A Long Time Ago in a 360 Far Far Away...

EPISODE I
ICANDEE AND THE ATTACK OF THE MINIKITS

It was a boring time for games.
Kameo's Power Pack was 400 MS Points and there were only so many weapons caches I could blow up in GRAW before something new was needed.

Something fun...
Something cute...
Something LEGO...

I rented Lego Star Wars II for the 360, courtesy of my Boss who let me use a free rental coupon he would not be able to use. I did not play the first Lego SW game, so I have to say that I was a little unnerved by the camera control (or lack there of) but pressing through I have gotten use to it and all is well. This game is a lot of fun, my only regret being the absence of Live co-op play of course.

The characters are cute...

The cutscenes are cute (and funny)...

The combat is cute (and deadly)...

There's something strangely satisfying in shooting a "stormie" and watching him bust into pieces...Yes!

All in all, I am having a great time with this game! I think I'm going to try and hunt down the first game and play that at some point.

So go play Lego Star Wars II...
And may the Force be with you...

Ain't That a Kick In The Head

Let's get the sad news out of the way first, shall we? As you know my grandmother died a few weeks ago and unfortunately my great aunt died recently as well so it was another funeral for me. So that sucked and hopefully my family's good for a while. There's only so much death one can take in the space of one month, yes?

So moving on to happier news, I missed the Bug Off that happened in my town of Flynn yesterday in Animal Crossing. Wait...that's not happier news!

Moving on to actual happier news, the pink DS has alluded me for the time being as my mortage company felt that I should pay them before using the money to buy a shiny yummy brand new pink DS....son of a...alright I got some happy news here somewhere...hang on a sec...

Ah, here we go! We are that much closer to the premiere of Battlestar Galactica: Season Frakking 3!!! Someone at work offered me an original Atari with a bunch of games (she's cleaning out her husband's gaming collection...how mean is that? It does benefit me but still...Muwahahaha). Peter Jackson has been talking about the Halo movie and maybe, just maybe it might not suck...too much...probably...I hope...

And last, but not least (although I know he'll want to kill me for posting it, he can't because I've been through too much lately) here is a picture of Sean80 holding a bag of dog poo. Enjoy!

Much Ablog About Nothing

I have been so addicted to Animal Crossing: Wild World lately that that has been almost all I've been doing with my "gaming time". Although I did put some time in with the PGR3 UNO deck and I have to say: I liked it, although the music got to me after a while. PGR3 will always remind me of Thanksgiving: I rented the game on Thanksgiving day after the 360 launch. Oh memories! Xbox Live Marketplace videos have also been stealing my attention such as the Viva Pinata video "sneak peeks" of the TV show which is shaping up to be a pretty cute I think and of course the Battlestar Galactica videos...enough said there, the show is awesome. Chris bought me a copy of Pirates! for the Xbox and I have to say that I think this game was a little overlooked when it originally came out. The learning curve on this game is a bitch, but once you get used to the controls, it quickly gets addictive! The Simpsons 18th season starts this Sunday and I couldn't be happier! (Well, I probably could be happier, but I'm still pretty happy about it) IGN Weekly talked about DOAX2 and once they got around to showing their segment with Itagaki, I am still super excited about this game. Yay Thanksgiving release! The pink DS is coming soon and I'm still trying to donate enough blood to have the money to get it. I'm just so happy they're actually releasing any other colors that I may just stand the in store and stare at the boxes a while. Then I'll elbow a 8 year old and 60 year old out of my way so I get mine before they're sold out. That's just life for a gamer...

Nothing Could Be Finer...

Ahhh...my first entry for September.

Well, my guests have gone home and things are returning to normal which means work which means blech...lol. I'd much rather hang out with Sean80 and RuFfNeCk (Chris) playing video games:



**You're seeing correctly, Sean still has the original DS...go make fun of him**

Or checking out the Live Bait vending machine:



Or discussing whether we should go on a murderous rampage because video games taught us to:



**Fake guns by the way**

Or meeting other TehBias members for dinner:



At any rate, that was the best time to be had in NC this past Labor Day weekend. We laughed, we cried, we played video games. Can a weekend get better than that? Oh yeah, we also drank beer...

By the way, thanks to everyone for your wishes and sympathies regarding my Grandmother's death. I really appreciate it!