Well I've known for some time that what goes around comes around. As such me being the only person I know who hasn't experienced the red ring of death, I knew it was coming for me. Well the grim reaper visited my xbox two days ago. Lucky for my xbox I know how to use the internet! After a brief bit of research I cracked open my xbox(warranty was expired.)cleaned it out, then gave it the popular towel treatment(you rap it in a towel and run it to reset it). Two towels later and everything is working ok, I'm playing through assassins creed 2 right now. keep you posted.

I refuse to pay the requested 100 dollars microsoft wants, especially after seeing how many of my friends who sent theirs in sent it back in 6 months later. I rationalized that these microsoft goons are probably doing exactly what I'm doing, a temporary fix.

Well i bought operation flash point today after playing it on a friends computer on launch day. The online has since ceased to function. I'd like to see this pop up on some prominant gaming website news but it hasn't so I'm left to blog about it so other game owners know they aren't alone in their frustrations. Its one thing to have something like this happen and do something about it, but this has been ongoing for more than a day now with no honest promises or resolutions taking place. Online in Dragon rising doesn't work you can't Coop you can't Vs eachother you can't do anything, even servre browsing isn't functioning properly if you manage to get to a lobby for a MP game you fail to connect upon the start of the match. This is ridiculous.

well i made a banner comprised of three favorite magic art spreads and ironically i can't get it to upload properly i'm stuck with this single spread that doesn't look to good because it was a bad one. I've tried adding several new images as banners and the process goes smoothly but then i return to my home page and see the same dragon angel battle is still continueing. frustrating why can't these guys make something as simple and easy to use as the uploader valve has on steam.

Sorry for my absence for so long. I've been developing a life, and as such haven't dedicated as much time to this stuff(blogging).

Well i watched about every single piece of video that surfaced from E3 and i want to post my review/prediction for the gaming industry.

Microsoft: Largest flaw is that they didn't support their PC platform this year, ontop of that microsoft has closed all but one 1st party developer (RARE) and as such they have to buy exclusives(read, hemorage money). At this rate i don't know how they plan to be proffitable in the near future since software was one way nintendo stayed affloat when they were in this same situation.

However they had the best presentation of any company at E3. Splintercell conviction looks amazing! AMAZING!! AMAZING!!! Forza looks to maintain its dominance over gran tourismo. Modern Warfare 2 looks Phenominal!

Sony: Wow what a great presentation they have a title in every category that looks like a must buy. Not to mention that they are still supporting the PS2 and original PSP. Only problem is that they didn't announce a price cut. After watching that press conference i would have ran out and bought a PS3 had i had a job.

Nintendo: Only good news out of their press conference was metriod related(I love metroid so thats awesome) but mario was expected, Zelda was MIA and ultimately nintendo has no big fall titles to push hardware sales. I feel like nintendo has lost so much ground with the hardcore that ultimately they've hit the wall especially with NATAL and Sony's efforts showing that they will fly past nintendo. Microsoft has undercut Nintendo's price and so if NATAL takes off whenever it comes out then Nintendo will find it has burned its last bridge.

As a pc gamer i saw that the pc has tons of great titles, sadly very few exclusives, some big titles are coming to pc though Star craft comes to mind. The single largest boundry between me and my console is the interface, i can't play strategy or shooter games with a gamepad, i've been trying, battlefield bad company is great but i just can't pull of headshots reliably. Sales figures have shown how useless the casual market is, they only buy bundles, and software quality is not a concern. software attach rates are so bad for the wii, why would anyone develope for it? This E3 shows how many worth while games are on the Wii this fall(none).

As my prefered platform suffers from lack of posative or negative attention i move forward with hope, i know every cross platform release i'll buy for my pc and as such try to support and effect change in what way i can.

ok, i'm gonna just say it. resident evil 5 isn't scary, it makes fear 2 feel like silent hill by comparison. re5 is simply a action game, a awesome action game, but a action game, the girls are hot the men are buff, and lots of things go boom. honestly i was so suprised buy just how much of a departure the game was, boss battles often are not tense at all and just involve patern recognition and mastery of quick time events. I love the action, the weapons, the upgrade system, the replayability the presentation, even if the story is predictable as can be. I played through the game on veteran difficulty, the highest available from the outset, and let me say, it is hard. I felt like gears of war 1 was a resident evil 4 clone with cover and multiplayer. well resident evil 5 feels like a gears of war 2 clone without a decent cover system. on the higher difficulty that i played through on, there are several instances where you can't win you just run, that is about the only time the game is almost scary. The upgrade system combined with coop and the fact that items carry over from play through to play through has given me quite a few resons to play on, and on. right about here is when i promise a review, but i'm so many reviews behind i can't promise anything till i fix my desktop shinanigans. happy st. patty's day.