Token Female Gamer

Look what showed up in my email the other day.

Thank you for being a valued member of Xbox LIVE. We want to let you know about an upcoming price increase for Xbox LIVE Gold subscriptions. The new price for Gold membership goes into effect on November 1, 2010. The new prices are as follows:

Old Price / New Price
1-Month Gold Subscription $7.99 / $9.99
3-Month Gold Subscription $19.99 / $24.99
12-Month Gold Subscription $49.99 / $59.99

With an Xbox LIVE Gold membership, you can play blockbuster games such as Halo: Reach with your friends online, you can also stream movies from Netflix* and music from Last.fm right to your TV. You can even connect with friends near and far on Facebook® and Twitter™. Gold members also enjoy exclusive discounts and early access to game demos. And, this holiday, Xbox LIVE is adding new Gold features, including ESPN and Video Kinect, with Hulu Plus coming on Xbox Live in 2011.

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Elite Beat Agents is a perfect example of the greatness that can come out of Japan, especially when they let their kooky side shine.

A rather eccentric little rhythm game, that showcases around twenty easily recognizable and entertaining songs. These are cleverly paired with strangely appropriate stories, which revolve around people in need. Once these folks are identified and their need quantified, the Elite Beat Agents are sent in to dance their way to a fabulous solution.

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WonderCon was indeed this past weekend, an event that completely snuck up on me. Then again I’m terrible at planning for these things, which is probably one of the reasons I have been unable to make it to ComicCon the past few years. (If you don’t get a hotel room within the first hour that the phone lines open up, you are so out of luck!)

Thankfully WonderCon (the con of wonders and delights) is hosted near enough to home that a simple reminder from my husband the week before the event is plenty of notice to assure my attendance.

Just one of the many reasons that I love WonderCon. =)

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Geeky Teen Girl Romance!

As a general rule I tend to pick up anything that involves the words ‘gamer’ and ‘girl’ (or various forms thereof). Those two words have been tough to find in the same paragraph, much less in the same sentence. Clearly the machines that drive capitalism have scented a new market as these words have been showing up together far more often.

Gamer Girl completely capitalizes on the newest trend in geekyness; girls play computer games too! The thing that rankles most about the whole ‘targeted market’ is that the book is merely a standard teen romance novel coated with a layer of geek.

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One of the main reasons that I started with the Lego Star Wars review was to use it as a baseline. Fundamentally, Lego Batman is the same game. Why rehash all their similarities then?

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If the first movie was an aphrodisiac, then this sequel is laughing gas – riding high while laughing all the way.

It’s definitely a solid addition to the franchise and ultimately reminded me more of the TV show then its predecessor. Lot more humor, big action, and Optimus starting and ending the movie with his usual monologue.

Plot wise there are holes the size of Bumblebee, but I attribute those to authenticity and filled in the blanks myself. =)

In fact there quite a few of the plot lines reminded me of the first movie and I am tempted to say they just added material to the first script, but the run time for each movie is the same. I think its more likely that this was a previous version of the first movie script that got a bunch of extras added to it.

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This review is long overdue and is now being rushed out in honor of the sequel (which I hope to go see in the theater soon!) It is also dedicated to my friend Pat, who is horrified by the fact that I love this movie (and will NOT let me forget it!)

I saw this both in the theater and on DVD (which I own and have watched multiple times). The full wall-to-wall screen is by far the more exciting experience, but watching it in the privacy of my own home is vastly more comfortable. =D

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Web Comics have become a dime a dozen (sort of like web blogs ~cough~ lost in the crowd ~cough~). I gave up looking for new ones long ago and subsequently only check out unknowns by referral. Even then it takes something special too hook me.

Well tonight I ran across just such a comic. The beginning was cute and entertaining enough to keep reading, and then I reached panel #77. It knocked me off my chair, I laughed so hard.

So I want to share.

Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic

This is definitely going to stay on my links page.

Enjoy! <3
Token Female Gamer

ps, thanks darktouch for the referral! =D

This past weekend my laptop started acting funny again. It was worrisome since it had just made it back from being soaked in water. (Turns out laptops don’t like it.)

Anxiously I returned to the Mac Genius bar and explained how the touchpad buttons don’t seem to work anymore because there seemed to be some sort of bulge and maybe it had to do with the previous damage. Very politely the guy cut into my nervous babbling (I was picturing weeks again without my laptop), turned over the computer and popped out the battery. Computer worked like a dream after that.

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Listen up boys and girls, the geek powers-that-be have finally listened and made a geek girl’s dream movie. They took a decent script, predictable plot and then filled in all the gaps with incredibly good looking men – who seem to be clothes free for a lot of the time.

Hugh Jackman (or as my friend called him Hugh I-want-to-jack-you-off-man!) does an excellent job of looking good naked and his acting isn’t bad either. He is joined by a bevy of beautiful men that seem to enjoy being super human as Gambit, Sabertooth, Deadpool, and Agent Zero all have formidable parts.

While I would not call this a fabulous movie it is quite entertaining. The script keeps the story moving along and doesn’t let it bog down too much in the mire of Wolverine’s pouting. And the predictability is expected since Wolverine’s origin story can only be stretched so far.

Solid three mushrooms, well worth the matinee price!!