It's all for char-i-dee mate!

I had an idea that we could raise some money for the Penny Arcade Child's Play charity and have some fun at the same time, by running a sponsored 24-hour Fi Club at some point in the New Year.

The charity aims to stick toys and games into the sticky mitts of unfortunate kiddies in hospitals around the world. Our 'local' one is Alder Hey children's hospital in Upnorthland somewhere (Liverpool.) Each participating hospital makes an Amazon wish list and contributors buy stuff off the list and it gets sent straight to the hospital.


I see this as a potential win-win-win-win. We get to raise money for charity and look cool, we get to mess around for 24 hours, we get to go happy shopping on Amazon, and the ickle kiddies get loads of cool gear.

What say ye, fellow Fi Clubbers?

AllOfMP3.com

its official, Russia will be closing allofmp3.com. Please hold a minutes silence. Russia have just joined sony (not including tv's :)) on my sh1t list.

TechCrunch link

Matt

Emergence Day

... is supposed to be November the 17th. In case anyone is living under a rock - that is the Xbox 360 Gears of War release date.

Emergence Day for the Fi Club will be November 24th @ Munchk's pink palace. I promise to turn up to this one!

There you go, glad I haven't hyped that one too much, good job... lol.

The only way to commute?

A subject close to my own heart!!! The ultimate gaming bus!

Linky

The Real Mii

Got a couple of minutes spare? Log onto Joystiq's Mii Creator (SWF) and create your Nintendo Mii.

I was actually surprised how quick easy it was to get a passing likeness from the tool.

Why So Hard On The PSP Then?

So Sony are releasing Open Platform for the PS3 which allows "any desired third-party system software to be installed on it."

Unless I'm overlooking something surely this poses Sony exactly the same security risks as homebrew on the PSP? Worse in fact as Sony are opening the door and inviting everyone in to the party, rather than make us climb up the drainpipe of HENC and in through the bathroom window of Devhook.

So, Sony, what gives?

Baxx0rs, baxx0rs thru teh miztz of t1m3...

Join me on a journey, fellow clubber, a journey back through the mists of time to an age when we were younger and had fewer kids... March to be exact.

Click the archive link down there for March 2006 and look at the very first set of stories on 'Fi Club. Sure, marvel at how punchy and tight our writing was back then, for it was a time of wonder, but also look at how the stuff we were writing about way back in March is the same stuff we've only just started getting hold of and playing now. Soda Fountain, Tekken, Mercury Meltdown (ack-shully, even though it's on my PSP, I haven't actually run that one yet) and GTAVCS.

Funny how that lot took about 8 months to get here.