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Hello,

Woot, I managed to survive the Holidays and here we are into the New Year!

I hope the Holidays treated you well and your New Year is a great one. 

The past few weeks are a blur. The Holidays were really good to me, ate ...and ate ...and drank, drank some more and was quite merry indeed. I scored lots groovy loot and all. New Years we stayed in and brought in the New Year in the safety of our cave, and boy did we bring in the New Year with a bang.

I spent the 1st week of the New Year just laying low and recovering from the Holiday madness, getting some quality game time in no less. There is no shortage of great gaming goodness to be had on the 360. I have been playing CoD 3, R6:Vegas, GoW, Viva Pinata, and Phantasy Star. There is just not enough time in the day I tell you...its not fair.

Week 2 the customers started coming out of the woodwork keeping us busy, that's a good thing I need to be able to afford my game habit. Gaming was never hobby or was I ever an enthusiast ...its a down right Gaming habit, its all good. I have been a gamer since 1977.

 My game habit just doubled, I managed to score a Nintendo Wii Thursday! I really was not actively seeking to get a Wii,but I knew I would get one eventually. I feel it was an act by unseen forces of the universe "hooking me up". It was just totally random out of the blue thought that I had to call one of the local Game Stops, while I was deep into creating some digital art. To my shock and amazement they just got 3 in.

I am totally in love with the Wii, its such a fun little thing to play ...its all about fun it is! Wii Sports are a blast to play, I am not into sports at all but it love them on the Wii. I also Got Zelda:Twilight Princess which has been great fun. The Wii'mote is a brilliant interface device for games, it adds a new element to immersion of the gaming experience which I really like. Today I am going to get the RayMan: Raving Rabbids game, and WarioWare come out this week too. I don't know if I can handle all this great gaming goodness, but I am sure Ill find a way to cope somehow.

Its funny I can go anywhere and get a PS3 now but Wii's are not to be found in the wild. Wii cables and extra Wii'motes and nunchuchs are virtually non existent.

Well that's all for now. Peace out y'all!

Warm greetings yall,

Its been a while since I have posted anyhting, I have been rather busy with holiday stuff and other projects around here. I am just going to keep this post short and to the point.

 Happy Holidays and a wonderfull New Year wishes to you all!

Hello Yall,

I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving or Fall Harvest Feast. We had a great Thanksgiving feast here, great food and drink and loads of gaming! I have been in a bit of a uberbinge of gaming with Gears of War, Call of Duty 3, and yes Viva Pinata! Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6:Vegas is coming in this week too.

My loved one and our herd of cats are about to revolt I fear, so I have come back to meatspace for a visit. Even my PC has protested my long absence, I haven't booted it in weeks...it decided to pitch a bitch and not boot right the 1st attempt. Because of my long absence from my PC  I had to spend a good 30 minutes getting all the MS OS and AV updates, time well spent ooh yes, MS had to reboot my PC 3 freaking times for the updates! I was quickly reminded why I really do love my Mac and use it daily.

Anyway... wow the PS3 and Wii have launched. OMFG the PS3 launch was a freakshow, nightmare, and utter Anarchy even. People were camping the lines and braving crappy weather and then get robbed, beaten, trampled and SHOT too!  I don't really understand the camping thing , but getting damaged and or robbed for a console launch is totally unimaginable. The Wii was a very peaceful launch affair in comparison it was a sellout.

We totally plan to get a Wii , most likely at the beginning of the new year for sure. The PS3 holds no interest for us, not feeling much love for Sony at all. 

Nintendo and the Xbox 360 are looking to have a great holiday sale season. I can tell the 360 is doing great because while playing some Gears on Live this weekend I encountered many new 360 owners and they said Gears of War is why they came to the 360 and they are loving the experience.

Also adding to the great Xbox Live experience the new Video Marketplace is onlive and apparently had a greater than expected demand on launch day. I really like what I see there I think its a solid launch and I look forward to seeing more partners join in and provide content. I do hope the Xbox 360 hardware folks  do re-evaluate the consumer desire for a larger capacity Hardrive for the 360. With a Video marketplace in play now 12 gigs of user addressable space seems a bit too cramped now.

Well thats all for now, Peace yall!

Hello yall,

Wow what a week it has been, I don't know where to start a dizzying array of events has unfolded.

I guess Ill start with the elections, democracy is not dead and Americans got out and voted. America got out and spoke out loudly, VERY loudly, the democrats now have majority in both houses. Also is seems we are needing another Defense Secretary, ole Rumsfeld is out of a job. The winds of change are blowing and its all good.

Rumsfeld as a Mac dock Icon : ) If it was only so easy to get rid of him earlier.

Now for something completely different....

GEARS of WAR is here!

I am now the proud owner of Gears of War and its the crowning jewel of my 360 library! I must say I was really worried about this game there was so much hype, how could anything survive that kind of crushing weight of hype and high expectations. The hype didn't come close to the real world experience, GoW is utterly AMAZING. GoW is one of the most intense ,brutal, and cinematic fabulous games I have ever played. To say the graphics are great is understatement of the year. The sound is amazing it adds to the immersion and tension in a flawless way. I don't think anyone would would argue that the audio or visual fidelity of this game is truly next gen and top notch. Now to the meat of it gameplay, it plays 3rd person over the shoulder which it works really well. The use of cover and moving from cover to cover is brilliant in its ease of use and usage as a gameplay element. Firing from cover and aiming is really easy, not saying hitting the targets is easy...there is no auto aim crap here. The action is deliberate and invigorating and down right hardcore brutal.This is not Halo there is no run and gun. Overall the gameplay is profoundly fun and very unique. There are many game play modes to enjoy too form solo campaign, co op campaign, and 3 versus gameplay types with 4 on 4 action on 10 great maps. In my opinion this is game of the year for the 360. I recommend this game to anyone who likes shooters at all. I really can easily recommend this to any 360 owner 18+ of age.  

Well that all for now. Peace out yall!

Hello,

A very special time is almost upon us, no its not Emergence Day. What you ask it could be... mid term elections of course you know on November 7th. A time of us to vote, for our voices to be heard. Voting is the single most powerful act we are guaranteed by our fantastic constitution. If you are of legal age to vote I hope your a registered voter, if not GO NOW and register! I call out to all my fellow Americans and ask you to get out there and be empowered and vote. If you love your country, vote. If you love anything or anyone ...just vote! There is ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE for not voting! I don't care who or why you vote all I ask is that you just vote.

One thing that saddens me is to see such low numbers for voters turn out.  I cant believe how so many Americans just don't care and can't be bothered to take a small bit of time out of their busy lives and do something so simple and powerful as to vote.

Did you know the last Presidential Elections 2004 was at 55.3% and the 2002 midterm voter turn out was 37%. The last time voter turnout was above 60% was 1968!!! This is very troubling to me.

Please America for the love of your country get out and vote!

REMEMBER NOVEMBER 7th is the time to go out and do something for American and VOTE!

Thanks,

Peace!

Hello,

Wow its been awhile since I've posted here, Its been a rather busy month. I hope you all survived the planned Xbox service outage last Tuesday. That's not a bad service record in 4 years Live has only been down for 24 hours! I cant believe its already been 4 years of Xbox Live, time does fly when your having tons of fun!

Well its that special time of year when they years hottest games start to hit store shelves. For me it started with Splinter Cell:DA last week and this week its Phantasy Star Universe. I got to play both demos of SC:DA and PSU that came out on Live last weekend. Splinter Cell is looking great and I really like what they have done with the multiplayer if your a fan of Sam Fisher ....well you most likely already have the game! I am going to wait on this title myself because Phantasy Star is coming and that's my sweet digital crack! PSU is like a MMORPG just not that massive, its really more of JOARPG (Japanese Online Action Role Playing Game) I guess. I first got hooked on Phantasy Star on the original Xbox with PSO 1/2 played that for months. PS:Universe is looking and playing great, there was an online "beta" limited demo released last week that got me hooked again.

Some great Live Arcade goodness this week with a doubleshot of releases, Lumines Live and Mortal Kombat Ultimate3. Dig Dug came out this month too. There is just so much great Live Arcade goodness to be had its overwhelming.

November is gaming apocalypse (in a good way) with the launch of the Nintendo Wii and limited release of the Sony PS3. If that wasn't enough there is Gears of War, Call of Duty 3, Rainbow 6: Vegas, F.E.A.R and yes even Viva Pinata coming too just to name a few. My financial stability is about to be seriously damaged I think. All this gaming goodness coming out in such a short period of time is madness I tell you, its cruel even.

Well that all for now...Peace yall!

Hello,

I am alive and well here, been awhile since I've blogged anything it seems. Work has been demanding much of my time lately, and when not working on someone's dead computer I really don't want to see a live  one in my free time. Like Zombies in a mall, the computers surround me! Speaking of zombies I found a great deal at Amazon.com for Dead Rising and ordered me a copy and got it Wednesday. I am getting in the spirit of October and Halloween, my que at Netflix is all horror and got my survival horror game of the year now! Dead Rising is very much worth a rental to see if you will like it or not, its kind of a niche game like Chrome Hounds. There is a demo for Dead Rising on Live that's timed 15 min , but does not give you any sense of mission structure or story. I am finding that Dead Rising is really a brilliant game, great zombie killing fun. I have only scratched the surface of the game on day1 and only a level 7 character.

Also Wednesday of this week Totem Ball came out on Live arcade for Live Vision. Its a free download for all cam owners. I have only spent a very little time with it but I was not very amazed with it, perhaps I need to spend more time with it.

Its a working weekend for me, so back to work I go. Have a great weekend...Peace.