Blogs \ Around the Network #14
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
New, faster, Sever for MyWii, Frag, BluRay & Telly!
Good news everyone! MyWii, MyFrag, MyBluRay and MyTelly have been moved over to our all new, super awesome, servers in the past week. What does this mean for you? Basically faster sites! It's really noticeable at the latter 3, and MyWii is a lot faster. Make sure to keep us up to date with your experiences. Hopefully we can defeat the nasty slowdown for good!
Reviews
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Review
A taste
Sequels are flooding the game market nowadays. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but how much of the core game needs to change to justify the purchase? The first Marvel Ultimate Alliance was a great Action beat-em-up, with some RPG elements thrown in for good measure. The sequel, three years in the making, gameplay-wise is almost exactly the same game. You would expect that from a sequel, but when it’s so similar is it really worth playing through it all again?
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Read More at MyPS3
My360
Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes Review
A taste
Believe it or not, but there were happier times for the Star Wars brand. Going back 14 years ago there was no Jar-Jar Binks. It’s hard to imagine the world without him, ha? It’s not that the bombardment of Star Wars content we’ve seen over the past decade is bad in quality, but it doesn’t do much justice for the franchise. Truth is, the Star Wars universe isn’t so deep that we actually care what happened a few hundred years before Anakin turned emo. Or what happened between any of the six main episodes. Yet we still get spin-off after spin-off, be it in the form of a game, book or television series. Thankfully, The Clone Wars animated series is actually pretty decent, as was its predecessor in Star Wars: Clone Wars from about six years ago. Unfortunately, the game based on the latest series in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes is anything but decent. It’s actually probably one of the worst platformers this generation.
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Read More at MyPS3
My360
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days Review
A taste
Kingdom Hearts made a name for itself when it was launched last generation on the PS2. If you’re not in the know developer, Square Enix, grabbed some characters from Final Fantasy, mixed them in with some Disney favourites and created something special. There have only been two instalments in what we consider to be the ‘main series’ so far, and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days is yet another spin-off. The question is does the PS2 classic transfer flawlessly to the handheld DS?
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Read More at MyDS
Mini Ninjas Review
A taste
When it was announced that IO Interactive were releasing a ninja game, one might have been forgiven for thinking it would be based on cold blooded assassins in the same style as their ‘Hitman’ series. But this is not the case with their latest game, ‘Mini Ninjas’, a G-rated, ‘Kung-Fu Panda meets Zelda’ adventure with anime style characters. But fear not, it seems that Mini Ninjas is proof that IO Interactive can balance two entirely different genres.
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Read More at MyWii
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter Review
A taste
The concept behind Drawn to Life is definitely ambitious: draw your own hero and bring them into a world that needs saving…and drawing. The execution of such an idea is obviously the most important aspect of the concept, and when the first title in the series hit the DS it was met with critical acclaim. The combination of great stylus and touch-screen gameplay, nice visuals and a charming story made Drawn to Life one of the most unique and entertaining experiences on the handheld. When Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter was announced for the Wii, the question was asked as to how developer Planet Moon Studios would make the difficult transition from drawing on the touch-screen to drawing in mid-aid with the Wii-mote. While the final product isn’t quite as fluid as it was on the DS, the Wii version of The Next Chapter still offers an entertaining adventure, one that should appeal to both a younger and older audience.
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Read More at MyWii
Blogs
How to make a good Indiana Jones game
About
After many failed attempts at bringing the whip-curling hero to gaming, we go through what we think is needed to make a good Indiana Jones game.
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Read More here
Medals
Super Star Wars!
Info
To celebrate the release of Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and the completion of the Super Star Wars trilogy for the Wii Virtual Console, MyWii proudly presents the Super Star Wars medals series. The collection features one medal for each classic SNES game in the series, a fantastic bonus medal and a superhappyfuntime PWNAGE medal for those awesome enough to be a PWNAGE member.
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Find out more at MyWii
Borderlands Medal
Info
To get this Borderlands medal stapled to your profile page all you need to do is answer the following question, BUT! make sure you add some effort to it so we have something interesting to read.
Question: What PC game to you find to have the best online co-op mode and why?
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Find out more at MyFrag
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!
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MyFrag
Upcoming Next Week
Reviews
Uncharted 2 review on MyPS3
Metroid Prime Trilogy review on MyWii
NBA 2K10 review on MyPS3 & My360
WWE Smackdown review on MyPS3 & My360
Brutal Legends review on MyPS3 & My360
Dead Space Extraction review on MyWii
Medals
Evil_Guy is putting something together for those of you who are awake at weird hours on MyWii.
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!
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Past Around the Network Articles
Click here to check out all of the past instalments in Around the Network!
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20/10/2009
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pigs FTW
26/10/2009
GTA: Chinatown Wars
on a boat
LOL @ the last fact...
21/10/2009
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
It's your hair, your nose, your chinless face, you always need a hug, not to mention all the manly appletinis that you chug, that you think I am your mentor just continues to perplex!...