The Joystiq Labor Day Weekend 2007

20 Comments by Ross Miller Sep 3rd 2007 11:59PM
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360

We hope those that celebrated Labor Day today spent their time catching up on some much-deserved gaming. Or maybe making a fantastic Gears of War tribute in LEGO like legohaulic did (via Brothers Brick). Check out the highlights for the weekend:

Joystiquery
Metareview -- Lair (PS3)
Podcast Rodeo for Sept. 2: A jury of your ears
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup, brought to you by the letter W

News
Japanese NiGHTS trailer sort of a nightmare
Gears of War 'Hidden Fronts' map pack free starting Sept. 3
Google Earth now has built-in flight simulator
BioShock designers talk a lot on Bonus Round *spoilers*
Vivendi Games sees 92% increase, gets on knees and thanks Elune for WoW
New games this week: Stranglehold edition
Adventure Island headlines Virtual Console Monday
Wii outsells PS3 three-to-one in Japan, Xbox 360 continues napping
FarCry, Prince of Persia, Rabbids, Ghost Recon for free on PC
Play Lair on PSP with remote play
Warhawk is download-only for Japan
Sid Meier talks about consoles stepping up to strategy
ESA's Gallagher spends time gaming with Washington Post
Marvel vs. Capcom for digital download hopes Marvel exec.

Rumors & Speculation
Rumor: Master Chief getting waxed for Madame Tussauds

Culture & Community
Unexpected hardcore gamer in the family
Master Chief vs. dinosaur, Halo 3 marketing in Korea
Games Convention can't leave Leipzig until 2009 and probably won't
Capcom releases partial TGS lineup

Tags: dailyrecap, epic, gearsofwar, lego

(Page 1) Reader Comments

blooh: Sep 4th 2007; 12:04AM

great chaingun

blooh: Sep 4th 2007; 12:04AM

great chaingun

rocko: Sep 4th 2007; 12:10AM

my god, Felix is equipped with machine gun nipples! Who would've thought?

hvnlysoldr: Sep 4th 2007; 12:19AM

Including just goofing off I managed to raise MP2:E from 27% to 50% completion.

Word of the street.: Sep 4th 2007; 12:30AM

Too add more unreleated commentary I only need 4 more achievemnts in Bioshock.For some reason I don't get the the game doesn't counts me one of the tapes to get one of the achievements,I swear I grab it but the game doesn't counts it,Glithc FTL.

I hope it counts it in this second play.

Oh and only 21 numbers to get the Collector achievement in The darkness.

Word of the street.: Sep 4th 2007; 12:31AM

Ops in that comment there is an extra "I don't get the",I guess I forgot to delete it.

Word of the street.: Sep 4th 2007; 12:32AM

BTW thats one cool Figurine,Epic give us a Lego/Mega blocks Gears of war figures.

Vegnagun: Sep 4th 2007; 12:34AM

Marcus and his crazy stereo system armor. Why bring an amp to a party when you can have Marcus and crew waltz in and act like gorillas.

"SOOOO HOT!"

If Cole's obnoxious voice informs me that hes reloading one more time I'm permanently removing GoW from my 360.

waves: Sep 4th 2007; 12:47AM

In the voice of Marcus Phenix:

"NIIIICE!"

Kritz: Sep 4th 2007; 1:17AM

Oh boy! Now the Epic lawyers have another awesome guy to track down and annoy the piss out of!

In all seriousness, that Lego piece kicks ass. Awesome attention to detail.

(And, yeah. I'm kidding; I know this won't end up like that "Mummy" fan thing.)

BPM: Sep 4th 2007; 2:56AM

Munny. :P

bm: Sep 4th 2007; 7:35AM

I don't even recognize half the stuff in there as Lego.

Damn kids these days.

Mr. P: Sep 4th 2007; 7:39AM

I can't reply to some topics. Am I banned again?

Mr. P: Sep 4th 2007; 7:41AM

Okay, good! Back on topic, I spent the labor day weekend trolling /v/ and just generally hating videogames.

baby sea tuna: Sep 4th 2007; 7:48AM

No wonder you keep getting banned then.

megaStryke: Sep 4th 2007; 9:04AM

I remember when back in the day we only had like five or six different Lego shapes, and they were all rectangles of varying length and width.

Jacob P.: Sep 4th 2007; 9:43AM

I remember those days too...*sigh*

LAZoftheTamarinds: Sep 4th 2007; 10:02AM

Wow that is cool! Now does any one have a lego minifig Marcus and a Gears of war set.

Andrew Becraft: Sep 4th 2007; 5:49PM

Why yes, yes I do:

I'm the via, so I get to do this. :-P

Andrew Becraft: Sep 4th 2007; 5:52PM

Damn, no images/links in comments? Now I just look like the idiot that I am. But LAZoftheTamarinds, yes, someone has created GoW minifigs -- namely me. ;-)

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