7 Days of Fi - Day One

Day one drew to a close at 8am BST with some impressive point gains by two challengers, namely Munchk and myself. All points were drawn from Mercenaries 2, which frankly bleeds GP like a cut hog. If it hadn't been for the amazingly generous 50GP just for playing co-op then Munchk would've taken the lead.

360voice.com says:

Challenge update - 9/18/2008

Here is a recap... andybeta gave up the social life to get the lead by tacking on 165 points. When you count it up, all 5 challengers gained 315 points. andybeta added 165, and munchk added 150. There are 6 days left, so... yeah... plenty of time. The excitement continues tomorrow!

Indeed it does. Or rather today.

Personally I'm going to be biking around Paradise tonight, so probably no points for me. I can't see me holding this lead tomorrow.

I Want To Ride My Bicycle

Burnout Friday is looking to become Burnout Thursday this week due to the release of the Bike Pack for Burnout Paradise on the 18th.

This handily leaves Friday open for a proper hosted Fi Club courtesy of [[TBA]] (go on, you know you want to.)

The Bike pack includes:

• Pick from 2 motorcycles featuring male or female characters and start on a whole new progression to earn your Bike License.

• 38 new against-the-clock race events – Burning Ride and Midnight Ride.

• A brand new in-game 24 hr day / night cycle that impacts traffic density and available events. (It's fully customisable – you can make it day/night/change the clock speed – it's up to you.)

• Dynamic weather brings an all-new look to Paradise City

• And if that's not enough, we've got 70 more Freeburn Challenges too

Luvverly... There's likely to be at least two teams going on from the Eurogamer lot.

7 Days of Fi - The Challenge

As you all know, if you check your email, I have set up a challenge on 360voice.com to see who can gain the most Gamerpoints in a week.

I had intended to launch today at midday, regardless of who has joined. When I went to launch, slightly disappointed that we were still missing three major players, a full 50% of the invited challengers, it informed me that play would start as of midnight PST. This equates to 8am BST.

Therefore I declined the launch in order to give you latecomers a chance to sign up and register for the challenge. Don't make me name names.

I will launch tonight at Midnight BST regardless.

Castle Crashers

Is anyone thinking of grabbing the full game? I played the single player demo and it seems well made and quite playable. Multiplayer coop is supposed to be a complete riot.

Comic Genius - ComicRack

absolutely nothing to do with games... As avid comic and eComic readers, I have come across an iTunes-esq application for cbr and cbz's. Coupled with an export to pdf, library, network sharing and smart playlist functionality, this is a fantastic little open source application.

linky

Edit: apologies, windows only at the moment.

For When It Has To Be 'Fi

After a hard week, a man like you needs to relax, unwind and forget about the grind of work and family. You're out all hours bringing home the bacon, so a night in front of the TV just won't cut it. You're Starsky, Kirk and Steve Austin all rolled into one, and god dammit the planet will suffer if you can't chill the fuck out big style on a Friday night.

At Club 'Fi, we know how a man likes to kick back and get his groove on. We have nearly three years worth of manly-man multiplayer n munchie mayhem, so join us at Ruut's Gaff to hit on some of that good time goodness.

Bring joypads. And Rock Band.

Burnout Friday

Right chaps, don't know what your plans are for friday night, but I would like to heartily recommend taking advantage of the Cagney patch for Burnout Paradise, and inviting you all to a Burnout Friday.

Those of you who made it last week will have a pretty good indication of what is involved - a mix of the new Marked Man and Road Rage modes with some timed challenges, some Freeburn Challenges for those people who want to tick any off their lists, and occasionally a bit of racing, too.

A relaxed, entertaining tour of Paradise City with events and challenges done on request or sprung upon you unexpectedly

As the player limit for these games is sadly only Eight, let me know if you think you are going to be on, and I will fire you an invite from an invite-only game. I'm not usually on until late - around 2230 - 2300 normally, so you'll have plenty of time for other gaming first.

If you are doing other stuff, that is cool too, but nothing, as munchk and kook1e can testify, is quite as funny as OCD induced World Record breaking in the new Timed Challenges. Especially when somebody takes photos of the results.