GameZilla in Saint John has Friday Night Magic every Friday and offer lessons to teach people to play. They also do drafts and play a variety of formats on Saturdays and Sundays.

What is Magic?

In the Magic game, you play the role of a planeswalker—a powerful wizard who fights other planeswalkers for glory, knowledge, and conquest. Your deck of cards represents all the weapons in your arsenal. It contains the spells you know and the creatures you can summon to fight for you.

This year if you followed me on Twitter me and my good friend Chris attended MTG Provincials placing 25th and 26th, not bad for the both us just starting out again.

If you are interested in Learning more about Magic The Gathering visit your local GameZilla or The official Wizards of the Coast Website at http://www.wizards.com/magic/TCG/NewtoMagic.aspx?x=mtg/tcg/newtomagic/whatismagic

So because of my interest, my own children are demonstrating an interest.  So I’m going to try to help them to learn, but my youngest Kathleen just couldn’t wait to get ahead of everyone else.

We went through all of the port forwarding and dmz and everything they will run you through but the problem was the routers we were using. We picked this one up from Future Shop (help desk recommended it) took it home after trying two that were over $200 i thought no way this $70 one was going to work, i was wrong. It took about 10 min to setup, i didn’t have to do any dmz, no port forwarding or anything and now both xboxes  can play on live, halo 3, halo 3 odst, and nhl 10 without any problems or nat issues.

So if your having the same problem where one Xbox is losing it’s live connection give this router a try it worked great for us.

I’ll have to talk to Nhouseman and get a video for Talknb done for the game Monopoly for the 360 as it’s quite a good game and not what you might think. So here are some of my latest achievements I’ve been able to earn.

Monopoly

Jet Setter Fill all the passports. Awarded to the passport holder	100 Acquired 16/7/2009
The Underdog Don’t finish first in any mini-game but still win overall in any mode of Richest	50 Acquired 16/7/2009

Lego Starwars

Follower of Fashion Wear Every Hat.	20 Acquired 16/7/2009
Cash In Sell your landspeeder to the Jawas.	20 Acquired 16/7/2009
Shoot First Shoot First	20 Acquired 16/7/2009
Harmless? Disable 5 Droidikas with R2D2.	20 Acquired 16/7/2009
Undecided. Crossover: Destroy Anakin with Vader.	10 Acquired 16/7/2009
Hands Off! Revenge: Destroy Anakin with Dooku.	10 Acquired 16/7/2009
Strike me down Revenge: Destroy Darth Vader with Obi-Wan.	10 Acquired 16/7/2009

TLAD: Easy Rider You have completed the story for ‘The Lost and Damned’.	100 Acquired 15/7/2009
TLAD: Full Chat Your backup are riding at their best!	70 Acquired 15/7/2009

Going Solo

Complete the Single Player Campaign 20

The Campaign Mode is quite challenging with different battles but also introduces puzzles, such as getting across the map with specific tools in a certain time. Some of these are quite challenging as you have to place barriers just right a then knock a mine that needs to be directed to just the right spot to kill your one opponent.

You can pick this game up from Xbox Live for 800 gamer points and it’s deffinately worth it for all the Wormage you can imagine.

I almost forgot but was reminded today you have the opportunity to crush Bungie staff and try to win your Recon Armor Whoot!!!

So we have shot another Video and are launching Season 2, I also took some time to do a gamer update on WOW. For Now I’m going to try to maintain both websites but I will be posting the video’s here on my blog as well along with the description but feel  free to check out TalkNB.com as well.

TalkNB Season 2

Are we back well yes the writer strike you heard about is over but will we maintain Talknb.com well for now we will, but we might just merge it into my blog over at http://blog.elitegd.com

So like tv we are going to have some downtime and have to fill your screen with re-runs but we won’t repost them and hopefully we’ll be able to produce some likable vidoe’s and here is the first one for you enjoyment.

Gamer Update – WoW – Mid Summer Festival

TalkNB Season 2, Gamer Update, first game we’ll be looking at is WoW I know I’m a few years behind the band wagon. However it’s Mid Summer Festival in the World of Warcraft as I finish off the achievement list to get my title.

For everyone else working on this I hope you are enjoying your world tour.

The next gen gaming without the need for a controller as you are the controller. Using the latest and greatest in technology. However I don’t think that this is such a great idea, I mean how much space do most people have in their living room. The Wii already required you to move your coffee table so that you could get the full range of motion, now your going to require a room dedicated with nothing in it for gaming.

Doing round houses and jumping around is that really what’s the best thing for gaming?
My biggest fear is that game developers will focus more on making this part work than keeping the quality of the games up.  I mean hardcore gamers will still use a controller to have control in GTA IV, opposed to trying to run on the spot to chase down a car when your on a time limit.

I think this is just the new fad and i hope it doesn’t take away from the quality of the games, i mean is NHL 10 going to be as cool when they have to spend an additional 6 months to make the character react to the user’s movement instead of a controller?? I guess only time will tell, I am very interested in this and will most likely be checking it out when it releases. I just hope i don’t have to build a new room on to my house in order to be able to use this system.

I did get my Xbox back yesterday and everything is working great, and I was given a complimentary month of Xbox live and a Xbox universal remote. I also got my money back from bell for the receiver charge i have been paying so this is a good week.

I decided I’m going to start also posting some pictures, just so that there is some nice visual elements on my blog =).  If you like them great if not let me know and I’ll stop posting them, I just thought it would be something extra, as finding relevant information on my blog is pretty quick if your looking for specific topics.

I am getting the Universal Remote for free but my response was Give me a working XBOX 360 so it looks like it will be another 10 – 15 business days untill I get it and hopefully it will work this time.