The Joystiq Weekend: September 8 - 10, 2007
by Ross Miller 
{ Sep 10th 2007 at 11:59PM }
Joystiquery
Joystiq hands-on: Neves (DS)
Joystiq interviews Metanet's Mare Sheppard and Raigan Burns
Podcast Rodeo for Sept. 9: Ear 1
Today's fastest, bluest video: Sonic Rush Adventure gameplay
Today's most self-referencing video: GTA IV trailer in San Andreas
Today's most zombified video: Left 4 Dead 'Subway Outbreak'
The Weekly Webcomic Wrapup Reviewer's Guide
News
MGS: Portable Ops + (plus) trailer, translation required
Harmonix CEO confirms Rock Band's Xbox 360 bundle guitar is wired
PS3 80GB US backwards compatibility checker online
New games this week: Heavenly Sword edition
Zelda Crossbow Training packed in with Wii Zapper
Virtual Console Monday: Are you ready for some football (and a hedgehog and a Zelda-clone)?
BBC talks possibility of Xbox 360 video content
Double Fine returns with Epic Saga: Extreme Fighter
Acclaim's user-created MMO creates jobs; races beasts
1UP previews Silent Hill V, shows in-game footage
No touch-screen strumming for Guitar Hero DS; peripheral promised
Avary talks Wolfenstein movie, Blazkowicz casting
Eternity's Child too big for XBLA, gets Wii instead
Terror threat prompts prisons' console bans
This Wednesday: Sonic 2 hogs XBLA
New Rock Band tracks: KISS a Red Hot Chili in the Soundgarden
Link's Crossbow Training bundled with Wii Zapper, ships Nov 19
Jail guard busted for incriminating City of Heroes forum posts
BioShock "franchise" ships 1.5m units; L.A. Noire bumped from fiscal '08
Take-Two forms casual games label 2K Play
Warhawk demo looking unlikely
Rumors & Speculation
Rumor: 40GB PS3 for $400, 80GB to $500
Culture & Community
Master Chief fully waxed with Fall Out Boy at Madame Tussauds Vegas
South Park wins Emmy for World of Warcraft episode
Capcom sponsoring actual monster hunt
The good, bad and ugly of attending game schools
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Joshua @ Sep 11th 2007 12:05AM
DURRR....I DUNNO! I CANT INSTAL TEH THINCKING THING...
Jeff @ Sep 11th 2007 12:09AM
There's a white guy holding a basketball
rivaldi22 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:43AM
Whilst taking an epic shit.
[.sm0ke.] @ Sep 11th 2007 12:45AM
You have won the internet, sir.
atomicstrawberry @ Sep 11th 2007 12:47AM
Maybe I'm insane or something, but he kind of looks like Jackie Chan to me.
pwnetheus @ Sep 11th 2007 1:06AM
Not to mention it looks like he's stubbed his toe and is crying.
Dan @ Sep 11th 2007 1:08AM
Jackie Chan Basketball?
Dunkin' Master?
DangerMouse @ Sep 11th 2007 1:17AM
I could see that as the next plot for Rush Hour 4. Foreigner teached basketball. And learns rap music again.
ck @ Sep 11th 2007 2:01AM
Welcome to stage two of Adam Morrison's Five Stages of Grief.
http://www.losanjealous.com/2006/03/24/adam-morrison/
Nessman @ Sep 11th 2007 12:07AM
obviously Pimp My Ride should be worth way more than 49.99.
TacoAssassin @ Sep 11th 2007 12:09AM
they cleverly neglect to mention the install price is around 129 dollars and a 20 percent of your remaining 500 brain cells.
samfish @ Sep 11th 2007 12:08AM
Oh oh, I know! I know! The box says it 9/10 and it's really 9/11!
Richard @ Sep 11th 2007 12:09AM
Awesome! I can finally stop bothering my tech savvy friend to come over and setup my new 360 games for me. Now if only Microsoft would just simplify the process so all us common folk could do it ourselves one day. But until then, Best Buy FTW! I just hope it's priced as reasonably as their game disc scratch warranties.
jorojoserojas @ Sep 11th 2007 12:09AM
I'm just glad the Geek Squad is always there when I need them.
jorojoserojas @ Sep 11th 2007 12:10AM
LMAO!!!
Flaym Sior @ Sep 11th 2007 12:11AM
The PC gamers take a passive-aggressive step in their war against the console games, demanding game developers let the user install the games for a sense of ownership as opposed to popping it in and playing it. Down with simplicity! Up with storage space, ROM issues, and virus scans!
jorojoserojas @ Sep 11th 2007 12:11AM
That LMAO was for Jeff. No, I wasn't laughing at myself.
Reply system...well, you guys know.
Kevin_S @ Sep 11th 2007 12:13AM
Oh! I know!!
Adam Morrison is the equivalent of Matt Leinert!!! Great college player who sucks as a pro!!!
Mindlog @ Sep 11th 2007 12:13AM
Clearly the installation process is a painful experience to the ill prepared and under-armored individual.
LuvinDaRPGs @ Mar 18th 2008 11:21PM
To quote teh Master Chief:
"lolololololololololololololololol"
blooh @ Sep 11th 2007 12:13AM
how do you install a 360 game? ps3 sure, but 360? wtf
Intellectualdiot @ Sep 11th 2007 12:14AM
Is it Adam Morrison's moustache? Because if it isn't, it should be. That thing is totally fucking ridiculous.
Snipermike @ Sep 11th 2007 12:20AM
Best Buy uses the same lock up cases for games and computer ram.The jackasses forgot to peel the sticker off
quickshade @ Sep 11th 2007 12:19AM
That EA games would be pissed if they found out the game was selling that cheap.
That play magazine is still taken seriously.
Gambit @ Sep 11th 2007 12:23AM
That's clever. I didn't know that you now had to install 360 games. Someone should ask the Geek Squad to install one of those for them. That would be priceless.
Mike Jenkins @ Sep 11th 2007 12:25AM
I think they meant to put the Xbox 360 RAM upgrades in there.
vidGuy @ Sep 11th 2007 12:26AM
Is is that EA Sports games are the number one selling games in most (all) of the sports? Because that is definitely just wrong!
Devenish @ Sep 11th 2007 12:35AM
Now you can hold Geek Squad legally responsible for bricking your system!
NATO_Duke @ Sep 11th 2007 1:16PM
Why yes sir, I believe you could hold the entire squad resposible. Would you like to drop your $3000 retainer so we can start drawing up the suit?
Internet v. Geek Squad
I like the ring to it!!
sigler00 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:33AM
That NCAA '07 is priced about 1000% over fair market value
bus33boy @ Sep 11th 2007 12:36AM
Whats wrong with this picture?
Jackie Chan doesn't play basketball.
NgC @ Sep 11th 2007 12:39AM
The picture on the EA game is for a basketball game but it says NCAA which is a football game, and the listing on the front with the price says its NBA 2k7 and NBA live. wtf
rivaldi22 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:42AM
NCAA is an organization, not a football game.
I think "March Madness" might also clue you in.
Mort85 @ Sep 11th 2007 3:50AM
i think i lost my brain in the idiocy that filled that reply
rivaldi22 @ Sep 11th 2007 12:40AM
One of the two vertical shelf columns is out of alphabetical order. They contradict one another.
That shit ain't right. You know how hard it is sometimes to find an obscure puzzle game in these stores?
HotShotX @ Sep 11th 2007 12:42AM
Best Buy sorts its games in alphabetical order, first top to bottom, then left to right...but in the picture NCAA March Madness '07 comes before NBA 2k7.
Clearly a store employee needs a sacking.
~HotShotX
hendersonman @ Sep 11th 2007 6:51AM
So what happens when they cant fix it, are they going to ship it to Microsoft to have them do it for them... I know that is what happened with my laptop
[.sm0ke.] @ Sep 11th 2007 12:47AM
What's wrong with the picture is that they actually still have a copy of NBA Live 06.
Brandon @ Sep 11th 2007 12:49AM
Wait, Overlord is 50 Bucks? On top of having to install it? On top of being given a 9/10 by ANYONE? Why is that basketball dude taking a dump?
*head explodes*
nullset @ Sep 11th 2007 12:57AM
win
el tonot @ Sep 11th 2007 12:51AM
I wonder if Geek Squad goes to your home or if you have to bring your 360 to the store to put the game in the drive? If I were Bill Gates rich I would hire someone to swap my games out the drive........we are only dreamers!!!!
David @ Sep 11th 2007 12:52AM
The fact that you're buying Overlord on the Xbox when you can install it on your computer for free.
nullset @ Sep 11th 2007 12:55AM
That you can only play nine tenths of overlord?
...
deedat @ Sep 11th 2007 1:04AM
seriously tho, best buy is going over the edge with the geek squad/ let us install it thing.
lets "optimize" your computer, insure it, add some random spyware and charge you an extra $400
MED @ Sep 11th 2007 1:15AM
that it looks like people actually bought overlord. or that Jackie Chan on team Gonzaga is trying to squeeze the ball into oblivion rather than get it in the shiny metal ring.
Orionsaint @ Sep 11th 2007 2:56AM
Overlord already came out and they have a sticker on it saying it comes out today. Makes no sense.
Also there's an asian on the cover of NCAA07, what up wit dat! and the games have a sticker right, that says they install it, only guess what? you don't install 360 games, duh!
Slaziman @ Sep 11th 2007 4:27PM
That 9/10 is actually a review score, but that's also September 10th! CONSPIRACY?
Ranko @ Sep 11th 2007 1:32AM
You're doing it wrong!
Ryan @ Sep 11th 2007 1:33AM
Overlord came out a while ago. How can it come out on 9/10 if it's already out?
cbas @ Sep 11th 2007 6:53PM
Gonzaga sucks ass, that's whats wrong with that picture.