Arumi’s Blog

There are many experiences that I could cite as being incredibly influential to my development as a gamer. Building my first computer, sharing a N64 console with my brother, receiving a Gameboy Color system for Christmas, playing Diablo II obsessively throughout college – all of these experiences are valuable to me, each in their own [...]

Greetings, citizens of teh interwebs! (apologies for my overall lack of image/text formatting, I admit this is quite the lazy post. :p )

I really should write something amazingly witty, or an insightful article that will blow you away with inconceivable questions and/or highly researched arguments. However, it’s quite late at night, and I’ve actually decided [...]

Lately, there have been several new learning experiences that I’ve been looking to incorporate into my daily routine. As some of you know, I am (finally!) in possession of Adobe Creative Suite 4: Design Premium edition, after approximately two months of debating with Adobe Customer Service. Yes, my Adobe CS4 is a legitimate, legal, monetarily [...]

A genre that is becoming increasingly more popular among the gamer demographic is the “free-to-play” online gaming entertainment market. Games that offer a free social interaction experience are becoming a huge phenomenon, often surpassing some “Paid Subscription” games in number of active monthly users. As a business model, offering an interactive online game free of [...]

I suppose you could say that I’ve played a lot of MMORPG’s. Well… perhaps more than is really considered to be either “healthy” or “socially acceptable”. ( :-P ) Here is the comprehensive list – I have included all MMO’s that I’ve been semi-addicted to, over several years time. Some I loved, some I hated, [...]

As time goes on, I’m becoming a bit less critical of my DSi. So far, it has withstood the test of a few months, and is still interesting. DSi – Ware is being released on a semi-regular basis, which gives me yet another game-related expense to be tempted to incur. xD I’ve actually been playing [...]

As far as the Frag Doll Casting Call, I was able to make the finalists! Ubisoft flew me out to Los Angeles, California along with the five other awesome finalists. We were responsible for helping demo specific Ubisoft games at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo). I got to demo Red Steel 2, along with a few [...]

I made the semi-finalists in the 2009 Casting Call of Ubisoft’s all-girl gaming team the Frag Dolls! You can watch my video here. (… and vote for me if you’d like :) ) Anyway, on the forum community for the Frag Doll team, several members have asked questions to be answered by the semi-finalits. This [...]

I’m working on recording some gameplay footage for a random application that I’m working on. Finding a simple, effective program to record gameplay on my PC was fairly easy. Finding a way to record gameplay on my Xbox 360 to my PC… not so easy. Anyway, I did some research, and figured out the easiest [...]

If you’re looking for the simplified directions to convert music into AAC format that is compatible with your DSi (by using iTunes or another program) click here.

The music manipulator on the DSi really is fun to play with. :-P
Anyway, I figured I’d write a bit more of how to properly encode and convert your music [...]