Monday, December 10, 2007

welcome back kotter

now that was a weekend kind of fun pure and unadulterated double heaping spoonful of hell.

if you can count the hours of sleep you got on the weekend on your fingers, is that good?

and why, might you ask, was i losing sleep and getting grumpy with anyone who would listen?

to bring you this -- only 4 days after the Christmas Tech Guide -- the 2007 Video Game Roundup.

i spent the better part of saturday, and all day and night sunday creating this monster. i did have help, however, from one key freelancer and one key editing fiend -- thank you ted and jen respectively -- but most of the writing, editing, and publishing was done by yours truly.

my portion -- aside from the unappreciated games story that is now coming out later this week -- was:

The Most Anticipated Games of 2008
A Review of SceneIt! for the 360
A Review of Halo 3
and a review of the Wii Zapper and Link's Crossbow Training

now, you may have some idea of why i'm so tired and cranky today. check them out, leave some feedback here, or there, and enjoy!

elsewhere, the world continued to move without me...

manhunt 2 won it's appeal -- or at least the first part of it -- against the British Board of Film Classification. don't know what this will really mean in the end, but it seems like a good step for less -- or at least more intelligent and informed -- censorship of games.

manhunt 2 was banned by the review board earlier this year by giving it an ao rating -- or adult's only -- which prevented any stores from stocking it.

also, i must insist that anyone with a 360, functioning hands and an internet connection download the burnout paradise demo -- featured in my most anticipated games -- that hits the Xbox Live! marketplace this thursday.

now, i guess i have to decide whether i'll continue to wait for the live gold membership to get in at the pr place that provided my console, or suffer the wait punishement that microsoft was kind enough to give silver subscribers for free content...

and that's about all i can stomach for today. sorry kids, it's just the way she goes.

drinking moonshine in the sunshine,

JD

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