I've been off work for the last three days with flu, at first I suspected that it could be swine flu, however a meeting with my doctor and some hard facts (I've never been to mexico, never met a mexican, never been around a pig) has led me to the conclusion that I have Man Flu which I am sure you will all concede is one hell of an illness. Thanks to this time off work I have managed to catch up on some reading (I've been re-reading a couple of graphic novels to continue the 'much anticipated ahem graphic novel countdown) and playing a few games. The tragic thing is that because I have been ill I haven't really felt inclined to play games as much as i'd have liked to; I have however made good progress on COD2 on veteran - I'm up to the D-Day landings but I've pretty much hit a brick wall now and I'm struggling to make much headway with it. I'm 66% through the game though and I can see this being the first 1000/1000 gamerpoints game in my collection, mainly due to the fact that there are only 13 achievements in the game.

I've also downloaded 'Broken Steel' and have now got another 10 levels of fallout 3 to enjoy. Now that I'm earning experience points again I decided to start 'The Pitt' DLC... hmm... I think that this set of missions is almost as disappointing as 'Operation Anchorage'. The story/or lack of it, is very sloppy and the actual moral decisions in the missions are very ropey. The new enemies (Trogs) look quite nice though, like a cross between resident evil lickers and ghouls (but with bizarre pot bellies). I'm now becoming slightly disillusioned with Bethesda's DLC policy, surely the level cap should have been lifted with the first episode of content because I've managed to complete all of the missions (with the exception of broken steel's) and managed to collect all of the bobbleheads/destroyed the behemoth super mutants/explore places of interest and I'm now faced with the prospect of climbing the next 8 levels through killing giant ants and ghouls... hmm.

I'm now faced with the deliberation of either plodding on with fallout (can't be bothered), trying to complete COD2 (ditto), playing Fable 2 or starting Far Cry Predator... And then there is Jericho, Just Cause and Halo 3.

Finally, I'm hating everything microsoft right now, probably irrationally but I don't care, why the hell can't I join a party on XBox Live? gah... And why, oh why has June the 19th gone from being one of the greatest days in gaming history (well, slightly hyperbolic I admit...) to being one of sheer, utter disappointment?? Ok I could handle Batman being pushed back, hopefully it will mean that the game will be polished up a bit, but Ghostbusters being bought by Sony?!?!? gah damn you Atari!!! why do you toy with me so? I'm hoping for a release date of some sort soon but I will be relieved if an xbox version is even released now...

If you could see me now, dear reader, I am on my knees, shirtless and waving my trembling fists at the gods... WHY?!?

*sob*