Hi all, I've been pretty busy lately, so sorry for the lack of posts. Also, kinda beat today so I'll skip the formalities and get to the nitty gritty.

In terms of gaming, I've managed to finish a few games these past months. On the 360, I darted through both Condemned games - I enjoyed them quite a lot. Not nearly as scary as they were hyped during their respective releases, but enjoyable nonetheless. Got almost all the achievements in Condemned 2: Bloodshot, even on multiplayer. Never aimed for that much of a completion percentage on that, but a few people needed help with online matches and I ended up getting the achievements myself in the process. Bloodshot's multiplayer is fun at first, but gets old fast, kinda shoe-horned into an otherwise great single player game. The forensic gimmick is really underplayed and downright arbitrary at points, on both of the games. Anyway, all in all, I had fun with both.

Still waiting on my copy of Red Faction Guerilla to arrive. Thanks to snail mail, it's taking more than a month to arrive. In the meantime, I picked up a copy of Halo Wars a couple of weeks back on the cheap, but haven't really played it much. Jumped back to Street Fighter IV for a whim during the weekend. I gotta be honest, hearing about Super Street Fighter IV had picked my interest in the series again, but sadly I'll only play that game late after release due to monetary and geographical limitations. On the other hand, Gamespot buddy celdweller is generously lending me his copy of Arkham Asylum for me to play through - hopefully that'll get here soonish. I was going to pre order Forza 3, but the nationally released copy of the game is getting shafted here in terms of the DLC, so I'll be skipping on it 'til I get a chance to play an U.S copy whenever that happens. Tried to get Dead Space on Games on Demand today but yep, got the numb end of the regional lock bat to the face. Argh, I hate that.

On the WoW front, yes, I still play that from time to time, I got a pretty cool ride to brag about - the violet proto drake. The special thing about this dragon is how it is acquired... through yearly events, like Halloween's cousin Hallow's Eve event or even Christmas. It all started late last year for me, when I finished all the Winter Veil achievement awards and hell, it ended on the first day of Hallow's Eve this year. It's a pretty sweet and fast mount, and it's funnily enough, the easiest of the proto drakes to earn, the others being two random loot drops, raid rewards and a rare spawn enemy that needs killing.


Yep, I was turned into a ninja for this picture - darn those trick or treaters!
(alternative link - http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o37/edubuccaneer/WoWScrnShot_101809_120051.jpg)


Not sure how long I'll keep playing World of WarCraft, since I haven't been into a raid in quite a while, and my subscription is about to end. Maybe I'll hold off 'til Cataclysm, the new expansion?

Reviews! Been writing a bunch of them. The latest that got published are:

Contra Rebirth (Wii)
Left4Dead Crash Course DLC (PC/360)
Red Alert 3 Commander's Challenge (360)
Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay (Wii)
Zombie Apocalypse (PS3/360)

Soon to come - NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits (wii), LostWinds 2: Winter of Melodia (Wii), Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 3 (PC/Wii) and Axel & Pixel (360).

At the same event I bought Halo Wars, I had the chance to buy a whole lot of comics on sale, and will finally be reading up on Preacher. Already gone through Alex Moore's Swamp Thing - pretty good stuff. Got three volumes on Preacher, two on 100 Bullets and a few Slam Dunk mangas too!

Talk to you guys again soon!