Jakarta – Bayangkan jika kita memiliki monitor berukuran 43 inchi dan berlayar cekung. Inilah dia monitor impian bagi semua khalayak gamer di seluruh dunia.

Monitor ini bernama Ostendo CRVD, sebuah display LED-backlit yang memiliki aspek rasio 32:10. Monitor ini pertama kali terlihat pada saat Alienware memajangnya di Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 lalu. Berdasar informasi yang dikutip detikINET dari PCworld, Kamis (26/11/2009) Ostendo kini telah memasarkan monitor ini kepada publik.

Tebak berapa harga Monitor beresolusi 2880 x 900 pixel ini? Jelas monitor ini bukan ditujukan bagi gamer yang berkantong pas-pasan. Pasalnya Ostendo membandrolnya seharga US $ 6.499. atau sekitar Rp 61.000.000.

Ostendo mengungkapkan bahwa monitor ini juga dapat digunakan untuk kebutuhan militer, serta para hardcore gamer. Di bawah ini adalah sebuah video dari Ostendo yang memamerkan bukan hanya sebuah monitor, tapi tiga! Simak saja seperti apa bermain game dengan monitor impian ini.

Jakarta – Hanya dalam waktu seminggu sejak diluncurkan, game Assassin’s Creed II meraup penjualan 1,6 juta unit. Padahal, belum semua versi Assassin’s Creed II yang tersedia di pasaran.

Ubisoft, melalui keterangan tertulis yang diterima detikINET, Jumat (27/11/2009), mengumumkan data penjualan Assassin’s Creed II dalam minggu pertama sejak game itu diluncurkan. Menurut data internal Ubisoft, penjualan game itu di dunia mencapai 1,6 juta unit.

Penjualan tersebut mencerminkan pertumbuhan 32 persen dibandingkan penjualan game Assassin’s Creed pertama. Game pertama Assassin’s Creed dikeluarkan sejak November 2007.

Dalam Assassin’s Creed II, gamer akan dibawa ke Eropa abad renaisans. Tepatnya, pemain akan menjelajahi Italia di masanya Leonardo Da Vinci bersama tokoh utama bernama Ezio.

Assassin’s Creed II tersedia untuk PlayStation 3 dan Xbox 360. Versi PC game ini baru akan hadir di 2010

Well folks, I’m back and since you last heard from me I’ve done many things including nearly surviving a semester of college (not quite done yet) and joined a fraternity as well getting my dad hooked to the xbox which is probably my crowning achievement tied with joining the fraternity and surviving a senior seminar class as a sophomore.

Now back history to all this is my dad is one of those outdoor type of guys. A master plumber and avid fisherman we last heard from him in my post reviewing an iPod Touch Fishing Game and he wasn’t too impressed. So, yesterday I was sitting down and playing Assassin’s Creed Two, which you’ll soon be hearing a post about cause it’s insanely good, and my dad walks in. After we talk for a couple minutes I asked him if he wanted to play and he said video games weren’t his thing. Now he says that a lot and either he’s saying that or reflecting how violent video games are. Well, I wasn’t going to be defeated that easily this time especially by a guy who usually strongly dislikes my gaming habit.

Speaking of gaming, this is  great time to mention that he’s not the only one who thinks my habits odd. You see, when people think of gamers they tend to think of overweight highschoolers with a Warcraft T-shirt on and really thick glasses. And you know what? They’re right, those kids usually are gamers, but I’d like to make the distinction that those aren’t the only gamers. That’d be like saying the only type of poet you have is the one with the long goatee, red berett, and empty stomach. There’s a lot more then that. There’s actually about as many different types of gamers as you have game types and that’s no coincidence (that’s marketing!). Take Rockband for example, got a group of normal looking (and more imporantly normal acting) friends who play it? Guess what? Gamers. How about all those ROTC guys and girls who play Call of Duty in their spare time? Gamers too. All a gamer is is someone who plays a videogame on a regular basis. Hey here’s a plottwist. Do you play Farmville on Facebook? Guess what. Ah huh, you’re a gamer too. Scary isn’t it?

So that’s my point. Anyone can play a videogame and it doesn’t make you fat to sit down and try one, even one you’re not use to. You get fat by not getting enough excercise and as Wii and DDR (remember when that was popular?) demonstrated you can definitely get excercise gaming. As for my dad? Well, he’s an Asteroids fan and if you don’t know what that is, ask your parents. “Hey I see my son play enough of these games,” my dad explains to my mom as he restarts for the n-teenth time, (because on the XBox there are no quarters), “now he can see what it looks like.”

Later we’re in the kitchen after I accidently unplugged the thing while trying to find my laptop charger. He’s convinced I did it on purpose. (The jury is still out.) I laughed and talked about this blog post. “Let me remind you, kids,” he says to me as he reaches below the counter, “that we invented video games.” He pulls out a plastic wrapped, microwaveable popcorn bag and begins to open it. “You’re just along for the ride.”

About ten minutes later, as I add tags this blog, I hear my parents in the living room. “How do I get it to start?” my dad asks aloud as he fumbles with the XBox controller. “Hit A,” my mom suggests. “I’m hitting X,Y,Z, B, and A,” my dad says with probably a couple extra letters you won’t find anywhere on the XBox,  “nothing’s happening.”

“Andy,” my mom yells from the living room, “come fix it.” My dad’s generation might have invented videogaming, but its the kids along for the ride that have kept up with the pace. On a final note, I keep with what I said, anyone can play a videogame, the trick is simply finding what they like.

The results about women’s console gaming habits are in. Yes, I know; you’ve been just as eager as I have to finally get your hads on those results.

According to a market analysis, female players’ console of choice is definitly the Nintendo Wii. With a breathtaking share of 80 percent, the Wii is the definite digital womanizer, compared to its console rivals.

This Anerican inquiry does not, however, include the number of female players who prefer the PC or the DS as their main source of interactive digital entertainment. The actual number of women charmed by the power of the Wii would be approximitly nine million ladies.

So there you have it. Yet another thing girls simply can’t do right.

For Everyone whom has not been able to view this video its real no stage act shit…. I will follow with a post interview but fuck this shit is HILARIOUS!!!! This kid has been pranked by the little bro, we all know these types of acts!!!!!

Checkpoint and the Gaming Angels are two groups who want to give back to the community. With this in mind, we have decided to donate $5.00 to Child’s Play charity with every t-shirt sold.  Here’s an excerpt from the Child’s Play website…

“Since 2003, we’ve set up and organized Child’s Play, a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in our network of over 60 hospitals worldwide. In five short years, you as a community have answered the call and come together to raise millions of dollars.

That was awesome. You guys have proven over and over again that you are an overwhelming force, and you really came through and made a real difference to the millions of kids that children’s hospitals care for each year. So we’re doing it again this year, only this time we’ve expanded Child’s Play to more hospitals around US and the globe so you can send toys to a hospital a little closer to home.

Child’s Play works the same as last year. With the help of hospital staff, we’ve set up gift wish lists full of video games, toys, and movies. You can go to each hospital’s list and buy a toy, and that toy will be sent to the hospital. Some of these kids are in pretty bad shape. Imagine being stuck alone in a hospital over the holidays, getting something from a fellow gamer would really raise their spirits. Some of the stuff the hospital will give away for kids to keep, while other gifts (like consoles) will be kept by the hospital for patients to use throughout the year.

We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. We are not a faceless corporation and you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.”

This is an awesome opportunity to not only buy a sweet shirt but give back as well!!! To learn more about Child’s Play, check out their website at www.childsplaycharity.org

Here at Checkpoint, we have just released our first t-shirt specifically designed for women. We designed the shirt in honor of the Gaming Angels.  Here’s what Trina Schwimmer, founder and CEO of Gaming Angels, had to say about their organization…

“GamingAngels.com is the premier online community for women and men who love to talk about all things geek. That includes video games, role-playing, anime and manga, tabletop gaming, technology, gadgets, comic books, Japanese culture and novels.  We offer a female perspective on video games and encourage women to go into the tech and gaming industry. Gaming Angels is run by an all female staff who are avid enthusiasts of what’s considered geeky. At GamingAngels.com we run many contests where our readers can win free stuff ranging from t-shirts to games. We also host a variety of community game nights. Come by GamingAngels.com and prepare to have fun!”