Ba-Con Here we Come!

Nicole and I are working furiously to finish prep for Ba-Con which, in case you haven’t heard, starts tomorrow.  I use the word ‘furiously’ with unfortunate accuracy as we’ve been gathering our booth stuff together and there’s a sneak peak above there of Nicole getting our booth sign ready.  We hope to see you all at our booth where we’ll be:

-Throwing down in Mario Kart for DS
-Orchestrating (hopefully) a photo-scavenger hunt with some moderately entertaining prizes
-Podcasting live on all 3 days

So swing by, sign our sign, give us some high fives and we’ll share some popcorn with you.  See you there!

Bungie Patches Credit Boosting Glitch in Halo Reach

Anyone who’s spent time with Halo: Reach lately knows how long it can take to earn enough credits to buy some of the higher level gear. However, a few enterprising players discovered a way to wrack up big credits with minimal effort.  Specifically, an exploit was found in the way that daily challenges are recorded on Bungie’s servers allowing gamers to perform a veritable modem disconnect and repeat the unlock ad nauseum for up to a whopping 150,000 credits an hour in some cases.

Thankfully it appears this has been fixed with the latest fall update rolled out by Bungie today.  You can read more about it over at True Achievements, but suffice it to say we can all sleep a little sounder knowing we haven’t met the business end of the banhammer.

Star Wars in Concert!

IMG_4587So my parents are totally awesome for starters.  Last night, Nicole and I got to go see Star Wars in Concert in Cincinnati with my folks and man was it incredible. Anthony Daniels (C-3PO)was there as the master of ceremonies between re-edits of all six films as a live orchestra (beautifully represented in HD no less on a gigantic screen above them).  Thousands of people were crammed into the venue to check it out and to top it all off, Storm Troopers, Boba Fett, and even Darth Vader were walking around prior to the show beginning!  Below are some pics of the show, but if you wanna check out the official site you can find out if there will be any shows in your area anytime soon.  Thanks again, Mom and Dad!

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