Weekend, what are you playing?

Midway through August already? Time sure flies when you're playing video games. So, what are YOU playing this weekend?

Migoy: Me and Arlie will be out with a few college friends for the weekend and won't be back until Monday but I got Phat's (my fat PSP) with me to kill idle time with Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road on it as it's one of my 'kill time' games. Arlie went to one of our friend's house who just bought a copy of the new Mortal Kombat game so maybe they played a bit of that.

Quash:Had a huge Saturday. Joined Indestructible 2011,  pretty much our biggest fighting game tournament in the Philippines for Super Street Fighter 4 : Arcade Edition, Marvel vs Capcom 3, and Mortal Kombat with over 150+ players registered for all games. This event had players from different provinces to join Indestrucible 2011, so a big turnout indeed. While I was eliminated right away in Mortal Kombat(I suck), i was able to reach top 16 for both Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs Capcom 3. Though i fell short, I'm pleased with making it that far. Had so much fun and met a lot of awesome players.

Congratulations to the winners of the event and also to Pinoy2DFighters for another successful event. More power to you guys! If you want to see the results, head over to this link.

Weekend, what are you playing?

"Shining Broly Finger!"

Boom! Video games! Quick! What are you playing?

Migoy: Just finished Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, the story mode is really short so I'm only doing a few challenge modes here and there.

Arlie: Playing Red Dead Redemption Multiplayer again because of the Triple EXP Weekend. I also bought the Undead Nightmare Collection DLC Bundle from PSN because it is on sale this week for $9.99, from $19.99. My friend Jesus(not Christ) told me to share it with other people like he did (pun not intended). So I had it shared with other Red Dead Redemption players from the PinoyPS Community to split the cost of the $10 PSN card. I'd like to thank some people from PinoyPS.com; Kamikaze, carmancilla, frigid_aire and Kuroba.

Quash: This weekend I'm tripping out with some friends. Trying out the free to play MMO Age of Conan: Unchained. Why? well, why not, i said to myself "it's free anyways". But in just a few hours I'm felling regret already, the game frustrates the hell out of me. Not a good MMO at all, we'll see if it picks up as we progress, but i don't see myself playing this in the next few weeks. Regardless of people saying that one game is just bad, I like to try it out myself, but in this case i should have listened.

Jimquisition: The Past Is Not The Future

Jim Sterling talks about why Nintendo went about lowering the price of the 3DS and that how the claims of Nintendo fans boys saying that "the DS didn't sell well when it first started but look at it now" is complete bollocks. A bit of a slap back to reality if you will on this episode of The Jimquisition.

They say history repeats itself, but that's not always true. Just because something happened with a videogame console over five years ago, that doesn't mean it'll happen again. The past is not the future, and the present is a very different animal.

Follow Jim on twitter for a chance to win Twitter updates from Jim: @JimSterling

New episodes of Jimquisition appear every Monday, only at The Escapist.

[gigya src="http://cdn2.themis-media.com/media/global/movies/player/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" allowNetworking="all" flashvars="config=http://www.themis-media.com/videos/config/3827-cbb25323b1fca2ce4dc50bb813ef4a2e.js%3Fplayer_version%3D2.5%26embed%3D1" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="400" height="300" ]

Weekend, what are you playing?

So it's the first weekend of August, but that's not relevant to this post. What matters is what YOU are playing this weekend. So, what are you playing?

Migoy: Played a bit of Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World with my cousin, slept through most of my Saturday and did a little bit of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law. Also got Dragon Ball Kai: Ulimate Butoden on my DS and hot damn that game is fun. If only it were in English.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aZ4CCrKmAw&w=425&h=349]

Quash: Before I headed out for editing work, I was able to finish Alan Wake today. Will start writing a review about it soon. Aside from that, more Halo: Reach multiplayer. Not done with the campaign yet, damn multiplayer is addicting.

Walmart set to lower their 3DS prices early

With the 3DS due to lower in price on August 12 and with early 3DS owners being able to redeem 20 games before they hit the eShop. Walmart will be lowering the prices on their 3DS early.

What does that mean? It means that starting on August 9th, you can buy a 3DS for $169.99, connect it to the eShop before August 11 and be able to qualify for Nintendo's "Ambassador" initiative meaning free NES and GBA games.

Via [CheapAssGamer]