RIP TPB

This week brings more death, this time to one of the most popular torrent sites known on the web, The Pirate Bay. The battle between the creators of TPB and the Swedish Court has been well underway for awhile now, striking a heavy blow to TPB for copyright infringement fine in excess of around $3.6 mil USD. After continually saying they weren't gonna pay the huge fine and take it further down the court system, it looks like all of a sudden they sold off the site to some Swedish software firm called "Global Gaming Factory X" (welcome to the Xander Zone!!) for $7.7 mil USD.

The software firm said that they plan on turning TPB into a legal version of it's former self, hoping to pay the copyright holders for whatever is posted on the site in the future (sounds like it may be subscription based). TPB founders haven't said too much, other than they sold it as a means to help keep the site going. I assume that they either got fed up with the whole thing and caved in, or are planning for the future since they were all sentenced to spend at least 1 year in jail (coupled with the 3.6 mil fine). Either way, TPB as a free source of torrents is effectively killed, RIP TPB.

R.I.P

This has been a crazy week for celebs dieing in what not so the elephnat crew would like to pay there respect to thos who pass Rest In Peace and dance and sell shit for those people in Heven

R.I.P Michael Jackson i know you did not do anything to those kids i was always on your side.



R.I.P Billy May's you knew how to sell shit.



R.I.P Farrah Fawcett you knew how to kick ass. and you knew how Charlie was.

Steven Segal Whaaaa?

Finally got off our lazy asses and did a lazy video review on...well just watch the bideo. Pfeace.

MGS goes PSN

While MS is plugging their Xbox Originals, Sony goes ahead and adds Metal Gear Solid to the PSN store as a downloadable title (for PS3 and PSP) at the price of just 10 bucks. This game is considered a relic by me and many, many other people and I'll probably get it again just so I can have a copy saved on my PS3 whenever I feel like going back to my roots. Now if I could just finish FFVII that I just got off of PSN without feeling like Im cheating on FFXI behind it's back...

Fan Art

Heres some cool fan art that could potentially be used in the future. Let me be the first to give a special thanks to Pelon and his skillz. This Ones For you. PELOOOOOOOON!

Xbox OG Store

It looks like MS is pulling the plug on the Xbox Originals store which is kind of a shame really. It's got some decent games on there that are actually worth the 10-15 bucks you'd pay for em. I was kinda hoping they'd keep adding to it and eventually release some sports titles like 2K Sports NFL 2k5, now that was a football game...Anyway as far as what's on there right now will be staying up with one more Xbox original title waiting to be added, which they haven't announced the title yet.

MS Rumors 360 1/2?

With all this new stuff coming out here and there, its kind of easy to overlook the fact that we haven't had a new gaming console come out for a long time. Long gone are the days of the rinse and repeat 3 year cycles, the 360 is coming up on 5 years almost and still going strong with titles like Modern Warfare 2, Forza 3, and Fight Night 4 coming out soon, not to mention your random motion-sensing game for the Wii which everyone seems to buy for their kids and even the PS3 is starting to get back on it's feet with games like Last Guardian and FFXIII being released. This doesn't even include the DLC we've had and will be getting in the future which in itself has proven it is a viable source of gaming.

Now if MS came out and said "The Xbox Allard is coming out in 2XXX, BAM!" it certainly would peak an interest, but it would have to be substantially better than the 360/PS3 for it to sell right? No one would buy a new nex-nex-gen console if it didn't look at least 2x better, better games, control, everything. I mean, that's how it's always been. Can you think of a better Xbox 360 that you could get for around $500? Hard, huh.

Now imagine that with the pricepoint so low of todays nex-gen consoles, you could moderately "upgrade" the internals of the same system. Then announce that it runs faster, better, and is backwards compatible plus features new hardware that can let future games take advantage of. Then...bundle it with a new motion-sensing capability that was previously lacking from the original console. Would you buy it for $499?

All of this is regarding a rumor that 1UP digged up about Microsoft planning to release a new Xbox next year.

Lakers win the superbowl!!!!

So the Lakers won the world champs. i dont really care much saw a few games got into them but i was not one of them crazy laker fans with the shirts and flags flaping from my car window. Its funny how crazy people got over it. i saw a guy do a dangerous and illegal U turn and stop in the middle of the street while cars where coming just to pic up a flag that flew off his car cuz he open the window. oh well his life.
Well thats not the point to this post i was just posting this to say hello to to all the elephnat fans and to apologize for the lack of post. we all bin a little busy lately with Jason doing his FF gamenights, me always at work same with R.j, and Anthony looking for work its been kinda hard. but i promise we will get some new post up! maybe some chillin with jason, anthony, r.j and chillin with michael(about time) just stay updated with the site and email us.we will wright you back. and if you got any questions or shout outs we will throw them in our post. thanks for taking your time to read this.Hear is a lil something funny to end this with.

Can't Spell MGS without KOJIMA

Remember back when Kojima said that MGS4 would be the last MGS title he would be working on and concentrate on other projects? Well, it looks like Konami tightened up the reigns on Hideo after realizing the massive amounts of Yen Kojima brings in for them, so much in fact that he's prominently involved with the new upcoming release of MGS: Peacewalker and MGS: Rising

In a way, I kinda wanted Solid Snake and MGS4 to go down as the last title of that franchise but I can't say I'm not eager to play another MGS title being backed by Kojima-san. We can only hope that future MGS titles won't turn into a cheap cash cow for Konami several years from now.

Wtf?

Six Flags

Team elephnat is on location at six flags! We just witnessed someone catch a phone while on goliath. Pretty neat to see a phone fly by at over 30 miles an hour.

Cannibalized!

This is what happens when you need to replace a cpu fan on a non-tech friendly laptop.

That's How We Do

Paladin AF Set O

A little piece of my soul has been restored to me tonight, I have finally obtained my full AF set for Paladin. I have never thought I'd make it this far in FFXI, but its all looking up from here on out. Many thanks to everyone who has helped me out!

Custom cake made for me/us for my b-day. MAD PROPS TO VIRGINIA AND HER CAKE SKILLZ!

E3 Roundup 09

As many of you know, we like to spend alot of time gaming around here, so when E3 comes around we tend to get excited. With E3 coming to close, it's left us looking forward to a promising future of games. Here's a quick rundown of each press conference and what we games caught our eye:

Microsoft Press Conference

As far as MS goes, they usually do a pretty good job in showing what needs to be shown and getting info out there in a straight forward manner. It also helps to have some really good franchises and popular titles under your belt. They had a few hiccups with the audio levels and even a glitched out quick look on one of their games, but it went pretty well.

They showed off some gameplay footy of Modern Warfare 2, which is unsuprisingly looking good. For some reason, it still bothers me that games that receive minimal improvements and change in setting get a full blown number upgrade rather than just being an expansion pack or something but I guess times have changed. It's also weird how IW just dropped off Call of Duty from this game completely, but hey whatever floats their boat is fine with me.

Kojima-san made an appearance revealing his big "secret" that the next MGS game will be coming to the 360 (JP people love money too) and that it will be featuring Raiden as the main character. Since Hideo is writing the story for this one and supposedly putting forth the same amount of effort into this one as MGS4, I'll have to pick this one up (even though I'm not feeling the whole Raiden hi-heel ninja boy thing).

Assassin's Creed 2 actually stands for Awesome Contrapulation x2. Must buy it already.

Another thing that kinda caught my attention was Peter Molyneux's Project Natal which is essential a virtual AI person that you interact with using a camera. Now, we all know how Peter likes to gloat about his games being the next big thang, but I'm not sure what to make of this. It's actually pretty scary to be honest, but regardless me and Jason will be getting this so we can bitch around the little boy and try to convince it to kill itself.

Nintendo Press Conference

I've always like Nintendo's Press Conference's, even though they sometimes come off a little cheesy, but this year it was just so boring to watch. And why does Reggie look like he wants to choke a bitch all the time. He gives off a Terminator vibe that kinda doesn't fit in with the whole Nintendo thing. Jason said he belongs in the Sony camp and you know what, I totally agree cause he would actually scare people into buying PS3's. At least the chick is somewhat friendlier but she can get annoying too. Anyway after they threw out some numbers of "how well we're doing" they got around to some games and stuff.

They opened up with the Wii Motion plus and Wii Resort. A more refined Wii-mote and a spin-off of Wii Sports to help show off the tech. I guess it looks more responsive? I dunno I haven't really touched my Wii in such a long time. Whatever.

"NEW" Super Mario Bros. looks pretty sweet, looks like it has classic Mario Bros 3 platforming but a little more "nex-gen" with crazy crap happening while trying to platform. Not to mention 4 player coop, this is one game I'm looking forward to.

Sony Press Conference

Sony is fun to watch because of Jack Tretton. I mean, he's got the whole friendly dad and I wanna buy you some presents thing going on, who wouldn't like this guy? I also respect the fact that top peeps from Sony come down and actually talk, not just hire some english PR's to sell their product. What I dont like is when a dame dev team (cough..tiburon..) wants to show off a game (Gran Turismo for the PSP) and then holds up the PSP in his hand and says, here look. They really couldn't hook up to the huge ass screen in back of them? Come on guys... Anyway minor point, I'm still waiting for GT5 to come out after all this time...

Mag looks interesting only because it's a huge team based shooter on large maps (Battlefield-style) with up to 256 players on one server. Guns look pretty fooked up tho, but I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens.

New Ico game looks amazing. I want to play that game.

Weird ass motion control they had with remotes that looked like glowing ping pong balls. Was pretty accurate but I just never really got into the whole motion-sensed gameplay thing.

And last but not least, Final Fooking Fantasy XIV Online. Needless to say, Jason and I have been pouring copious amounts of time into FFXI recently, but nevertheless were pretty stoked about a new FF MMO. We're definitely gonna try it out, but in the meantime we're gonna grind that much harder to reach endgame before FFXIV comes out next year.

Oh yeah, FFXIII. Need I say more?

Lets Try This Again...

So in case you guys didnt know, i pulled out of Westwood College. I am no longer going for my Bachelors in Computer Network Engineering. Westwood was going through some tough times i.e they were being sued on 37 counts of fraud. Glad i got outta there! So instead im going to DeVry! Took my admissions test and i got in! I start on July 7th of this year, in a little more than a month. Man, The real world is really starting to settle in. Lets hope i do good in achieving my Associates in Electronic and Computer Engineering. Im that much closer to owning my own PC repair shop that sells comics and video/board games along with some mild LAN action. RJ? Success called, its for us.

Wednesday, Shmenzday!

Wow it's Wednesday already? For Shame, I know. I plan on posting something up to make up for our downtime later on today (hopefully). In the meantime, keep your heads up people, and a big congrats goes out to the class of '09, you deed-o-deed it!