and “X-treme” was reaching the tipping point, gamers everywhere were treated to one of the sweetest, most compound and refreshing games to come along in years. Without much heralding, Braid made its way on to the 360 and instantly earned its place in the hearts of every gamer. From the first tutorial level to the twist ending, Braid provided a perfectly paced, thoroughly enjoyable game vignette about a boy, a girl and temporal manipulation. (Tyler)


5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360/PS3, 2007)
Like I said, generally I gave preference to part 1′s instead of part 2′s in my list, because I believe that even though later games may be technically advanced, they wouldn’t be where they are without their father games. Saying that, COD4:MW changed the way we look at military FPS’s. After this game, there was no excuse for any more crap on store shelves. Single and mulitplayer, this was revolution in game design. (Mark)


4. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3, 2009)
Uncharted 2 is just as good, if not better, than most Hollywood action movies. It has the good-looking leading man; the chase sequences that will leave you exhausted in your couch; the unfolding history/anthropological/archaeological mystery and even the femme fatale. A great deal of it lends to the superb voice-acting and motion capture, injecting so much chemistry with every line (and in-between) and its graphical accomplishments. There are so many nuances about this game, but they all culminate into an engaging, polished and very fun adventure. (Giang)


3. BioShock (Xbox 360/PS3, 2007/2008)
This is a game where everything in the world works in such unison and grace (the Art Deco architecture, the radio sound bites, the demented populace)  that it becomes so credible and convincing. At the time of its release, Bioshock was one of the best looking games around, and will continue to be due to its unique style and gusto. Of course there are the solid gameplay mechanics at its core, but it’s everything else that has been perfectly curated and designed (by a mastermind/madman) that will engage you from start to finish. Its story told will be one for the ages. (Giang)


2. The Orange Box (Xbox 360/PS3, 2007)
I am still, to this day, amazed by the amount of A+ content in the Orange Box. Half-Life 2 alone has a metacritic score of 96, yet coupled with it you get the mind-bending Portal (90), Team Fortress 2 (92) and both the Episodes for Half-Life 2. (E1-87, E2- 90). For only $60 you can get your hands on arguably one of the best FPS experiences in history, a deep puzzler that breaks all convention and one of the premier team-based, multiplayer shooters anywhere. I’ve said before, there are few companies out there that I implicitly trust, but Valve is definitely one of them. (Tyler)


1. Fallout 3 (Xbox 360/PS3, 2008)
Fallout 3 is compelling; so much so, that it should come with a health warning.  In much the same way that World of Warcraft and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion have virtually destroyed peoples’ social lives, Fallout 3 will draw you in with its vast, open world, charm you with its deeply black humour and memorable characters, and snare you with its promises of XP and loot.  And the worst part?  You’ll be too busy exploring, finishing quests, and exploding heads to notice or even care. (Steve)

Honorable Mentions: (most-voted to least-voted)
BATTLEFIELD 2: MODERN COMBAT, BEATLES ROCK BAND, PORTAL: STILL ALIVE, WIPEOUT HD, PIXELJUNK EDEN, GEARS OF WAR, GEARS OF WAR 2, GUITAR HERO 2, STREET FIGHTER 4, RATCHET AND CLANK FUTURE: TOOLS OF DESTRUCTION, SHADOW COMPLEX, ‘SPLOSION MAN, ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION, BRUTAL LEGEND, CALL OF DUTY: WORLD AT WAR, FLOWER, BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM, FAR CRY 2, INFAMOUS, PUZZLE QUEST: CHALLENGE OF THE WARLORDS, DEAD RISING, TALES OF VESPERIA, GEOMETRY WARS 2, VALKYRA CHRONICLES, BORDERLANDS, CRACKDOWN, FAT PRINCESS, PRINCE OF PERSIA, RED FACTION: GUERILLA, RESIDENT EVIL 5, PACMAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION, THE SIMPSONS, HEAVENLY SWORD, MONKEY ISLAND SPECIAL EDITION, STAR WARS: FORCE UNLEASHED, GHOSTBUSTERS, KING KONG,
PIXELJUNK MONSTERS, TRIALS HD

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31
Oct
09

My Faves: Scariest Video Games

There are plenty of scary games out there, much more than what we’ve played; but these are the games that have scared us the most. Happy Halloween!

Mark

4. Resident Evil 4 (Wii, 2007)
Even though I played this game years after its original release, it was amazing how scary this game still was. The settings, the eerie quiet, and Los Illuminados all freaked me out every time I played it. It ended on a bit of a hokey note, but the all-around journey was great. “Morir Es Vivir” still makes me shiver every time I think about it.


3. Imagine Party Babyz (Wii, doesn’t matter)
The birthing scene was unnecessarily bloody and violent.


2. Condemned: Criminal Origins (Xbox 360, 2005)
Bums are scary enough when they’re not all whacked out and trying to kill you in some dark, run-down warehouse.


1. Dead Space (Xbox 360, 2008)
Having not played a ton of scary games in my life, this was a short list, but no matter how long it is, Dead Space my definite number one. I spent the weeks leading up to the game watching the animated comics and reading the lore, so when I went in I had a full-world experience. I’ll never forget the first alien that chases you down the hall right when you get on Ishimura. So scary.

Russ:

6. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Xbox 360, 2009)
This is a game that I recently bought but don’t have the guts to play yet. Even when I played the demo, I knew that I was going to have a hard time enduring it. I’m scared of ghosts, and girls, and this is a game about a ghost girl or something; therefore, I know that it deserves a spot on this list even before really getting into it.


5. Dead Space (Xbox 360, 2008)
Dead Space was unique because it was scary but so good. It also left me feeling like nowhere in the game was I safe, even in the “safe” areas between levels. The fact that you could shoot and move at the same time really knocked down its scariness factor, but it was still an intense moment in gaming that I think everyone should play.


4. Aliens vs. Predator 2 (PC, 2001)
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, that this isn’t a scary game at all. Those two AvP movies were jokes, right? Well, you see that little needle thing on the bottom-left of the screen when you play as the Marine? That’s a motion detector, that starts beeping any time anything nearby starts moving. It will make you pee your pants, because the aliens in this game are so ridiculously fast and deadly. Hands down the scariest FPS I’ve ever played.


3. Resident Evil 4 (Gamecube, 2005)
This was the first Resident Evil game I played, because I could actually stand its control scheme. It’s a long, unforgiving adventure, and I loved every 20+ hours it took me to play it. In fact, it was so intense that I only played it in 20 minutes increments, and it took me months to beat. There’s nothing I can say about this game that hasn’t been said before, except this: purple strawberry fingers.


2. Scary Maze (Flash, unk)
Tyler Miller sucks.


1. Silent Hill 2 (PS2, 2001)
A friend and I started playing this game on a bright, shiny Saturday afternoon in 2002. Two hours into it, we stopped playing and put the disc away forever. If it’s scary enough to force two grown manboys to stop playing it during the day, it deserves to be my scariest game of all time.

03
Jun
09

My Faves: Favorite E3 News Items, Day Three


Yeah, I know it’s actually the official second day of E3, but it’s the third day of news. Not as much big info today as the other days, but still a lot compared to a regular day. On to the list:

1. Castlevania: Lord of Shadows. Produced by Hideo Kojima’s team, out in 2010, 3rd-person action, out on PS3 and Xbox 360. Nice! However, it’s being developed by the guys that did Clive Barker’s Jericho, which does raise a red exclamation mark above my head.

2. Final Fantasy XIV may be coming to the Xbox 360. Square/Enix mentioned that they’re looking into it. Fingers crossed, although I’m looking forward to XIII a bit more than this one.

3. People protesting Dante’s Inferno. Hilarious. Like people playing a game based in Hell will make them worship Satan. It’s gotta be a PR stunt.

4. Final Fantasy VII and Medal of Honor are actually out on the PSN store, even though they were supposed to be available yesterday.

5. Video for New Super Mario Bros. Wii is live:

6. Everyone’s talking shit about the PSP Go! I’m glad that people are apprehensive about this thing from the get-go, because maybe Sony will make some changes before launch. Remember that PS3 boomerang controller? They changed that garbage after enough people whined. Keep it up!

Also, the video for Uncharted 2 is out on the PSN store, and it looks amazing. Watch it here!

03
Jun
09

My Faves: Mark’s Top Six Beers


Right in the midst the grandest video game conference of the year with arguably some of the biggest bombshells dropped in recent history, and we are here talking about beers. Now that’s my kind of site. So now it’s my turn to chime in with my top six fave Ones That Are Cold.

6. Tiger: I wouldn’t even consider this a “good” beer, but it brings back great memories when I drink it. When I was in the Navy, I went out to sea on a British ship once, which has a completely awesome drinking underway policy, in that they let you drink underway. So we had a mini-fridge down in our enlisted berthing stocked with Tigers that we would unwind with every night. Great memories. Goes well with Chinese food.

5. Killian’s Irish Red: This is probably the most full-bodied beer on my list, which Russ turned me on to it a couple years ago. I don’t drink it often, and usually when I do it’s out of a pitcher. The only bad thing about it is that it gives me the worst beer-shits of any other cold one ever. Goes well with a lot of water.

4. Echigo. This is my favorite Japanese beer, and not being one of the mainstreams (e.g. Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi, etc.) not may people have had it. We sell it at my restaurant, and here’s my sales pitch: “We are one of the only places that sell this in the area. It’s from a microbrewery in a place called Niigata, Japan, and is a rice-based beer, that uses “Ichiban” rice, which is the highest quality rice in Japan.” After that, people are begging me for it. Luckily they don’t find out until they get the bill that’s it’s $12 a bottle ($4 at Don Quijote). Goes well with sushi.

3. Bud Light: This is my favorite “cheap beer,” and my favorite “unwind after work” beer. For some reason, I get made fun of a lot for liking it, even though it is the champagne of beers. Goes well with darts.

2. Snakebite: A Snakebite is a mixture of two different beers: half Harp, half Hornsby’s Crisp Apple. Just a hint of apple but not too sweet, this is the perfect afternoon beer. Unfortunately Fortunately, there is in only one store left in Hawaii that sells Harp, and they only sell it in twelve packs, so every time I want it I have yo buy 24 beers. Goes well with nachos.

1. Negra Modelo: I’m generally not a fan of really dark beers, and I’m convinced that (in the U.S. at least) the only reason people drink Guinness is to look tough. Negra though, being a Mexican dark beer, is super smooth and refreshing, and with a squeeze of lime is the true “cerveza mas fina.” Goes well with tacos.

02
Jun
09

My Faves: Favorite E3 News Items, Day Two


Today had even more news than yesterday, which makes sense considering both Sony and Nintendo had their conference speeches today. My six favorite news items:

1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii. We here at Threevue LOVE the DS version, and this one has 4-player multiplayer! Looks to be pretty damn sweet.

2. The Last Guardian. The next game from Team ICO gets a name and an updated video, which you can see below (not the best quality, sorry):

3. Final Fantasy VII available on the PSN today! Japan got it a couple months ago, but our wait is over. I’ve been online three times today but it isn’t in the PSN store yet.

4. ModNation Racers. This game lets you take kart racing to a whole new level, letting you design the tracks, karts and characters. Think LittleBigPlanet on wheels.

5. Team Ninja is working on Metroid: Other M. It’s a 3rd/1st person mixed game, apparently. Looks interesting. You can see a cammed video of it here.

6. Super Mario Galaxy 2. I like that Nintendo is building on the same game, as opposed to spending five years in between each major Mario game.

Unfortunately, today had all sorts of bad news, too. Here’s what I wasn’t happy to read about in particular:

Wii Fit Plus. Is it just me, or does the prospect of a few new yoga stretches and a “trainer mode” sound more like something that should have been included in a downloadable update? Wii Fit itself is a shallow, shallow game, and I would have liked to have seen an update as opposed to a full, new retail game. It just feels like we’re being ripped off right in front of our faces.

PSP Go. Everything about this rubs me the wrong way. First, its $250 price point is ridiculous. Secondly, that missing second analog nub will be what actually stops me from getting it. And lastly, it just doesn’t feel like there’s anything new about the thing to warrant our purchase. Adding the ability to download games and content is something that should have been available on the regular PSP, how is adding a whole new platform helpful in any way?

02
Jun
09

My Faves: Top Six Beers


I’m no taste-tester, no sir – I’m just picky. Therefore, this list isn’t going to be full of taste-test jargon or actual true-to-beer adjectives, since I don’t know them. Instead, I’ll just tell you why I like these six beers.

6. Kirin Ichiban
This is my default Japanese beer, which usually comes with a little glass to pour it into (love that). Goes well with sushi, katsu, or generally anything crispy. Not so good with noodle soups.

5. Miller Lite
This beer replaced Bud Lite (which had replaced Budweiser) as my favorite “cheap” beer. I spent one college summer with a friend who, when buying a pitcher or a round of beer, would get Miller Lite without consulting anyone else first. I grew to prefer it.

4. Carlton Cold
This Australian beer was my first “favorite beer”, after I was introduced to it in 2002 while on vacation down under. At that point it was a relatively new beer to the country, and I think it hasn’t gained much popularity to this day. It reminded me of American beer but a) it had a higher alcohol content and b) still tasted okay when it got a little warm.

3. Killian’s Irish Red
My top two beers aren’t sold in Hawaii, so this became “my beer” during my seven years there. The first three swigs from a cold bottle of Killian’s is pure heaven; the last three are usually warm and bitter. It’s a nice bit o’ variety they unintentionally pack into every bottle.

2. Yuengling Traditional Lager
First thing that popped into my head the moment I decided to move to Maryland last year – this beer. This beer is pure middle-of-the-road: medium body, medium bitterness, medium smoothness. And it’s just the right mixture for me and my mediumness.

1. Tooheys New
It’s funny that a beer I haven’t been able to drink in over five years is my #1. I think some of that may have to do with nostalgia. I first tried this beer while visiting Australia in 2002, but it didn’t capture my heart until 2003 while in-country again. All I can say is that no matter what combination I was drinking that night, or at what state of inebriation I was in, this beer was always perfect. Again, this isn’t a very popular beer in its own country (although I remember it being pretty popular in Sydney/NSW), but I have a feeling that it would be huge stateside. Like Yuengling, it’s a middle-of-the-road beer, which is right up my alley.

01
Jun
09

My Faves: Favorite E3 News Items, Day One


I’m not even going to try and cover all the E3 news that’s coming in today, but I thought I would highlight my favorites so far:

1. Games on Demand: download full retail Xbox 360 games, with 30 games available at launch. Hopefully they’ll set up a rental system, have new games available on launch day, and have older games for cheap. I really like this idea.

2. Unforeseen Sequels: I didn’t expect to see a sequel for Left 4 Dead so soon, but I like it. Also, Crackdown 2!

3. Avatar Awardables: I’ve always wanted to see game-specific accessories for our Xbox Live avatars, and I guess they’re coming now. I just want to dress up like Marcus Fenix, really. But with high heels on.

4. Project Natal: The video below just looks too good to be true. I have a feeling that this will be a lot like the Wii, when the demo videos get you pumped until you find out that this will, in fact, just make you look like an idiot. Still, it looks pretty promising with its face and voice recognition.

5. Metal Gear Solid Rising: This can either go really well or really badly. Let’s just hope this isn’t a card-based strategy game or anything.

6. Social Networking Integration: Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm support is incoming. Do we really need it? We’ll see.




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