Hello once again. I've been a bit busy as the big fall is winding down. I finished up my reviews for Super Mario Galaxy and Uncharted, which are both great games for their respective systems.

As for what I'm doing right now, I flew to my parent's house for the holidays last night, which took about nine hours, including time zone changes and all that. The planes were cramped, so it was just easier to sleep as much as possible. I pretty much listened to some of the Tony Kornheiser Show and played some Gunpey to pass the time.

Now that I'm here, I brought my Wii with me and left the PS3 behind since I only had so much room. Brought Super Mario Galaxy, Zack & Wiki, and Wii Sports and Play to play. There's also my PSP and plethora of games, so I've got some entertainment options for the few days I'm here. I'd love to have Ratchet and Uncharted to play right now, but I can wait the few days to get back to playing them.

For the few that are still checking this out, have a happy Thanksgiving. I'm out.

As I mentioned before, I was working on a review for Zack & Wiki: The Incredibly Long Title and it's now up. You can read it here. As you can see by the score. I really enjoyed it, as I do most any puzzle game of this type. Exit and Crush are some cool examples of this kind of puzzle game on the PSP, though Z&W adds some point-and-click elements to the gameplay and visuals.

Right now, I'm playing Super Mario Galaxy. I managed to use GameStop's trade 5, get 30% extra trade-in deal to my advantage and got about $58 in trade-in credit for some games I either beat or had no use for anymore. I also got the coin that you're supposed to get only with pre-orders, which looks very nice. It's not the best pre-order incentive around (Bully's dodgeball win that honor for me), but it's more than most games offer up. I'm loving the game so far, as I'm about 14 stars into it, though the resetting of lives every time you save and quit the game is a bit cheap to me. I'd prefer them to either be harder to obtain or that it just not erase them to cancel out the ease of collecting lives. Either way, I should have the review done this weekend. Up next for review is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, which I'm definitley looking forward to getting next week. Unfortunately, I'll only be able to play for a day or so before I head back home for Thanksgiving since I'm not lugging the PS3 home for just a few days. I may take the Wii to play some Zack & Wiki and Super Mario Galaxy though since that thing's small and compact.

Hey guys, it's been a bit too long since I last posted here, so I figured that I'd make up for that by getting back into blogging here. The first thing I really want to do is post a list of all of my reviews for my own reference and so you can see how much work I've been doing since the spring. That will come at the end of the post, so you can read the most important stuff first. First off, I now owna PS3. I got it in July shortly after the price was dropped and I've been using the hell out of it. It's a really good machine that more people really should play around with before they make claims of it having no games or being a crap machine. I've left it on since the beginning of September, with maybe a few minutes of rest every few weeks when I have to turn it off for whatever reason. The really big news is that Amped News has anew name, Gamer 2.0, which we picked out in the summer or spring. It seems like forever since we were Amped News, though that wasn't the name I knew when I first joined.

As for what I've been playing lately, I've been quite busy. I reviewed Dancing with the Stars for the Wii, you probably don't need to read it to see how good it is, but your curiosity may get the best of you. I also reviewed Mercury Meltdown Revolution for the Wii before that, which is the much better game of the two and it won't cost you an arm and a leg to acquire. I also wrotea preview for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune for the PS3 when the demo came out last week, which should be another great game for the PS3 this fall. I'm currently working on Zack & Wiki for review, which I should be done with that by tomorrow. I plan to go and get Super Mario Galaxy tomorrow or Thursday, which I'm reviewing for Gamer 2.0 for next week. Uncharted will be my game to get next week for the week after that, though I'll be playing it a lot right away since I'll be gone for Thanksgiving most of next week.

I also got Gamefly, so I can play more games than I can actually afford, so that's going to be a good thing to have for the fall. My car's been crapping out for my lately, so I haven't been able to get to a mailbox and drop off the Bleach Wii game for something like Assassin's Creed or maybe Stranglehold. Maybe CoD4 if I feel like it. I just noticed something when I was looking at the time, I've been with the Amped IGO/News/Gamer 2.0 site for two years now, which is a lot longer than it feels like I've been there.

Looks like something messed up right now, so I'll just edit this in a little bit with the reviews I've done and a total review count.

Wii
Dancing with the Stars
Madden NFL 07
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Metal Slug Anthology
Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution
Super Paper Mario
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Wii Play

PS2
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s
Hot Shots Tennis
MLB 07: The Show
MVP 07 NCAA Baseball
Odin Sphere

PSP
ATV Offroad Fury Pro
Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars
Crush
Daxter
Death, Jr. 2: Root of Evil
Hot Brain
Jeanne D'Arc
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
NASCAR 07
Online Chess Kingdoms
Pocket Racers
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
Star Trek: Tactical Assault(DS version)
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
WTF
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force

PS3
Everyday Shooter
Folklore
Heavenly Sword
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Warhawk

PS3/360
All-Pro Football 2K8(PS3 version)
NASCAR 08(PS3 version)
NBA Live 08(PS3 version)

And that's everything. Wow, I've certainly been busy in the past year of reviewing games with 44 reviews, counting multi-platform games. The big 5-0 should be too far away, as I'll probably hit it before the end of the year is through. My very first review (Trauma Center for Wii) was my first review on December 11, 2006, so I hope I can get to 50 by the time December 11, 2007 rolls around, which is just over a month from now. Wish me luck on that and please check out at least one of my reviews and let me know what you think about it, the site, or whatever. Thanks againand I'm hoping to possibly get a new post up later today or tomorrow.

Not much happened this week, but I did manage to get one review out this week. So let's cut to the chase, here's the lone review from last week:

Wii Play (Wii)

It was a rather slow week, so expect more out of this week and next, as I have more scheduled for the near future. Look for mostly PSP reviews, with Ratchet and Clank as the highlight there, along with MLB 07 for the PS2 coming the week after this. I do have a package on the way with a few more PSP games, this time it's from Sony themselves. Here are the games I've got coming my way:

ATV Offroad Fury Pro
Daxter
SOCOM US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2
Syphon Filter Dark Mirror

So those should be reviewed sometime the week after this depending on how busy I am with my other work.Until next time, I'm out.

It's that time again, as I've gotten a few more reviews up on AmpedNews:

MVP NCAA Baseball 07 (PS2)
Star Trek: Tactical Assault (PSP/DS)

This is a tiny milestone for me as a reviewer, as these reviews pushed me past 10 reviews total. :)

Right now, I'm working on a few more reviews. I'm finishing up those PSP reviews I talked about before with Death Jr. II and Yu-Gi-Oh GX while working on Wii Play, as well. Ratchet and Clank Size Matters is up next after that, though I've been a little short on money, so that should come later next week.

To shake things up a little, here's a few of our newest features that I had a hand in creating:

Tough Love - The "Bad" Guys We Love To Hate
The Hype Machine #1

Feel free to check them out and even sign up and post some comments on the features. Enjoy. Until next time, I'm out.

It's time for another update, though there's not much for this one. These last few PSP games are a tough nut to crack, so they may take a little longer than anticipated to get enough time in for a review. Luckily, this month is full of a few games that I should be reviewing. I've got MVP 07 NCAA Baseball right now to work on while next week should be Wii Play and Possibly Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters if I've got the cash on me. In the meanwhile, here are the latest reviews that I've completed:

NASCAR 07
Pocket Racers

Nothing too big, but if you're looking for a good racing game for your PSP, check out NASCAR. Just stay away from Pocket Racers. Until next time, I'm out.

Since my last post a week ago, I've been a busy beaver in working on these game reviews. Three have gone up this week and I've reached a few milestones in my short reviewer career. I've written my fifth review for AmpedNews and I've given my first bad score (5 or less) and Skip It suggestion. Let's see if you can guess which of these fits into that category:

Guitar Hero II (PS2)
Metal Slug Anthology (Wii)
Online Chess Kingdoms (PSP)

I've got a few more to work on, so hopefully I'll have a few more done by this time next week. Keep an eye out for them and feel free to check out AmpedNews for some more great content.

Since the last time I've posted here, I've gotten two more reviews up on Amped. Madden 07 (Wii) and Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (PSP) are up there for you all to see. I just got a big box of games to review right now, which contains mostly PSP stuff and nothing really big along with one Wii game, Metal Slug Anthology. MSA will probably be the next review to go up sometime next week. The PSP stuff will get strewn about for the next few weeks, but if you're wondering what I got, here's a list:

Death Jr. II Root of Evil
NASCAR
Online Chess Kingdoms
Pocket Racers
Star Trek Tactical Assault
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force

I also received a few extra things to enjoy or sell as I please. I received Elebits, which I played quite a bit of it over the course of a rental and I'd like to finish it up. The other game I got is MPO, which I already own, but hope to sell it to a friend and recoup some of the cost of my copy.

I've been working over at Amped IGO for just over a year now. Time does fly when you're having fun. I've been mainly working on news all that time, but today I had my first review for the site posted. It's for Trauma Center: Second Opinion for the Wii, the first Wii game review for the site. The next-gen consoles managed to catch us off guard, so we're working hard to get caught up and prepared for the future. It's not my first review, as I worked on one or two at Active.Gaming before I moved on, but it's a cool moment regardless.

It's finally here!