I talk a lot on here about stuffs, but not a whole lot about games, such as what I've been playing what I've completed and such. Well recently I started to get back into listening to podcasts and I was hearing a lot of major gamers talking about how they need to finish X or they never got a chance to play Y. All this talk got me wondering and I think I may have exceeded myself this year and broken my record for games played / completed.

Everyone likes lists right? Well here's all the games that I have completed this year:

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
3. Pokemon Platinum
4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
6. Plants vs. Zombies
7. Sam and Max episode 101 - 202
8. The Sims 3
9. Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
10. Heavenly Sword
11. inFamous
12. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
13. MotorStorm
14. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
15. Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
16. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
17. Resistance 2
18. Resistance: Fall of Man
19. SingStar Queen
20. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
21. Batman: Arkham Asylum
22. Borderlands
23. Brutal Legend
24. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
25. Dirt 2
26. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
27. Fight Night Round 4
28. Ghostbusters
29. Godfather 2
30. Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
31. H.A.W.X.
32. Halo 3: ODST
33. Halo Wars
34. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
35. Mass Effect
36. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
37. Mirror's Edge
38. NBA Live 06
39. Ninja Blade
40. Prince of Persia
41. Prototype
42. Red Faction: Guerrilla
43. Street Fighter IV
44. Terminator: Salvation
45. The Beatles: Rock Band
46. Up
47. Wet
48. Wolfenstein
49. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009
50. WWE: Legends of Wrestlemania
51. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Uncaged Edition
52. Braid
53. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
54. Shadow Complex

Holy game completeinage Batman!

It's really closer to 63 games completed if you split the Sam and Max up and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. I've also played well over a hundred games this year which may not seem like a whole tonne, but it does mean a new game every three days.

Now I'm not claiming this to be the best year for gaming ever or anything, but I will say that coming up with any kind of top ten list is going to be crazy tough for me this year, there's been a lot of greats (DRAGON AGE!!!111one) and many disappointments(Gran Tourismo)

Now you know what I completed, what did I miss? (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tNjzLggSueUQdIBs60u2Adw&output=html) are there any great games that came out this year that I should be embarrassed to have missed? Let me know

Danny has put together a great site and it just went live a few minutes ago!

I'm back from a cruise of the Bahamas that we'd saved up for earlier this year and it was a blast, my favorite part of it all? Got to say the food.

Gourmet Salmon, on some kind of jello

Endless deserts

Lobster

Chee-eee-ee-zzzeee!

Oddly I didn't actually gain too much weight over the vacation, perhaps because I spent so much time running up and down between decks rather than use the always busy elevators, any other weight will probably be shed by the flu which I conveniently caught right after getting home.

Besides the glorious food time was spent at Freeport, Bahamas (An industrial dock with a couple of souvenir shops thrown in), Nassau, Bahamas (Felt like people actually lived there, but damn glad I don't) and checking out the entertainment they had on the ship. Despite the often dreary weather all eighteen of us had a lot of fun, I won't talk more, instead I'll let the pictures here talk for themselves.

I like to think the red tie makes me look like the spirit

James Bond bike chases

Sunset

Towel animals appeared in our rooms after dinner

Storms and lightning

Shenanigans

We also bought a couple of paintings as souvenirs, no factory garbage for us.

Finally here's a video I shotwith a tour of the ship, take your nausea pills, it's a little rocky: VIDEO

Get your towels ready, it's about to go down.

I'm just packing up thenecessaries (DS, PSP, ZUNE) and I'm heading out on a cruise but can you believe that they charge 75c a minute for wireless access? It'll be strange being totally disconnected for so long, but it seems most of the others I'm going with are taking it a lot harder, but I believe they'll just be missing the Facebook games.

I've been going around taking photos of the serial numbers of everything I'm leaving behind as I've become paranoid about a break in, I do hope that will help, I hear that insurance companies can be a total pain about claims, especially if we try to claim as much crazy stuff as we own. Despite the rush we won't be going on the ship until Sunday, I've had my Mum with me all week and she's going to be going with us, I'm also going to be meeting up with one of my best friends from the UK, so I'm pretty excited about that too.

Have a good week all of you and I'll be back soon with photos and perhaps a completed ChronoTrigger.

Hi guys 'n' gals, before I talk a little about web comics I just want to show this:

Forget your COD4 Night vision goggles and your batarangs, Kung-fu rooster is mean!

Now to the comics.

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! WARNING !
I've done my best to find episode from the following comics that are 'safe for work' however there are a couple of instances of bad language included.

The choice in web comics is huge and there's many great ones out there which just don't get the attention they deserve, so I wanted to highlight six of my favorites, perhaps you'll find something new.

Commissioned Comic

O from commisionedcomic.org is a good friend of myextralife.com and missiondeep.com he's also part of the great ELR podcast. The site has just celebrated five years of updates which is mostly made up of storylines that go nowhere and random musings, but O's great sense of humor is more than enough to make up for the dropped storylines.

O doesn't do a whole lot of videogame work, mostly because living in Columbia limits what games he can get a hold of.

Penny Arcade

Penny Arcade really needs no introduction, Gabriel and Tycho are the kings of the webcomic world with over ten years of updates, their own game and their own convention they are perhaps as mainstream as a web comic can get.

Least I could do

I've only recently discovered Least I could do but it's become perhaps my favorite web comic and something I look forward to every day. Ryan Sohmer is the current artist of the strip which is perhaps one of the more '"adult" of the ones I've listed here, in fact it was pretty hard to find a favorite strip that appeared to be at all suitable to put here, but perhaps that's one of the main reasons I love it. There are a couple of videogame references in the strip, but it mostly just focuses on what a womanizer Rayne (the lead) is.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete

Sometimes I feel bad for Tim Buckley, his CAD comic strip is so often compared directly to Penny Arcade and he seems to get a lot of hate, perhaps it's some politics with Tim's attitude, but as long as he makes good comics I'll keep reading. The comic used to be very game orientated but over the last year the stories have taken more of a front seat (perhaps to separate it from Penny Arcade), but despite some downer storylines (such as an abortion) there's still some good laughs to be had

XKCD

The Geeks' web comic. For most people the XKCD comics won't make much sence and I won't pretend that I undertand them all. The technical and geeky nature of XKCD is the entire charm of the comic, as it sure doesn't focus on art, although sometimes a charactor may wear a hat

VG Cats

All the other comics have pretty constant update schedules or people on standby for guest strips when the artists get the PAXflu, but Scott Ramsoomair from VG cats has one of the more sparatic update schedules. Scott's comics are generally videogame related and also pretty darn disturbing

That's my list for today, I know I'm missing some but these are the ones I visit the most and I think that anyone could get enjoyment from the wide range of humor across all these comics, but let me know if there's a favorite of yours I'm missing out here.