No Gaming news today

Just a quick post to brag. I found a Harry Potter Spells test and it is pretty in depth. I am happy to report I scored 91% which I am pleased with considering I have only read the books once and seen the movies a similar amount of times. I also had to brush up a little on HTML to get rid of most of the junk in the quiz code to post here and am equally pleased with those results. I mainly posted this to challenge Lance to see his score which will be, undoubtedly, higher.

Full Wizard Fineto! You scored 91%!

Wow! Impressive. "We can expect great things from you." You must have read the books several times or are just really good at remembering which spell does what. I myself didn't know all the spells until I started writing this test.

Link: The Harry Potter Spells Test

LOTRO, Fable 2, and Argo

Before I get into the other stuff in the post I wanted to talk about the World Cup a little bit. To be honest I have always hated soccer, but this year I decided to watch the final game. I went in not really caring who one, but after hearing about some of the French players I was instantly and Italy fan. I was glued to the TV the entire time, even though no scoring happened after the eighteenth minute or so. The shoot out was great also, and I kind of feel bad for the French guy that missed. I don't know if I will follow soccer closer now or not, but it was a great game to watch.

Now onto the post's title. First there is a nice interview at Computer Games Online for LOTRO Shadow of Angmar. The interview covers things from the area of Middle Earth in the game, to items, to playable classes. It is a fairly decent read, but a lot of old information.


Also there is a bi of Fable 2 news via Lionhead's official web page. The news isn't much, but it is at least something. All it basically says is that the game is set about 500 years after Fable ends. I wish Peter Molyneux would revert to his old ways of talking about his games too much, it is refreshing compared to developers who think they should keep every little thing a secret.

Lastly Argo. You may think I am talking about the ship in which Jason sailed in search of the Golden Fleece, and you would be wrong. I am of course talking about Microsoft's Ipod killer which is code named Argo. The Seattle times made the initial report. The short and sweet break down of Argo as we think we know, MS is yet to make i official, is as follows:
1. J. Allard, co founder of the Xbox is heading up the development
2. It will have WiFi allowing wireless connection for music downloads.
3. It will be out by Christmas if all goes according to plan.
4. People that worked on MSN Music are involved.
5. Microsoft's XNA is involved somehow.

Not much else going on so I will end this post.

Call of Duty 3 and some other things.

Yesterday I went to the Harris' house for Independence Day. I had a great time. I played croquet and won two out of three, always good, and I shot some people with my airsoft gun. Best of all was when Bro. Sanger asked me to help with the fireworks. It was great because between Jeffrey, Bro. Sanger, and Bro. Harris' there was enough fireworks for a twenty minute show. The fireworks weren't the lame kind either. They had some high quality mortars, the kind that you see at a normal show. And that was my Independence Day, now on to more important things.

Two days ago Game Videos put up a gameplay video from Call of Duty Three. Being a big fan of the first and second ones I checked it out. The first thing you will notice is that things look much grittier then the second game. The textures are darker, and the world just feels dirty. The next thing you will notice is that the explosions are insane. And there is a surprise near the end that is great. A QTE type idea that has been missing from every WWII game I have ever played.

Lastly, I know I got on to Sony last time I posted. I kind of did it so I wouldn't have to bring it up again. This time, though, it is all their own fault. If you haven't heard Sony hasn't been very good at marketing recently. First they started off with an ad depicting a person with a crown of thorns that make out PlayStation buttons. The best part about this? They ran it in Italy, the back yard of the Catholic Church, imbeciles. Next they decided to use graffiti to advertise the PSP. How could they not think of the people in the neighborhood that obviously don't want graffiti? Those were bad. But I think this new one may be the worst of them all, so Bad I am going to hotlink it to my blog so you don't have to click on a link to get offended. I was going to think of something witty to introduce it by the time I got to this point but I decided it speaks for itself, badly.