Archive for August, 2009

Not surprisingly, it’s been a relatively slow week in terms of news. We got a few opinion articles here and there, tidbits on upcoming games, Slim launch stories, including its ad campaigns, stuff like that, but nothing spectacular. Tokyo Game Show is coming up this month, so we should definitely be seeing a lot more news in terms of games. We should be getting more in-depth detail about Gran Turismo 5, especially since it’s been pretty much confirmed to be hitting stores by the end of the year. Plus, maybe some more exclusive JRPGs to hit up? We’ll see. Tokyo Game Show takes place September 24th-27th, so we’ll still have about 3 or so Weekly Recaps until then.

First off, congratulations to Jason, abenja1 and Kenny6774 for winning the NFS: Shift Press Event and giving us some videos and feedback from the show! We had a total of 29 articles. Quite a drop from last week’s eh? Ah well, it was expected. I only had one or two turned in because there wasn’t really much to report that hadn’t been reported, and my sleep schedule was messed up so I waste half my day sleeping .

As far as ‘Contributor of the Week’ goes, that is awarded to Tosh with 12 regular news stories. Awesome boss, that matches my record from last week!

Now we got to hand out a couple other congrats, first being ‘Most Liked’ article, we’ve got a tie with 7 likes each, and those are Heavy Rain Script 16 Times Longer Then an Average Movie by Eddie and Why does the press hate the Sony PlayStation 3? by fleakitten. Good going folks!

And the last congrats goes to the topic with the ‘Most Comments’, which is awarded to Darrin with the article Joystiq Interview with Microsoft Xbox/PS3: The Tides Are Turning, netting in a total of 17 comments, probably due to it’s controversial material . Nice job making a topic that sparks that much interest, especially on a week like this .

Also, just to point out, forum profiles have more options for you, such as entering your PSN ID so folks can find you on PSN. Speaking of the forum, go ahead and check them out and post in there as well. They’re open to pretty much anything you want to discuss, as long as it’s appropriate and tasteful.

And, of course, this week’s Trivia:

This very rare turtle can be found in Cambodia near rivers and streams, mostly inland. They can grow up to six feet long (around 2 meters), and spends 95% of it’s life buried and still, only surfacing about 2 times a day to breathe. They lay between 20 and 28 eggs on riverbanks of slow moving rivers. Last known sighting of one of these creatures was back in 2007, before that was in 2003. What is the name (as well as scientific name) of this creature?

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