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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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

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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.