As of today at 4:40pm CST our website was announced on Rock 103 in Memphis. I had wrote a short email telling the afternoon announcers "Dennis and Ric" about our little adult heaven in gaming land. They read my email and announced our website URL to thousands of people not only in the Memphis area, but around the world since the broadcasts are available via the internet. To check out their website, go to http://www.rock103.com. For more information on contacting your local radio stations with information about our website, contact myself or doodirock and well help you out!

- Mike James

Today marks the day of days for mature gamers everywhere, for today we embark on a new adventure in the online gaming community. The Grand Opening of the new 2Old2Play website has been marked with excitement, anticipation and joy as we begin our attempt to bring old gamers together. We have much planned for this site so I hope you all will enjoy your stay and keep the requests for new features coming. I would like to start with a special thanks to all the members out there that sacrificed their time, money and families to help what we hope to be the best mature gamer site on this place we call the World Wide Web. A very special thanks goes to DoodIRock. Without your dedication, efforts, and lack of a real job we would not be here today. DSmooth, you may be one of the biggest geeks I know and I mean that as a fellow geek. Your knowledge and expertise in programming has helped us greatly in the past few weeks. And to the others here that have helped mold this site to what it is today, Thank you. One more very special thank you goes out to Lytis Interactive for allowing the use of their servers to post this great site!

We would also like to thank all the new members to the site. Without members this site would be pointless. We pledge to you a haven where you can be sure to be amongst mature and honest gamers, a place where you can be yourself, a burrow you can call your own. Please feel free to post your suggestions in the proper forum threads for consideration.

Furthermore, I would like to say......GAME ON DORKS!

-Knaabi

The people over at Mega-X-Key have been cool enough to sponsor the 2old2play site and help us to give away 5 of thier amazing Mega-X-keys. The "key" is a usb device that also works with your xbox to unlock the power of your game console. The key can be used to transfer all sorts of data from the Xbox to your PC. With the data on your PC, you can trade games save, maps, and most importantly game variants from Halo 2. So how is this useful? Well we all know what a pain it is to try and enter in game variants by hand. This way, you can trade variants with friends without the hassle. Simply plug your X-key into your Xbox and transfer the variant into your Xbox dashboard!

So how do you trade variants with friends?
Well, in the coming month, 2old2play will be releasing yet another feature for its members that will allow them to upload their own game variants, maps, and games saves so that other members can download them and trade with each other. This will really come in handy when tournaments require specific game variants. We can upload them so that all the hosts can maintain the same game rules.

Sounds Good? Want a Free Key?
Yeah, we thought so. So to give away the first 2 we will be hosting a 2 v 2 tournaments to see who can battle it out and win. The top team will receive 2 free Mega-X-Keys. Check the tournament forums for more news about when to sign up. The second 2 keys will go to the top 2 best game variant creators for Halo 2. Do you have a cool variant that you think people would like? Then show us in the game variants forum. Post your variant and our site judges will play through them. Will take a vote and choose which two we like the best. The last Key will be given away to the best news submission on our home page. Many members have already submitted many cool tutorials and news. All these submission will be fair game for the mega-x-key. A vote will be taken from all our members on which article they liked the best. The winner will get the final Key.

So when does this happen?
Stayed tuned and watch this space! We should be announcing the tournament very soon as well as the beta feature. Post your variants in the game variant forum now! We will be testing these games throughout the month and will pick a winner by the end of May. As for the articles, keep summiting stuff that you think our members would like to read about. We will hold a poll in mid May to determine who has the best article.

-doodi

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Indianapolis, RCA Convention Center, you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, we must be cautious... Where Star Wars Celebration III was held, and man what a site it was. This was my second Star Wars (SW) celebration, which is slightly different than your typical convention, I was prepared, or so I thought… If you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be in a SW universe full of Jedi, Storm/Clone Troopers, Darth Vader’s, Bounty Hunters, Wookies, and Droids, then this was the place to be. Walking towards the RCA convention center the first day was interesting; we came up on 100's of Storm Troopers gathered together waiting to beat us commoners into submission. They were the 501st Legion of Storm Troopers assigned to keeping the piece throughout the celebration each wearing authentic Storm Trooper uniforms. It was a site to see let me tell ya, I have pictures too, so you can see for yourselves.

OK, so what goes on at a SW Celebration event?
There were tons of things to see. We started off by eating lunch. Lame as that sounds it took us 2.5-3 hours just to get through the damn doors. The lines were insane to say the least. I have a pic posted, and let me just tell you that what that shows is NOTHING compared to what it really was. That picture is a 3rd of the actual length of the line. It was like Great American twist and turn type lines times 20!! Just insanity, so by the time we finally made it into the event, we were starved. So we sat in the cafeteria eating with Jedi and Storm Troopers alike, as if we were good enough to sit with them… crazy!

The event had many sites to see. There was a room that had a constant loop of fan films always playing all day, perfect place to chill and let your feet come back to life (some funny shit too). They had a room that was dedicated to showing off some of the items that were used in the movies, museum style (see my pics) which were very cool, the wookies and Vader costume specifically. There was a room dedicated to those crazy ass peeps who create their very own remote control R2 units, which were bad ass let me tell you. There was usually one R2 roaming around the main floors beeping and chirping as everyone walked by, very cool! There was a main room where all of the vendors set up booths to sell their wares, your typical shop keeper types and then there were the real store booths, Hasbro, Lego and Lucas Arts. Each one was a spectacle to be seen.

The new SW Hasbro line of toys look very bad ass, I’ll post pics in my Flickr site soon so check back later. The Lego section was crazy, life size Vader, Wookie (no pic sorry) and R2-D2, plus sections for the kids to just get there hands wet and PLAY. When I say kids I mean me  And the Lucas Arts section was always mobbed because they were letting everyone play SW Battlefront II and of course SW Revenge of the Sith. Battlefront II looked old school. At least from what I saw it had a feel from one of the original first person SW PC games that I can’t think of the name of at the moment, but I dug it. ROTS game looked VERY cool. They had the jedi moves down. You can play in two modes, movie mode where you literally go through the movie as your main characters or Mortal Kombat mode (that’s what I call it anyway) where you pick your character and then fight each other over two rounds. Force throws, force electricity, force running, light saber moves etc. Gameplay was smooth and easy, typical of what we’ve come to expect… even though the 10 year old kid next to me kicked my ass and I was out of there after two lame rounds  Little bastard I’ll find you!!

Guest Speakers
The best parts for me at this event where the guest speakers. I had the privilege of watching a live interview with Nick Gillard the stunt coordinator on all of the prequel episodes and many other films like Sleepy Hallow, Rein of Fire and many more. He’s responsible for CREATING the light saber styles as we have come to know it, fast and furious as Jedi at their zenith would be expected to be. He was very cool and expressed a possibility of writing a book in the future where he will teach his light saber martial art style, which is essentially a style that takes everything that is good and useful from multiple sword styles and combines them into one…which for any martial artists out there is very Bruce Lee (that’s what his Jeet Kune Do was all about).

I also had the privilege of watching an interview of all the lead pre-visualization designers in the art department of Skywalker Ranch. These are the guys responsible for creating the characters, ships and landscapes prior to ILM turning them into 3D models. They were all very cool and just talked about what it was like working for Lucas on these SW projects. One of the guys had been there since ’77, that’s the beginning folks, and was responsible for building many of the models that were used throughout each movie. The model department has gravitated from making the ship models which are all primarily done CG now into making the landscape models. Like the Wookie tree dwellings on Kashyyyk and the Lava pits on Mustafar. They showed several pictures of the models which were of course very cool and interesting to see the scale.

What you really want to know
Before this becomes a book or a post in the league of JS I’ll get to what you all want to know… did I see any extra footage of the movie and if so, how the hell was it? The answer… yes, we got to see about 10 minutes of the film in a montage type form which was accompanied by music composed by John Williams. The presentation was given by Rick McCallum who has produced each of these prequels and the Young Indiana Jones’s. But before he really did much talking he showed the clip. Let me just tell you that if this movie turns out to suck, their marketing department, or whoever cut this clip up, deservers a fucking raise. This clip had me and the entire audience salivating for more.
***begin potential spoilers here, if you know nothing about the movie that is***
The fight between Yoda and the Emperor Palpatine… IN-FUCKING-SANE!!!! Well worth the price of admission, but wait, there’s more. They showed a nice chunk of the light saber battle between Obi-Wan and Anakin, which is said to be between 10 and 15 minutes long mind you, and it too was IN-FUCKING-SANE!!! As DS would say, it Rocks the Clit ™... BIG TIME! Many other scenes, landscapes and what not that looked amazing. Opening battle looked very cool, camera angles used, sheer number of ships, so impressive sooooo much to look at. Talk about eye candy, DAMN! There were clips of Obi talking to a pretty damn pregnant Amidala, which looked like they were plotting what should happen to the kids, clips with Bail Organa looking very distraught, and his ship… can you say the opening scene in A New Hope, SAME FUCKING SHIP all white, so bad ass!! Can you tell I’m geeked about this, sorry.

Let me just tell you, this clip by itself was well worth all of the line standing that I did the entire trip.
***end potential spoilers ***

After the presentation of the clip Rick went on to talk abut what Lucas had to see earlier that day. Yes, Lucas was there, but I sure as hell wasn’t about to sleep inline outside just to hear him talk and besides Rick told us what he said  This was about the upcoming SW TV show which will occur between Episode III and IV. They are going to film about 100 hours of shows, similar to how they did the Young Indie and then put them on TV. Nothing has been completely ironed out as they’ve been busy with ROTS, which had just been completed with visual F/X, sound and score two days prior. He and George had watched it then and he said it was exactly what we’ve all been waiting for. Lets hope he’s right this time and that their marketing department aren’t just full of genius’s.

He then proceeded to play the clip for us one more time 

That’s about it. I never stood in this many lines in my life and hope to never have to again. There were some great costumes of which I tried to capture and there were some lame costumes of which I laughed at and wondered why they even bothered (I didn’t take pics of those). It was a 4 day event and it was fun as hell.

One more thing, if you want to talk surreal, on Saturday night we went to a bar right around the corner from the convention center and there were Storm Troopers in full uniform drinking, Jedi eating… it was great!

So, I hope I didn’t bore you with too much detail. It was fun as hell and I’m glad that I did it. The movie looks like it’s going to rock so until then, we wait!

Peace and thanks for reading… see you on live!

- Ebola

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Hello and welcome to 2old2play.com. As you can see we have started something really special here and we are happy the others can finally see our progress. We apologize for any slow down in site performance as of late. Recently we were featured on halo.bungie.org and have since been flooded with new visitors. Our server was just not prepared for this influx so it is taking some time to adjust. In the mean time I would just like to welcome all the new people to the site and let them know that we will adjust to this growth ASAP.

For now, please take the time to sign up for our forums and look into our clan area. Every clan receives their own private forum to meet and discuss their team’s strategy for their game. These clans will represent the future of our site when we release our premium ladder software. Each clan will be able to participate in site tournaments, ladders, and team challenges as the season goes on. The feature list we have planned is extensive and should make any oldie happy.

For now we have a growing list of already functioning features to help you enjoy your time here at 2old2play. We have created a Halo Stats page where you can plug in your own Bungie feed and review your last games on our site. Soon this feature will tie in with our Who’s Online feed so you can also know who is actually playing what game while you’re on site.

We also encourage our members to enter in their clan data, gamertag, and the games they own. This data is used in our GamerTags feature. Members use this area to find a list of existing members’ games. This is an easy way to see what games people have and what their gamer tag is. That way your can build up a quick friends list and get straight to what you like doing, gaming!

Video tutorials are also a large part of the sites monthly function. We will be releasing new videos each month that review, teach, or entertain you through the use of game captured footage. Expect much more once the archive footage is built up. For now, we have turned off this feature to accommodate new influx of visitors.

We also have begun theme changes to the site. Any registered member can change the look of the site to a certain theme they think represents them. At the moment we have created a Halo 2 and Splinter Cell theme, but more are certainly on the way. This should make the site a little better to come to each day, as we have found a site’s look can get old fast.

The list of features we have planned is enormous and grows daily. We hope that you spend enough time with 2old2play to see everything we have planned. If you have any questions please head over to our forums Help area and a moderator will assist you. If you would like to contact the staff directly please email us at admin@2old2play.com. Thanks again for the visit

- doodi

If everything goes according to plan, both Ebola and I could be representing the older crowd this May at the 2005 E3 convention. If you don’t know, E3 is basically the Mecca of the gaming world. Each year thousands of people flock the L.A to meet for 3 days of gaming bliss. Any and every game developer and hardware manufacture will be there to show off their latest and greatest. The big stir this year is that Micro$oft will be unveiling their new flagship console, code name Xenon, in front of the lucky few at the convention. Talk of the PS3 has also been noted although many speculate that they will choose another venue as to not compete with the MS lime light. I for one will be mostly focused on all the new games that are in development. Most notably is a new game from Bungie defector and former CEO Alex Seropian called Stubbs the Zombie. This and many of the other hot sequels should be more then enough to keep my gaming addiction fixed.

In any event we just hope 2old2play.com will be there covering all the news from the exhibition floor and feeding it back to you. All we need to do now is make sure the press people at E3 get a good look at our naked bodies as Ebola and I streak the conference floor for shameless promotion. Possibly a 2old2play cheek tattoo is in order? Oh and I don’t mean on my face.

- doodi

As of today at 4:40pm CST our website was announced on Rock 103 in Memphis. I had wrote a short email telling the afternoon announcers "Dennis and Ric" about our little adult heaven in gaming land. They read my email and announced our website URL to thousands of people not only in the Memphis area, but around the world since the broadcasts are available via the internet. To check out their website, go to http://www.rock103.com. For more information on contacting your local radio stations with information about our website, contact myself or doodirock and well help you out!

- Mike James

Today marks the day of days for mature gamers everywhere, for today we embark on a new adventure in the online gaming community. The Grand Opening of the new 2Old2Play website has been marked with excitement, anticipation and joy as we begin our attempt to bring old gamers together. We have much planned for this site so I hope you all will enjoy your stay and keep the requests for new features coming. I would like to start with a special thanks to all the members out there that sacrificed their time, money and families to help what we hope to be the best mature gamer site on this place we call the World Wide Web. A very special thanks goes to DoodIRock. Without your dedication, efforts, and lack of a real job we would not be here today. DSmooth, you may be one of the biggest geeks I know and I mean that as a fellow geek. Your knowledge and expertise in programming has helped us greatly in the past few weeks. And to the others here that have helped mold this site to what it is today, Thank you. One more very special thank you goes out to Lytis Interactive for allowing the use of their servers to post this great site!

We would also like to thank all the new members to the site. Without members this site would be pointless. We pledge to you a haven where you can be sure to be amongst mature and honest gamers, a place where you can be yourself, a burrow you can call your own. Please feel free to post your suggestions in the proper forum threads for consideration.

Furthermore, I would like to say......GAME ON DORKS!

-Knaabi