The Joystiq Memorial Day Weekend

29 Comments by Ross Miller May 26th 2008 11:59PM
Filed under: Culture, Retro

Happy Memorial Day, US readers! (For the UK, happy bank holiday. For everyone else, fill in your own holiday!) So what games did you play to bide the time? (Image via Rakka on Flickr) Check out the highlights for today:

Joystiquery
Counting Rupees: Digital Rights Madness
DS Fanboy's week of homebrew
Japanese hardware sales, May 12 - May 18: Déjà vu edition
The Joystiq Free Game Club: The Several Journeys of Reemus
Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is on the rain-free precipice of sunshine and rainbows

News
Nintendo ranks 4th on 'BusinessWeek InfoTech 100'
Halcyon Company planning games based on Philip K Dick novels
Rockers show off Guitar Hero's velocity-sensitive drum kits
Abertay University researchers create training game for Scotland cops
Final Fantasy IV trailer gets English subtitles
Mötley Crüe single downloaded on Rock Band five times more than on iTunes
Gears of War 2 details emerge from X360 magazine
Gamestop sponsors driver in NASCAR Nationwide Series
Bushnell: New encryption chip to effectively end PC gaming piracy
Gamestop taking preorders for Gears of War re-release, launches June 24
Dr. Mario prescribes Family Table Tennis for WiiWare
New games this week: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Rock Band Weekly: The Cars' self-titled debut album
Download now, or forever hold your points: Potential delisted Xbox Live Arcade titles
Metal Slug makes City Connection on Virtual Console
Age of Conan celebrates 400,000 players
'Defense is important' in Ninja Gaiden II
Race Driver: GRID demo races to a million downloads

Rumors & Speculation
Rumorang: Killer Instinct making a return?
Gamestop prices Guitar Hero: World Tour bundle at $189
Rumor: Street Fighter IV heading to PS3, Xbox 360, PC this winter

Culture & Community
Metal Gear Retrospective: Part Three explores the Big Shell incident
The eleven-minute Automatic Mario masterpiece
'One Man's Journey' tries and fails at Wii Fit
To Hideo Kojima stalkers: He's in London next week

Tags: cupcakes, food, space-invaders

(Page 1) Reader Comments

CarpeD1em500: May 27th 2008; 12:02AM

I spent the day adding CFW to my brand new slim psp and downloading a ton of homebrew games and other nifty little applications, including a few classic system emulators.

Also, after some digging to find my old PSX discs, I was able to rip a couple and get them up and running on my PSP!!

Finally, I ordered a 8gb msd card off newegg b/c I realized that the 2gb one I was going to share with my digital camera is simply not going to be large enough!

This thing is awesome!

A Pissed-off English Gamer: May 27th 2008; 6:59AM

Don't start thinking that's what Sony wants to be done with it.

Yourself: May 27th 2008; 12:18AM

Though I'm sure it was delicious... that icing looks like liquid soap.

fawazr: May 27th 2008; 7:38AM

... or elf jissom.

driven2sin: May 27th 2008; 12:37AM

and what flavor is slate gray?

Chris: May 27th 2008; 12:46AM

It looks like they're in plastic wrap? And if so, that makes them much less appealing. If that's not plastic wrap, there's something wrong there. o.o

I just beat Ridley (again) in Metroid Prime. Man, that second stage is annoying... when he's on the ground, charging and whipping his tail at you? Argh. Glad that's over... Again.

Deck: May 27th 2008; 1:03AM

I played a lot of the Penny Arcade game on XBLA.

Also have been playing Jeanne D'Arc on PSP, and loving it.

Though those cupcakes... aren't looking so hot.

Jhongerkong: May 27th 2008; 1:21AM

Well, im in Canada, so ill just imagine that its Jhongerkong day today. Its a joyous holiday where you play nothing but Tetris Attack all day long.

Ben: May 27th 2008; 1:49AM

Play? I spent all day working on my LAST ACADEMIC PAPER to earn my bachelor's degree. I'll play next week though...

Oh, yes... After four and a half years, I will play...

Jonah Falcon: May 27th 2008; 2:00AM

Actually, that brown and green reminds me of something less appetizing...

chez: May 27th 2008; 2:25AM

Next gen graphics?

jorojoserojas: May 27th 2008; 2:11AM

I'm playing through Metal Gear Solid 3 in anticipation of MGS4. That consumed a good 4 hours or so.

Also, I got in some Boom Blox, Mario Party 8, and Mario Kart Wii when some friends came over...

...I'm never able to convince them into some Smash Bros, though. :(

chez: May 27th 2008; 2:26AM

Didn't really play much, probably got an hour on Mario Kart Wii.

Yourself: May 27th 2008; 3:05AM

Played maybe 3 hours of FFXII, 3 hours of KOTOR, and an hour of a single boss in Odin Sphere. It's almost like I was trying to pick games that are more work than fun to make up for the day off.

WilsonGoneWild: May 27th 2008; 3:24AM

Burnout Paradise much of the afternoon. I really love that game!

luckybob2005: May 27th 2008; 3:52AM

That cupcake look digusting, ofc it is supposed to represent Space Invaders so that might be the point.

Ernie: May 27th 2008; 4:02AM

For me it was all about Valkyria. Played that all day and got pretty far. Then at night some good ol CoD4 for the soul. Just finished now :)

Noshino: May 27th 2008; 4:15AM

I had to work, so all I could play was N+ in between meetings...

gamerprophet: May 27th 2008; 4:15AM

I dusted off Thief Deadly Shadows and popped her in my Elite and played that for a couple of missions.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392]: May 27th 2008; 5:49AM

Hey, my Joystiq friends. I'm leaving for a weeklong vacation later today (Tuesday) to Louisiana. Visiting family and the like (first time I left AZ in over three years =_=;). Probably won't have Internets while over there, so I won't be able to play/chat with you guys until next week.

So, smell ya later!

[writes something on a roadsign: "BPM was here, Fernando is a loser"]

Anticrawl: May 27th 2008; 5:57AM

Haha, if you are coming to New Orleans stay off the interstate... or roads in general. People are insane drivers there. Louisian, fun place to visit but don't drink the water or live here.

BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392]: May 27th 2008; 6:06AM

Like I said, I have family there (to be specific, they live in Luling, a small town near New Orleans). I know how it is. :)

In fact, my grandpa is one of those crazy drivers. I swear, every time I'm in the car with him, I feel like I'M gonna have a heart attack...
And to think, he's NEVER been in an auto collision his entire life...

Anticrawl: May 27th 2008; 6:28AM

Yeah everyone is overly aggressive with their two ton death machines. I know /of/ Luling, my lady is from uptown New Orleans, live outside LSU though.

Kye - Ludwig Defence Force: May 27th 2008; 6:34AM

Not been at home since Sunday and won't be back till Wednesday so my gaming has fallen behind. (Not that I play everyday anway)

Will be back on M.Kart Wii when I get home.

The Bank Holiday was too rainy :(

le screech!: May 27th 2008; 12:37PM

O god, those looks disgustingly similar to my dogs poo. Yeah, he's on a raw diet so his scat ain't pretty, just like those turdcakes. Kudos on the spaceinvaders though

Ian Murray: May 27th 2008; 12:52PM

The tiny flecks of whatever-that-is in the icing simply put it over the edge for "possibly made out of inedible materials".

RobLink (Return of the McElroy Defence Force): May 27th 2008; 6:04PM

I, like many in the UK, played Rock Band all weekend as it's shiny and new over here. Also, it's freakin' awesome. I'm glad I'm finally able to know that through gameplay rather than hearsay.

ZeroCorpse: May 27th 2008; 8:05PM

Dude! Someone sneezed on your cupcakes!

drun: May 27th 2008; 11:18PM

companion cake

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