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Assassins Creed And Xbox 360 Controller Fetish

// April 14th, 2008 // 2 Comments » // General, Tech

I wanted to own a game pad/controller like forever. When I was a kid I had a thing for joysticks. I literally used to dream of owning one. But I neither had the time nor the resources needed to buy one. Later one when I used to game a lot, particularly the Need For Speed games, I really wanted a game pad so that racing could be more fun and less pain due to hours of keeping you fingers pressed on the keyboard. But India is one of the most expensive places to buy gadgets, even used ones. So I wanted to buy one as soon as I came to the United States. An Xbox 360 Controller was the obvious choice due to its great price/features score.

So I went on ebay to look for one. I had to go into a lot of research since I was divided between buying a wired and a wireless Xbox 360 controller. I came to know that the wireless one needed a receiver to work. And moreover it has a battery pack which has to recharged every now and then. So instead of buying all those thing I went in for the wired controller. And the deal I got was simply unbelievable. I got one for $11.49 which roughly translates to Rs.450 which is dirt cheap if you ask me. And the controller I got was in like-new condition. The real reason I bought the thing was to play the game I had my eyes on for a while now – Assassins Creed.

This is THE game of the year if you ask me. And not playing it without an Xbox 360 controller will take all the fun out of it. The PS3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in November 2007 and I’ve been drooling over their screenshots ever since waiting for the PC version which came out on April 9th 2008. The huge 6.5GB game is in my download queue now and I can’t wait to try it out.

SFSU ACM Game Day

// March 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // Gaming, General, Tech

We’ll we woke up late as usual since it was a weekend. But we at least woke up by midday. When we got to school we could not get into the science building since all the doors we knew about were closed, and I agree we knew very little. After a few minutes of search up and down the campus pathways we found the door, in plain view.

People were already enjoying with a lot of consoles. You can see (or not) the Nintendo Wii on the left and people playing RockBand on the right. There was a PS3 on which two guys were playing soccer all the time. There was no PC gaming because people said that it took too long to set up the PCs to make them playable. There was also an Atari system which was never setup.

There were Doritos and lots of soda to start with. The Pizzas came in late along with Simon, the guy with a PC in the first picture. We dug in as soon as they arrived. As usual there was lots of food to go around. It took a while even for us to complete everything but in the end we got there.

We ate, talked and played various games for about 3 hours and then they gave away some casual prizes for the largest scores. I didn’t get any of course because it was my first time at a console game(the real reason might be that I usually suck at games but I still do not stop playing them). I had a great time meeting some people. And here I am sitting in the SF State library and writing this blog post among the book stacks.