High school, done and done! Finally! I feel free, for lack of a better term, it's amazing how people's attitudes toward you literally cahnge right after you graduate high school. At least, that's what it's been like for me. Anyways, I'm releaved. I'm going to move back to my home town soon, and go to college and speciaize as an EMT. You would probably know them as people who save lives in ambulances. Pretty heavy, huh?

On the games side of things, I've been on a big portable games kick lately, mostly due to sales on Amazon and at GameStop.

Half of these I got new for $9.99. And so far, I've only played Crisis Core, Patapon 2, Space Invaders Extreme, Street Fighter, and Henry Hatsworth. Which is completely unlike me, because I never play this many games, but I am enjoying them a lot, especially Crisis Core and Patapon 2.

I missed out last year when Crisis Core came out, but when I saw it on sale, I knew I had to take the plunge. And for a Final Fantasy game, I'm surprised, even moreso since it's under the Final Fantasy VII name. It's probably one of the best RPGs I've played in a long while.

Also speaking of RPGs, Patapon 2, is another series where I missed out on the original, and just picked this up yesterday. And it's completely taken over all my time with everything else, it's soooo addictive, the rhythm gameplay, the RPG elements, the visuals, OMG this game is absolutely fantastic!

That's it for now, I'm off to celebrate some more!

• New Katamari from creator Keita Takahashi, titled Katamari Damacy Tribute, and only on PS3. New and old stages and music, Full 1080P, and new (optional) cel-shaded graphics.

• Ninja Gaiden Σ 2 announced exclusively for PS3. Σ 2 is Ninja Gaiden II remade for PS3, with improved performance and graphics, improved camera, tweaks to difficulty and level design, new weapons, new multiple playable characters, new bosses and enemies, and two player co-op!

• Ratchet & Clank Future: A crack in Time, no info yet, but it is the conclusion to the Future story arc. Teaser trailer tomorrow night!

• The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, new Zelda for the DS, it features trains in place of the boat mechanic from Phantom Hourglass. And hopefully doesn't feature monotonous backtracking to the same dungeon over and over again like in Phantom Hourglass.

• Modern Warfare 2: it speaks for itself, just wondering why they're dropping the Call of Duty title now.

Still the rest of the day left, and tomorrow as well, lets hope for more announcements!

P.S. Where are you Microsoft!

Hey all,

Just felt like posting a blog entry with all the crazy releases going on, I've been swept up into buying lots of games. Some old , some new.

These are the games I managed to pick up between the beginning of Febraury and now. Pretty unusual for me since I like to keep my purchases modest, so I can appreciate my games more, but I kind of splurged this month. In the end my final tally came out to,

Burnout Paradise - $20
Ninja Gaiden Sigma - $20
BioShock - $30
Left 4 Dead - $40
Street Fighter IV - $60
Killzone 2 - $60
Resident Evil 5 - $60 +

$290
7%(tax) x

$310 - Total

Luckily I managed to pick up a couple of them on clearance, and some were just discounted for being in the 'Greatest Hits' library.

But, yeah, I felt like playing BioShock again, because I remembered how much I loved that game, and felt it appropriate to support them for delivering on a fantastic game. So now I have two copies of the game.

Left 4 Dead I had been meaning to pick up since it came out, but after looking over what you get in the box for 60 bones, I decided to wiat for a price drop, and Target just so happened to have a sale with it for $40, so I picked it up.

Also managed to get some older games like Burnout Paradise and Ninja Gaiden Sigma for ridiculously cheap prices. Well, just ridiculously cheap compared to what I'm used to paying for games now, $20 is an insane bargain nowadays. And I'm definitely getting my moneys worth out of them both, they're both fantastic games.

And for new releases I picked up Street Fighter IV, Killzone 2, and Resident Evil 5, all of which I'm very happy with. I'm kind of holding off of playing more Street Fighter though, because I'm trying to find a good arcade stick to really play it, controller just doesn't cut it.

That's all for now, be back soon with more.

I really want to blog more often, I really do. But I find whenever I want to write a new entry, I'm required to go write this long soliloquy of which I really find time consuming. So in effort to blog more often, and cut off the rest of the baggage, I've made an account on Twitter.

Fot those of you who don't know, Twitter is a webiste that brings the functionality of a blog, but with a more loose structure, smaller entries, and the ability to update from practically anywhere, even through phone texts. Even a lot of industry people use it as a blog, like Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis, a lot of current and ex 1UP staff, etc, and I frequently come across lots of useful information.

This won't be my last update to this blog, but my main focus will be to update via Twitter. So if you're interested in following me, here's my profile.

With that out of the way, I put up a review of Flower, one of this years best games, and one of the best experiences I've had in my time with any entertainment medium, it really is that impactful. You can find it here.

And that'll do it for now, look for more later on Twitter.

The first media to come out of Square about Final Fantasy XIII is almost 3 years, I hope it's worth it. I might have to be late for school on Wednesday.