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In from the cold

November 24, 2008 by Tony 4 Comments

I returned on Friday from the COLDEST business trip ever and am just now getting around to catching up on emails, feeds and games. I didn’t get much gaming in over the weekend, but I’ve got pretty much the whole week off, so I’m looking forward to cramming in as many games, books and movies as I can.

Thanks to my fellow bloggers for keeping the site alive and well why I was pretty much isolated from the real world while I was working in Northern Maine. Being without internet when there’s nothing else to do is pretty soul-crushing.

So I’m out of the loop right now from the video game world. I haven’t even downloaded the new Xbox 360 dashboard. But I should be caught up soon. In the meantime, here’s the fastest Super Mario speed run I’ve ever seen:

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October in Review

November 5, 2008 by Tony 1 Comment

Where does the time go? Yet another month has come and gone.

This has been Buttonmashing Dot Com‘s best month since I’ve been doing this. With the addition of new bloggers and increased activity, we had 36 posts 186 comments. Traffic increased 10% month over month. Hopefully this trend continues. I’m still working on a fairly big project, just putting the finishing touches on it. We think you’re going to like it.

Here are the top eyeball getters:

5. Dead Space [360] – First Impressions
4. October Releases
3. Halo 3 Recon
2. Fable II – Am I missing something?
1. Game Review – Dead Space [Xbox 360]

Previously, on Buttonmashing

A year ago, we were witnessing some tender moments in Halo 3.
Two years ago, I came to the sad realization that I may never get the Survivor Achievement in Dead Rising.
Three years ago it was all about Guild Wars.
Four years ago I was getting the first links to my blog. Man, what a feeling that was.

Strange, funny searches

None this month, I’m behind on my honey to-do list 🙂

November is Gamer’s Paradise. Won’t you join us?

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November Releases

November 2, 2008 by Tony 11 Comments

It’s the monthly releases, yay hurray!

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Week of November 4th
Gears of War 2 – Yes, I want Gears of War 2. No, I do not have time to play it. Yes, I don’t care. It’s been moved to the top of my Gamefly queue. We’ll see what happens when it arrives.
Gears of War 2 Amazon.com Exclusive Lancer – What’s that they say about nerds and their money?
Tom Clancy’s EndWar
Bond 007: Quantum of Solace
WWE Smackdown vs Raw ’09
Legendary– Casualty #1 of this stacked season.
Secret Service: Ultimate Sacrifice– I know nothing about this game, but with a name like “ultimate sacrifice,” I’m guessing that the goal of the game will be to die in the line of service. I hope it’s not an RPG. And I hope the first assignment isn’t to the first lady’s dog or something. That wouldn’t be very fun.

Week of November 11th
Call of Duty: World at War– I haven’t played many of the CoD games, I don’t see me starting now.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Mirror’s Edge– It’ll be tough, but I’m definitely making time for this game.
PES 2009 Pro-Evolution Soccer
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe– Ehergeiz is chomping at the bit for this one.
Blitz: The League II
Shaun White Snowboarding– Not sure it makes sense to get this unless you can play it on the Wii-fit board.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3– Casualty #2. It’s a shame, I’ve been hearing good things about this one.

Week of November 18th
Left 4 Dead– So very much looking forward to this one. VERY MUCH.
Tomb Raider Underworld
The Last Remnant– Sad about not having a chance to play this one right away, if at all.
Need for Speed: Undercover
Lips
Naruto: The Broken Bond
Karaoke Revolution: Presents American Idol Encore 2 w/Microphone– Casualty #3… JUST KIDDING!
You’re in the Movies

Week of November 25th
Stoked
Sonic Unleashed

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Week of November 4th
Monster Lab
NPPL Championship Paintball 2009
Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine
Bond 007: Quantum of Solace

Week of November 11th
MLB Superstars
Imagine Party Babyz– Candidate for creepy box art of the month.
Rock Revolution
Big League Sports– If they manage to make a game similar to Wii Sports, I want it.
FaceBreaker
WWE Smackdown vs Raw ’09
Call of Duty: World at War
Tales Of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World– Is there no end to these Tales games?
Hasbro Family Game Night
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels– You know you’re going to buy it, you Star Wars Nerd.

Week of November 18th
Animal Crossing: City Folk– I know this is going to be the exact same game as Animal Crossing on both the Gamecube and the DS. I know I’m going to run errands for a bunch of moronic animals that I’ll grow to hate. I know I’ll owe Tom Nook (who I also hate) an exorbitant mortgage. And yet I am compelled to buy this game. HELP ME.
Championship Foosball– No, that is not a typo.
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Shaun White Snowboarding
Sonic Unleashed
Cooking Mama World Kitchen
Castlevania Judgment
Skate It
Tomb Raider Underworld

Week of November 25th
Ultimate Band
King of Fighters Collection- The Orochi Saga
Cake Mania: In the Mix!

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Week of November 4th
Guitar Rock Tour
Monster Lab
Dragon Ball: Origins
Exit
Bond 007: Quantum of Solace
Tom Clancy’s EndWar

Week of November 11th
Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
Guinness Book of World Records: The Video Game– Going for the record for most suckers to buy a lame video game?
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Jedi Alliance
Amazing Adventures: The Forgotten Ruins
Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff– “Take me back, to the place, where I once belonged.”
Call of Duty: World at War
Avatar: The Last Airbender-Into the Inferno
WWE Smackdown vs Raw ’09
Populous– Tempting, but no.

Week of November 18th
Animal Boxing– Not the greatest name for a game, but I’ve heard this is actually a fun game. Maybe the sleeper of the Holiday? I think you hold the DS upside down with this title. Sounds interesting.
Robocalypse (Nintendo DS)
Luminous Arc 2
Cradle of Rome
Metal Slug 7
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Tomb Raider Underworld
Moon
Skate It
Need for Speed: Undercover
Tony Hawk’s Motion

Week of November 25th
Age of Empires: Mythologies
Chrono Trigger – Oh yes, she will be mine.

I’d just like to point out that I’m linking probably 25% of the new DS titles coming out this month. There are literally dozens of “Imagine Babyz”, “Petz” and “Cooking” games I’m skipping over. It’s ridiculous.

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Week of November 4th
Bond 007: Quantum of Solace
NBA 2K9

Week of November 11th
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack– Do we have any WoW players in the audience?
Call of Duty: World at War
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
World of Goo
Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods– I’ve heard Gothic was always a good game with poor execution. I wonder if they finally got it right.
The Three Stooges Treasure Hunt Hijinks– I love anything Three Stooges, so I have to link this one.
The Orb & the Oracle

Week of November 18th
Legendary
Everquest II The Shadow Odyssey– Everquest 2 had another expansion? News to me. Not sure why they would, here in this month of WoW domination.
Left 4 Dead
World Wide Soccer Manager 2009
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir Expansion
Tomb Raider Underworld
Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack
The Lord of the Rings: Mines of Moria
Need for Speed: Undercover

Week of November 25th
A Vampyre Story

PS3 banner

Week of November 4th
Legendary
Bond 007: Quantum of Solace
Tom Clancy’s EndWar
Naruto Ultimate Ninja: Storm
Valkyria Chronicles
Resistance 2– RESIST!

Week of November 11th
WWE Smackdown vs Raw ’09
Call of Duty: World at War
PES 2009 Pro-Evolution Soccer
Naruto Ultimate Ninja: Storm
Mirror’s Edge

Week of November 18th
NCAA Basketball 09
Alone in the Dark
Tomb Raider Underworld
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Need for Speed: Undercover
Shaun White Snowboarding

PSP banner

Week of November 4th
Tom Clancy’s EndWar

Week of November 11th
PES 2009 Pro-Evolution Soccer
WWE Smackdown vs Raw ’09

Week of November 18th
Shaun White Snowboarding
Need for Speed: Undercover

Week of November 25th
Mytran Wars

Great month ahead! What will you be picking up?

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September in Review

October 1, 2008 by Tony 5 Comments

A month has come and gone here in Buttonmashinglandia, so let’s take a quick look at the month that was.

The most exciting news for the month was the recent addition of two new bloggers. We’re already seeing the fruits of their labors, and so far so good. We currently have a bunch of ideas simmering in the pot and hope to announce some exciting new features soon.

As far as site activity, we had 31 posts and 143 comments. I think that qualifies as the best month for comments, by a long shot. Traffic was pretty steady, almost exactly like last month. According to Google Analytics, someone visited the site with a screen resolution of 0X0. Not sure how that’s even possible. 2% of you readers hit the site using Google’s browser chrome. How is it look?

Top posts

The following posts garnered the most eyeballs in August (outside of the regulars):

5. 2 Minute Review: Too Human
4. September Releases
3. Magic Mushrooms and Tanooki Suits
2. Whether ‘Tis Nobler in the Mind to Suffer
1. Walking away from violence

Nat killed this month! 3 of the 5 tops posts where his. Which is obvious proof of my genius, what with me inviting him to join the site!

Previously, on buttonmashing

A year ago, it was Halo 3 time!
Two years ago, I formed Buttonmasher Theorem #1 after being completely engrossed in Dead Rising.
Three years ago the Wii (codename Revolution at the time) had just been announced and interwebs were abuzz!
Four years ago the sheen was beginning to come off my first impressions of Fable. Just in time for its sequel to hit the shelves!

Strange, funny searches

As always, I hand select a few searches that made me chuckle or weep. You decide!

“finish endless ocean” – You’re joking, right?

“cakas gigantes” – My Spanish may be rusty, but I think this person was searching for gigantic poops. Please let me be wrong.

“does eve online get better?” – I get this search every month. It’s referring to the MMO EVE Online. I hope it isn’t the same person every month. The answer is NO.

“my little sister does better at me in the force unleashed button mashing” – You’re among friends here, pal.

On the horizon

Lots of fun and exciting things planned for the site. That’s all I’ll say for now.

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New additions at Buttonmashing dot com

September 27, 2008 by Tony Leave a Comment

After adding a couple of bloggers to the blogging family last year, I think the site benefited greatly both in frequency of content and quality of content. My buddy Dark Reyule wasn’t able to contribute as much as he originally thought he could, but Nat has added a bunch of great stuff and has been on fire recently. He’s been bringing high-quality blogging post after post.

It’s my pleasure to announce the addition of two more bloggers to the team. Each one brings a new perspective and outlook on gaming. I’ll let them post their own formal introduction, so I’ll just post there names and who they are here. The first is my brother-in-law who’ll go by Ehergeiz (I’ll let him explain that) here on the blog. The other new blogger is prolific commenter and gamer extraordinaire Brock. Both will be doing all sorts of blogging, reviewing games, posting news and whatever else strikes their fancy.

Join me in welcoming them to the site. Here’s to some more great blogging.

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Site difficulties

September 22, 2008 by Tony 3 Comments

It seems that we are having a bit of an issue with our web host at the moment, so I apologize for the intermittent service. If you’ve tried to load the site recently, you were probably met with some for on internal server error. I’m on the case and hopefully things should be back to normal soon.

Once things settle, we’ll be coming at you with more of that high-quality blogging you know and love.

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August in Review

September 1, 2008 by Tony 1 Comment

Time for a look back at another month here at ButtonMashing HQ.

We had a somewhat of a down month of posting with 22 posts and 66 comments. Traffic for the month was down a bit from from July, but that’s to be accounted for with the reduced posting frequency and end of the summer. As usual, most people are visiting with Firefox and Windows XP. The monster monitor award goes to the guy with the 800×5000 screen resolution. How is that even possible?

Top posts

The following posts garnered the most eyeballs in August (outside of the regulars):

5. 2-Minute Review-Bully Scholarship Edition
4. Funny Game Glitches
3. Pic Lens
2. Is Too Human Any Good?
1. Customizable NCAA 09 Covers

Previously, on buttonmashing

A year ago, I was playing some Bioshock.
Two years ago, I was talking about The Ultimate DS Library. What an amazing little machine that DS is.
Three years ago I was busy on the warpath, defending games and trying to dispel myth of a correlation of Violence and Video Games. The fight continues…
Four years ago I was talking about games I own that are gathering dust. Four years later and we’re still dealing with this.

Strange, funny searches

Let’s laugh at the weird people on the internet:
“video of a girl being tickled that is compatible with the psp” – You, sir, have requested something strange.

“tea leaves and turnips” – Sounds like a wonderfully horrible breakfast.

“penny arcade hates fatal1ty” – I was not aware of this. Do they?

“leon and krauser have sex story” – Since I saw it and can’t unsee it, you have to see it, too.

Games being played

I’ve played so much lately that I should probably dedicate a separate post for that one. Stay tuned.

UCLA just upset Tennessee, so my work here is done. I should probably wrap this up and go play some games.

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Plugging In

August 24, 2008 by Tony Leave a Comment

I’m finally plugging back in after a week of almost complete disconnectedness. The missus and I took a week-long vacation with no kids and no connections. The only communication I had were brief posts to my Twitter via text messages from my cell phone. I never checked email, the site, nothing. It felt great. Untethered and fancy free.

But now it’s back to the real world. I’m behind on my emails and what-not around here, so if you’ve emailed me recently — I’m getting to it, I promise. I’m dreading the pile of work awaiting me tomorrow. Not fun. On top of all that, my daughter starts kindergarten tomorrow. Things are going to be crazy around these parts for a little while.

But after the trip, I’m feeling refreshed and ready to get back to normal. At least until the next trip.

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July in Review

August 2, 2008 by Tony Leave a Comment

Time for a look back at another month here at ButtonMashing HQ.

We had a rather prolific (at least prolific for us) month of posting with 32 posts and 112 comments. Traffic for the month was up almost 11% from June. I think it’s pretty clear that more posts mean more visitors. Most people are visiting with Firefox and Windows XP. I love how someone is surfing with 3 monitors and a total resolution of 3840×1024. You, sir, are my hero.

Top posts

The following posts garnered the most eyeballs in July (outside of the regulars):

5. Here We Go!
4. Give it up hardcore gamers
3. Funny Game Glitches
2. Finish your dinner
1. Customizable NCAA 09 Covers

Previously, on buttonmashing

A year ago, I was welcoming the newest buttonmasher into the world.
Two years ago, I was giving one of many MMO Sports games a try, Ultimate Baseball Online.
Three years ago, HOO BOY three years ago, the internet was ON FIRE because of GTA San Andreas and the dreaded Hot Coffee controversy. You heard it hear first (sorta), folks!
Four years ago I was taking my first crack at the first Halo. All in preparation for Halo 2 imminent release.

Strange, funny searches

Let’s laugh at the weird people on the internet:

“fun things to do in dead rising” – You’re killing hordes of zombies with everyday objects. That’s not fun enough? You need to look for other fun things to do?!

“^^hal0 3 statz.^^” – Let’s count everything wrong with this search. First, what’s with the carets? They’re not necessary. Next, the “0” in Halo. That’s just dumb. Third, statz with a Z. If I could stab you through the internet, google searcher person, I would. Finally, the period. Thank you for punctuating your non sentence with a period. That makes everything else better.

“aj hawk’s girlfriend” – The poor guy has been married for over a year. Give him a break!

“can you get a machine gun on animal crossing wild world” – I’m often disturbed by what people search. This is one of those times.

“how do you eat in dead rising” – I’m guessing you haven’t survived long in the game if you’re searching for this.

Games being played

Nat has been on fire with a new PS3 and new 360 games while I’ve been pretty stagnant. I reached a point in GTA IV that I thought was the end, but it appears I’m mistaken, as there are other things still going on. I’ve got that, Top Spin 3 and Space Invaders Extreme on my plate.

I should probably wrap this up and go play some games.

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Family Matters

July 8, 2008 by Tony 4 Comments

Due to a death in the family (my grandmother), I won’t be around these parts for a few days. I’ll leave you in Nat’s capable hands until I get back. Shouldn’t be too long. I’ve been working on a few posts, so I hope to get those up soon.

For now, I leave with the Super Mario 2 Theme, Gypsy-Jazz style:

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