Yeeaa.. Shameless selfpromotion. But the Technical Director already blogged about it as well and personally we don’t have any benefits from it. But its just nice anyway:

Our fresh new Drakensang: River of Time will also be released as personalised Special Edition! which you are already able to preorder at Amazon. As you can read there:

• your name on the packaging
• one selfnamed ingame-item
• certificate with your name on it
• map made of cloth
• a game of cards
• poster
• soundtrack

Quite considerable I think! I’m looking forward to my deposit copy!! hehe

I just received the xBox newsletter. Usually I just scroll it over and throw it away. But now I put a click inbetween these two actions. It was a click on the “Watch trailer” Button for DJ Hero. Because I know Guitar Hero can be a lotta fun I’m wondering how the DJ pendant would perform…

But as I was at the website clicking on another trailer button they threw a shiny blue Install Microsoft Silverlight button at me! :puke:

Say what the shit?! I use Firefox 3.5, we have year 2009, there is HTML 5. We actually don’t need ANY plugin anymore to watch videos! So why whould I install a new plugin to just watch that darn trailer?!?!

And why does it take so long to get rid of that shit? I think one major video site should finally make the move towards HTML 5 videos.

Its about time!!

That I may witness that!!!

In Japan 360 exclusive Tales of Vesperia just arrived in the shelves and obviously now you can’t get any Xbox 360 until the next shipment next month! Microsoft is even appologizing to the customers (see Kotaku-link^).
Of course I’m a little happy about that I’m quite a fanboy of that piece of Jet …

Now they’re even shortening the prices over there! According to german golem.de the cheap-ass arcade-version is available for 126€ (¥19,800). That even beats nintendos standard console price of ¥25,000 considerably! (Nintendos consoles always cost ¥25,000!)

360 FTW!!!1

Yes! Very awkward: I crashed my brand new GTA IV DVD! Shame on me. I did the impossible stupid: I turned my xBox 360 from standing to lying while running with a DVD inserted! And because it was so shiny and new it had to be the GTA DVD… BAD MOVE!!! Voila: several very considerable scratches at the surface, xBox nagging being unable to read.

Ok. What now? First whining to my colleagues. Not much success. Then: looking for the publisher website! Tadaaaaa: The cool cool take2 CD/DVD-replacement service!! (german) – 10€ and your disk will be replaced. Nice huh! But NOT for GTA IV!

The day after the cheerless accident I recognised that website I’ve seen the service available for PS3 already! I thought Ok they did it for PS3, xBox will follow probably. But in the afternoon they removed the game from the PS3 list already as wel! Yea that game is somehow excluded from the service! I got several support mails saying something like “Go to your dealer”.. The dealer story is short.: I’m not good at lying so they sent me away quite soon. However I’m done crying. Head on to the sunshine-part:

I finally did something other obviously impossible. But impossibly smart this time I think ;] Even if everybody else didn’t seem to see it that way:
I bought a disk-repair set! Consisting of a cotton-rag and a tube of polish. Smiling I told some peeps about that and really always got reactions like I said: “Hey I just bougth this Voodoo-Magic-thingie. I gonna conjure that DVD fixed in no time!!”

Far from it! Because of the deepness of the scratches it took a little longer than suggested (2-3min). But about 5-6minutes of polishing I’m back in LC like never before!!