| Major League Gaming and GameStop Team With Cause to Bring Video Game Tournament, Consoles to Wounded Soldiers
Injured Soldiers recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center enjoyed an evening of video game competition yesterday at a gaming tournament organized by Cause, a nonprofit organization that provides comfort items to and organizes recreation events for wounded Soldiers. GameStop, the world's largest videogame retailer, donated 10 of the highly coveted Nintendo Wiis to Cause during the event and Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's first professional video game league, provided technical assistance and sent personnel and their top professional gamers to help Cause run the tournament. "Recreation and entertainment are vital to the recovery process, and the healthy competition and the social aspects of videogaming are very beneficial to these young men and women," said Barbara Lau, executive director of Cause.
Daily Planner: Friday
RUMMAGE SALE: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 45 Acacia Ave., off Oro Dam Boulevard, Oroville. 534-9455. Also Saturday, 8 a.m.-noon. SEMI-ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St., Chico. 343-1497. Also Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon, with bag sale 11 a.m.-noon. LAXSON AUDITORIUM, CHICO STATE: 7:30 p.m. On the Creek lecture series. Gary Snyder, poet, essayist and author, drawing on his new book of essays, "Back on the Fire." Free. Performance HARLEN ADAMS THEATRE, CHICO STATE: 7:30 p.m. Opera Meets Band concert, a collaborative concert featuring students from Opera Workshop and the Symphonic Band. Groups are expected to perform excerpts from "Carmen," "Mignon," "Rigoletto," "West Side Story," "My Fair Lady" and more.
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
NO FANCY ESOTERIC NAME for this game, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is exactly what it says it is! It involves balls with monkeys inside them and lots of bananas. Appearing across other platforms in different incarnations, this game basically involves manoeuvring your ball containing your monkey across an obstacle course while collecting bananas and beating the clock.
To steer yourself around the course you tip the Wii controller in the manner of those marble maze games. Left and right steers the ball while forward speeds it up and tilting backwards sloes your monkey ball to a stop. Pressing the "A" key causes your monkey to jump. The whole control system is quite smooth and takes little effort to get used to. It does require some finesse to play well as the slightest movement can send your ball and hapless monkey careening off the course.
Hounds ousted by Aliquippa
CHURCHILL -- The math from Saturday's WPIAL Class AA quarterfinal basketball playoff game between Monessen and defending champion Aliquippa was easy. For example, 6-9, 6-6 and 6-3 equal 95 and 6-3, 6-0 and 5-10 equal 64. The final score of the game was Aliquippa 95, Monessen 64. The Quips (24-2) were led by their talented trio of 6-3 Antonio Reddic (27 points, 7 steals), 6-9 Herb Pope (25 points, 11 rebounds, 4 blocked shots) and 6-6 Jonathan Baldwin (19 points, 7 rebounds). .
Escape in ACC quarters launched NC State's miracle run
The scoreboard read North Carolina State 70, Wake Forest 70. Less than a minute remained in an Atlantic Coast Conference quarterfinal game that, on a Friday afternoon in March 1983, hardly augured the start of something big. Nobody in The Omni in Atlanta could have known that the events in that final minute would alter the course of college basketball history, the course of Jim Valvano's career -- and, ultimately, the course of his impact upon society. But before the Wolfpack coach could become everything he would become -- the national championship coach, the prominent ESPN basketball analyst, the passionate orator who delivered the most famous sports speech since Lou Gehrig, the national face of the fight against cancer; Jimmy V -- his team had to survive that moment. "If we don't win that game," said State point guard Sidney Lowe, "we're done." If NC State doesn't win that game, an NCAA Tournament berth disappears.
Mobile chess
The new "Kasparov Chess" mobile game from Glu ($1.99-$3.99 monthly or $5.99-$7.99 one-time purchase) is available for most phones, except smartphones. You can play a five-minute blitz game or use the correspondence mode and send one move per day and play multiple games at the same time. .
Minireview: Frenzic for OS X from Iconfactory
When a new game first makes an appearance in the Macintosh community, people generally take notice. After all, let's admit it: there isn't all that much out there to be played. When we do get a "new" game, often times it is a port of a game that has already been out in the Windows world for a year or two. When I first noticed that Iconfactory and Artis Software had teamed up again, this time on an original puzzle game, I knew I would have to take a look at Frenzic. The game is described by the two companies as: "A fast-paced, addictive game that makes Tetris look like child's play" We'll be the judge of that. Read More >> Object To have a basic understanding of the objective of Frenzic, you must have at least a basic understanding of the game Trivial Pursuit—particularly the game pieces you move around the board and the pie pieces you fill your game piece with.
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