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May 6th, 2009: ezmuze+ Hamst3r edition (EZMHE) was released on the XBOX Live Marketplace. Since then I’ve been doing my best to get gaming sites to give it a chance and not just brush it off as amateur non-game crap. This has turned out to more difficult than expected. I’m not even going to go into detail about all the things that didn’t work. Let’s just say: no one cares about your Community Game.

That aside, here are some things you can try to get your Community Game noticed.

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There are fears and then there are phobias; the irrational fears. A fear you know is illogical and all in your head, yet you cannot convince yourself to not be afraid of it.

Most of my fears are completely rational, but, as far as irrational ones go, here’s a good one:

The dark. The idea that evil things are lurking outside my windows at night.

It’s a childhood fear that hasn’t dissipated. When I go to sleep at night I turn the lights off in a specific order so I don’t end up in a dark room with windows…

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Trackmania Nations Forever

This is the fourth Trackmania game I’ve played…the major difference with this one being that it’s free: Here’s the download page for it. If you have STEAM it’s there too. Download it or you will be forced to lick some unclean part of a giraffe’s anatomy that is unknown to modern science…

I also talk a bit about search engine results and the new DS Game, My Baby, which is kind of like Nintendogs, but with a human baby to play with instead of a dog.

So, please continue…

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Dead Space is an upcoming sci-fi, survival horror, third person shooter set in space. It’s looking to be the definition of awesome…

As for EA…

My relationship with EA is kind of like if Hitler offered me a delicious brownie…

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I’m sure you’ve all heard about the 2 week XBOX LIVE / Windows LIVE downtime. How it would frequently become unavailable, not allowing people to connect and play their games. Yeah, that.

I signed up with Windows LIVE during this outage.

After several hours I was ready to uninstall Gears of War and bring it back as I couldn’t play the game every time I tried. It would never sign in, which meant it wouldn’t save my progress in the game. Great! Even once I finally got LIVE to sign in so I could play the game, it remained a pest.

Now that I’ve used it enough, I can see that LIVE is really just in-game IM chat. It has a message center, chat and your gamer stats profile. Woo Woo. It doesn’t even do anything cool like STEAM, such as allowing you to access your account and play your games from any PC…it’s not that kind of software…

…but here’s what it IS:

1. It’s an in-game chat program that prevents me from playing the game if it can’t sign in. Great.

2. It’s an in-game chat program that prevents me from playing online with my friends unless I pay a monthly subscription for a GOLD account. Fantastic.

3. It’s an in-game chat program that suffers from Consolitis, donning the XBOX gamepad buttons rather than a proper PC interface that utilizes the PC keyboard keys. The “Y” key creates a new message and “X” key will log me out of the LIVE service. That makes perfect sense on a PC…

As you can see, I’m using LIVE and dislike it greatly. I’m glad I only need to use it long enough to beat ACT 5 of Gears, then I can uninstall it and delete my account.