Well, lately I've been on and off Gamespot for lack of time, I have been distributing my time between my better half, my work and my gaming.

As you are aware I acquired the Wii and I have been playing with it whenever I had time (been playing Red Steel and Rayman, along with Altered Beast and Super Mario 64) and we could summarize the whole experience as great fun! (Yes I know that Red Steel has been receiving very crappy reviews all over the world, but I'm still having fun blasting Yakuza tugs that yell at me assassin or murderer when I send them to the Netherworld, ironic isn't).

I want to take advantage of the community and ask them a big favor.

I plan to buy this next Friday a DS Lite, so if you own one I would really appreciate your recommendations on games for this platform, specifically on these genres:

RPG, Action/Adventure and Puzzles.

I am an Ol'Skool FPS gamer which means mouse/keyboard for me please, but if you really think I could make the jump in this platform with FPS games please do recommend games on that genre too.

As always thanks for reading and don't forget to post your recommendations!.

Well what do you know, after all my complaining and my long face, I got a call 3 hrs ago that they had the Wii in stock and I could pick it up anytime I wanted.

This became one of the coolest Sundays I had lately. I got my Wii, I made my Mii, I bought Altered Beast, I ruled in Bowling, I sucked at Golf and my beloved Dallas Cowboys, against all odds (please insert Phil Collins song here) won in a nail biting game to the (were) undefeated Indianapolis Colts!.

Yay for me and all the Dallas fans out here!, Yay for my Wii!.

Ok, sorry about that, got a little carried away.

Thanks for checking the Blog and if you are interested in any review and/or impressions on the Wii console, please make your request in the comments area.

As many of you my fellow gamers, I pre-ordered my Wii and was confirmed that I will receive it today along with millions of others players around the world.

Well it seems that after checking with the store they said that they have not received it yet but, "...For surely we will do so along the week!, be assured that your pre-order is completely safe with us. Call us again along the week!, and have nice day.".

I don't understand, is this supposed to make me happy?, that my pre-order is safe and a sure thing and that they will receive the Wii... ALONG the week?.

Well there you go, on more sad story to add to all the countless  that occurred on PS3 and Wii Worldwide release day.

So all I can do is, call "Do you guys have it yet ...mmm no not yet call later please... what about now? ... no, nothing please call again later..." etc.

Great way to expend the upcoming week.

Thanks for reading this and for letting me get this out of my system.

Eliza Gauger at Game|Life posted a wonderful link to some guy nicknamed Datamax which has a very impressive game art collection in Flickr.

I'm not sure if you need to subscribe to Flickr to be able to download them (it doesn't seem like it) but even if you do, it is a very small price to pay compared to the more than 700 high resolution images that this guy has (if you have a Yahoo account, subscription it's a cinch!).

You can also subcribe to Datamax's feed using your favorite RSS reader and be notified as soon as he uploads new material.

Kudos to Eliza for finding this link and to Datamax for sharing his wonderful collection.

Link after the jump...

Datamax's photos

I just found this footage of the new Dragon Quest: Swords game from Square-Enix for the Wii and I got to tell you it looks amazing.

It is "straight-linear" which means no wandering around, but it doesn't seem to be in detriment of the fun factor.

I can't hardly wait for it to be released in the Americas.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Don't forget to post your comments.


UPDATE!

It seems this gaming style has been used before in the game:
"Kenshin Dragon Quest" link2  link3