Week #17.

Talk about anything tech related? um.. ok.. lets see. I think this week I will talk about video games.

I personally do not watch that much TV. I have a few shows I like (chuck ftw), but I find gaming to be more mentally/emotionally involving than a TV show. I even got my flat screen for gaming, not for TV watching. I couldn’t see the people I was shooting in the fps (first person shooter)well enough.

But let me discuss some of the other benefits that I get from my 2 main gaming systems: the PS3 and the Xbox 360.

The PS3 is a great piece of hardware. It is quite and it keeps my place warm in the winter when on as it runs a bit hot. I have had some great gaming experiences with it. Some of my favorite games I have played on it were Valkaria Chronicles, Uncharted, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance 2 (multiplayer more than single player campaign), and Flower. It comes with a Blu-Ray player which is great, though I have yet to watch a blu-ray movie on it.

The Xbox 360 is also a great piece of equipment, though it has been known to crash on others. Some great games I have played on it were Lost Odyssey, Bioshock, Fallout 3, Call of Duty, and Mass Effect.

These systems are so much more than gaming systems, though. The 360 can play the Netflix Watch it now shows. I am no longer stuck watching them on the computer. I can also download an Overdrive titles to my computer and play it on the 360 via my wireless network. I can do this with songs and pictures as well.

You can use the 360 to have party chat with your friends as well. Another great benefit of both systems is that you can game with friends no matter where they are! You can also talk with them with a headset in most games so it is easier to stay in touch.

Besides this, I can watch youtube and Hulu.com titles on these machines as well. There is one feature of the PS3 that is not really advertised for some reason but is awesome. I can have a PS1 game in the PS3 at home, and using my PSP, I can play that game ANYWHERE that has an open wireless network (ie the library). How great is that? I am done now as I am just making me want to go home and play Fallout 3 some more.