well i am a little late on the anniversery, but i have now been 5 years on this site and have posted over 25 000 posts and read countless topics. I have reached level 44 in that time. Anyway i hope i can do another 5 years on this site.
So, I'm playing a game right now and addiction has grown while exams are nearing and the case for a course hasn't been finished yet. But it's not that big of a deal, not being able to play, because it needs time to generate certain things so you can further develop your character. Not on the DS, Xbox, PlayStation, but on the laptop/ PC on the internet!
It's a click game where you buy weapons, cars, and other equipment to strenghten yourself to do jobs, to fight others, to rob others, to protect yourself etc. You can also buy property to generate money. The more mafia members and advanced equipment, the stronger you get, the more money you earn, the better your reputation etc.
I'm very glad I created a Facebook for all my international friends, but also for this game. You can compete online, but you can also develop yourself without interference from the outside. That is Mafia Wars! Try it out, and join my mafia 
It's really helpful because if you join mine, I will automatically join yours.
And IBIKO, thanks for the invite.. I want more mafia members.. =P
That's it for today, back to gaming!
I will be using the same type of awards as the Gamespot crew if that's ok? Though I will using far from all of them, as I simply have not played enough games to fill each category. So if you guys would wanna help me out with the awards I missed that would be great, or you simply just want to disagree you're free to that as well.
Well then off we go!
Best Story
Lost Odyssey
Grand Theft Auto IV
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Dead Space
Valkyria Chronicles
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Graphics, Technical
GRID
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Crysis Warhead
Dead Space
Gears of War 2
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Graphics, Artistic
Fable II
Little Big Planet
Valkyria Chronicles
Mirror's Edge
Prince of Persia
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Atmosphere
Grand Theft Auto IV
Dead Space
Fable II
Fallout 3
Left 4 Dead
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Original Music
Lost Odyssey
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Fable II
Mirror's Edge
Prince of Persia
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Sound Design
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Battlefield: Bad Company
Dead Space
Fallout 3
Left 4 Dead
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Voice Acting
No More Heroes
Grand Theft Auto IV
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Dead Space
Fable II
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Cooperative Multiplayer
NHL 09
Little Big Planet
Resistance 2
Gears of War 2
Left 4 Dead
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Competitive Multiplayer
Burnout Paradise
Sins of a Solar Empire
Grand Theft Auto IV
Resistance 2
Gears of War 2
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Most Improved Sequel
Saints Row 2
Fable II
Fallout 3
Resistance 2
Gears of War 2
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
Best Original IP
No More Heroes
Lost Odyssey
Dead Space
Valkyria Chronicles
Left 4 Dead
And the winner is...
***SPOILER***
I will post part 2 by the end of the week were I discuss a few disappointments of mine and also hand out the bigger awards.
And I aplogize before hand of possible grammar issues, I'm posting this right before I'm going to sleep lol.
//ZimpanX
I Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving,Mine was pretty awesome
I seriously pigged out today,the food was sooo good
& most important I gave thanks to all the things that matter to me most.I'm happy to be alive & able to see another year & holiday,that im healthy & happy & that my family is aswell.Its pretty awesome,So share with me how good your holiday was & what ur thankful for!
I'm sure that if you've been paying attention to Metroid Prime 3, one of the more notable events in terms of media exposure would have to be when Matt Casamassina of IGN.com wrote an editorial outlining the hype--or lack thereof--of the latest game in the Metroid series. Now, even with a lack of hype, I would have still picked up the game on the first day; but, I'm a hardcore Nintendo consumer and the problem is that not everybody is. In light of the dread that is the Metroid Prime 3 hype, Nintendo put out a downloadable preview channel on the Wii displaying two trailers of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Regardless of the praise put out by both fanboys and myself, I still think that Metroid Prime 3 is still underhyped and probably won't sell well. Here's why:
1. The audience the trailers were catered to: Current Wii owners.
Let face facts first (Heh, alliteration), who has access to these trailers other than Wii owners? Heck, there's a bad-quality stream going on YouTube, but it's enough to generate an even deeper lack of interest since it isn't even a direct-feed video. Nintendo may be nearing it's ten millionth console, but if Nintendo really wants this game to push off, they're going to have to reach out to the general consumer and not just people who already own the system. Halo 3 is generating more of a buzz on the software end, yet Wii consoles are on the verge of surpassing the XBox 360's market share. So, why not spend a few thousand putting together a really good commercial to generate even more awareness? Any computer monkey could clip together gameplay footage, and it's not like Nintendo's hard-pressed for cash at this moment.
2. www.metroid.com
Even sadder than the fact that the preview is only available on the Wii is the fact that Nintendo's Metroid website tells you to download the preview onto your Wii (supposing you even have one) rather than making it available for viewing on the site itself. It might just be me speaking, but I really think that the logic train has been derailed in terms of this marketing correlation. If you checked the Metroid site yesterday, there wasn't even a smidge of Corruption information yesterday. Now, all we get is a picture of Samus from an old screenshot and another picture telling us to download a channel on the Wii? Creative. Brilliant. Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
3. The soccer moms won't care.
Stereotype on the people buying the Wii? Hardly. Let's take a moment to consider the enormously high attach rate of either Wii Play or Mario Party 8 when customers get their system. Then let's take a moment to verify the two games into their respective categories. I don't know about you, but the first word that comes to my mind is: Casual. I work at a GameStop, and as much as I know the little outlet mall store I work at doesn't speak for every sale in general, but Mario Party 8 or Wii Play is almost always the first game of choice and, lo and behold, it's a mother buying the system for their kid. Considering this little factoid, I wouldn't exactly expect a mother to walk up to me, ask me for a Wii and ask me for a copy of Metroid Prime 3 to go with it. If any game with a gun is enough to get a thumbs down from a soccer mom, I don't expect Metroid to fare any better than the others just because the controller is good for playing virtual tennis.
4. Madden 2008, Bioshock and Halo 3.
Any gamer should know that the holiday season is the one time of the year where publishers finally release games we've been waiting for. Over the past few years however, Madden NFL, for some unknown (and probably stupid) reason, has signified the beginning of the end for our wallets. Unfortunately for Metroid, it's sandwiched between the gargantuan football game itself and Bioshock, a game receiving extremely high critical acclaim and excellent video game entertainment press coverage. Additionally, Halo 3, another sci-fi shooter that clashed with Metroid a few years back, makes its return and aims to conclude its trilogy-based story (much like how Metroid Prime is concluding its own trilogy). The release of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes in 2004 was done six days after the launch of Halo 2, and under heavy speculation, the release of Halo 2 factored greatly in the lack of Echoes' success. Even with the release of Halo 3 one month away, Madden 2008 and Bioshock have enough incentive to empty out one's pocket before they even get a chance to look at Metroid Prime 3.
Ultimately, I want to buy Metroid Prime 3, and I also pray for its success; but if Nintendo doesn't do anything beyond their current attempts at hyping the game, we're probably going to see Corruption sell as well as Echoes. Personally, I have undying faith that Nintendo will give the game what it needs to be a piece of hardcore interest. The only problem is that I'm not seeing any of it happen.
So anyway, tell me your thoughts on the hype of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Is it at the level you want it to be? Do you agree with me or disagree? Leave a comment or a piece of fried chicken, although I'd greatly appreciate the former.
Side Note: Why the heck won't any of my editorial posts make the GameSpot Soapbox? Geez, I've been trying so hard too.In other news, I have now reached level 20, and I'm 64% of the way through (yay! Thedjt, I'm beating you!). Hopefully things will progress faster once I get beyond level twenty, because of that level cap thing that goes on.
And I'm still a turkey apparently!
i'll just switch between the two profiles 
anyways, you guys know about the music videos i make. those 24, Kiefer and MGS ones. well i got this message from someone on youtube today;
Hi, Mel ~
I'm Jennifer, the web designer and webmistress at Corey Feldman's official NEW website, http://www.coreyfeldman.net./ The old coreyfeldman.COM is no longer his official site; it was snagged by a cybersquatter when the domain name lapsed by accident.
We saw your video on YouTube and really liked it! Your creativity in editing video and music together is original and inventive. We'd like to present it on Corey's website, with appropriate credit to you (either your real name or screen name).
As you may have heard, YouTube and other video sites are assailed on all sides with those who would like someone to pay for uploading videos. We all know where this is heading. So we want to make sure your video doesn't disappear into thin air if YouTube is forced to take down a lot of content.
If you're willing, we'd like you to mail (or email) us a DVD of your LOST BOYS tribute video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK76Iv_4a4I
We have some YouTube videos presented on our site, such as trailers for Corey's movies, but some are fuzzy. If you have a good, clean version of one of Corey's trailers, we'd sure like to get better copies of those. Also, if you have any videos of Corey in concert, interview or appearance clips, McDonald's commercial and anything else you'd like to
share, we'd like to post them on the website.
Please e-mail me back with your okay, and I'll send you our mailing address.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Lac Kamp
Web Producer
jennifer@coreyfeldman.net
the videos been uploaded and sent to her of course
Better believe it, it's the return of Daigasso Man.
Now to wait for GS to come back.
