After the recent incident of an Iraqi Journalist throwing shoes at President Bush last Monday, 15th of December, a developer by the name of PopJam released a funny interactive game titled “Sock and Awe!”. The aim of the game is to throw as many shows at President Bush within the specified time limit, using your mouse to move the shoe left and right and clicking to throw.

It’s a very quick game and really is just a novelty type of thing, you wouldn’t play it for hours unless you felt some ridicioulous desire to haha. You can play the game by visiting the website below:

Sock and Awe – http://www.sockandawe.com

Rockstar officially released a month ago they would be bringing the multimillion dollar game, Grand Theft Auto IV to PC and have just announced it will be using “Games for Windows Live” for its multiplayer mode. GTA4 PC which hits shelves this November 18th, will not only boost sales for Rockstar once again but will allow users to seamlessly translate the multiplayer console experience for PC gamers with their strong belief it will help build a strong foundation for the PC online community.

I personally own a copy of GTA4 for PS3 and have found the experience to be excellent as always expected, however there are always limits on consoles, not being able to modify certain aspects like graphics and downloading expansions/mods for the game like skins, new missions etc.

If you’re one of the unfortunate ones who didn’t have a large amount of cash lying about for the latest beefy consoles and have been waiting for GTA4 to be released on PC, you will undoubtedly be impressed by the features coming exclusively to PC.

GTA4 PC will include DirectX, expanded online multiplayer and in-game recording — about time? Now you can record all those superb moments where previously you would’ve said, “Oh did you see that?!” and followed a short reply, “No?”.

From my experience, playing a game with a good storyline, loads of missions and a endless amount of free gameplay is great, but going that one step further and adding multiplayer, allowing you to connect to the rest of world will make any game an enjoyable one, especially GTA4. Previously, online was only obtainable by a unofficial 3rd party who wanted to create a whole different world, now Rockstar has inbuilt that into GTA4 and has made it just that much better.

Blake Peebles

I was reading News.com.au this morning and came across an interesting article about a young boy by the name of Blake Peebles, who has officially left school for a video game. Now this doesn’t come as a surprise for many, however he has full support by his parents. There have been many blogs writing about this, many articles with different point of views and it’s quite unfortunate that people are scolding his parents for not pushing him to continue his so called ‘needed’ education. Before you begin to think negative thoughts about what I’m saying, I will question you with the following sentence:

Follow your dreams and succeed within yourself.

Isn’t that the daily motto of successful people?

I do believe the education system is for the masses and doesn’t teach everything about life including proper financial knowledge, however, he is getting home schooled. If his parents believe this is the right direction for their son, I suppor them. I do also know, deep down all parents want the best for their kids, no matter the direction.

For more information on Guitar Hero, check out Wikipedia.org.