Official PCQuikFix Blog » Nintendo Wii http://pcquikfix.com/blog Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:33:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cub Scouts Video Game Badge http://pcquikfix.com/blog/cub-scouts-video-game-badge/ http://pcquikfix.com/blog/cub-scouts-video-game-badge/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 17:09:38 +0000 Jeremy http://pcquikfix.com/blog/?p=607 LOL, you gotta be kidding me.  Apparently, the Cub Scouts figure if you cannot beat them, join them.  They have just released the latest “belt loop”, not badge, for playing video games!

Too bad they didn’t have these when I was a kid, or I would have gotten my Eagle Scout!  Here are the requirements:

Requirements

Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a family, den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.
Belt Loop

Complete these three requirements:

1. Explain why it is important to have a rating system for video games. Check your video games to be sure they are right for your age.
2. With an adult, create a schedule for you to do things that includes your chores, homework, and video gaming. Do your best to follow this schedule.
3. Learn to play a new video game that is approved by your parent, guardian, or teacher.

Academics Pin

Earn the Video Games belt loop and complete five of the following requirements:

1. With your parents, create a plan to buy a video game that is right for your age group.
2. Compare two game systems (for example, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii, and so on). Explain some of the differences between the two. List good reasons to purchase or use a game system.
3. Play a video game with family members in a family tournament.
4. Teach an adult or a friend how to play a video game.
5. List at least five tips that would help someone who was learning how to play your favorite video game.
6. Play an appropriate video game with a friend for one hour.
7. Play a video game that will help you practice your math, spelling, or another skill that helps you in your schoolwork.
8. Choose a game you might like to purchase. Compare the price for this game at three different stores. Decide which store has the best deal. In your decision, be sure to consider things like the store return policy and manufacturer’s warranty.
9. With an adult’s supervision, install a gaming system.

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A 24 year old Alabama man, Wade McGilberry, used Braves pitcher Kenshin Kawakami as his avatar to throw a perfect game less than 90 minutes after returning home from work.

Here’s the kicker though…although great news for Wade, it sucks to be 2K Sports right now.  Their insurance company could not come up with the odds of throwing a perfect game, so no insurance was purchased.  Hence, the $1 million will be coming out of their own pocket!


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The $200 price tag will include a black Wii console, TWO games (Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort), controller and nunchuk and a Will MotionPlus accessory.  This $200 bundle will also be available to the white models as well.

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LOL – “real boxers don’t hit like this”….

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  • 79% said they had pirated a PC game
  • 66% said they were the proud owner of at lease one dead Xbox 360
  • 44% said their Wii was gathering dust

Here is the full census in all its glory:

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The reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Program specializes in treatment for internet, gaming, texting and video game excessive use.  I myself have known relationships that have been torn apart due in part to World of Warcraft and excessive gameplay.  South Park did a parody on this game, and it was strikingly realistic!

Pricing starts at $14,500 for 45-day treatment and $27,000 for 90-day treatment – this does NOT include a $200 application fee, an $800 2-day screening interview fee and an $200 airport pick-up fee!

Our professionally trained clinicians understand technology related behavioral addictions, and the impact such conditions have on a person’s life. We work with individuals, couples and families to help them better understand and recover from an Internet, Video Gaming or Technology related behavioral addiction, as they reconnect with what’s important and meaningful in their lives.

Counseling Program Services available include:

  • Thorough individualized assessments
  • Clinically designed programs tailored to meet individual needs
  • Individual counseling with professionally trained staff
  • Group counseling and psychotherapy
  • Life skills and vocational coaching
  • Mindfulness based stress reduction programs and group-work
  • 12-step meetings and spiritual recovery

We invite you to meet with one of our clinicians for an assessment and development of an individualized treatment plan to help you or someone you care about, learn to manage, and in many cases overcome, a behavioral addiction.

With that said, I highly doubt insurance will cover any of this.  Today only, PCQuikFix is running a special – for the low low price of $2,500, we will send a PCQuikFix technician to your home to remove any and all power cords associated with your video game consoles…problem solved!

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The Playstation Move is said to be more accurate that Nintendo’s WiiMote thanks to advanced motion sensors.  These controllers will also include the typical shock and rumble features that have become standard in most controllers today.  Sony has announched multple packages.

  • standalone Move controller
  • Move controller with PS Eye & game (less than $100)
  • entire console solution

Sony also states that at LEAST 20 titles will be released in 2010, including “Sports Champions”,  that will cater specifically to these new motion controllers.  At the time of the conference, there is no information on pricing or an exact release date (other than Fall 2010).

See it in action via the Playstation Move Trailer.

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