The New Xbox Experience (NXE) was released last week as I’m sure most of you will know and one of the main features was the new avatar system. It’s interesting seeing what combinations you can come up with. Here is mine:
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This is just a bit of information for anybody who has a HMV Games Reward Card.
A few weeks ago I went to buy a game in store and was told that the scheme had ended in September. Apparantly there had been notices in store about it, but since I do most of my shopping online now because of work it meant I didn’t see these. An email was supposedly sent out to those registered on the HMV website as well, but I never got this. I wasn’t too happy at this point because I knew I had quite a lot of points saved up on it! I was told to contact Customer Services to see if they could do anything, but I had probably lost all that I had saved.
I checked out the website to see what it said on there because I knew the link was still on the site to put in a Reward Card number, only to discover it said that this offer had finished and that I wouldn’t be able to claim any points.
I contacted Customer Services about it and, to my surprise, straight away I was told it was fine and I would get the value that was on the card, all I had to do was post them my Reward Card with a letter asking for a gift card to the value that was on it. I just found out yesterday that the gift card has arrived.
So this is just to say to anybody out there that has a card and didn’t claim your points before the scheme ended, ring up Customer Services about it and then post it to them. I wouldn’t have known I could do that until I phoned Customer Services, nowhere at all said you could get the value back, it was made out that you had lost it all!
Have you ever wanted to join Super Mario in the Mushroom Kingdom? Well now you can with these vinyl stickers for your wall. You could recreate your favourite level from the game or come up with your own world and really live in the Mushroom Kingdom.
It would make for pretty good decoration for a games room. I wish I had somewhere I could buy this for!
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(Image from ThinkGeek)
I just want to say good luck to some friends from university who have created a game for Dream Build Play called ‘Shellshock Skirmish’. The entry looks brilliant, I can’t wait to get my hands on it and have a go. Check it out for yourself:
Good luck guys!
Well the complete track list for Rock Band 2 has been announced and I have to say, I really can’t wait for it to come out now! I’m guessing we probably won’t see it on these shores for a good while yet if they decide to release it the same way as the first one – America first and then quite a while later here, but hopefully not.
It looks like it’s going to be even better than the first for playing with others. With a lot more tracks (a total of 84) there is definately something for everybody, and some good party songs in general as well. I’m sure Eye of the Tiger, for example, will be a good one to play with people.
I’m also very pleased with the addition of the Jimmy Eat World track, The Middle, to the list. You may have noticed that this is one of my top tracks on Last.FM so I’m looking forward to being able to play (and sing, of course) it in the game.
The full tracklist can be found on IGN.
