New Pokemon = New System

Just for the record! I want to point this out in writing. Well it’s a little too late for that BUT there is recorded audio of it! In Unfocused Podcast Episode 73 we talked about the announcement of a new Pokemon generation. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s notice this but every new Pokemon series has never repeated systems. Red, Blue and Yellow versions were only on the original Game Boy. Gold, Silver and Crystal were on Game Boy COLOR. Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald were on Game Boy Advance. Diamond, Pearl and Platinum are on the DS. A fifth generation Pokemon game was announced on Feb 10 2010. Or Feb 9th… Somewhere around that date. That lead me to believe there would be a new Nintendo handheld system to be announced very soon. I don’t think the DSi is a big of enough difference for a new generation Pokemon series. Then there was rumors about a DS2 or new handheld that we talked about on Unfocused Podcast Episode 74. One of several companies given a demo of the system to develop for is The Pokemon Company. WHOA! So new Pokemon Game DOES equal new Nintendo Handheld! HA! Just wanted to say that. Thank You. Listen to Unfocused

First off thanks for visiting! Hope you come by often to see what up! If you are a listener to one of our two podcast then thanks for listening. If you are a fan of our AMVs on YouTube, thanks for watching, sorry we haven’t had anything new in about a year =( hopefully if we’re not lazy we’ll start a new one. If you like our music, then… wow that’s crazy! Look out for better stuff coming soon! If you… uh… yeah that covers about most of it. Hahaha

So what are these two podcast I speak of? First off, have you not heard of Unfocused?? Search it in iTunes and subscribe! It’s a weekly gaming (and nerd topic) podcast recorded live on justin.tv! And we just talk gaming news and anything else that might be on our minds. If you ever miss the live show then you can listen to it on your own by downloading the podcast!
The other show we have is called N UR EAR. It’s the newest show on Collision28 also recorded live on justin.tv every other week. You can expect to hear talk about music related subjects and nothing more. And trust me, there’s a lot of different areas in music that can be discussed.  And if you miss the live show you can also catch in a downloadable form for personal listening.

N UR EAR is hosted by T aka KidNothing, Ann Ngo, and Speedy (aka Carlos). And like I said, they talk all about music. The show is recorded every Tuesday Evening, 6:30 PM PST on justin.tv/nurear. We are actually thinking of moving it to justin.tv/Collision28 just caz it would make more since. N UR EAR can also be found in iTunes, so be sure to subscribe!

Unfocused is hosted by ajTwist (me), T aka KidNothing and DJ (aka DJRey3). We talk gaming, comics, anime and about whatever else relates. Mostly gaming though. We uses to talk music too but T just became to pro with it. Which explains the spin off to N UR EAR. You can catch Unfocused Live on  Thursday Nights at 8PM PST on justin.tv/Unfocused. We are also thinking of moving Unfocused to justin.tv/Collision28 along side with N UR EAR. And don’t forget to subscribe in iTunes, search for Unfocused Podcast!

DJ is thinking of doing some casting of his own really soon. Not a podcast of anything, just casting for fun. So look out for that coming soon to justin.tv.

In the music department of Collision28 we have a few new things coming up. First off Collision28 has their first real artist, Ann Ngo! She’s a singer / song writer / pianist / and cohost of N UR EAR. She already has two songs up that you can check out on her own website, annngo.com.  We are also thinking of putting a small mixtape together full of tracks we have laying around and maybe previews of whats to be coming soon. It will be featuring me, ajTwist, T aka KidNothing and Ann Ngo and maybe a few other people that we worked on track with too. So look out for that!

Video projects like AMVs… no plans yet. Sonic Video Comic. I need to finish the second half of MechaMadness. I will work on that sooooon! I need to do it! I Know! But thats all we really got though for videos.

OKAY THEN I think thats all I really got to say for Updates and all. Be sure to keep up with us on Twitter for updates! @Collision28 @Unfocused28 @NUREAR

PEACE

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Universal City Walk, Ca.

Nintendo finally released the third revision of their DS handheld system, the DSi. What better way to release the product than with a midnight launch. Gamestop with help from Nintendo had a big launch party at Universal City Walk in So Cal. The one and only ajTwist (me) got a chance to check out the fun festivities.  I got there kind of late but I felt like I didn’t miss a thing. Many websites announced the launch party but it really didn’t interest me until I heard about all the awesome SWAG Nintendo was giving away from the lovely Jessica V. (from All Games Interactive) via Twitter. AND JES was there doing some Nintendo Ambassadoring so I had to go to say hello! As the day went on I got kind of lazy and almost didn’t go until I saw another Twitter post from PennyMan aka Coin-Op Rob of  Coin-Op.Tv saying Gym Class Heroes were performing. I was like WHOA, I gotta check this out for sure now.  So I took off and got there around 9:45 PM, close to 2 hours before the Official Release of the DSi.

The area looked crazy. A big sphere in the middle with projections of random animation, mostly Nintendo themed pictures. DJ’s scratching and mix old school Super Mario Bros Music. Light Up Pillars with a DSi Demo on all 4 sides. And Nintendo Ambassadors wearing sky blue Nintendo shirts showing people how to use the built in features of the DSi and giving away SWAG.  What kind of Swag you ask? DSi related kind of course! Nintendo Points for downloadable games, 2 GB SD cards, Nintendo Gummie Candy, Stylus’, Pins with DSi icons, key chain game cases, DS Headsets and probably other stuff I missed out on! And they were giving away a lot of Headsets to my surprised, all night. I got to say hello to Jessica and she showed0 me how to use the DSi, but I’ll get to that later. My highlight of the night was seeing Gym Class Heroes perform. It was great! Seeing them do “The Queen and I” “Cupid’s Chokehold” and “Cookie Jar”. OH, and Two Stepping to “Guilty as Charged”. I guess their appearance was kept on the low because there wasn’t many Gym Class Fans around until the last song. But they didn’t leave after that. They stuck around for a while and took pictures with Mario who also made an appearance. LAGTV was there as well doing interviews and some guy from G4 was the main host I guess. I’m sorry I don’t watch TV or G4.

So after running around meeting people and collecting swag it was close to midnight and people were waiting in line to be some of the first to get their hands on a Nintendo DSi on the West Coast. I was almost ready to take off where I heard that they might give away more stuff after midnight, so I waited. A couple of people were lucky enough to get a Mario DS Holder. It’s about a 12 Inch Mario Figure with his hand out to hold your DS when it’s not in use. Looks pretty cool, I wasn’t lucky enough to get one. They also passed out more stylus and Gummies before midnight.  Finally the countdown came and people got to walk in to buy their DSi. The first in line took 15 minutes to come out, I suppose he was interviewed by all the media that was there. But when he walked out, he walked out with 10,000 Nintendo points, a DS headset, The Mario DS Holder and probably a lot more, seeing how Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales and Marketing (that’s a long title), presented him with the first DSi out of that store. Unfortunately there wasn’t anything else given away, as far as I know. I was hoping for a free DSi but no luck there. But overall, I had a great time being there and checking it out, a lot of well known people were there covering the event, hopefully I’ll be a well known name one day too! lol

Speaking of which, I was walking away from a trio of Nintendo Ambassadors after  grabbing some swag when one of them yelled “ajTwist?!” I said to myself “WTF? Who knows me by that name?” It was none other than Tedakin, fellow listener of All Games and the artist behind the Xbox Community Game “Revenge of the Ball”. Not sure what else he does, but that was kind of weird. He wasn’t sure how he knew me either. And one of the host of TechKnow over on Ufragtv.com claims he has heard of Unfocused too. I sure hope so!

I did get to mess around with the DSi for a while, thank you Jessica once again. I got to full around with the camera and editing system. It’s pretty fun, it reminds me of the Game Boy Camera and the Photo Channel on the Wii. You can draw over pictures you take, wrap them several different ways, and add frames and stamps! It’s pretty simple to use without even knowing how to use it. I saved the same pic like 10 times without even knowing. I guess that’s a flaw of the system, it doesn’t let you know that your edit was saved. Pictures do look nice on the DSi. The DSi looks slick when it’s closed, the UI looks nice but I can see it becoming annyoing after downloading games and apps. Thats about all I can say about it right now. I don’t plan or have any interest in buying a DSi at the moment. Maybe after I see some cool games made for the DSi or after hearing about some cool downloadable DSi stuff.

That’s about all I have to say about it. Maybe I’ll talk a little more about it all on the Next Episode of UNFOCUSED Podcast! 

I got my face on GONINTENDO.COM!

Enjoy some pictures! From my iPhone! And add me on Twitter! User Name ajTwist

GYM CLASS HEROES

Travis Loves Him Some Mario

Mario with his cute seeing eye girl... person

one of the DSi Demo Stations

Crazy "Mirior's Edge" type people doing back flips off 10 foot platforms

3! 2! 1! HAPPY Err... YAY! DSi!!

Ooooo fireworks at Midnight for the DSi!