PS3 Pre-Orders drop out from Best Buy University.

Yesterday, Best Buy killed everyones hopes of getting a PS3 when they preordered it online. Best Buy had accidently said on the front page of their site that they were taking preorders for the PS3 and it was only for a limited time only. Best Buy has decided to cancel all PS3 pre-orders that were made online. The cause of this was that they never “intended” to have preorders on the PS3 and that anyone who has a preorder with Best Buy would not get charged and will get a $10 BestBuy Card. This means that the preorderers have to go find some where else to buy their PS3.

Note: There is no Best Buy University.

11 days of Wii

Wii comes out in 11 days, do a dance!

I was going to write a song based off of the 12 days of Christmas but that kinda didn’t work out. Maybe I will write one in the future…ha.

Increased speed and improved load times.

I decided to do some work on GameSpotting! in order to fix load times for you guys. Before it would take 152.77+ seconds for the site to load. I have fixed this to make it load in only: 65.72 seconds on a 56K connection (dialup).

The new times are:

The old load time speed for 14K was around 800 seconds. These new fixes hopefully make GameSpotting! easier to browse.

Enjoy!

Updating to WordPress 2.0.5

The site will be down for awhile as I update WordPress to 2.0.5.

Just be patient. It will be back up really soon.

Update: The site has been updated. Update Complete!

Sony Bringing Colors to the US of A

Sony today announced that it was going to be releasing new colors for their PSP. This includes the origional Pink one we talked about earilier, as well as two new ones, blue (shown right) and gray.

Sony says that these PSPs will be out on November 22nd. But Sony didn’t mention if this was a limited time only deal or not. So if you want a colored PSP it would probably be safe to buy it when it comes out, rather than waiting for it to go on sale.

Wii Virtual Console List

We all know that it is going to be almost impossible to get a Wii when it comes out (unless you preordered) because nintendo only made 4 mil and most stores have sold out already. We also should know that the Wii supports classic games using it’s virtual console feature.

This is the list of the games that will be availble on the VC section:

NES Games (500 Wii Points)

•        Mario Bros
•        The Legend of Zelda
•        Donkey Kong
•        Donkey Kong Jr. (This game is pretty stupid)
•        Ice Hockey
•        Pinball
•        Soccer (Just to let you know that this game sucks. The bots are extremely stupid)
•        Tennis
•        Urban Champion
•        Wario’s Woods (Very rare game)
•        Baseball
•        Solomon’s Key (Never played this game)

SNES Games (800 Wii Points)

• F-Zero (This is a pretty good game with great graphics for it’s time)
• SimCity (This game sucked. It was hard to control the city with the cursor)

N64 Games (1000 Wii Points)

• Super Mario 64 (Heck yes. This game rocks)

Genesis Games (800 Wii Points)

•   Sonic the Hedgehog (A buyer)
•   Altered Beast
•   Golden Axe
•   Columns (It’s kinda like bejeweled)
•   Ecco the Dolphin (Classic sidescrolling game that featured a dolphin that would use sonar so he could not get eaten. Graphics were great but this game was really hard)
•   Gunstar Heroes (Very good game)
•   Space Harrier II
•   Toe Jam & Earl: A funky and oddly mellow adventure.
•   Ristar (This game was a “flop”)
•   Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine (This game sucks)

TurboGrafx 16 Games (600 Wii Points)

•   Bonk’s Adventure (Pass on this one)
•   Super Star Soldie
•   Victory Run
•   Bomberman ’93 (Great game. Hilarious cut scenes and graphics [If I am remembering the right one then this should be a buyer])
•   Dungeon Explorer (How more technical can you get?)

Let me remind you that 100 Wii Points = $1 dollar.

By the way 17 days until the Wii releases (and 17 days until LOZ: Twlight Princess, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Excite Truck [good game, looks like lots of crashing] and Super Mario Galaxy all come out). Get ready to call up those stores and don’t forget to download your Opera browser when you get your Wii!

Good Luck!