{"id":80,"date":"2007-12-20T19:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christinagonzalez.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/20\/game-bits\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T19:53:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T19:53:16","slug":"game-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/20\/game-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Bits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Toys &#039;R&#039; Us today and got to see Guitar Hero III played for the first time. A little girl was testing it out as I was making my way through the aisles. Whoever narrates the tutorial for that game sounds a lot like the Ghost Host from The Haunted Mansion at Disney World. <\/p>\n<p>My piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_127\/2708-Gaming-Ability\">accessibility in gaming<\/a> came out last week and my new piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_128\/2729-Virtual-Item-Sales\">virtual item sales at Neopets<\/a> went up this week over at The Escapist.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of deciding to do some last-minute shopping today, I missed the latest Xfire Debate Club chat. I caught the very last minute of it, and it seemed like I missed out on something fun. Guess I&#039;ll see everyone at TTHS in the new year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendowiifanboy.com\/2007\/12\/18\/revolutionary-10-things-i-hate-about-wii\/\">This article<\/a> by Mike Sylvester, &quot;10 Things I Hate About Wii&quot;, over at Wii Fanboy makes some really spot-on points. Highlights include complaints about how Nintendo holds back its own franchises and often delays anticipated first-party titles, as well as touching on the system&#039;s clunky online multiplayer system.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Toys &#039;R&#039; Us today and got to see Guitar Hero III played for the first time. A little girl was testing it out as I was making my way through the aisles. Whoever narrates the tutorial for that game sounds a lot like the Ghost Host from The Haunted Mansion at Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,3],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game-bits","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nVuU-1i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christinagonzalez.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}