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Dear readers, fans, casual observers, haters, extraterrestrial beings observing our planet for signs of intelligence and all other concerned parties,
Over the months that I’ve been editor, I’ve been very proud of the work output we’ve had as a site, from both staff and users. However, while HardestLevel will continue to exist in its current form, no further updates will be made to the site. This will not affect current accounts with our site, and you can still access previously posted content. I should remind you you can access these existing posts by tags related to your top areas of interest or by contributor.
And now what about video game blogging on the Xanga Network? Is it, pardon the pun, Left 4 Dead? Thankfully, no. Mancouch will very soon be featuring a tab for gaming content, much in the way Lovelyish has its Beauty, Advice and Style Court tabs. The current HardestLevel staff will still be writing for this new tab. For the sake of a video game analogy, it’s like pressing the reset button on your console, or perhaps better yet, like playing a game on a newer-gen system that has backwards compatibility. There still will be a haven for video game blogging on Xanga! 
I’d like to give my thanks to everyone I’ve worked with, if you’re reading: Alex, Andrew, Jim, Justin, Konrad, Matt, Tanner, Tiffany, Tim and Yuliya. I’d also like to thank the dragon and the knights for being faithful mascots to our little webpage. We really should’ve given you fellas names, now that I think of it. Finally, and most importantly, all of us at HardestLevel would like to thank all of you readers and contributors who supported our site, our writing, and made it into a community. After all, that is the essence of sites like Xanga: the community.
In all, thanks for the memories and I hope you’ll continue to keep writing and supporting all the destination sites, including our new home. May you have a Happy New Year, a Happy New Decade, and may you never stop gaming.
Sincerely,
Joe A.K.A. awinnerisyou
Posted on December 31st, 2009 at 5:00pm by HardestLevel's HardestLevel
Filed Under: Uncategorized
It’s kind of hard to feel bad for someone who gets caught after stealing loads of people’s electronics. And yet, my sympathies are with Jeremiah Gilliam, whose desire to play video games is what did him in. I understand all too well the pull of video games on a man. My condolences, Jeremiah!
Here’s the scoop from The Escapist: Gilliam was playing Xbox Live on a stolen console. The user from whom his Xbox system was stolen logged onto Xbox Live using another machine and saw that his missing console was logged on. From there, he told his parents, who told the police, who traced the system’s unique IP address back to Gilliam’s location at his grandmother’s house. Upon Gilliam’s arrest and investigation at the house, GPS devices, PlayStations, video games, credit cards and other valuables were found, and our online gaming lover was charged with grand larceny.
There was no word in the Escapist report on what game Jeremiah was playing when his whereabouts were given away. For the sake of irony, though, I’m hoping it was Uncharted 2.
Posted on December 30th, 2009 at 5:00pm by HardestLevel's HardestLevel
Filed Under: Uncategorized
I dropped by my girlfriend’s on Sunday when she came home after spending Christmas with family. I planned on bringing over my new PS3 Slim for some Little Big Planet and Tekken 6 before I left to see her but ultimately decided against it. Eventually this turned out to be a great decision.
We ended up playing Scrabble when we got to her house, and it was a long, grueling match that had us cutting each other off at every turn and using up almost all the letter pieces. It was a close game, though my girlfriend ended up winning (yes people, this is why I have a BA in English!) We really enjoyed ourselves. But in my mind, I couldn’t help but think about the very nature of games in the process. As a whole, games were originally devised by mankind as a way of passing time when there was little else to do. But they were created with the purpose of stimulating the mind, bringing people closer, and serving as a generally harmless outlet for competitive urges.
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Posted on December 30th, 2009 at 2:00pm by HardestLevel's HardestLevel
Filed Under: Uncategorized
It’s been a heavily hectic year, and there’s been so much news at the year’s end that a few things slip by without due record, but we were just cleaning up the loose ends here and noticed something we had let slip by. Well, rectifying past wrongs, here it is: early this month, Microsoft announced the launch of a number of new hardware products designed apparently to “make life better for all, through ergonomic design and superior build quality.” There’s two lines of products, the “Life on the Go” high end products and also a “Life in India” range, which offers more economical offerings, that are hardier as well.
On offer are a hardier keyboard, a HD webcam (which could have some applications hmm hmm), headphone and microphone combination which is really uncomfortable to use, and my personal favourites, the Wireless Desktop, which is a wireless keyboard and mouse combo!
Set up a projection system, hook up your computer, play some Warcraft in style – the downside of course is that using the mouse on the couch carpet doesn’t work too well usually, but Microsoft now uses a HD laser mouse for the wireless, which to my surprise, actually worked well on a number of different surfaces, which makes the whole thing sort of cool.
For more information, and the full release, check out http://microsofthardware.webrelease.in
Posted on December 30th, 2009 at 1:11am by Split-Screen
Filed Under: Keyboard, Uncategorized, Wireless, hardware, launch, microsoft, mouse
I do so honestly swear to keep the gamer in me happy by doing my best to attempt to complete the tasks below before the end of the new year 2010:
Get a good paying coop science lab job or something so I can get my hands on a Playstation 3 (I’ve been converted! The Xbox 360 is no longer on my wishlist 
).
With said PS3, try out Dante’s Inferno, God of War III, and Final Fantasy XIII when they get released next year.
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Posted on December 29th, 2009 at 8:00pm by HardestLevel's HardestLevel
Filed Under: Uncategorized
