Blogs \ Around the Network #13
Welcome to the MyMedia Around the Network feature! Some of you may remember this as the MyMedia Community Update, and it is essentially the same thing with an emphasis on type of content rather than each site.
This will be published each Monday afternoon/evening to keep you up to date with everything that has happened across MyMedia in the past 7 days. We'll also update you on what is planned for the week ahead.
MyMedia General
MyMedia 8.0 - Request For Comment
This is the next step of our design process, we have to decide how to allocate the pages, and lets start with the Home Page. Since most of you would like a smaller home page, we will try to compact most of the features.
Please let us know of the following:
1 - Combined News and Reviews or separated News and Reviews.
2 - Is Forum in a convenient location?
3 - Do we want a big list of games on the home page?
4 - What else do we want on the home page?
Thanks!
Answer here.
Reviews
NBA Live 10 Review
A taste
The once glorious NBA Live franchise has been anything but over the past few years. Its entry into the current gaming generation - unlike its brother in FIFA Soccer - has been far from spectacular, with the team over at EA Canada struggling to create a consistent and solid basketball gaming experience. While the series has improved every year since the disastrous NBA Live 06 on XBOX 360, it got to a point where drastic change was needed before the series’ closest competitor in the NBA 2K series moved too far ahead. Thankfully, NBA Live 10 is that drastic change. While it’s not without its problems, it’s the most original NBA Live game in years and one that should please the series’ fanboys.
Location
Read More at MyPS3
My360
FIFA 10 Review
A taste
No sporting game has evolved over the past three years as much as FIFA Soccer from EA Sports has. For a few entries it lingered behind Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer, which offered a more realistic soccer sim experience for gamers. However, EA Sports have quickly propelled the franchise to new heights, and with FIFA 10 we get quite possibly the greatest football game ever. We were teased when Euro 2008 hit shelves, offering us a small insight into what we had coming with FIFA 09. While that game lacked the depth of a full-blown FIFA title, it set an example through the gameplay. Now the series has set a standard not only for the franchise, but also for every soccer game out there.
Location
Read More at MyPS3
My360
G-Force Review
A taste
A game based on a movie about guinea pigs saving the world. There’s no way in HELL that game could be any good. Not only is it a game based off a movie (and a pretty crappy movie at that), but it’s a movie-game on Wii, a console that is becoming more and more accustomed to shovel ware. Well, believe it or not, but G-Force is actually not all that bad. In fact, it’s actually pretty good. Reviews were scalding for the film and you can imagine how surprising it was to find how superior the game was to the actual source material. One could probably say that the movie was based off the game and not the other way around. That would actually make more sense.
Location
Read More at MyPS3
My360
MyWii
Articles
And the Nominees Are...
A Taste
As I touched on recently, the Academy have changed their rulings so that 10 films can be nominated for the big Best Picture prize at next years Academy Awards. Whilst 2009 has had some grand films, none really stand-out as Best Picture and many predict it will come down to the hardest predict Oscar‘s night for a long time. So I had a think about it and these are the 10 films I suspect will get the noms for Oscar night.
Location
Read More at MyBluRay
Blogs
Medals
Shades of Boo - Open!
Info
Basically what will happen is a Shades of Boo medal thread will remain hidden but at some point it will become visible. The duration of the threads visibility will depend on the colour of the Boo. See each coloured Boo will have a shyness rating so some will be easy to find and some will be harder to find that hens teeth! (check the following posts to see each Boo's shyness rating).
These Boo threads will appear during the day, afternoon and night and there will be no pattern to them so it will be a game of luck. But you never know I might let out a hint now and then
Location
Find out more at MyWii
Competitions
Hit the slopes with Mario and Sonic as we celebrate the release of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games on Wii!
Thanks to our wonderful friends at SEGA Australia, we have three copies of the game to giveaway on Wii.
To be in the running, all you have to do is visit the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games website and answer the questions on the Competition page. You can answer as many of the four questions as you like.
Competition ends at 5pm on Wednesday, October 14th. Winners will be contacted privately.
Enter now!
The worlds most spectacular boy is coming to theaters this October!!! To celebrate the release of Astro Boy in Australia on October 15, we're giving you the chance to win a spectacular Astro Boy prize pack!!!.
We have five amazing packs to give away, which each include:
1 x inseason double pass to see Astro Boy at any Hoyts Cinema
1 x official Astro Boy poster
1 x Astro Boy keyring
Each prize pack is worth $65 with the entire prize pool totalling $325!
To be in the running, all you have to do is visit the Astro Boy Hoyts page and answer the questions here
Events
MyFrag Games Night
MyFrag are serious about their games nights. Every weekend they sit down for some hardcore gaming action, and want you to join in! Currently we're playing Team Fortress 2, CSS and Left 4 Dead. Head on over to the link below to discuss the MyFrag Games Nights!
Location
MyFrag
Upcoming Next Week
Reviews
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days review on MyDS
Metroid Prime Trilogy review on MyWii
Drawn to Life review on MyWii
Blogs
MyMedia 8.0 Comments - V3
Pointless but interesting fact of the week
As always there's no guarantee they are 100% accurate (after all we want interesting and pointless, not stuff we already know). Enjoy!
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
crashes.
Past Around the Network Articles
Click here to check out all of the past instalments in Around the Network!
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