hello once again loyal blog readers, marvel at my incredibly witty title, those who understand it will get a special invisble and intangible cookie in the mail.

Now that that is out of the way let me start by saying this, in the next two to three weeks gaming shall be upgrded past breathing on the level of importance scale, why you ask? because I'm getting GTAIV, Mass Effect for the PC and MGS4, got my pre orders down and finally have enough money to buy them, so I'm just sucking up time by trying to complete CoD4 on Veteran, it's aggravating. Anyway I did finish Patapon, DMC4 and Uncharted, they're all great games, Uncharted is my favourite purely because the characters are so likeable, my least favourite would be Patapon, simply because the novelty wears thin towards the end of the game.

I'll write a review for DMC4 and Patapon eventually, I also finally got around to writing a review for Resistance, which is a PS3 favourite of mine, simply because you get a gun that can fire turrets. So I did say a few months ago that I was going to get GTAIV as soon as it came out, so you're probably saying "hey whats the deal homes" assuming you are actually so out of it that you still refer to people as homes, and if your white. Well the deal is that I actually didn't have enough money, turns out I spent it all on comics and Manga's...oops, look I have a lot of addictions okay, don't judge me. BUT thanks to my awesome powers I have finally accumulated enough money to not only buy GTAIV but also Mass Effect for the PC along with it, and assuming I can actually find out where I put my banks account number, I'll be able to buy MGS4 upon release.

So as I said I have actually been playing CoD4 to pass the time, now I did say before that CoD4 multiplayer had been malfuncitioning to the point where the game wouldn't start up, well I fixed that problem and so I can play again, the only problem was that all my save data got erased in the process, so I began trying to level back up to 55, previously I had 2 lvl 55 profiles, I already have one back up, and I think I'll finish a few challenges and then leave it at that. CoD4 has served me very very very well, but it's time I put it in retirement, I'm known for being a multi game guy, I can't stick to one for too long. I already got the M4 and the G3 expert challenges done as well as most of killer and operations, we'll see how I feel tommorow when I pick up GTAIV and ME.

So what else have I been doing to soak up time? well I saw Ironman a couple of times, I have to say it is the best comic book movie, thanks to Robert Downey Jr., I'd say Ironman is equal first with Xmen 2, I can't wait for the sequel, and also the new Hulk movie is coming out, I'll see it simply cause I like seeing things blow up and giant green dudes chuckin monster fits and smashing cars, but also good old Tony Stark will bemaking an appearance, no doubt to release the Hulkbuster suit (comic book referance, you know what I'm talking about True Believers).

Also I recently bought the entire series of Gundam Seed, I'm not finished it yet, but I have to say it's pretty awesome, I mean the constant crying aside, you do actually care for the characters and the massive battles are just plain awesomness in a tube made of awesome metal spray painted with awesome (*huff**huff**faint*)

Well I'll keep yall posted, happy gamin homes

Well gamers and anime fans alike, I made a promise and I'm gonna keep it. Here is what went down at Animania 08 in Melbourne at the Rydges hotel.

WEll the day started off pretty crappy, I had been suffering from a bad cold for the past few days and I had to walk in the cold to the train station where I met my friend. From there we trained to Parliment station and went down to the Rydges from there. Now the festival started at 10 AM and we got the at about 9:15, guess what there was already a line extending outside, so we waited in a near imobile line for about 40 minutes before we finally got in. Luckily me and my friend passed the time by guessing which anime/game the cosplayers were from, there was plenty of Kingdom Hearts I can say that much, but nothing can compare to the sheer number of Naruto ppl that came out.

Once we got in everything turned upside down, it was amazing, I have never seen so much awesome anime and manga merchandise in the one place before, there were artbooks, bags, DVD collections and even 2 foot tall models of Samus Aran in full body armour. There were T-shirts, wall scrolls, I got a huge Full Metal Alchemist one, art work, manga that hadn't been released anywhere else, I even managed to grab the 14th issue of Full Metal Alchemist, which I am the biggest fan of ever, seriously. There was even a Samurai Champloo Manga, and even the actual Death Note, seriously. The crowds were a bug, but it was forgivable considering the amount of awesome stuff that was there, though I couldn't buy everything I wanted, I did come to the conclusion that next year I'm bringing over $200 with me for merchandise, no joke. The mother of all pieces though was at the end of the line, the rarest of the rare, the most awesome thing in anime and manga existance, perfect class Gundam models!!!, valued at over $200m this models are about the same size as a PC case, they are so detailed that they would make Michaelangelo turn over in his grave. Obviously I didn't have enough money for them, so I settled for getting something else, I spoke to one of the guys at the store he said that this was the largest selling line of Gundams, he told me about how each model is graded by class, from 1st being not so detailed, to Heavy Grade being quite detailed but still needing a bit of a paint job, to Master being so incredibly amazing (one of them had angel wings, yea a robot death machine with angel wings) to perfect, which is so infinently rare it makes everything around it obselete. so I setteled on a Heavy Grade "Blaze Zaku: Phantom", the guy told me it was a good place to strart so I went with it.

So anyway, After that We went to the games room, which had Tekken 5, Dark Stalkers, Mario Kart DD, Smash Bors. Melee, and the main attraction Brawl. My friend and Isigned up for the Brawl contest, needless to say there were plenty of people. Well I lost in the first round, the mistake was that A) I fogot the jump button and B) there was another guy playing as Ike and I was playing as Marth so we both got each other mixed up *sigh*, but my firend won, and he won in the Semi's too, he was in the finals against 2 0thers, but only came second because the winner was turtleing like crazy, seriously you would not believe how often he turtled. Anyway, he was still happy cause he didn't have the game and the other two did, in fact he didn't even have a Wii.

After this we ducked out to little Bourke St. AKA China town for some grub, when we came back I entered a drawing contest, I didn't expect to win, if you saw the quality of the other contestants work, you wouldn't even want to enter. SO from there it was straight to the Cosplay tourney, it was really the highlight of the festival, some of the effort that these people put in was great, some weren't so great, but most were. There were three catagories, singles, groups and World Cosplay Summit, of which there was only one group. The singles first, they were pretty awesome, three really stood out, one was a guy dressed as a cheerleader from an Anime which name escapes me at the time, he did a whole dance that went for 10 minutes, it was the funniest thing I have ever seen, he said he practised an hour a day for three weeks to get it right. Another highlight was from a girl who did an amazing costume from another Anime that escapes m at the present time, she made a giant sword which looked really amazing, the other great one was a guy dressed as a character from Bleach, he was amazing looking, he had two rather wicked looking swords. Next came the World Cosplay Summit, the only contestants were actually from Perth, which is somewhat puzzeling. One came as the KH version of Cloud and the other as the KH version of Sephiroth, they acted out their entire battle to the sounds of One Winged Angel. It was amazing to watch, if not a little bit corny. Still the Buster Sword was there in all its glory so props must given for that, the two girls automaticaly got through to Sydney for the chance to represent the country because they were the only ones copeteing in Melbourne. next were the groups which was dominated by Naruto, the costumes were good, but only one of the acts was good, they did the whole battle + Naruto's split body Chakra and even the sexy chakra which was hilarious, though it was disturbing when the one dressed as Kakashi or whatever his name is dragged one of them away *cough*. So after all this we went out to frolic in the screening room.

In the screening room we watched an episode of Black Lagoon and Air Gear, which neither of us had seen before, we thought it was interesting but we ducked back into the games room to check out the Tekken 5 tourney, I didn't sign cause I didn't want to be humiliated, but upon seeing how the others played, I would've mopped the floor with them, as I said to my friend: "Gimme Hwoarang, gimme Feng Wei and I'll kick so much ass it'll make your head spin" funnily enough nerly every competitor picked Steve Fox.

SO after much fun and a bit more searching the merchandise I got a badge that said "Victim of Incompetence" and also a tiny ChiBi model of a Gundam.

It was Awesome, next year the two of us will grace Animania again, and this time we may even pop in as Mugen and Jin, hope to see you there.

Arigato and happy gaming BANZAIIIIIiii

welcome to another blog. recently my game pile has become even larger, with additions like Crisis Core and Uncharted, also I got a few up and coming games I like that look really awesome. So lets get to it.

First up the complaining paragraph, if you wanna get straight to my thoughts about some of the new games skip this, if you wanna laugh and my doings, go right ahead and read. Anyway... So I picked up Soulstorm and started playing it right off the bat, which was a bad idea because it took a lot of time away from my DMC4 and Patapon playing. I can say that I haven't finished DMC4 and it has been about two or three months since I got it. patapon remains unfinished, the gimik kinda wore off I suppose. So anyway I try out the new Dark Eldar race,being a warhammer fanatic, I can say that I was a big fan of the DE army from 40K, I had a 3000 point army of them sitting in a model case (warhammer lingo), so I start playing and the first thing that hits me is this...were the hell are my turrets? Well there are none, the DE are so rush orientated they have absolutely no defence, which really ****s me cause I'm a base building kind of player. So my foray into Soulstorm came to a temporary end after finishing it with the SoB (sisters) and the DE, I can't see the point right now of playing the other races, considering I've played them in all the previous incarnations. So then I got Uncharted and I'm up to a point in it that also really ****s me, for those who've played I'll give you a clue: massive plot twists, 1940's guns, lots of dark corridors, power generator, SCARED. though once Crisis Core came (ordered it from play-asia.com, they're awesome) I haven't played anything else, haven't done anything else for that matter, haven't slept in a week, need to finish game, need to play again so I can get all the summons and 100% missions complete...BRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNs *cough**cough* 'scuse me. So once I'm done with that I gotta blitz through the remainder of Patapon and Uncharted and DMC4, and if I have time I may have a piece of toast, and soulstorm before GTAIV come out and my life goes in a complete downward spiral cause I'm to busy capping fools...ok I'm done

So as I was saying I got Crisis Core just last week, if there was a reason to get a PSP this is it, it is one of the best portable, scratch that, it is one of the best gaming experiances of my life, and I've been gaming for a long time, and I mean a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time. Story is awesome, gameplay is awesome, everything is awesome, even the annoying enemies are awesome (you know who I'm talking about), I won't spoil anything so I'll do what I did with Uncharted, here goes: Gift of Godess, Genesis, S cells, Mako addiction, cave, dumbapples, "need a key...". That should be satisfactory to not get me killed for spoilers. And Kevin Van Ord (if spelling incorrect feel free to flame) was right, I have shed a few tears throughout this game, and not in frustration, actual real tears that come with sadness. awesome game, if you don't own it buy it, if you don't own a PSP buy it and get CC, you'll be thankful for it, now if they could only remake FFVII.

So I already went over Uncharted so I'll be brief, game looks amazing, it really does, but the difficulty of firfights is annoying and the puzzles are way to easy, and who would have thought that that plot twist would happen, I mean jeez. My only question is, why does every treasure hunting game I play involve Nazi's?

I already went over Soulstorm so I won't bother again. Long story short I hope to be reviewing several games in the next two weeks.

So about upcoming games. For the first time in a while I'm excited about a new DBZ game, I played the first few and liked them quite a bit, though the more recent ones weren't as good, I'm really looking forward to this, the graphics look so sharp you could slice through a Black Box with them, and the beam attacks look like they could fry your cornea's in a milisecond, i just hope they include Brolly in there, he's my favourite DBZ movie character. I'm also excited by GTAIV, more then ever actually, I know it was a good game, but GTA SA didn't connect with me that well. Games like SCIV and STIV also coming along nicely, SCIV isn't that far away now, though I'm very worried about Tekken 6, GS get into gear and update the page plz, your fallin behind here. Haze is also looking sharp, it seems to have come a long way since the BETA version I played at the Egames expo last year. I can't think of anything else right now that I haven't mentioned before.

If anyone is interested to know, me and my firend will be gracing the anime expo at the Rydges hotel in Melbourne city on Saturday, I'll make sure to post some picks of the place as well as, hopefully a few sneak peeks at upcoming games and anime shows.

Happy gamin' 'n' ****

hello again, for this blog I'll be going on something of a rant about how i cannot juggle work, school, gaming and buying more games into the timeframe i would like and also express some level of disappointment about some recent events...

To start with here is the news at its minimum, I've finished turok on hard and normal and got tired of it when I was half way through on inhuman. I am now playing Patapon, DMC4 and am back on the wagon with CoD4 multiplayer. So in trying to finish DMC4 and Patapon, both of which are quite difficult, so I can write a review and then play them a second time, they're just that good, i haven't had any time to get any other games, I was hoping to get GoW:CoO for my PSP, Uncharted (which I've been meaning to get for a long time now), Army of Two (despite GS review i am still interested in it), Soulstorm (which is supposedly out but GS is yet to review it) and of course buy a wireless ethernet cable for my PS3. I'm not overly fussed about this though, as the three games I'm playing are very satysfying, in fact I'm very close to lvl 55 in CoD 4 and nearly have finished all the assault weapon challenges. I'll give a review of the other two games when I'm done, which will probably be either by early April (if I'm lucky) or, more likely, the end of April.

Now for a quick nd humerous anticdote... Me and a friend are trying to make a monster movie, we loved the old Godzilla movies and the new ones too, though not the 1998 re-make, that was horrible, so anyway... We were looking for a toy we could use to create stop motion and starngely enough a weird toy caught my eye, it was a Steve Irwin action figure... Now before anyway becomes outraged there was no sign that said 'Stingray not included' in fact there was no stingray anyway... Thats pretty much it, I mean it did have recordings of his voice and all, which was weird. So anyway we also chanced upon a MGS4 Old Snake action figure in the Go Figure store on high st. We both thought it was too early, but I'm prolly gonna get it anyway, it looked really cool.

SO anyone on to the dissapointing evetns: the government is still rating games, Chasers is not back on, the Simpsons are no longer on channel ten, Army of Two got a 6.5, Soulstorm has not been reviewed, Tekken 6 page has not been updated, heroes has not returned and Gilligan is still on his island

happy gaming y'all

G'day G'day, time for a new blog post from everyones favourite sub-human. Well today isn't a historic day, sorry to put you down.

Anyway, last week I picked up Turok, thats right the latest in Dino knifing action, though it lacked polish it was still fun to stab dinosaurs, until I got to the last few missions (I'm on the last boss now, attempt 7), where it became incredibly difficult to do anything. Still if getting into knife fights is wrong, hey I don't wanna be right. It also includeds in the cast Ron Perlman, who you may remember from such action thrillers as Alien Resurrection, where he starred as the smart arse merc who pissed everyone of and ended up kissing the wheel chair dude, and something else that escapes me at this time.

On the agenda today also includeds a recent purchase of DMC4, though I haven't gotten around to playing it yet, I'm sure it'll be good fun for me.

Still waiting for Gamespot to update there Tekken 6 page and also waiting on information on an upcoming mortal combat game, I'm new to the series so we'll see how this pans out. Also waiting for releases from FFVII: Crisis Core, and SCIV. Also considering a new purchase of Uncharted, in order to maximise my PS3 pleasure factor. Trying to find a store in my area that stocks Patapon and the Club, which, though it sounds disappointing, may make a fun addition to my PS3 collection. I'm taking a break from PCing for awhile, at least until I can get me a sweet new 8800 GT to replace my somewhat dated double dose of 7700 GeForce's.

New game sthat have caught my eye recently include Red Alert 3, Tiberium, Last Remnant and PS Home.

Still trying to find a wireless ethernet for my PS3, any information would be choice.

Happy Gaming and etc.

So I'm currently in the process of relieving my overburden somewhat under updated (hardware wise) PC of its junk, which also includes all but one of my games, as I have finished and re-finished everything I have. So as I sit by and wait for Gear of War to uninstall I can't help but think three distinct yet probably uninteresting things: A. Gears takes up 9.93 GB, yet Crysis takes up 2.7 GB, wtf is up with that? B. I actually only have one game left on my computer that I haven't finished and re-finished and C. about 80% of all the games I had, scratch that 90%, are FPS games (or TPS for Gears purists). So now that I am rid of the burden of having next to no memory, I wonder what can I get to take it up? You wanna know? Nothing.

For the first time in ages I can't think about getting another game (at least for a few months), thats cause I am obsessed with The Witcher. It is actually the best game I have ever played, and not just cause it has taken me longer than five minutes to finish. It is immersive, addictive, fascinating, amazing, technologically amazing (excluding Crysis), Gameplay innovation, Story innovation. For the first time ever I actually feel like I can do what I wan't, but I don't want to, because the story is so amazing and innovative that I just can't stop playing it, It's amazing, I can't think of a time when I have been more addicted and amazed by a game. I'm actually trying to track down the novel(s) that inspired the book, and I even have the strange urge to dye my hair white (may be going overboard here). If anyone hasn't played the Witcher, even if they find RPG's to be the creation of Satan, you must play this game, not only is it the first RPG to succesfully get to the standard of Diablo 2 and Baldurs Gate, it exceeds them at every possible turn. The story is so fantastic that when i finally finish the game (and I plan to try and get to all three endings) my review of it will be three pages long.

Ok that felt good to get that off my chest. So as I said I'm not really thinking about what games to get right now, but luckily for me most of the games that I thought were coming out next month are actually coming out next Q, so I have a long wait for SCIV, Tekken6, STIV and of course MGS4. I have sought of lost interest in DMC4, I finishexd DMC3 and wasn't really overjoyed with it, it just got a little boring, and the fact that I had to start a mission again everytime I died really pissed me off. Anyway, looking forward to releases in the next Q and the last Q where most of everything will be released.

BTW I would like to apologise for my remark about Spore being the most delayed game ever, I really should not take away that title from 3D realms, cause it seems their friday night kegger has gone on since 1997.

Happy gaming, and Winter-ee-mas.