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Xbox 360 Core Console System

May 16th, 2008

Straight out of the hit video game series and into an articulated action figure form, the Halo 3 Series 1 features all your favorite characters in high detail. Each includes multiple points of articulation and comes with signature weapons.

The enemy is at hand. The hunt begins. The Brute combat mentality relies on overwhelming force and firepower to kill its opposition and nothing will stop this Brute Chieftain in his attempt to wipe out humanity. Brute Chieftain features 15 points of articulation and includes a gravity hammer. Measures 6.5″ tall.
Price: $12.99
Customer Review: Looks can be decieving
So, i bought this figure for several reasons, foremost of which it just looks awesome and having gotten it home, it does it looks awesome but looks can be decieving there are a couple problems with this thing most notable of which is the right hand the pictures show it holding the hammer, yet mine came glued together, and i actually had to cut the thumb away from the fingers that being said, the individual peices on this thing are very high quality plastic i am somewhat afraid of breaking it, but i’ll explain that in my next point the articualtion is a brain teaser some of it is standard, the ankles move, the knees move, the chest moves, and the shoulders bend but they crammed a lot of articulation into a timy figure, and that means that figuring out what piece rotates is a pain in the patuki and it doesn’t hold the hammer with both hands, only the left but the hammer rocks like really it just plain rocks the detail and painting is fantastic, and the peg hole for attatching it to the backs of characters is practicly invisable also, the plastic gives enough that extranious bits like the prongs on the head and arm shield have little fear of breaking or falling off all in all, this is a great figure for display, albiet somewhat awekwardly (i’ve found using the hammer as a guitar works well :D) this toy is alright for play, not the best thing, but not horrible either
Customer Review: Great looking but Fragile
Opened my figure only to have the hammer come out in two pieces. The top half must have broken in transit to the store where I bought him. The figure and hammer were securely fastened in the packaging with tape and twist ties. It is nothing a little glue did not fix but I’m afraid if the hammer takes a fall or dropped it can break again. Figure looks great and well articulated.
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Polycarbonate case provide rigid protection to your NDSL Soft silicon insert makes your DS Lite more stylish and colorful Precision access to jacks, ports & switches without removing the NDS Comes with two sets of silicon insert with different color
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Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day is a fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy. Inspired by cutting-edge neuroscience, it’s a full set of reading and mathematic exercises that stimulate the brain. At the start, you’ll take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This is your “Brain Age” — by performing daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you’ll get and the lower your Brain Age will get.
List Price: $19.95
Amazon Price: $19.99
Used Price: $12.10
Customer Review: Ok to keep you sharp, but frustrating to use
The premise is great and some of the features really are enjoyable to use. The software has you run through various memory, observation, mathematical and verbal exercises to stimulate your brain. It scores you based on the time it takes you to complete specific exercises as well as correctness. In many ways its great and fun. However, there are a few annoyances that grind on you within a few days. The comical inventor that talks to you gets to be a drag after a while, with the same phrases and nonsense…. yes, I know, it stimulates your prefrontal cortex. Enough already. There really should be a way to turn some of those repetitive screens off, once you have seen them for the 50th time. Sheesh. Another issue I have is the handwriting recognition. The game has you write the answers to basic math questions on the touch screen and uses handwriting recognition to interpret what you wrote. The problems arise when you write numbers differently than the software wants. If you write a 7 with a horizontal line through the middle, be prepared for the game to recognize the seven early and then read that line as a 1. Half the time it doesn’t like my 4s because of the spacing between some of the lines. So you have to learn to write like Nintendo wants you to, which slows you down and can frustrate… and thus screws up your score totally. For some reason, in one of the verbal exercises, every once in a while, the software cannot understand what I’m saying when I say blue. It will get me saying blue correctly several times and suddenly it just doesn’t get it and makes me repeat it, I say blue again, it says “try again” and I’m speaking to it like a deaf child “BBUUUULLLLUUUUUUU” and finally it takes. So much for todays ‘brainage test score’ which now has my brain at 89 years of age given it took 5 tries to get the color of the text understood. The concept is great and it really does make you use your greycells, but some of the recognition issues could have been avoided with more user control over when to evaluate an answer (how about I write a number and then press a DONE button on the bottom?), or adaptive learning so you can teach it to fine-tune some of the character or voice recognition. In all, its worth the price.
Customer Review: Love it!
I LOVE this game! It took me a while to actually buy it, I myself being one of the people who thought “educational video games…no way!” But I am SO glad I did. As you play through you unlock more mini-games to train your brain, and other fun things as well! There are tons of sudoko puzzles to play also! You can test your brain age once a day, and the tests are always different and fun. The only negative thing I can say is that my brain age is never steady! Sometimes it will be in the 20’s (20 is the lowest and best brain age) and the next day it will be in the 50’s! However, that just makes me play it more! The microphone almost always picks up exactly what I am saying, and there are many games that utilize this cool feature. The only bad thing I have to say is that the game seems to have a slower clock than what really exists, and because you can only do each game or brain age check once a day, you can’t play them as often. But even so, this game rocks!
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Intec is one of the leading video game accessory manufacturers worldwide. Intec focus is on quality and design. Each and every one of Intec products goes through a multi-stage quality assurance process in order to deliver top-quality performance.
Price: $29.99
Customer Review: This is a key item for any gamer
Ienjoy this item and all its extras plus you need it to play games like Zelda: four sowrds and final fantasy: cristal chronicals
Customer Review: Sonic Battle network 2 (gamecube) link up to GBA
I could not wait until i got the game,it has all the modes u can think.The adventure mode is brill along with the multi mode.The chao is great and sending data to the GBA through to the gamecube.********** best game so fare
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Used As A Replacement Battery Cover. Makes Game Boy Advance Easier To Grip & More Comfortable To Handle.
Used Price: $4.00
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This is how it began…
It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human-controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground–strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence.
But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest’s citizens falls to a squad of battle-weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest…a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.

List Price: $14.95
Amazon Price: $10.17
Used Price: $8.25
Customer Review: Where it all started
All halo fans know the story, but do they know where it started? That is one thing curiously left out in the Halo games and in most of the books. This book, Contact Harvest, gives you the story of first contact with the covenant, and the beginning of a deadly war. Avery Johnson, a popular character in the Halo games, makes his first appearance in the war on Harvest, a lowly planet on the edge of UNSC controlled space. Harvest is the UNSC’s foremost supplier of food for all of its colonies, but is a distant trek away from any of the core planets. Although the UNSC does not know it, Harvest also falls close to the edge of Covenant controlled space, a terrifyingly powerful race, so far unknown to the UNSC. It all starts with a lone unarmed UNSC freighter that has trouble with its slipdrive and drops out of its travels in the middle of open space, right in the path of a covenant destroyer. Why would anyone want to read this book? First, if you are a hardcore Halo fan, this is a must read for you. Anyone who has played the Halo games and enjoyed the story like me, should know where it all began. Yet another reason to read this is, even though you may not be a Halo fan like me, it is still an excelent read as a standalone Sci-Fi story. Lastly, It is a great look into a possible future over the next 200 years for our planet. It looks deep into the technologies that may inhabit our lives in the near future. To close this up, Halo: Contact Harvest is an excelent read for anyone that is even remotly interested in Sci-Fi stories. As well, for any Halo fans out there, it is definently a good insight on the beginning of the Halo story. With my regards, i hope you have a good read. Myles Shollenberger Mrs. Bains 3rd block english class.
Customer Review: Solid first novel.
It answered a lot of questions, some I’d never even thought to ask, but were nice to know anyway. For his first novel, it’s pretty good. IMO not on the same level as Ghosts of Onyx, but a fun read for a Halo fan. If you’re not a Halo fan, this might not be the book for you… but if you’re not a Halo fan, why are you reading this?
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Halo 3 UNSCDF T-shirt Green UNSCDF Halo T-shirt. Licensed shirt. Green tshirt. Fitted shirt. 100% Soft Cotton.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 47 percent from a year earlier, as Take-Two Interactive Software Inc’s “Grand Theft Auto 4″ and Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii console stole the show. The popularity of “Grand Theft Continue

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The Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp. ’s gaming console, has sold more than 10 million units in the U.S. through April, the company said Wednesday. But it was already close to this number a month earlier, having sold 9.9 million units as of the end of March Continue

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Xbox 360 Core Console System
Includes: Xbox 360 console, Xbox 360 Controller, standard A/V cable, face plate, Silver Xbox Live, 30-day trial version of Xbox Live Gold and manual.
The Xbox 360 Core System is everything you need to experience a new level of gaming. It’s the way to begin experiencing the ultimate in next-generation gaming. Amazing digital entertainment experiences, unprecedented in home console entertainment, are waiting for you — all you have to do is connect the controller to this incredible device and an unsurpassed level of adventure and excitement is yours. Connect up to 4 wireless game controllers Online optimization - The XBox 360 is Wi-Fi ready (802.11a, b and g), has a built-in Ethernet port and has out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live Full digital media support - Plays DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD Streams media from portable MP3 players or a Windows XP based PC 3 USB 2.0 ports, two memory unit slots Multi-channel surround sound; Supports 48KHz 16-bit audio Stands vertically or horizontally Interchangeable face plates personalize your XBox 360 console Dimensions(HxWxD) - 3.27 x 12.17 x 10.16 (83 x 309 x 258 mm) Weight - 7.7 lbs (3.49 Kg)

Customer Review: x Box 360
It came in within a couple of days and it still is working. So I would have to say that everything is excelent,

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Xbox 360 Live 1600 Points

May 16th, 2008

Wii Play with Wii Remote
Wii Play collects nine quick and addictive games that are easy to pick up and play and hard to put away. With the intuitive controls of the Wii Remote, even the most inexperienced gamers will have no trouble mastering the controls. Every game features a multiplayer mode, so you and your friends can compete for the high score or go head to head to see who’s the best. Wii Play comes with a white Wii Remote, so your friends can join in the action. Games include:
List Price: $49.99
Amazon Price: $49.99
Used Price: $40.58
Customer Review: Basic & shareware style, fun only in multiplayer
Bipi wrote a great review. I rented this game & played only an hour alone: Shooting Range - Good physics but VERY boring, the mini game shooting on Wario Ware is MUCH better & exciting with barrels, cans, rockets coming at you, etc & much faster. Find Mii - I actually like it, good way to improve your observation skills like a Brain Age game. Table Tennis - very small movements, it’s like Pong at first, then on steroids at 40+ points/rally. The computer never fails. If want to use the remote to swing, Rockstar Table Tennis is good. Pose Me - very boring, just wrist turning & button smashing. Another maybe Brain Age game, but still very boring. Laser Hockey - small movements are key, the “puck” is sluggish at first, then super sonic when bounces off the wall. Air Hockey on Game Play is much more realistic & you hold the remote parallel the the ground as well & move it exactly with same amount of arm movement & extending arm a lot to use force as real air hockey. SECRET: hit A&B together during countdown & the sluggish C turns into regular round controller like real air hockey & physics change for the better as well. When playing against comptuer there’s a 120 second time limit. Billiards - will not help you improve your game since the camera angles are not good, though the physics seem to be real. I hated it. Fishing - found it surprisingly fun for about 20 min, then got bored of it. Very cute because of the vibration & speaker use & physics. Charge/Cow racing - fun, great idea, but only one level & it’s timed. If it had more levels this would be the one of the best games. Tanks - strategy light ;-) & very addicting even played alone & has 100 levels. Those of you say graphics aren’t great on Wii, it’s fine! IT’s not like old days where everything looks blurry & not sure what you’re seeing. Everything on here is crisp & with great detailing on textures & perfect physics.
Customer Review: Only For Super Beginners
The game is truly not a “game” at all.. it’s like an electric version of an instruction manual for the remote control. It’s really not very fun for very long. It’s amusing for about 15 minutes, maybe 20, and then it’s just… not. I ended up selling the game and keeping the remote. It’s only really meant for beginners who can’t figure out how to use the remote, in my opinion. It IS helpful in learning more about the remote, I agree, but I ended up getting this game days after I first started playing Wii, so it was a bit pointless.

Ex-Pro Optical Cable SPDIF Digital Audio Optical Cable / Lead for Playstation 3 - 1m
Ex-Pro Optical cable - Connect your optical device to optical input - Optical to Optical digital audio cable. Suitable for all optical / SPDIF output / input devices, including Xbox, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, DVD Players, TV’s, Amplifiers and more.

Vehicle Car Charger for Game Boy Advance SP/Nintendo DS
Compatible with: Game Boy Advance SP / Nintendo DS
List Price: $9.99
Used Price: $1.56
Customer Review: Great buy!
I use this charger in the car almost every day. It works great because I tend to run out of power. Now, I never do.
Customer Review: charger does the job
MY SONS THINKS ITS GREAT FOR WHEN WE GO OUT FOR THE WEEKEND HE CAN CHARGE HIS GAMEBOY UP..WITHOUT IT DYING ON HIM…

Build-A-Bear Workshop
Build-A-Bear is a Nintendo DS simulation that recreates the in-store experience. Gameplay offers a unique immersive experience, which replicates the process of shopping and creating a Bear when entering a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. The game allows you to approach the Build-A-Bear Workshop concept with the same hands-on and do it yourself formula. This level of interactivity is achieved through the use of the touch screen, wireless technology, enhanced graphics and innovative control mechanism. Choose, create and customize your own personal virtual Bear and participate in various activities with your new furry friend. Learn how to perform moves with the DS trick control, earn honey nuggets by completing challenges and buy up to 150 different clothing accessories. Spend some time in the photo studio and share your photo album and clothes collection wirelessly with your friends. Enjoy an afternoon in the backyard playground using the swing and various ball games Become a professional fashion photographer and set-up photo shoots in the Build-A-Bear photo studio Change your Bear outfits, select the zoom and camera angle, modify the backdrop and direct your character’s poses While spending time in the bathroom, help your bear clean his teeth Interact wirelessly with your friends to trade items or challenge each other in the mini games Test your skills in the dancing game by drawing the right shapes at the right time with your stylus on cue in order to hold the rhythm of the music Play dress-up and mix and match up to 150 fashion accessories Control two bears at a time with your stylus and collect honey while dodging bees Make sure you don’t pick the last seat paying musical chair
List Price: $29.99
Amazon Price: $19.99
Used Price: $12.95
Customer Review: great game for younger kids, but reading is involved
This game is kind of like Webkinz in a sense. The kids can pick which animal they want to build and can choose various rooms to go in for games or cooking, bathing, getting dressed, dancing, etc. However, there is a lot of reading that explains what the child needs to do. It’d be better if it just talked the instructions instead. As long as your child can read really well or an adult is with them to read teh instructions to them it’s a good game. I’m sure once they’ve played it many times, they figure out what to do and don’t need the directions.
Customer Review: build a bear
This game is wonderful keeps kids engaged they love it. The 4 & 7 year old love it and each want to do it at the same time. very nice NO VIOLENCE at all if your kids are younger Id say 11 and under excellent choice. Very very cute the animals come to life and you can play with them. Wonderful!!!!!!!!!

NHL 2K7 (PS3)
List Price: ?39.99
Amazon Price: ?34.98
Used Price: ?12.63
Customer Review: Hockey game that kicks puck!
Very solid game with tremendous amount of value for money. Many different modes and extras. Season and Franchise gives the game an enormous amount of longevity and you can really work hard on getting your team to the top. On the negatives and after playing it regularly for some months, unlocking certain teams is a bit more challenging that needed. Also, some of the loading sequence gets a bit dull. Menus could have been a bit more animated. Practise challenges, Fighting and injury animation during the matches always ends the same way and some randomizing of graphics would make it a bit more enduring. I miss some of the gore from Sega’s Hockey game but maybe this is because I have not unlocked 60’s and 70’s teams (one of the reasons why I still am playing the game :-))
Customer Review: NHL 2K7
I thought this game would be rubbish as was sold with my console, WHAT A MISTAKE, The game is so much fun on 2 player mode or as a single player. Well worth a look a fab all round game

Madden 2002
Madden NFL 2002 gives you authentic, detailed football action. Player face and body technologies make faces and body shapes look startlingly close to those of their real-life counterparts. Coach animations let the actual coaches roam scowling on the sidelines. Modes include Two-Minute Drill, in which you can earn points on offense or defense in a quick-hitting fast-paced game within the game; Create-a-Team, featuring customized uniforms, helmets, and stadiums; and Training, where you can learn about the X’s and O’s of football from John Madden while perfecting in-game skills.
Used Price: $5.00
Customer Review: ‘Pretty good’
i Recommend this game to everyone that wants A easy once in a while football game.This game has realy bad graphics.And it dos’nt even tell the players name. conpared to all Play Games station Madden games this one [is bad].
Customer Review: i ve seen better
…I am not impressed! it is nothing like the ps2’s football game, but it will have to do…

The Orange Box The Orange Box includes all the content of The Black Box for PC, plus the original Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One. Innovative games featured in The Orange Box include Half-Life 2: Episode Two, the second installment in Valve’s episodic trilogy advances the award-winning story, leading the player to new locations outside of City 17, as well as the pioneering type of single-player action game Portal, which rewrites the rules for how players approach and manipulate their environment, and Team Fortress 2 — an all-new version of the legendary title that spawned team based multiplayer action games with a daring new art style features the most advanced graphics of any Source-based game released to date.
Customer Review: Good Game, could have been better, but they only had 10 years.
This is a really good deal for what you get, however, you should note, to play Team Fortress 2 and the new version of Half Life, you will need a XBOX Live gold membership.
Orange box includes the old Half Life games, I am not sure why you would want to rehash that, especially since most of us probably have the original versions. Old versions seem tired, and I wonder how it kept my attention years ago. If you are even a occasional gamer, you ought to have something better to play than old first person shooters.
Team Fortress 2 is excellent if you can find a decent server to play it on. When the system goes to search there doesn’t seem to be near the variety that pops up with some other multiplayer games like WarHawk.
I am also getting tired of multiplayer releases without single player gaming on the disc. These games initially do fairly well, if you can find a good server, but try and play it in a year or two, servers will be even harder to find. 10 years of development should have been enough to give this game a single player version.
The new Half Life version is okay, but you have a feeling that you have already played it. Again, surely there is something that hasn’t been rehashed out there that an occasional gamer could better spend his time playing, perhaps BIOSHOCK or HALO 3, STRANGLEHOLD.


Xbox 360 Live 1600 Points
The Xbox Live 1,600 Points Card keeps your gaming experience updated and unique. Access content exclusive to Xbox by exchanging 1,600 points in the Xbox Live Marketplace. Try out new games with free demos and trailers and expand your games with free and premium content. Check out regularly updated and evolving online events like Game with Fame, Mystery Gamer, Xbox Live Calendar, and more.

Customer Review: Works perfectly, but don’t scratch too hard
I bought one of these cards while it was slightly on-sale, making it a bit cheaper than buying points directly through Microsoft.

It’s just a plain, plastic card with a portion that you scratch off to reveal a long key code that you enter into your XBL account.

A word of caution though. Don’t scratch it too hard because you can actually scratch off the key code lettering, which is what happened to me. Luckily, I was still able to figure out what my code was and the card didn’t go to waste.

With free shipping through my Amazon Prime account, this was easy enough and I saved a tiny bit of money.

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