Banzaii - The blog of online games and games of Jorge Mediavilla

Hi all!

My desperate call seeking partners to Banzaii has borne fruit. Here is his presentation in his own words:

My name is Jorge, I have 24 years old and from Alcoy a lovely city with lots of history located in Alicante. I'm in Socio Technical and Diploma in Social Work.

My experience in the gaming world comes from a very small starting with ZX Spectrum, and past Master System, Game Gear, PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and Xbox 360.

I started in this Internet with a blog about video games, doing game analysis, reviews, or recommendations, eventually needed the help of someone and I found out that he also needed a collaborator Banzaii more for the blog, in this way is how I met Jorge Mediavilla and began to work together in Banzaii.

I hope you like our posts, and follow us much. Spread the word among your friends twitter, facebook ...

Welcome OrzeR, I hope this experience will be of much and look forward to your articles. If someone else is encouraged to collaborate and write here, it's as easy as leave a comment.

I have a season that I have neglected the blog and the prospects are that everything will continue. Too bad the blog, which has a good page rank and such agonizing end this way, so I wont be Banzaii longer my personal blog to be a blog coral, hence the title of this post. If you read these lines and you want to write here, leave a comment and we talked.

Because not everything in life is Forza Motorsport 3 (Notice to mariners: For kings want a good wheel Logitech), I'm also playing Episodes from Liberty City, an album that collects both chapters Xbox 360 exclusive downloadable physical format. The album costs 40 euros and gives many hours of play, the truth is very worthwhile if you like the GTA universe, because you do not need GTA IV itself or downloads or anything.

At the time I did not play much at The Lost and Damned if I was sent a code to download. I do not remember why I do not play, I guess it was muddy with other games, but I do remember that the guys from Take Two / Rockstar Games invited me to his office to try this chapter and wrote a little blurb in my another blog .

I will not repeat. What I liked is that there are checkpoints in the missions, which allows not to repeat over and over the mission from the beginning and the new weapons to the Terminator, but there have been many things that I liked: The graphics guarreados on purpose to give more atmosphere, the script that once looked promising and then not so much ...

The theme of the bikes I love, and being a biker in the band of Lost promised, but ultimately a bit boring I have to drive the chopper. Another of the strengths of this chapter was the band, the feeling of brotherhood, but ultimately the missions do not really account with them and go about your business, to shoot down the enemy without caring much your classmates. Of course, when needed, are given a twist and fight ... Escaqueos, the righteous.

The feeling that Lost and Damned was a bit disappointing has increased when I started playing The Ballad of Gay Tony, a new chapter much more elaborate, beginning as God intended, with a powerful mission: Draw a military helicopter and Abbe a yacht and several boats. Then you see that the missions will be more brutal and developments, many more than in the previous chapter. This second volume has more personality, more attractive, thanks to a hero and a more Latin world, the night more exciting.

The ability to enjoy new machine guns or the chute, new cars, motorcycles and boats, managing nightclubs and new multiplayer are reasons enough to download or buy the album to this second chapter download. As always, the main missions are added lots of side missions that ensure many, many hours of play.

If it's for hours of play, a must-buy if you're not tired of the GTA games.

Incidentally, Miyamoto wants to make the island of Wii Sports Resort a new character as famous as Mario or Zelda, but giving prominence to an environment is the work of Rockstar Liberty City. Make no mistake. Provide a stage personality has already done Dan House, a less mediatic Miyamoto for his taste for the politically incorrect and adult, but a genius.

Not strictly a matter of games, but I will tell you my recent experience with Telefonica ADSL. Look what happened to me:

A couple of months updating my facebook saying that victory had bowed to Telefonica, who had gotten the same service I had, but much cheaper, acogiéndome the promotion they had 6 Mb ADSL with free landline calls to 19, 90 euros on TV offering for new customers.

What was the problem? I was already Timofónica client, but the Argentine who helped me on the other side told me there was really no problem, gave me my present low and high I was the new, the only result that they had to change my landline number.

Came the coach, who in fact did virtually nothing, since it was put on a adsl already had and change my phone number, so we were a good time to talk discussing the best plays of the game yesterday and laughing at the fact that I have 3 or 4 single port router I do not use courtesy of Mr. Alierta and his henchmen.

Well, 2 months later I find that the "old" line is not taken down, which I was charged 2 months around the nose, and that the new line, supposedly cheaper, I was charged an initial invoice cracking. Anyway, what a fool I was charged more than 200 euros more.

Fortunately I have called and have recognized the errors. First, the new line I had taken the high, it was free. Then I had passed two bills of the old line because they claimed I had made the mistake of not disposing of another line. Fortunately, I sought and I will return the most money, but only what they believe I have to return, of course

Moral: Do not trust or your grandma, look so good that they are a gang of laborers, and if you're the bird, you fool as a Chinese, especially if you do not issue paper invoice by mail, as I do. Out of sight, pocket that suffers.

I do not want to generalize this, I have had adsl for almost all operators and the truth is I prefer Telefónica as the least bad. The truth is I've had problems with everyone, even when I worked there ya.com with Orange and now with Telefonica. Now I only need to test the Vodafone ADSL, but (hold on) I'm told they are worse ...

* More about Timofónica and son malignant Vomistar in Wiki

This is called the section that Kotaku usually do a review of the best writers who see their other blogs throughout the week. Unfortunately, the best of this week will not be able to link, because it has gone, gone. It was a juicy document confidential information accidentally hanged himself in a press ftp and has been removed (with few exceptions) at the request of a distributor of video games.

"All your blogs are belong to us" is perfect to describe what happened. Do not you think?

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Sure you want to know where Wally is this time of landing bunch of housewives. Only I'll give you a clue. I hope to return there over the country knowing that Miss:

What else you should know about that country? If you said it!

PS: By the way, if someone leaves a comment, you must wait to be moderate, which take a while to make, obviously.

Occasionally I like to look at statistics to see if what I used to publish something or not. In June 4261 banzaii.es had visits that were 5840 page views, making an average of 1.37 per visit, which was half a minute and two seconds. A very worthy 9.8% is direct traffic, which made me very proud. Of the 4261 visits, 2808 were in Spain.

Disclaimer: Table fictitious

In May there were 3,806 visits and other indicators showed worse results, which has been a very good month. For even more perspective, in June last year there were 1804 visits and 2724 page views.

This goes up. Thank you very much for visiting all the trash that sometimes public and especially those who spend a few seconds of his life to leave a comment of those who help and especially to the most talkative: Lord Taran, Christian, josepzin, JakCore, Jak , Juanmi, Nae, Roy Ramker, rx2.0 and Kirkis.

I see on Twitter that Kotaku is one of the most viewed blog network Weblogs, Inc. with more page views than even the legendary Engadget. It is a pleasure to see blog above other games of other issues that in principle could be more popular.

Twitter is increasingly a source of news and information.

* Add Banzaii and Destructoid to your Twitter.

Dandel I see an interesting video of a presentation by Pep, director of Meristation in Barcelona initiator. I'd really like to see and hear most often Pep, because it is living history of the internet gaming press in Spain, although there who does not like.

Pep reviews on video Meristation history and that history has been somewhat Meristation a natural way, there was no business plan or anything, which has its charm.

In his lecture as an entrepreneur is inferred that the tenacity, hard work and innovation that marked his page at the beginning has been its core values. It also ensures that the objectivity and independence are important values ​​that should govern any gaming website.

One hour of lecture goes a long way and went over what came to be offered for Meristation in full dotcom bubble back in 99. He came to offer 1,000 million and even more, though not very solid deals. Finally, it seems that the website will be PRISA in court, although that has not said anything at the conference, I guess the advice of his lawyer.

Pep has confirmed the good health of the gaming industry in the crisis we are experiencing, especially when compared with other sectors such as construction.

Glad to know that 90% of people who collaborate with the magazine, billed, which was one of my biggest criticisms of Meristation. I myself offered myself for years, but finally I did not do anything because there was no money involved. She says, there are 6 people working in Llagostera and about 30 throughout Spain collaborating with the magazine, which is not bad.

Jabs:

Chapter jabs, Pep has not bitten her tongue. He says he is in favor of the blogger phenomenon, but has only bad words for them, since they do not appear in the Nielsen panel (you must have at least 50,000 unique users ip Spanish as a minimum) and still take advertising campaigns . He has also criticized the lack of respect for these new media compared to Meristation, which has always been hard, but its editorial line has never defamed or insulted.

He also says that many blogs have started as independent voices and then cease to be once they enter thousand euros in advertising.

The latest jab was the newcomer to Eurogamer, whose notes are higher than those of its parent English, it would be, as Pep, stronger and more rigorous. The Spanish version would thus inflated notes would not be objective and as users more "hardcore" are not stupid, not you visit the page.

He has also had bitter words for, people who spent years working for free for Meristation and now feel cheated. Pep says he does not force anyone, it was they who were offered and when they pleased, have taken other directions work and nothing has happened. Come on, nobody forced them and if they were innocents, it is your responsibility. I also know there are people who then got good jobs because of his articles in Meristation ... I like I say, I volunteered at the time, but not seeing a hard, did not start to cooperate.

No boomtown, video and conclusions:

Pep also made efforts to consider how not to die of success when he was just enough money to pay for hosting, how he always tried to be realistic and not use credit or risk capital even if this has taken away opportunities, or as the mainstream media are doing wrong to recommending video games bad games just for the money publictario.

He also talked about how expensive it is the video and had to enter the competition because he did (because Vandal, as he admits) and how they have had to adapt their editorial and vocabulary to new players which has attracted policy Nintendo video games and indirectly to gaming sites.

Pep believes the key is having the best content, the most rigorous and objective, and will not misguided, but the table has more legs. Do not forget the design. I think the Internet progresses and the design of "Meri" ever more loudly calls for a good update.

It is in the air the question of whether Pep should have been more ambitious at times to bring even more top-Meri. Also in the chapter on assumptions and speculation, the paste that really could have taken Meristation Pep at the time. There was talk of many millions.

* You can watch the full video of the confer ence in dande l: Watch video

Following the example of dandel , which proposed a competition to emulate the goal by Cristiano Ronaldo the other day Champios against Porto, now I will propose another: Get emulate Pepe in the penalty yesterday with FIFA 09 and will reward you with a couple those games that no longer use my free choice. Eye for easier ponéroslo need not emuléis to Casquero, with Pepe worth ... hehe. Ale, to send videos

Paloma Pedrero has written an article Reason charge against video games and unfortunately has neither head nor tail. Paloma, renowned writer I had not well known, falls into the classic mistake of columnist-commentator who thinks he knows everything and can write their opinion in a newspaper of general information about a topic that dominates not without well informed. No one in La Razon had to check the column or perhaps seeking to provoke, to get free publicity even a negative one. Who knows ...

We comment only

The fact is that the video game blogosphere is on fire with the subject. Dandel denounces the lack of judgment , Akihabarablues think is baseless defamation , The Big N ADES encouraged to take action on the matter and all refer to otakufreaks, which has worked a great article and has been reporting for days .

I have little more to contribute to so much literature on the subject. I just wish that someone would kindly Reason reading the reviews and, if possible, publish a correction, although I am aware that in the end it will be a sign that polite silence "here has not gone national."

Update: You can express your rejection of the column in the contact form of Reason .

Update 2: I read in Otakufreaks that Reason has eliminated the controversial article. The reason I thought it would not move a finger, but I was wrong. At least they removed the article. What a rectification and is asking too much. I think the big failure of the reason is that no one should check, because they never had to be published. The case is once again a show of force in the blogosphere. See if the next time the ADES decision in the matter and not solely dedicated to the fight against piracy, because we have to send eggs mobilize users.

The Consumer guys have made me an interview in which we review various hot topics of video games, such as piracy, mass culture and the role of video games on it, the DRM, the Spanish situation of video games and some other issues interesting.

I reproduce the first question and the rest will have to read in Consumer :

Q: Should we consider gaming as a new form of culture like the movies, art or literature?

Q: We start with a fairly complex question. Video games have historically viewed as mere entertainment, a children's software, designed to hang or rather losing it. Gradually, this negative connotation is disappearing as the games gain complexity, are more realistic and are able to create beautiful visual and audio experiences and stories that really excite us, come to us and define us. There really is a great debate.

One of the main arguments for thinking that video games are an art says that if the cinema is an art, certain video games that go beyond many movies should be more so. He is currently preparing a video game, Heavy Rain, which aspires to be a movie "playable", whose plot and outcome will vary according to our moral decisions. Not to mention future events, such as Metal Gear Solid 4 has hour and a half of cinematics, which is the average of any film, you have to add the hours and hours of play.

Video games are so powerful, and were so afraid, because they lead to greater identification with the player. Literature and film play a lot with the identification, get in the skin of the protagonist makes us feel emotions that video games are stronger, because the protagonist, we can also customize it to look exactly like us, also responds to our desires under the command of the control it gives us complete control of the action.

The thing also varies by region. For example, video games are an art in France. There, the Ministry of Culture has made a Knight of Arts and Letters in France to Miyamoto, the father of Mario and Zelda, and other great artists. Here in Spain, as always, we are well overdue. There is neither recognition nor much less subsidies, although it seems that the government slowly begins to realize that it is the most powerful entertainment industry right now.

For me, some games are so beautiful and artistically tell stories that cause sensations that could be considered works of art. There is no doubt that people who are behind certain games are artists.

Read the interview in Consumer ...
And do not tell me anything about the picture ... I'll make a longer able

Alberto Cano asked me to write something about the DRM for your blog and I've done. My conclusion in the article that I invite you to read is that DRM is not the solution to piracy. I speak mostly of what happened with Spore, but recently has also been bundled "brown" with Gears of War for PC, thanks to the DRM protection was disabled . Until Microsoft fixes the problem, the solution is to change the date to the computer at any time prior to January 1, 2009 ....

On January 21 this humble blog was 2 years. The frenetic activity did not allow me to realize before the anniversary, but no matter, what matters is sometimes pause a moment and take stock. And this is positive. I have strong relationships with people with the same passion for the games that I've learned a lot by creating and maintaining the blog, I have experienced increased my knowledge, I have something to learn ...

Anyway, I hope to continue with the blog by creating original content and opinions, not "fried". Lately I've added a number of improvements, including the survey, the cloud of tags that eliminates the previous list, the Facebook group to which I ask you to join the new page ... I looked at a couple of articles on the 10 plugins indispensable are a must on any blog and I have urged. I hope that now you like a little blog and please tell me what you añadiríais. I'm thinking it would be nice chat No?

If you still do not understand the why of the crisis, you do not want. I'll explain various comedians in a couple of videos. The first, in English with subtitles, is BRILLIANT. I saw the other day as an introduction to a report in four. After watching it, the rest of the story left over.

The second, taken from Buenafuente, not bad.

Humor is a strong indicator of intelligence. And Forges is a sage.

Thanks to Jorge to show me. You can see many more brilliant cartoons El Pais .