The acquisition of my first car has burnt a huge hole in my wallet. Now I have to give up on some of my games...selling them to random people on Redflagdeals.com. I feel so sad...I never wanted to sell my games, but something has to pay the gas bills right? My f'in part-time job right now won't. God I need a new job, and this class is so super boring. I think the last time I wrote, it was in this stupidly boring class too. Sold off Left 4 Dead a few days ago, going to sell Carbon and Fallout 3 soon. Just games that I don't touch on a regular basis. I know I'll want to go back to them eventually, but I need the cash now. God I'm desperate lol.

There's not much to look forward to, which is a positive I guess at this time. I don't have the money to spend on games. I have started renting though. Godfather 2 sucked chicken balls lol. It was fun for the first hour or so, then it started sucking real bad. Ah..need cash...so broke...

Holy..it's been a year and change...I'm bored in class...and thinking about games. Sometimes I think I should pay attention in class but god knows how many people are actually paying attention anyway. I actually have games to play for my PS3 now, Killzone, Street Fighter, LBP...thank goodness and of course The Show. Res Evil comes out today, won't be able to get my hands on it until Sunday though. Busy. I always think I play too much games, but I never try to go and change that.

Big games nowadays for me. NHL 09...EASHL with buddies is a nightly thing now. Burnout Paradise is back, and loving it with those same great buds. For those that want to join a community of sports gaming and great discussion with great people, come to www.xbox-sports.com and sign up with us. Say you were referred by darktrc. It's an awesome community. You can join leagues, and meet and play with some great people. Anyways, I've been popping in The Show and Killzone 2 in as well. The Show career mode is back to the top with super fast games and such. Killzone is fun, got a buddy to play with and a bunch of people from XBS.

Alright, time to go. This is boring. But come visit us at XBS!

I don't even know how to describe it. NBA 2K9 is just another year of 2K dominating EA. The game is so nice, the player animations are down to the very last detail, and all this other stuff that makes the game feel so great and gets me to play the game. I get that feeling that I said was missing (see my review on 2K8 ), and I really want to play this game everyday of the week for hours. At the same time, it's so disappointing to see 2K's lack of ability to properly host the online. Half the time I log on I get the "2K server is unavailable" message and the other half I can't even get a game started. 2K has always been known for great online play, but for 2K9 why not?? I don't understand. I've played ONE full 5-on-5 team up game so far, and it was laggy like $hit. All the other times, all I got was "could not connect" and this message that I've read probably a million times.

I love the dynasty mode though. I have my Raptors at 12-2 on a 11 game win streak playing on All-Star difficulty. I wonder if it was a glitch or not, but putting Anthony Parker on the trading block yielded the Portland Trailblazers to offer the future of their franchise in Brandon Roy AND a 1st round pick for AP. Without thought, I took it. I also decided to start Jason Kapono over Jamario Moon. With JO and CB4 down in the post, either of them getting hot at the start of the game, Kapono is the shooter that we need. Kapono's 16 led us to a blowout of the Heat in our last game. With Bosh struggling, Roy picked it up in crunch time with 10 of his 13 coming in the last 5 minutes of the 3rd that really blew the game open.

See I love the game. I'm just disappoint with the online...I wish it would work..because I heard Live is pretty fun.

Another year coming along now, and another year of buying the regular sports games. Madden coming up, NHL, NBA and then back to baseball again in the spring. I have NCAA Football 09 right now, it's not really cutting it unfortunately. It's too similar to 08. As for Madden, I've gotten to play that, and to be honest, besides a couple of graphical flaws, the game is great. It looks great, they finally fixed that horrific presentation from 08 and 07 and it really feels like a actual football broadcast now. NHL is undoubted my most anticipated game right now. Be A Pro Mode, EASHL just unbelievable things in that game that EA has brought on board. Let's just hope the EA servers hold up for the EASHL to actually work properly in a generally lag-free and glitch-free environment. For those that played 08, we all understand what I am talking about. We couldn't get on a 3 on 3 game till at least 2-3 weeks after release. As for NBA, I'm not 100% what is going to be new. But I can't deny the fact that I'm probably, most likely, indefinitely going to buy the thing. I'm too much of a basketball freak not to, and of course, we are talking 2K9 and not Live. Soccer will come around as well, and FIFA 09 looks good again. So I'll probably end up buying both FIFA and Winning Eleven whenever WE comes out with a new one.

Looking further into the future, I hope they fix up MLB 2K9 while I hope The Show 09 just keeps getting better, fix up a couple things in career mode and bring back the fast forward function in it too! I loved that function!! Baserunning is just too boring to not have that function!

While things have changed in my life durastically in the past month and change, I have not, and I will continue to waste lots of $60s to buy sports games that let me live the dream that I'll never get because I'm not athletically gifted enough haha.

Well, the game everyone has been waiting for is just about to arrive. Super Smash Bros Brawl is ready to come for this Sunday, and I'm working the midnight launch. Halo 3 was pretty disappointing, it was just another FPS and didnt seperate itself from any other FPS. But nothing has been able to match the first Smash Bros on the Gamecube and I don't expect that to change. Brawl looks real good, and I can't wait to unlock Solid Snake!

It's going to be an awful long Saturday coming up, I work from 11-6, and then I'll bum around with my co-worker for like 3-4 hours before we head back to the store and prepare for the midnight launch. I wonder how many people will be there? Better question. are we going to get enough to satisfy all the preorders? Head-office continues to tell us we will, but we have like 120 something preorders as of right now so, I'm never garaunteeing customers a copy when they preorder now....unlike everyone else at EB, I like to stay realistic. I'll probably stay up real late after the launch to play Smash too, so its going to be an exciting weekend no? haha.

Besides Smash, money will be flying out the door these next couple of weeks. I've gotta grab Army of Two, Bully for 360, God of War for PSP, MLB 2K8 for 360, MLB 08 The Show for PS3 alll of that on top of Smash. Man...I'm like, happy and sad at the same time. Well I guess out with the old and in with the new right? Damn...Oh well, thank goodness for Chinese New Yer and red pocket money! =D