I've been getting my ass kicked in Blur. If it wasn't for one person on my friends list whose done really well, I'd say it was impossible to actually get good at that game. Although, I have to say, it's a better Wipeout than some of the Wipeouts.

Dragon Age Origins has been banned. Until I have enough free time, I can't even load it, otherwise I burn through a few hours of questing. Borderlands was great, and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was satisfying in a sad way - great feel and mechanics for the actual shooting, but a little unfocused and buggy otherwise.

Persona on the PSP, which is decent and about what I recall from playing it way back when. I need to beef up my party some more. I am almost done with Darkest of Days, which has to be the sloppiest game I've playing in this generation - nothing like spawning over a bridge and falling straight through it.

WET would be much better if everything was toned down a bit. Unless you have a perfect run through every level, you come to realize how inadequate the exagerrated animations/moves are - I'm tired of overshooting a platform because she feels the need to leap everywhere.

"Why is it 'LOL' at the end? More like sad face." Ah man, I laugh every time I think of that.

The lack of matchmaking for ODST's multiplayer is annoying as hell. None of my friends have picked it up yet, so I'm stuck twiddling my thumbs until someone comes over or I luck out and they drop $60 for Halo 1.5 (badda-dum).

I'm actually going through all of One Step Beyond right now. It's pretty good, especially when you consider its age. The guy in the picture, John Newland, actually took "sacred mushrooms" while in Mexico for the show, and then proceeded to fly off his nuts on camera. I believe it will be released in the proper series packs that are coming out now - some low-rent place released them out of order, and those are the discs I found at my local library.

That was a painful, painful read. Look, I'm making a POINT. This POINT leads to another POINT, even though I'm stretching it doesn't matter because I have POINTS to make. The entire thing is painfully trite. Sociology 205 is going to blow their mind.

Demon's Souls arrived today. So far, it's a bit of a bitch to have to start over from the beginning of the level after dying, but I'm having a great time. Need... more... souls...

I'm going through Red Faction: Guerrilla - Badlands DLC at the moment. It's nice starting out with upgraded armor, and the Marauder weapons are fun to use so far. My main complaint is that they haven't really taken advantage of the creepiness of them yet, so far it's the standard transport, demolition, and house arrest rescue side missions, but the story might be picking up with this latest quest.

I also beat Wolfenstein on the 360. What a chore. Whatever good ideas Raven had, they just stomped them into the ground over, and over, and over again. You use the veil weapons and powers so rarely that I was mostly wishing I was playing Call of Duty 2.

I purchased the Might & Magic VI Limited Edition last night, and then promptly got my ass kicked in 4+5. I'm going to start with 3 instead, after hearing that it isn't too hard to adjust to and is a pretty good primer for 4+5 and, from what others have said, the peak of the series with 6. This is actually a really good deal, because I picked up Might and Magic: Millenium Edition off of Goozex - includes 1-7 - and had a really hard time getting them all to run properly.

Good Old Games also has a Buy 1, Get 1 Free with Interplay titles. I think I might use this chance to pick up the Descent 1 + 2 and Descent 3 + Expansion bundles.

I've also been reading on 1UP that a Japanese company wants to revitalize the Wizardry brand, and so far they have versions for the PS3, PC (MMO), and I believe the DS in the works. There are a handful of Saturn, PSX, and PS2 Japanese-only Wizardry titles as well, but the new set should be coming here. Fingers crosssssssssed.

bit.trip core has destroyed my thumb. And what's the deal with no online scoreboards? I'm not too big into online features for games - well, they normally aren't deal breakers at least - but it seems strange to not have one in a game you can only download.

Eh... it's them. A really fun thing that Tom Chick does at Quarter to Three is he will randomly research a Kotaku article. He's only done it two or three times, to my knowledge, but it always leads back to some random forum post or blog entry that's been quoted and cited over and over until it hits there, where it's posted as some sort of official or newsworthy item.

Oh yeah, most reviews actually mentioned that the special SNES releases - Super FX chip titles - ran the worst. There were some NES games that used a sound chip that ran bad as well.