games – Napalm Kitty

Xbox One’s press conference at E3 today kicked off with an extensive reveal of the latest installment to the Metal Gear Solid franchise, Metal Gear Solid V (The Phantom Pain). They started off revealing new games as I am sure it’s because of all the heat the Xbox One has taken since the Xbox One reveal, of whether it really is an entertainment system or one that is also capable of being considered a gaming console as well.

Today, it’s all about the games.

XBOX 360 Revamp

Xbox 360 is changing. It will be updated based on the Xbox One’s design. Smaller, sleeker and it is available today, as in now. Despite this announcement, I am sure it won’t be selling until a few days from now unless they really weren’t kidding about it being available immediately. The Xbox Live Gold membership is carried over to Xbox One. Beginning July 1, existing gold members will receive two free game downloads per month that they will get to keep until the Xbox One’s release. The downloads include Assassin’s Creed II and Halo 3. Three new Xbox 360 titles announced during the conference are: 1. World of Tanks, 2. Max the Curse of Brotherhood and 3. Dark Souls II.

XBOX One Games

Announced Xbox One games:

Ryse: Son of Rome is coming to the Xbox One and I have to say that I am thirsty to play this already (hack and slash is one of my favorite genres). Ryse: Son of Rome is published by Microsoft Studios and it will be an exclusive for the new console.

Killer Instinct is coming back and is also another Xbox One exclusive.

A new franchise introduced at E3 for Xbox One is Sunset Overdrive. Produced by Microsoft Studios, Sunset Overdrive is a fast-paced game that fuses parkour, monsters, and Mirror’s Edge all into one game.

Forza Motorsport 5 transcends with all its realistic details and also boasts more lifelike gaming experiences. The game learns how the player drives and adapts accordingly, creating a more realistic approach to racing video games. The information is stored in the cloud and is constantly changing depending on how the player drives.

Minecraft will be coming from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One.

Quantum Break is coming also as an Xbox One exclusive. By Microsoft Studios, the visually-stunning Quantum Break reveal gives us a small preview of how a game can blur the two different worlds of a video game and its TV show. Supposedly, what players watch in the show will affect and impact the decisions the player will make in the video game. Quantum Break is created from the makers of Alan Wake.

D4 has also been announced.

Project Spark utilizes the Kinect and SmartGlass to allow players to create a gaming world, controlling details from the climate of the world to who inhabits it. Anything goes in Project Spark from battling monstrous robots to encountering flying goblins. This game makes creating a game “a game” itself.

Crimson Dragon was also showcased despite its lack of audio.

Dead Rising 3 exhibits no loading time with an open-world gaming experience. Anything and everything is a weapon and not just limited to what the player finds (pretty typical of all the Dead Rising games). Zombies are attracted to the player’s every move. From picking up sledgehammers, weed whackers, and mowing over zombies with a car, it will be an Xbox One exclusive that will be available this holiday season.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features over 100+ hours of gameplay. It will be the last installment of The Witcher franchise.

Battlefield 4, Halo for Xbox One, and Titanfall are several other games that will be released for the Xbox One.

Timeline allows players to view snapshots of the games that have been played by friends. You are able to upload videos to your timeline as well.

With Upload Studio, players can record, upload, edit, and share their clips of gameplay with friends and other members which are all stored on the cloud.

Xbox is now partnered with Twitch so all of your gaming experiences can be easily streamed. Built into Xbox One, Twitch enables real-time sharing.

In the new Xbox Live, the Xbox points systems will be replaced with the player’s local currency. It has also been announced that gamers can play multiplayer without being online.

Coming November 2013, it will be priced at $499. See you all then.

It’s been such a slow day but good thing I was home for that and not actually stuck at work. I woke up around 10 AM and ended up surfing the web for an hour before allowing myself the slightest indulgence of playing The Sims 3. I haven’t played in maybe two months or so or at least whenever the last expansion pack was released. Island Paradise will be released next month and there are a few more stuff packs for the rest of this year. Next year, I presume, will be all about The Sims 4. I spent about five to six hours playing before I finally decided to take a nap.

My character is a genie living in the sticks with her cat. Unfortunately, I got her too into her career and the cat was taken away. I checked periodically to see if the cat would pop up as an “adoptable pet” but I haven’t seen it so far. Peter came home around 5 PM and I finally rolled out of bed about an hour ago.

I’d say the highlight of my day was being able to play some video games and also getting hyped up about the films that will be released this year. I just came across finding out that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is making his directorial debut with his film, Don Jon, in which he also wrote the screenplay for. It tells the tale of The Situation really … Well, JGL is a much more attractive version and even though his Jersey accent isn’t entirely on pointe, it’s believable.

It’s about a guy who is set on a certain lifestyle by his following words, “My body, my pad, my ride, my family, my church, my boys, my girls, my porn,” until he meets Drita D’Avanzo. Yes, I said Drita from MTV’s Mob Wives.

No no people, it’s really just a younger version of Drita with the same old husky voice played by Scarlett Johansson. I mention Drita because the voice, the drawl, the pout, and the hair all speak Drita to me. Drita is such as badass and a hot-headed lady and I did wonder what she was like, what all the Mob Wives were like, before they were scorned and toughened up from life experiences. Co-star Scarlett Johansson is the lady that turns Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) around and there was a particular scene when they’re in the movie theater watching a sappy romance when her eyes began to twinkle and shine (the way we all do before life makes us bitter).

And I thought, “That’s what the real Drita would’ve been like back then!” It’s funny because this movie’s theme is about addiction. She’s addicted to sappy romance movies and he’s addicted to porn.

And, they’re both trying to work it out of course. The trailer didn’t show too much on what the movie is about but I’d say it’s a romantic comedy. I’m a big fan of JGL and I’m on the fence about SJ at the moment. I’ve seen her in a few films and she wasn’t very convincing. Beautiful? Yes. Convincing and talented? Not sure yet.

Even Channing Tatum and Anne Hathaway do a cameo in Don Jon!

I’ll leave you all with the trailer and I hope it gets you hyped as well. I’ve got another two days of work ahead of me and I’m just hoping the weekend won’t be too bad.

Here is the trailer for Don Jon:

Update: (Midnight) Sorry for posting this so late. I left to get my prescription and kind of never got back to my computer. Peter, Jackson, and I went on a search for Icee’s and after a few gas stations, we found one at the local Walmart. Yay!

Napalm Kitty

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