Hi every one, first of all happy 2008.

Sometimes when you spend hours daily reading stuff about Video Games suddenly (at least in my case) you feel the urge to post something about it. In this case 2 things above many are constantly in my thoughts:

Something may not be quite good in the famous GOW franchise

Folding @ home is loosing processing power

What is the matter with the GOW franchise which thousands of people had the chance to play and enjoy, I mean the consumer, because in the other side it seems that something is going on since the director of each one is always different. First, the man who shocked us with this original concept and father of the multi award winner franchise: David Jaffe, Second: Cory Barlog and the not yet released Chains of Olympus by Ready at Dawn (I'll skip the mobile version Betrayal).

It's known that the involvement of Jaffe on the franchise never finished, but IMO if you have a great game that can be pushed further wouldn't you just stick around as The Man? The case of Barlog is different because now he is in pursue of other things leaving GOW III "in good hands", and Ready at Dawn is preparing to move in to something "really big".

So what is it? Did the first iteration left pretty high standards for the "common human" and the challenge of another one has more weight than a "normal" game? Maybe the families of the developers also end up exhausted for their missing relatives? I'm not trying to make a novel about it but if you know something that I don't please share so one of my "concerns" can rest in peace.

F@Home

Since the Stanford University included the PS3 in their distributed computing network they saved if not years weeks and it was amazing to compare PC's (Windows, Mac, Linux) and GPU vs the PS3, it reminds me the (Wii vs the rest in Japan lol), at this time the results are still incomparable a few minutes ago everything but the PS3 = 273 TeraFlops and the PS3 = 762, together they pass the Pentaflop barrier.

But just a few weeks ago only the PS3 was measured in Pentaflops (actually 1). And the number of new clients is still going up, so what's happening? Are we still playing a lot the great games that 2007 gave us so we are kinda greedy to share some processing power? Did our economy just couldn't take it any more because the electric bill grew considerably? (When I borrowed my PS3 my bill got multiplied by 2 so I decided to just share my computer) Or maybe the "Fad" is passing? Again please share your reasons or theories.

Before I go, I want to share something else: I've been recently playing The Eye of Judgment , a game that merges actual cards with the PS3 Eye camera and internet if you want to battle around the world instead of the computer or better a friend. I bought it as an opportunity to get the camera and a game for a little more (even got it for 15 bucks less). At first I was not to fond to it because although I like TCG, Ninja Gaiden, Warhawk, COD4, and UT3 got me, but suddenly I payed it a little more attention and kinda regret for not playing it more before, I'm totally hooked and a friend of mine (thanks again Nerilika) just shared me a page devoted only to this game in which you can join to tournaments, get a lot of info from the experts and have a blast, so if you wanna check it out:

http://lbshooters.com/

Ok, enough for today, thanks for reading and good gaming to you all!