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Nothing to wear! #02

Ok it’s been awhile I know since the last “Nothing to wear!” and my stared items in my Google Reader are getting out of control so I thought it was time to do another posted called “Nothing to wear #02″ (See what I’ve done there) Now most of these are Tee’s as I just can’t seem to get enough! So with that out the way shall I start? (Read on …)

Steam Cloud

The other day Valve announced Steam Cloud, a free Steam system that will retain users’ saved games and configuration files indefinitely.

As well as online save files Steam Cloud will also remember your key mappings too. If offline the service will store any saved information for when you next connect and then automatically update your profile. Other features Valve are working on are auto driver updates, calendar functionality and a system-requirement checker to make sure your PC can play the games you want to play. (Read on …)

Ocarina Of Time Multiplayer

Ever wondered what would happen if you combined Four Swords with Ocarina of Time? Well now wonder no more!
A very talented coder by the name of Cen is in the process of making a Zelda multiplayer from the Ocarina engine. (Read on …)

Team Fortress 2 Skins

One of the great things about PC gaming is all the user generated content you can find, download and use for free. There are a lot of sites dedicated to offering free content to use on your favourite game, some of the content will modify an aspect of the gameplay, whereas some like the following skins simply change the appearance of characters or weapons.

If you fancy having a bit of fun which the appearance of your characters in Team Fortress 2 take a look at some of the better skins I’ve found at FPS Banana

(Read on …)

Then where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Looks like Master Chief has been eating too many pies.

Check out this excellent ad warning of the dangers of child obesity and its link with game playing. Bring on the Wii Fit!

(via NotCot)

New And Improved

Yes, yes I know what you’re thinking “how can something be both new and improved?” Good question.

Truth be told I’m not sure, but the marketing guys told us that they polled a random demographic of shoppers buying washing detergent. They found that 67% said they would buy a product with “new & improved” as apposed to the brands that don’t.
Not quite sure how this translates into websites, but they assured me it does. (Read on …)

“Save the World for Real.”

This is the new Red Cross campaign “Save the World for Real.” to get more young people to volunteer some of there time towards the charity!

It has been created by Leo Burnett of Beirut and doesn’t look at all like a Nintendo DS!

A Plethora of DS’s

I was playing the new Zelda : Phantom Hourglass on my DS last night, (review coming soon!) and I remembered that I had seen someone who modded their DS with a Tri-Force design on it. So off to the internet I went, with the help of fellow editor Dan Roswell we found said DS plus a few more…

(Read on …)

1000th Post!

Welcome to our 1000^th post!

It’s taken us a while but we have finally made it! One thousand posts, I couldn’t even begin to understand how many hours that equates to, how many keys pressed or words typed, quite a few… (Read on …)

Atari, Since 1972

Now I have to say say that 36 years in the games industry is a very long time, and so to make the public even more aware of the massive  contributions Atari’s have given to the games industry they have produced these great print adverts! (Read on …)

Play.com Live! Part 1 The Event

The UK’s first gaming convention in quite a few years took place over the weekend and the Level Select team went to Wembley stadium to see what Play.com and the gaming industry had put on show for us. (Read on …)

Gaming Adverts #04

Following on from the history lesson the other day about Pong, i came across this advert that i thought was worth sharing with the rest of you! (Read on …)

Goldeneye Source

The team behind the Goldeneye mod for Valve’s Source engine had been a little quiet of late and there were concerns that the team had stopped working on the popular N64 title. It turns out that they haven’t, they’ve just been too busy working on the mod to let anyone know of their progress.

For an outline of what’s been happening with the Goldeneye Source, some shiny new screens, an animated clip and a beefed up cradle track. (Read on …)

Nintendo Wall-E

I just came across the best mod for a Nintendo Gamecube ive ever seen!

This summer we are being given a new film from Disney Pixar called Wall-E, which is about a little robot called Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifters - Earth Class).

Now he does look cute in know, but he also is the perfect shape to build a Gamecube into and this is exactly what bit-tech.net have gone and done jump over to there site to see more images of this mod! (Read on …)

Vinyl Gaming

Now there is nothing better than to see your gaming hero in vinyl, I myself must admit that I have too much vinyl to have out on my desk! But that still doesn’t stop me from getting more!

So with this in mind I have found some of the best gaming themed vinyl for you all to see! (Read on …)

Gaming Adverts #03

Now as we all here at Level Select are all very upset that a certain “Megaman” wasn’t given an invitation to Super Smash Bros. Brawl i have gone and found a old newspaper advert of Megeman III for the Gameboy! (Read on …)

Gaming Adverts #02

Yup its that time of the week when we show you a classic old school poster / advert of games of yester years!

So i thought i would share this “Biggest hit of the Decade” with all of you… (Read on …)

Gaming Adverts #01

Today it occurred to me that we rely on the internet a lot more than we used too and one reason for this is the “world wide web” wasn’t around until the 1990’s and two a lot more people have access to the internet.

But what happend before blogs like the Smash Dojo were around how did we know about games coming out well they used paper of course and with this in mind I thought I would try and find the old adverts that were made before the internet was around and share them with you.

So as there has been some hype about this franchise over the past couple of weeks I give you (Read on …)

Dream Top Ten Import VC Games (Part III)

The final part of my top ten games that i would love to see on Nintendo’s Virtual Console.

The criteria is simple, the games on the list have never been released in Europe, something that was criminal at the time and i think it’s only fair that Nintendo redeems themselves by uploading these games on to the Virtual Console. (Read on …)

What we were playing!

As it is coming up to the end of the year we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at what we as a Level Select team have been playing over the last 12 months. After some careful thought it occurred to us that we have been using the Wii to play more GameCube than Wii games, about 70% GameCube to around 30% Wii games!

This isn’t the case of the Wii not having good games to play, quite the opposite in fact, it’s just that there are some classic if not legendary games on the Cube that when together, we have to play!

When I think back to the games on the Cube that I (Hobo) have played most this year, the fist has to be Super Smash Bros. Melee (with that rare sight of 4 Wavebirds plugged into the Wii that is a special sight indeed, Image above). Next it’s Mario Kart Double Dash (you can’t beat Baby Park with random carts and players!).

On the Wii itself I would have to say it has been Super Paper Mario & The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (and I still can’t find all of these heart pieces unlike Dan & Adam!).

But I’m sure this will change as we will soon get Super Smash Bros. Brawl which I reckon will totally absorb my free time for most of the year!

Mike.

What have I been playing?

If it’s multiplayer then the games that have dominated most would be Mario Kart DD, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect and Super Smash Bros. Melee. Maybe because they are tried and tested games but no matter what we were playing it always came down to these three.

This changed slightly when Halo 3 came out and instead we found during the autumn months we played only Halo, but then it was brand new so we had to get our fill.

When it comes to single player gamers, they changed as often as the wind, I seem to remember at the beginning of 2007 my gaming was geared towards the Wii and the Twilight Princess. I didn’t complete the Twilight Princess as quickly as most and this wasn’t due to lack of skill, but more out of trying to savour every minute of the game.

After this gaming depended greatly on my mood or attention span, with bouts of Halo 1 & 2 or GTA: SA on the XBOX (a game I’ve still yet to complete). Steam squeezed out a couple of months when I got in some old school Half-Life loving before the Orange Box was released, which has been played almost constantly ever since.

Then back to the Wii for bouts of Heatseeker, Excite Truck and Paper Mario. Recently it’s been Metroid Prime 3 Corruption and Mario Galaxy.

I had it particularly tough on the XBOX 360 when I managed to wipe my gamer tag in October, I found myself playing Halo 3 and Crackdown relentlessly, trying to regain all achievements and progress I had previously reached. For some reason I wasn’t bothered about any of the other games, probably because I wasn’t bothered at the time I was playing them.

Anyway that’s been my year; I hope this wasn’t too boring.

Daniel.

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