A funny thing happened..

I actually found somebody to play online Robotron:2084 on XBox Live. Go figure! Even got an achievement out of it for 10 points. Not bad, now to find somebody to play the OTHER 50 or so games nobody plays online anymore!

In the Hopper: videos & ideas

Team Pencil has convened Four Tokens Films again, for May-June 2008. Currently our projects include Pencil Travelogue: Redux 2008, from the incomplete Pencil Takes a Break series. It was incomplete due to circumstances beyond our control and irreconcilable personal and creative differences that reared within Team Pencil, but has since been rectified with removal of certain negative influences.

Also the American Nightmare video clip set to Grand Theft Auto game videos and/or photos (haven't decided just yet on whether it will be a still-photo montage or a video, but leaning towards video) is in the pre-production stages! The Spongebob Review didn't work too well, so we are most likely going to jettison it or re-shoot it.

Anyway just to keep our 5 readers glued to the conglomerate that is:
The Gravediggers Reconnaissance Unit, Team Pencil, and Four Tokens Films !!

Pencil Swag sways!

New updates to the Pencil Shavings Ring of Swag!



Gears of War GoW Fuck Yourself t-shirts!/>



Run for Cover Guy hats!



Four Tokens Films cameraman t-shirts!



Fragville Junction Alumni shirt!



The Vexilum Captus sweatshirt!

Don't forget to watch for updates at MaxPencil on YouTube, and the new(!) updates to Pencil Shavings (.net) & Four Tokens Films!

We're also trying to figure out a way for Einstein to get some sort of webcast to play some classic songs for the kidz!

Stay tuned, the oftne promised updates ARE COMING! Please be patient!

74 degrees & sunny.. time to be inside

Grand Theft Auto IV(IntraVenous), the latest game to pump more life into the parasite that is gaming, has taken sales figures, politicos, angry parents, shut-ins, gaming nerds, and agoraphobes and thrown them to the wind. Right into a woodchipper. Yes, this game is all you thought it would be: violent, vile, crazy, bloody, graphic, sexual, adult, creative, expansive, gigantic, amazing. Multiplayer co-op and versus. Offline and online connected via your character's (Niko's) in-game cellular phone.

I've only played through a couple of missions, because I have been concentrating on the online multiplayer aspect of the game. 16 player deathmatch, all for one, multiple teams. Ah, the blood flows like grass through a goose. Pass me a sponge? The only hang-ups I've seen so far, are the lag issues which lead to invincible enemies, and players who have already memorized and learned the game quicker and faster and more intensely and more accurately than they had studied for high school finals, pregnancy tests, and the occasional piss-cup test.

It is also fun to vicariously drive through a deformed New York City Metro area: Pulaski Skyway; the chemical plants and refineries in Jersey; Times Square; Liberty Island; LaGuardia; Coney Island; drive across the Brooklyn Bridge..... and Rykers Island, among others..

I don't write reviews of games, I write opinions. My opinion, you will like this game, for either platform (360, PS3).. Listen up for the XM Virues "AFRO Connection" on the radio: Ron Bennington, Fez Whatley, Anthony Cumia, "Little" Jimmy Norton, Patrice Oneal, Opie Hughes.

The XBLA List so far

XBox Live Arcade titles as of April 23rd, 2008:

The complete compilation can be found at Gamers With Jobs, with comments, opinions, semi-reviews, impressions, begging for Ikaruga, etc... etc.. While your there, why not sign up at GWJ and become a member?

#, A, B, C

3D Minigolf
Aegis Wing
Alien Hominid
Arkadian Warriors
Assault Heroes (soon: Assault Heroes 2)
Asteroids / Asteroids Deluxe
Astropop
Band of Bugs
Bankshot Billiards 2
Battlestar Galactica
Bejeweled 2
Black
Bliss Island
Bomberman Live
Boogie Bunnies
Boom Boom Rocket
Brain Challenge
Bugs of War
Burnout 3
Carcassonne
Castlevania- Symphony of the Night
Catan
Chessmaster
Cloning Clyde
Commanders: Attack of the Genos
Contra, Super Contra
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex
Crimson Skies
Cyberball
Crystal Quest

D, E, F

Defender
Dig Dug
DOOM
Double Dragon
Dreamfall: Longest Journey
Eets: Chowdown
Every Extra Extend Extreme
Exit
Fable 2
Fatal Fury Special
Feeding Frenzy
Frogger
Fuzion Frenzy

G,H,I,J

Galaga
Gauntlet
Geometry Wars
Golden Axe
Gripshift
Gyruss
Halo
Hardwood Backgammon
Hardwood Hearts
Hardwood Spades
Heavy Weapon
Hexic HD
Hexic 2
Ikaruga
Indigo Prophecy
Jewel Quest
Jetpac
Joust

L, M, N, O

Lost Cities
Lumines Live!
Luxor 2
Mad Tracks
Marathon: Durandal
Marble Blast Ultra
Metal Slug 3
Metal Arms
Millipede & Centipede
Missile Command
Mr Driller Online Offline
Mutant Storm Reloaded
Mutant Storm Empire
New Rally X
Ninja Gaiden Black
Novadrome
Omega Five
Outpost Kaloki X

P, R, S

Pac-Man, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Ms Pac Man
Paperboy
Pinball FX
Poker Smash
Prince of Persia
Psychonauts
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
Rez HD
RoboBlitz -- if they released free multiplayer, would anybody remember this title?
Robotron: 2084
** Rocketman: Axis of Evil
Root Beer Tapper
Rush'n Attack
Scramble
Screwjumper
Sensible World of Soccer
Shrek n Roll
Sid Myer's Pirates
Small Arms
Smash TV
Soltrio Solitaire
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic 2
Space Giraffe
Speedball
SpongeBob SquarePants Underpants Slam
Spyglass
Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting
Street Trace NYC
Super Puzzle Fighter II HD Remix
Switchball

T, U, W

Tapper
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Tempest
Tetris Splash
Texas Hold 'Em
Time Pilot
TiQal
TotemBall
Track and Field
Triggerheart Exelica
Tron / Discs of Tron
Undertow
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
UNO
Wik: Fable of Souls
Wing Commander Arena
Word Puzzle
Worms

X, Y, Z

XBox 360 Arcade Controller
Xevious
Yaris
Zuma