Boise State did it again tonight! After the totally radtastic Fiesta Bowl game that we won in 2007, we are back in 2010 with another big win. This time it was against TCU who was #4 in the country. It wasn't as dramatic or high scoring this year, but I feel like two big wins in such a short period of time will start to get us the recognition we deserve. Even though we were ranked #6 in the country, a lot of people expected TCU to slaughter us. Instead it was a very even matched defensive battle. I couldn't be happier to see my favorite team performing on such a high level. Good times. This is almost as sweet as Demon's Souls winning Gamespot's GOTY. Almost.

Hey guys... I could use some advice.

I've been working with my family for about 4 years now, and I don't really like it. I've never felt like I could leave because I don't want to abandon them and make it so that two guys have to do the work of three. My brother and my dad know that I'm not happy here, and that I want to do something else with my life. While I have put no money into this business, I am a part owner of the business, and am entitled to 10% of any profits we make.(Hint: We don't make any profits.) In any case, my brother approached me yesterday about buying my 10% of the business for $6,000. This isn't a lot of money for some people, but it would wipe out my credit card debt and take care of what I owe the IRS. I'd essentially be able to hit the reset button on the last 4 years and move on with my life. It is amazing. I've never seen such an all encompassing solution to my life's problems. I got kinda emotional imagining what I could do if I was free to do whatever I wanted in life.

The problem I'm having, is that I have no idea where to go from here. I could do anything I suppose, but I was sorta content with the safety net of working here. I'm really passionate about gaming, and if I was to leave this job, I'd be leaving it to pursue a career in the game industry. I used to want to try for the criticism/journalism end of the business, but the problem with that is that the industry doesn't need another longwinded "journalist" that doesn't write very well, and isn't capable of talking about a game without using hyperbole. I'm looking at how to break in on the creative side of the business. I have tons of ideas for games in my head. My best friend and I used to work up little design documents for the kinds of games we'd want to make if we were able to break into the business. He'd do the concept art, and I'd do the writing. I feel like we have real talent, and that, given the chance, we could do some amazing things. I feel that if I could learn how to do some rudimentary programing that he and I could build some basic games aimed at the PSN/XBLA crowd. The other option that I always looked at was finishing out my Linguistics degree and Japanese minor, and going to Japan to teach English and get fluent in Japanese. From there I could get work in the game industry doing localization. It wouldn't be creatively satisfying, but I'd be able to get my foot in the door and try to work my way up.

tldr version: What is the best way to break into the game business? Getting a degree and pursuing a job at one of the big companies, or learning how to program and working with my best friend?

Hello everyone, how goes it? What is going on in your lives? I've been super busy here at work. We are finally getting on top of our Christmas orders, and we should be in a position to take some time off in January. I'm hoping to see AVATAR with some friends tomorrow. It should be fun. As for games, I'm mostly just playing the Bad Company 2 beta and Demon's Souls, although I had a blast playing Uncharted 2 with Steel, S0lid, Argianas and last but not least GodMode!(Get a headset so that you can talk dirty about my mother in real time.)

The GGD Lounge

I posted this thread up on the GGD in hopes of spurring on a sense of community there, and hopefully getting the place more active. I won't beg, but I'd love to see some activity in there. Stop in and introduce yourself.

Hello everyone. It has been a while since I've posted a blog. I just became a mod yesterday, and am having fun with it. It feels good to contribute to the community and feel like you are making it better.

I saw Where The Wild Things Are this weekend. I thought the movie was great in some ways and lackluster in others. The movie really succeeded in making you feel like a kid again, but not in the joyful way that, say, a Pixar movie might. This movie made me cry more than once.(laugh all you want jerks.) It dredged up a lot of memories about how sad my childhood was, and how alone and out of control a lot of us felt growing up. I used to run away and hide too. At first I didn't care for how 'normal' the monsters where in the movie until I slowed down enough to think that these monsters were representing people in Max's life that scared him. On an emotional level, and a visual level, this movie was a great success. It is gorgeous to look at, and it makes you feel a lot of raw emotions about your childhood. The story structure is pretty busted though. The movie almost feels too short, and things don't really get resolved, but I that kinda describes my childhood too.

My brother and I are off to see Paranormal Activity tonight. This movie was made for around $15,000 dollars and is supposed to be absolutely terrifying. I've been really curious to see it, and it is finally showing in my town.

What is going on with you folks?

I had a pretty solid weekend. I beat Arkham Asylum and have been fiddling around trying to find the Riddler Challenges left in the game. I absolutely loved this game. I'll probably do up a review for it later in the week... suffice to say it was a dream come true.

On Saturday I bought a couch from St. Vincent's for $7.50. It is rad. Totally rad. I also went and saw the new movie from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli called Ponyo. It was gorgeous. Easily up there with some of my favorite Miyazaki movies.

It also has the most obnoxious song ever that plays with the end credits. I can still hear it in my head and it might drive me a little insane.

On Sunday I went and played some frisbee golf with a buddy and then went to check out Boise's first annual Curb Cup. Curb Cup was this thing where a bunch of random musicians, magicians and street performers all came out and took over downtown boise. It was sort of like a Battle of the Bands type event where every person who came voted for who they thought the best performer was. There was a wide variety of strangeness, with pockets of good stuff here and there. Here are some pictures...

There was a dude that I won't show too much of that was wearing a medusa hat and not much else playing a guitar.

There was a robot magician.

There were these weird bastards... I'm not really sure what they were doing...

There was a luchadore playing the drums!

This is the cutest girl musician I've seen in a long time.

The highlight of the whole thing would definitely be my friend Erin's RedLight Variety Show... they put on burlesque shows every once in a while that are a lot of fun.

I had a pretty great weekend.

How goes it? What have you people been up to this Summer? I haven't blogged about anything in a while, so I thought I'd post an update. I've been playing a lot of frisbee golf lately, and not a lot of games. We always play down at the big park in town, Anne Morrison Park, and while it is a great place to play, it has some issues. Mainly, the entire west side of the park is covered in goose ****, and there are a lot of water hazards, so any time your throw lands in the water, you end up wading into the goose crap infested stankwater...

Here is my friend Jason after rescuing his frisbee from the muck:

Here's me being chivalrous and getting my friend Heather's frisbee out:

Oh... and for the lulz, here is a great picture of Jason and I:

Outside of frisbee golf I'm looking forward to taking a camping trip down to the City of Rocks this weekend. I plan on getting drunk and falling off a cliff. At least the site of my death will be beautiful:

I can't wait! It is going to be nice to get away for a while.

In other awesome news, my brother and I are moving to a new place at the end of the month. It is an 1800 square foot monster of a place, which means I will be able to finally have room for my ping pong table. Here are some pics...

The view from the front door:

The room where the ping pong table will be:

It has a huge back porch area as well as a two car garage:

I'm getting a new roommate to go with the new place as well, my friend Loren is coming to live with us. He is a rad dude:

Life is going well. Some of you might have known that I broke up with my girlfriend a while back. She was going to move to Korea, but now she isn't, and we are talking more often lately. Who knows what will come of that, but I'm happy that she is back in my life. What are you guys doing with your summer?

Over the past few months I've had the pleasure of playing Demon's Souls. I've beaten it twice, and have loaned it to a friend. This is a hard game for me to review. There are some flaws in the game that will be major annoyances to some people, and there is the game's crushing difficulty that will turn off others. The score I attach to this game is reflective of my own experience with the game. This is not a game for everyone. First and foremost, Demon's Souls is a game that requires you to put in a lot of effort. You get out of it what you put into it. Every thing you accomplish in this game will be something you fought hard for, and that is why I love it. There is a sense of accomplishment provided by this game that is matched by few others.

Before I talk about what the game is, I'll talk about what it isn't. When the first screen shots showed up for the game, several people around the internet were billing Demon's Souls as an Oblivion styIe game with Japanese art direction. As appealing as that description is, it doesn't describe Demon's Souls. This isn't a sandbox styIe RPG in the vein of the Elder Scrolls games, and in the end, there isn't anything about the game that is comparable to JRPG design either. The bosses are gigantic, and the character designs are fantastic, but they don't seem to be at all similar to what you see in most Japanese games.

Demon's Souls is, at its heart, a pure action RPG. There isn't much of a story in Demon's Souls, and for the most part you will either experience the game by yourself, or with the help of other players that you can summon into your game. There is no voice chat with your co-op partner, which may be seen as an annoyance by some people, but for me it only served to preserve the game's sense of isolation. There are some NPCs that you will run into in the game as you explore new areas, but most of your NPC interactions will be done in the game's hub world, The Nexus. The Nexus is a place that traps your soul at the beginning of the game. Within it are 5 archstones that serve as portals to varied regions in the Kingdom of Boletaria. Each area has unique enemies, huge bosses and incredible level design. Whether you are exploring the crumbling walls of Boletaria Palace, the depths of the Stonefang Mines, the Shrine of Storms, or either of the other fantastic levels in the game, you will always be up against a challenge, and you will continue to run into new enemy types and be forced to develop new strategies for dealing with them.

This game is difficult, but not cheap. There is no pause button, and the game does not let you manually save.(although it autosaves very frequently) Fighting enemies and killing bosses earns you soul points that are simultaneously the currency of Demon's Souls, and the experience points. Buying an item with souls can be a hard choice when you know that you can also use the same souls to level up. When you die in the game, you lose your souls. You must make it back to the spot where you lost them without dying in order to regain your lost souls. This can make for some tense moments. The other thing about dying is that you lose your body, and you awaken at the start of the level in Soul Form. This means that your health bar is cut in half, and it is easier for you to be killed while in Soul Form.

There are four ways to regain your physical form in Demon's Souls. The most common ways are to either beat a boss demon, or use one of the rare Stone of Ephemeral Eyes items that will resurrect you. The more interesting ways to regain your physical form are to either let yourself be summoned into someone else's game to help them beat a boss, or to invade their game as a Black Phantom in hopes of killing them. Playing the game in co-op is a lot of fun, and while it was frustrating at the beginning, as I got better at the combat in the game, I began to look forward to Black Phantom invasions. As challenging as the game's enemies are, there is nothing like going toe to toe with a human opponent who is as smart as you are. The PvP in this game is a phenomenal game of cat and mouse. They invade your game and if you have time, you can conceal yourself and choose to confront them when you have the upper hand. There is nothing like getting the drop on a Black Phantom invader and turning them from hunter to hunted.

The real standout element of the game is easily the various enemies and demons that you fight. They all require different strategies to take on. The game is a learning experience, and sometimes the most valuable lesson is learning when to run away. There are enemies in this game that can kill you in one hit. You always have to be on your guard and take every encounter seriously if you want to survive. Fortunately the combat system is very deep, and there is a wide variety of weapons, spells and miracles to aid you on your way. The combat system is flexible enough to accommodate a variety of playing styIes. If you want to play as a nimble mage that focuses on ranged combat you aren't at a disadvantage compared to an iron clad knight swinging a sword bigger than he is as long as you know how to adapt. Some bosses are weaker against ranged combat, and others are weak against melee attacks. Knowing how to exploit their weaknesses is often more important than being leveled up. The sense of accomplishment you get when you beat a boss demon after a long hard fight is fantastic. This game presents some truly epic fights with some bosses being on the scale of something you'd see in Shadow of the Colossus.

My only major complaint regarding the game is something that most people aren't going to know about, or care about. There is a system called World Tendency in the game where the enemies you run into in an area, and the difficulty of said enemies, can change depending on your actions in the world. The rules governing world tendency are way over my head, and in the end, while there are certain things you won't see in the game without manipulating the World Tendency, you can experience all of the bosses and beat the game without every needing to understand it.

On a technical level, the game's graphics aren't perfect. There are framerate issues in certain areas and in general the graphics look a little dated for a game that came out in 2009. I should also point out that while the game uses the Havok physics engine, the fallen corpses of your enemies behave very oddly, as though they don't weigh anything at all.

There is a barebones story in Demon's Souls that involves restoring the kingdom of Boletaria and defeating the Demon's that have taken over the land. There are some minor elements of choice in the game, but the game never explicitly lets you know that killing a certain NPC or saving them will have an effect on the story. Things are much more grey and mysterious than something as overt as, say, choosing whether or not to harvest a Little Sister in Bioshock.

When you beat the game you will wake up back in The Nexus where you are free to start all over and play through the game at an even higher difficulty. This is the only way that you will be able to obtain every spell and weapon in the game, as you will need to use the souls of various demons to make new spells and weapons. I imagine most people will be content with beating the game and moving on, but it is nice to know there is an even greater challenge awaiting you after the credits roll.

In the end, this game has been the most unique experience I've had in years, and it is something that I can easily recommend to anyone looking to play one of the most challenging games ever made.

9 out of 10

As most of you know, I am a wuss. I play on easy mode in every game but Tekken(Ultra Hard please!), and typically if I run up against a rough spot in a game, it goes back on the shelf... well, that is how I used to be anyway, but playing Demon's Souls for nearly a month has made a man out of me.

I haven't beaten it yet, so this isn't a review, but this game is amazing. It makes you work for every single thing you get. In most games, if you'd been working your way through a dark cave, killing ghosts and battling the grim reaper himself, you'd expect a little cool down period when you finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel. You know what Demon's Souls has to say about that?

I have nothing much to say other than I am very excited today. I am so curious to see how Obama's Presidency will go. I have tremendous respect for the guy, and I think he is who we need in the White House right now. I'm pretty sure that some on the left are expecting too much and some on the right are expecting the worst. It will be interesting to see what happens. I am hopeful.

I had a fantastic weekend.

I played a ****-ton of Persona 4.

I bought Lumines Supernova from the Hong Kong PSN store.

I played Lumines until my eyes rotted out of my head.

I beat the **** out of my relatives in some heated ping pong matches.

I went on a date with a rad girl.

I woke up this morning and weighed 217 lbs which means that I've officially lost 50 pounds.

Something is bound to go wrong at this point, because things are going too good. How about you folks, what is going on in your world?

Ah... the election is over. I'm so happy to return to playing games. I had a nice quiet evening of nerdery last night. I had lost my appetite for games over the last few weeks, as I became more glued to the 24/7 news networks and to the internet. That is over. I thought I'd write up my impressions of the games I'm playing now.

Far Cry 2-

The game isn't perfect, but it is a lot of fun. It falls victim to a problem that a lot of sandbox games have and adds a few new ones of its own. The game is repetitive in ways that most sandbox games are, but the lack of a strong story makes that repetition a little more frustrating. My biggest issue is that traveling is often more of a pain in the ass than it has to be. There are too many guard checkpoints on the roads.

Those complaints aside, this is a great game. For all of its faults, it still has absolutely incredible combat that is dynamic in ways that most games aren't. There is nothing like starting a huge fire and changing the whole flow of a battle.

LittleBigPlanet-

Now that the awful launch is over, I've really settled into this game. I do think it is the game of the generation. It is certainly the game that should define how people remember the PS3 after this gen is over. Those are lofty words, but this game really is something special. Not only is it technically solid, it is oozing styIe. This game is one of those rare games that truly manages to feel hip and cool. The soundtrack is as amazing as the art styIe.

I'm building a level right now that involves going into a tall tower to battle a huge monster and rescue someone in the process. It is so easy to build and playtest as you go to make sure everything is working right. My level will pale in comparison to the excellent levels that Media Molecule has included in the game, and they will certainly pale in comparison to the stuff that other folks in the community are playing. If you haven't seen it yet, check out this Gradius LBP level. This game is amazing, and the possibilities seem endless.

Fallout 3-

This game is phenomenal. In a lot of ways I think it is better than Oblivion which is one of my all time favorite games. Fallout 3 is much more focused, and it has a spectacular sense of styIe that was missing from Oblivion's bland cities and towns. I'm playing stealthy and shooting for good karma. I saved Megaton from certain doom, and have arranged a deal with some "vampires" to protect a small town that they had previously been raiding and stealing people from to drink their blood. This is so much more than Oblivion with guns. It would be a great game if it was just that, but it is so much more.

This is the best year of gaming that I've ever experienced, hands down. I'll be getting Valkyria Chronicles on Friday too. I can't wait!

This blog is a work in progress and will continue to be until the election is called tomorrow night/Wednesday morning.

Here is my prediction of what the electoral map will be:

You can build your own prediction map over atRealClearPolitics.Since you can't post image responses, either post a link, or just say what the numbers are, for example, mine is 333 electoral votes for Obama and 205 for McCain.

FiveThirtyEight has been the most accurate polling aggregator during this election season, here is what their map is looking like:

Their map is based on simulations using polling data for each state, and the above map is their most common result from running those simulations. Currently, based on their simulations, Obama has a 98.1% chance of winning the election.

Other prominent Electoral Map predictions:

Karl Rove Electoral Map-311 O 160 M 67 Tossups (That's right, Karl Freaking Rove )

Pollster.com Electoral Map-311 O 142 M 85 Tossups

Electoral Vote Electoral Map-353 O 185 M

Chuck Todd Electoral Map-286 O 157 M 95 Tossups

CNN Electoral Map-291 O 157 M 90 Tossups

I'm stealing a post from NeoGAF and passing it along.

"Small town values"

"That's not change we can believe in"

"Palling around with terrorists"

"Joe the Plumber"

"Joe Six-Pack"

"Change"

"Experience"

"Hockey Mom"

"Fundamental difference"

"Helping out Main Street instead of Wall Street"

"Drill Baby Drill"

"ACORN will destroy the fabric of our democracy"

"Barack Obama is a socialist/Marxist/Muslim/terrorist/baby killer/vampire"

"We are in the really pro-America part of the country"

Ugh. I'm done. I can't wait for this to be over. Seriously. This has been an ugly ugly campaign, and I'm ready for it to end. I don't want to sound too cocky, but here is my electoral map prediction:

I don't think Obama will be able to carry Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, but I think he will be able to win two out of three. The early voting numbers for Florida are looking solid, and Penn isn't really in play no matter how much McCain campaigns there.

You can make your own at RealClearPolitics

Politico

Religion has stolen my LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet - SCEE's official statement…

Deadlines are coming up for a lot of states. I thought I'd put together a voter registration guide for all 50 states after seeing the thread over at NeoGAF. This blog is just going to ripoff that thread. I don't care who you are voting for, I'm not trying to sway anyone here. If you know me, you know who I'm voting for this November.

EXPATRIATES AND ABROAD VOTERS

You must:

* Be a citizen of the United States

* Only vote in Federal elections

ALABAMA

Registration Deadline: Voter registration is closed during the ten days preceding an election. Applications must be postmarked or delivered by the eleventh day prior to the election

ALASKA

Registration Deadline:30 days before the election

ARIZONA

Registration Deadline: 29 days before the election

ARKANSAS

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

CALIFORNIA

Registration Deadline: 15 days before the election

COLORADO

Registration Deadline: 29 days before the election. If the application is received in the mails without a postmark, it must be received within 5 days of the close of registration

CONNECTICUT

Registration Deadline: 1 day before the election

DELAWARE

Registration Deadline: 20 days prior to the general election.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

FLORIDA

Registration Deadline: 29 days before the election

GEORGIA

Registration Deadline: The fifth Monday before any general primary, general election, or presidential preference primary.

HAWAII

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

IDAHO

Registration Deadline: 25 days before the election

ILLINOIS

Registration Deadline: 28 days prior to each election

INDIANA

Registration Deadline: 29 days before the election

IOWA

Registration Deadline: Must be delivered by 5 p.m. 10 days before the election, if it is a state primary or general election.

KANSAS

Registration Deadline: Delivered by mail 15 days before the election or at caucus in person.

KENTUCKY

Registration Deadline: 29 days before the election

LOUISIANA

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

MAINE

Registration Deadline: You can register to vote until, and including, election day.

MARYLAND

Registration Deadline: 9:00 p.m. 21 days before the election

MASSACHUSETTS

Registration Deadline: 20 days before the election

MICHIGAN

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

MINNESOTA

Registration Deadline: You may register to vote by mail or in-person at your county courthouse (at least 20 days before the election to appear on the roster) or you may register at your polling place on election day.

MISSISSIPPI

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

MISSOURI

Registration Deadline: By 5:00pm on the fourth Wednesday prior to the election

MONTANA

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

NEBRASKA

Registration Deadline: Mail-in voter registrations must be mailed and postmarked on or before the third Friday preceding an election. Individuals may register in person at the county clerk/election commissioner's office prior to 6 p.m. on the second Friday preceding an election.

NEVADA

Election Registration Deadline: 9:00 p.m. on the fifth Saturday before any primary or general election.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Registration Deadline: New Hampshire town and city clerks will accept this application only as a request for their own absentee voter mail-in registration form, which must be received by your city or town clerk by 10 days before the election. You may register at your polling place on election day.

NEW JERSEY

Registration Deadline: 21 days before the election

NEW MEXICO

Registration Deadline: 28 days before the election

NEW YORK

Registration Deadline: 25 days before the election

NORTH CAROLINA

Registration Deadline: 25 days before the election

NORTH DAKOTA

North Dakota does not have voter registration

OHIO

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

OKLAHOMA

Registration Deadline: 25 days before the election

OREGON

Registration Deadline: 21 days before the election

PENNSYLVANIA

Registration Deadline: 30 days before an election or primary

RHODE ISLAND

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

SOUTH CAROLINA

Election Registration Deadline:30 days before the election

SOUTH DAKOTA

Registration Deadline: Received 15 days before the election

TENNESSEE

Registration Deadline:30 days before the election

TEXAS

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election

UTAH

Registration Deadline: Postmark deadline-30 days before the election; Satellite Registration-you may register in person at a satellite registration site or at the County Clerk's office on the 15th and 18th day before the election.

VERMONT

Registration Deadline: Delivered to the town clerk before 5:00 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding the day of the election

VIRGINIA

Registration Deadline: Delivered 29 days before the election

WASHINGTON

Registration Deadline: 30 days before the election (or delivered in-person to the local voter registration office 15 days before the election)

WEST VIRGINIA

Registration Deadline: 20 days before the election

WISCONSIN

Registration Deadline: 20 days before the election (or completed in the local voter registration office up to 5:00 pm. 1 day before the election, or completed at the polling place on election day)

WYOMING

Election Registration Deadline: Wyoming by law, cannot accept this form unless State law is changed. You may register to vote at your polling place on election day.

It is a Saturday, you've got nothing better to do, go register. In some places like Ohio, you can even vote early and get it out of the way all at once.

Dvader and I were lucky enough to get into the LittleBigPlanet beta, and since we were the only ones, I feel like I have to report back from the future to let all of you unfortunate people living in the present know how great this game is.

I won't do it proper justice with words, but this game delivers on every front. The presentation of the game is phenomenal, easy to use menus, charming narration, absolutely gorgeous graphics, etc. On top of that, the creation tools are easy to use and incredibly deep.

The best part of the game is easily the community, this beta hasn't been going long, and there aren't too many people in it, and it is full of amazing levels. So far I've seen an incredible level full of electric skeletons, a gorgeous Shadow of the Colossus level(complete with rocket horse and Collosus), a level with a rocket powered wheel that you grab onto and hold on for dear life as it propels you on a rollercoaster to the end of the level, a two part series of levels involving a bank heist and some ridiculously faithful recreations of cIassic Sonic levels. I can guarantee that I will find more incredible levels when I get home tonight.

This is the game of forever, the YouTube of gaming, and whatever else you want to call it. The online portion is thought out very well. It is easy to find new levels and to see where your friends are and what they are playing. I've found most of the great levels simply by venturing over to Dvader's planet and seeing what he has played.

This game is something really special and I can't wait for everyone else to join in the fun.

Like I blogged about here a while back, I've stolen a computer from work. It had been gutted to an extent and needed a new GPU before I would be able to play anything. Tonight I just ordered an 8800GT and 4GBs of RAM and I'm back on my way to playing PC games again.

As an added bonus, the video card I ordered comes with a free copy of Crysis. Outside of that I'm hoping to get the PC version of Oblivion. I've put somewhere around 500-600 hours into the 360 and PS3 versions and I'm stoked to get to play it with mods, and better performance. I simply couldn't be more excited.

I was raised on PC gaming. One of my friends had a Nintendo, but I was usually too busy playing King's Quest to be bothered with that Mario nonsense. Later on we got a Super Nintendo, and it was cool, and I sorta fell out of PC gaming until we got a brand spanking new top of the line Intel 486! I was the envy of my nerd friends at the time. I remember totally falling in love with Command and Conquer: Red Alert, which I think still goes down as the best Christmas present my dad has ever given me. My favorite games then were easily Half-Life, Interstate '76, the Quest for Glory series, C&C: RA and Quake.

Those were the good old days and they are coming back.

John McCain has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.

...tell me why it is ok that she is inexperienced? This is an obvious ploy to try and win over Hilary supporters, and I think it will backfire.