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Editor’s Page
A preview to the magazine and a little bit
about the Editor Dylan Freddi.
How to buy games from
the Playstation store
A “how to” article on the Playstation store
and how to use it.
All you need to know
about the Playstation 3
An article on all the functions and abilities
of the Playstation 3.
Welcome to E.B. Games
Park Royal
An article telling about the E.B. games store
in West Vancouver, B.C.
An Interview with Roger
Freddi
Our writer Dylan got together with Roger to
get an interview with him for our magazine.
Questions to the Editor
Letters to the editor with questions relating
to the topic of the magazine.
An Amazing Time
An overview of the new game Assassins:
Creed Brotherhood.
Found Poem
A poem featuring Lego: Star Wars 3.
Advice Column
Do you need advice on your consoles or
games? Well this article has advice on your
consoles.
A History of…
Do you love Halo? This article is all about
Halo and it’s history.
The Competition A story about a game of Search and Destroy
and the winning team.
The Quiz
An end of the magazine quiz about gaming .
Hi, my name is Dylan Freddi. I was born in West Vancouver British
Columbia. I attended Caulfield Elementary School and Rock ridge high
school. I have a mom, a dad, a sister and two cats. I played my first
game when I was 6; it was Legend of Zelda Minish Cap for the Game Boy
Advance. When I was 9 I got a Playstation 3 for Christmas. My main
interests at age 11 were basketball and gaming.
At age 22 I took over my dad’s company after he retired. After that the
company became very successful and sold over 11 million systems of
the Playstation 3D. I then moved the company to L.A. California. We
then sold many more Play station 3D games like purr and puppy pals.
After, I lived in California for 3 years I moved to Ontario for 1 year. I
then made Super Mario Bros for the Playstation 4 3D and sold 8 million
copies. My business then took me to Washington D.C. and I sold 7
million copies of Super Mario: Real World. I then thought I needed a
break from the gaming world so I bought an estate in Maui and Rome.
Then I started writing for this magazine: The Gamers Guide. This is
my first magazine I’ve written for and hopefully if you liked it not the
last I write. So have a good read!
By: Dylan Freddi
Group Publisher and
editorial director
Dylan Freddi
Managing Editor
Hank Lendvoy
Senior Editor
Brody Van Unen
Art Director
Alex Wagstaff
Publisher
Duncan Harrison
Marketing Director
Griffin Rendzoni
Any Questions send
an E-mail to:
gamersguide@shaw.ca
How to Buy Games From the Play Station Store
Step 1: Turn on the play station
3 by clicking the PS button either
on the play station 3 or on the
controller.
Step 2: Go to play station
network and click on play
station store.
Step 3: Type in your network e-
mail and password and click
enter.
Step 4: Click on search and type
in the game you want to buy and
click enter.
Step 5: Chose the game and type
in your credit card number.
Step 6: Click download and wait
for the download icon to reach
100%.
Step 7: After download click X on
the downloaded game to install
it onto your system. It takes a lot
less time to install.
Step 8: Really, step 8 is playing
the game, so have fun with your
games off the play station store.
All you need to
know about the
The Play Station 3(Free
Shipping and handling on
orders from back page!)
The Play Station 3 is a very popular
gaming system with many extra
functions. One of the many functions
is that it can play blue ray movies. All
Play Station 3 games are put on blue
ray disks instead of regular disks like
computer games. In the center of the
console, to the right is the disk insert,
it is silver with a multi coloured PS
button. That looks like this.
The play station 3 is 10.79”x 3.86”x
12.75” inches. Its 19 pounds for a 160
GB console.
It can be bought for 299.99 for the
Play Station 3 with 160GB and 1
controller.
E.B. Games is located in the south side of
park royal.
In this amazing store you can buy DS,
Wii, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 games and all
the consoles.
E.B. Games has its own unique trading
system, if your game is on the Most
Wanted list you can trade 2 for 1. If your
game is not on the list, you can trade it
in for store credits that you can save up
for a game of your choice.
In the front of the store you find
polished like diamonds, gaming consoles
that have some of the most wanted
games inside for you to play.
You’ll hear the laughs of children playing
on consoles, and you’ll see their smiling
faces beaming at their parents for letting
them stay that bit longer.
E.B. Games electric logo!
The PS3 sold at E.B. Games
for $299 99.
Roger can I ask you a few questions?
“Sure, let’s get started.”
Q. When and where were you born?
A. I was born in a small town in Quebec in 1962.
Q. How many games have you made so far?
A. The studio has made 7 games in the last 5 years. We’ve made two games for the Wii, and five
games for the DS.
Q. What is the next game you are making?
A. We are working on a remake of The Bards Tale for the iPhone and iPad. It’s going to be the
biggest and best looking game on the platform.
Q. How did your company start?
A. We started the studio after many years of working at a larger company (EA). We wanted to work
with smaller, more creative teams.
Q. What did you study in University to work in the gaming industry?
A. I got a BSc in Electrical Engineering with a specialty in computers.
Q. What is your favourite game?
A. My favourite game is Diablo because I like fantasy RPG’s, especially action oriented ones
Roger Freddi is the CEO of Jet Back Games. He has been working
in this company for all 5 years it has been running. He started
his gaming career working for a big company called EA. He worked
at EA for 7 years. While at Ea he was a programmer for the
company.
Alright, let’s get to the interview!
Q. What was the first gaming system you played?
A. The first game I played was Pong on the Atari.
Q. Are you excited for the new 3 DS?
A. I saw the 3DS at the E3 convention this year. It really works! We are excited to be
negotiating a contract at the moment for our first game on the 3DS.
Q. Are most of your games given to you by Nintendo or thought up by your company?
A. We do a combination of games for big publishers like Activision as well as games we self
publish. The games we do for the big publishers are usually their idea but we take the basic
idea and design and develop the entire game
Q. When did your company start?
A .We started in late 2006.
Q. What ideas do you have for future games?
A. We have many ideas but they are all super top secret.
Q. Who is your biggest competitor?
A. We have many competitors. Sometimes we even make games for our competition.
Q. What is your biggest accomplishment?
A. Our game Purr Pals got published in Japan and did very well commercially.
Q. How did your company start?
A. We started the studio after many years of working at a larger company (EA). We wanted to work
with smaller, more creative teams.
Q. What game are you the most proud of making?
A. That would have to be Purr Pals for the DS because my daughter likes it the most.
Interview
continued
Thank you for taking the time to come to
this interview.
“It’s my pleasure.”
To Publisher/Editor Dylan Freddi
I liked the fact that you told about what type of
gaming systems you got and how you got your job
from your father. I also like how you explained how
well your business did and what you yourself did to
improve the business.
To: Editor/Publisher Dylan Freddi
Dylan I liked your article because of how you told
me what there is in store. I also liked it because I
can relate to this article because I have been there
and now I know my way of the land even better. In
this article I learned about the top game list and
that you can trade games in for others. But, I have a
question. When you talk about the games at the
front of the store that you can play, are the games
demos or are they the actual game?
Thanks Hank
To: Editor/publisher Dylan Freddi
I liked your article how to by games from the play
station store because it would be very relevant to
anybody with a PS3. There are a couple of things I
didn’t really like though. One was that I didn’t really
get question #5. Also I noticed a couple of writing
mistakes. But overall it was good though.
Please write back, Brody
To: Anonymous source
Thank you for your complements
on my life I know it was really
great.
To: Hank Lendvoy
At the front of the store the games
are not demos they are the full
games. I thank you for the
compliments on my article.
To: Brody
Thank you for taking the time to send
me this letter. I like it when people
send me letters criticizing my work
because then I can go and work on
the stuff I did wrong.
Did you know that Assassins Creed: Brotherhood is based on real facts
and events? It has great graphics and is very fun to just explore
Rome/Roma. You can send your assassin recruits on missions to help
stop the Borgia Templar. The story line is very well written and is very
interesting to play.
I had a great fun in playing this game because it has so many things you
can do in it such as: you can play through the story line as Ezio Alditore,
you can go out and do missions for your friends, you can go destroy
Leonardo’s war machines, you can go searching for chests with riches
beyond your wildest dreams, you can play online against other people,
you can go looking for
Borgia flags, you can go
destroy the Borgia
towers and you can
spend your cash:
rebuilding Rome/ Roma,
buying weapons,
colouring your clothes
and buying medicine.
Online multiplayer is very addicting. You can play manhunt and take
turns assassinating the other team and hiding from the other team.
Another game mode is free for all and you get assigned targets that you
have to assassinate and at the same time you get chased by other
players. The last game mode is called alliance. In alliance there are 4
teams of 2 and you get one team as a target and one team hunting you.
Assassins Creed: Brotherhood is an amazing game and is my 3rd
favourite game of all time.
More Lego Games
Funny old collection, of worlds previously held together
It is all primed to bring Star Wars back
Could be the Best Game
Ever to take place
In a galaxy far far away
Impressive, most impressive
But not a Jedi yet
The game is set to do it
Battle as a Jedi and build tanks
Fly around giant capital ships
Looking to be immense
Play with a friend
Battling many parsecs away
Eliminate the death star
Visuals are lush
Animations bang on
Music is “the bomb”
Wrapped up in slapstick humour
The chosen one this game may be
Found Poem by Dylan Freddi Adapted from ____________ LEGO STAR WARS III: THE CLONE WARS
Get it while
you can!
Q: When I opened my Xbox 360
disk drive it got loose and stuck
open. What should I do?
A: Knowing about this problem
from having it myself, you can’t
really do much about this. Since
Microsoft will allow only them to
fix this, you’ll have to send it to
the nearest Microsoft store for
them to fix it. The wait will be
around ½ to 1 month.
Q: Even though I rented a movie
off the play station, it buffers
every few seconds. How do I fix
this?
A: This is caused by watching a
movie that plays past the amount
of film downloaded. The way to fix
this is to wait for the movie to
finish downloading. I usually
download the movie the day
before so it can finish
downloading.
Q: When I quit matchmaking on
Halo: Reach, I get banned. How
long is this ban?
A: This ban obviously is stupid, you
bet banned for quitting a match!
Well, the ban is 20 minutes and it
will constantly tell you that if you
quit matchmaking you will be
banned for a few minutes. I got
banned for I think an hour trying
to get on the right map to
complete a challenge.
Q: Even though I bought
minecraft, when I try to log on it
won’t let me. How do I fix this?
A: This does not have anything to
do with your computer. Notch: the
maker of the game is having
difficulties keeping the game
servers up. You’ll just have to wait
for notch to bring up the server
again.
Q: Although I mine on minecraft
for a long time I still can’t find
diamonds. Is this a problem or is
this just me?
A: This is not a problem. I would
try mining in a different area of
your world. Also, mine between
layers 1 and 16, which is 1 to 16
layers above bedrock.
Q: If I try playing an Xbox disk, it
comes up as unreadable and clean
with a soft cloth. I tried this and it
didn’t work. What’s wrong?
This problem is caused by breaking
the middle of the disk when
placing it in the disk case you buy
it in if the case is too tight. You will
be able to use it maybe every 15
trys. I would just buy a new disk.
Q: If I try to disassemble the Xbox
disk drive, I can’t figure how do I
fix this?
A: First you need the Xbox with no
cables in it, then put it on its side
and take off the faceplate. Then
take of the silver Xbox sticker
which will show when you take off
the faceplate, after that you take
off the side that the Xbox sticker
was on. Then remove the other
side and the top. Unscrew the 3
screws near the top ant 3 screws
near the bottom. Then take out
the disk drive.
Q: Although I mine a block in minecraft
multiplayer it reappears over and over again.
How do I fix this?
A: This is BLOCK LAG! The most hated lag in
the universe of minecraft. You can’t fix this
problem without hacking. You must live with
it.
Q: As I press the “touch” power button on
the playstation 3, it won’t power off. How
does this work?
A: The “touch” power button on this system
needs you to hold your finger down for
maybe 10-15 seconds. This is because it is
heat operated and it takes a few seconds to
recognize a heat signature. I know it takes a
while but most systems have their faults.
Q: As I press the sync button on
the Xbox controller and the
console, it won’t sync. What am I
doing wrong?
A: You have to click the sync
button on the console at the same
time as the controller. You also
have to hold it down for 10
seconds. If this doesn’t work try
just tapping them at the same
time.
Halo Combat Evolved original release photo.
The first Halo game was Halo: Combat Evolved. It
was released on November 15, 2001 and sold 5
million copies from release to 2005. The
company that made this mind-blowing game is
Bungie. It was the first game for the original Xbox
and was in the first Xbox bundle. The game is
played in a 1st person view unless you are in a
vehicle when you will be in 3rd person view. The
character you play as in Halo: Combat Evolved is
Master Chief, a genetically enhanced super
human who is in the UNSC army. If you are in a
passenger seat in a vehicle you are in 1st person
view too. You will have an energy shield which
will take your all your damage till it is depleted
then the damage will hurt your HP and you will
die, happily your energy shield will recharge if
you don’t take damage for a while. Master Chief
can carry 4 fragmentation grenades and 4 plasma
grenades, for a total of 8 grenades. The Halo
universe in this game has 3 different enemies the
United Nation Space Command (UNSC) must
fight to survive. The main threat is the Covenant,
aliens united by religious belief. They have 4
kinds of warriors: Elites, the commanders of the
force. Grunts, cowardly foes that make the main
force. Jackals, scouts that have energy shields on
their hands. Hunters, Big creatures with laser
cannons on their arms and full body armour.
Another enemy is the Flood, Parasites that have
3 different forms: Infection forms which are very
weak but have many in a group. Combat Forms
which are human or covenant forces that have
been overcome by the flood. Bloated Carrier
Forms which are old combat forms that hatch
more Infection forms and explode when
threatened. Last are the Sentinels, robotic drones
with powerful lasers and weak armour.
The first Halo assault rifle in halo:
Combat Evolved.
Halo has become one of the most famous game series in the past
decade, selling millions of copies and making it a huge title for itself in
the gaming industry.
This game series has changed a lot
over the time it was made to the
2010 release of Halo: Reach. Halo:
Combat Evolved at the time was
considered one of the best looking
games of its time. Now with the
releases of HD and 3D gaming the
first version of Halo looks terrible
compared to Halo: 3, Halo: 3 ODST
and Halo: Reach, the latest game
from Bungie’s famous series of Halo.
Some of the weapons have been
added over time such as: Spartan
laser, grav hammer, grenade
launcher, mauler, concussion rifle,
DMR, needle rifle, plasma launcher
and fuel-rod gun. Some new vehicles
have also been added: Falcon,
revenant, sabre and phantoms.
In the creation of the Halo series
some people have been crucial in
bringing this series to life. One of the
most important people is Alex
Seropian. He is the founder of Bungie,
the company that created the series
Halo. The other founder is Jason
Jones. Jason did most of the coding
and Alex was a business man. Bungie
joined with Microsoft to create Halo:
Combat Evolved and make it an Xbox
only title. Martin O’Donnell was
Bungie’s composer of the music in all
their games. Microsoft had a part in
bringing Halo to life. Bungie joined a
division of Microsoft to release Halo:
combat Evolved and it did so well that
they made 2 more games, Halo: 2 and
Halo: 3.
Halo has had some problems in the
time it’s been in the gaming industry.
Let’s start with Halo: Combat
Evolved’s problems. There was a
problem where if you look down a
scope the center would be grey or
black. Another one is the screen is
covered with coloured triangles and
you can’t see anything. This one is
when you make a server and no one
can join. Next is Halo: 2. When
installing Halo: 2 your screen spins
and you can’t control it. Halo: 3’s
problems. In the limited edition
packaging the disks got loose and
scratched up in the case. The Halo 3
multiplayer sometimes made the
screen smaller.
I think that halo will keep going till in
the story either the covenant or the
UNSC defeats one another. New
weapons and vehicles will show up,
new characters and maybe even 3D.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox
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ombat_Evolved
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(se
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post/707434/halo-reach-weapons-
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Halo: Reach disk case.
Alex Seropian: Founder of Bungie.
I turn on the Xbox and log onto my profile.
Find I have 12 friends online, just enough to
play a match of Search & Destroy. I then
message everyone saying...
“Hello everybody, join my session to play a
match of Search & Destroy”.
Within 2 minutes I had a lobby of 12
people and a map voted for. The map is
Nuketown. Everyone on my team discussed
a plan.
BunnE said “let’s just camp in the house
we spawn in and wait for them to come to
us”.
Everyone else agreed we should camp in
the house and slowly pick them off.
The game starts and everyone finds a spot
in the yellow house to camp in. I chose the
garage because you can hide in the corner
and go around the back to stop anybody
going around the right side of the house.
First, all the other team came at our house.
The other team lost lemonade in the blue
house second floor when he walked up the
stairs and got sniped by BunnE. Then BunnE
got killed by soursniper when he came
around the bus and saw BunnE show up on
the radar. But he got killed by a grenade
thrown from me across the delivery truck.
Then I saw Waggy65 by knifing him as he
came around the garage.
Waggy65 got mad and quit the match
saying “Wow that was really stupid”.
So then it was 6 on my team and 5 on
lemonades team. Prple Dragon threw a
tomahawk and it hit a barrel and blew up
getting the round ending killcam and a
double kill. Next round we did the same
thing: camp in the yellow house. At the
start I threw a frag grenade and got a triple
kill. Then BunnE ran out and got killed by
lemonade. 3 of our team leave because
they aren’t doing anything saying
“This is boring”.
Then lemonade shot a grenade launcher at
the same time as me and they collided in
the air and killed him but not me because I
had flak jacket on. Then Prple Dragon
throws a 360 tomahawk and kills
CrazyBeaver, Winning the second round as
well.
At the start of the third round it was a 3 on
5 match. But then 2 on the other team quit
for unknown reasons. It started out Crazy
beaver getting a double grenade kill on
Prple Dragon and BunnE though the top
window of the yellow house. Then I got a
sniper and quick scoped Crazy Beaver while
he was cooking a grenade and it blew up
and killed lemonade. So it was me vs. sour
sniper. But he saw me on the radar when I
killed CrazyBeaver so I got killed by sour
sniper when I was in the delivery truck. So
the score was 2-1 in the fourth round.
Our team all took semtex and grenade
launchers for round four. It started by Prple
Dragon sticking soursniper beside the
school bus but then I got killed by Crazy
Beaver. Then BunnE killed Crazy Beaver
with a grenade launcher. BunnE ran around
the other house but got killed by lemonade.
So it was Prple Dragon vs. lemonade at the
end of round 4. What happened is Prple
dragon ran around the school bus and saw
lemonade in the window and threw a
semtex in the window and stuck lemonade
to bring the score to 3-1.
“This is going to be hard to win this now”
said lemonade.
The fifth round starts and Crazy Beavers
team has to win 3 rounds in a row to win
the game. At the start Crazy Beaver kills
Prple Dragon when Prple dragon came out
the door and didn’t see Crazy Beaver lying
on the ground outside the house. But when
Crazy beaver showed up on my radar I came
out and knifed him. Just on the outside of
my screen I see lemonade trying to sneak
up on BunnE so I killed him right after he
killed BunnE. Lemonade comes out of his
house while I turn around and no scope him
in the head to win the game 4-1 for my
team.
Everyone still there voted for a new match
but I had to leave so they couldn’t do
another match because of a shortage of
people. And that’s the story of a Match of
Search & Destroy.
The Gamers Guide: 10 Q & A Quiz
1. Who made the first gaming system
a. Nintendo
b. Atari
c. Sega
2. Who made the x-box 360?
a. Sony
b. Microsoft
c. Nintendo
3. Who made the Playstation 3?
a. Nintendo
b. Sony
c. Sega
d. Apple
4. Who made the I phone
a. Apple
b. Sony
c. Nintendo
5. Who owns Nintendo
a. Satori Lwata
b. Peter Griffin
c. Michael Lamel
d. Duncan Polo
Quiz continued
6. Who owns Microsoft
a. Steve Nash
b. Paul Allen
c. Bill Gates
7. Where is the Sony Headquarters located?
a. New York, USA
b. Tokyo, Japan
c. Ottawa, Canada
8. What was the first game ever made
a. Mario
b. Pong
c. Donkey Kong
d. Legend of Zelda
9. What was the first game with Mario in it?
a. Mario
b. Legend of Zelda
c. Donkey Kong
d. Pong
10. When did the first game come out?
a. 1980
b. 1890
c. 1940
d. 2001
e. 1984
Go to next page for answers
Answers to Quiz
1. b.
2. b.
3. b.
4. a.
5. a.
6. c.
7. b.
8. b.
9. c.
10. c.
Score
1-4. Get off this magazine!
5-6. Couch Potato
6-10. Hardcore Gamer
If you chose a. For #6 you are a basketball fanatic
If you chose b. For #5 you always watch TV.
Thanks for doing the Quiz.