This week is going to be a sh*t hole. With our mock exams firing me with all cylinders, I am dodging questions and firing back answers if u will. I am studying non-stop, I closed my cabinet which contains the 360, ps3, psp just so i dont get distracted. This week, life sucks. I hope u guys r having a better week.

WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! OH BABY!!! We r through to the Semi Finals! One on a previous blog I posed that how Milan drawn 2-2 with a German club called Bayern in their home turf in Milan. Which meant that Milan AT LEAST had to make sure 1-0 over the Germans away from home, and also the fact that Bayern is the toughest German club and they didn't loose a match in Munich since 3 years ago. So all the things were against us, which...kinda made me ill last week lol . Now Tonight, we faced the Germans in their Allianz Arena (The Stadium is visually one of the wonders of the world). Milan players were greeted with jeers from 50,000 + German fans and cheered by respectable about 5000 Milan fans. The English commentators were all biased, I mean like always. Saying that "I rather prefer Germans go through" and blah blah, F U DUDE!!. When the match was started, Milan attacked in numbers and veteran Seedorf scored with a fantastic strike. Than Seedorf made a goal for our veteran striker Inzaghi, he slightly passed the ball behind the defense and Inzaghi just rocked passed the German great goalkeeper Kahn. Throughout the match what impressed me was the SOLID, ROCK SOLID back line of arguably two of the greatest defenders in the world, NESTA and of course...THE CAPT...the man who won 3 European Cups, is regarded the best defender of all time, now at the age of 37, PAOLO MALDINI. The midfield was solid, thanks to ever commanding presence of Gattuso, that dude is like a rock sticking to u like super glue... yeah i know its pain when u r the opposition. In all. I am proud my of Milan! We overcome a really tough barrier in Bayern, the name of Italian football rests in Milan's hand as there is still 3 English teams left in the competition and at least one English team will go to the finals... I am thinking of... a sweet revenge...something to do with...ISTANBUL.. For our Italian brothers of ROMA, Turin, Florence and even city rivals. FORZA MILAN!!

All the Microsoft games like HALO 3, Gears of War, Mass Effect, and many others are very similar....can u point it out? Yep....all r sci-fi games, set in future, etc. Microsoft needs a rest in this trend give some more appealing games a try. I am hugely impressed with Alan Wake from Remedy...the graphics, the setting are all very natural and i know the storyline will be fantastic, people r more engaged in games like Alan Wake as its atmosphere is extremely believable than sci-fi ones. I am saying is Microsoft should lay off sci-fi for a while and focus on games like Alan Wake. They could also help themselves by buying Remedy, in that way, the talented folk over there can bring more games like these and of course....Max Payne 3. The Spring Update of Xbox 360 also adds some very cool and much helpful features to Xbox 360. The biggest is the Windows Live! Messenger Integration. This is just one of the steps Microsoft is making in their "Live Anywhere" network. When this update is done, Live! network will be the biggest network by far and away, as Live! network consists MSN users, Xbox Live! Users and as well as Yahoo users, it just awesome and means that there is almost guarantee that u can communicate with ur friend via Xbox 360, whether they r on PC, MAC, Linux and even cellphones. The users of each respected platforms can also view the gamertag of the Xbox 360 users. Also another feature i am looking forward to is the low power consumption mode when u download files overnight, this is not only imp as it will save a big chunk of electricity $, but also the fact that the system will also remain much cooler than before. So for this, I would like to thank Microsoft a whole bunch for its regular updates. Lets just hope that the updates do not cause in problems as a side issue. Also.........Non Live! users can now on get the Dashboard update via Xbox.com, another plus.

I had dreams that one day Sam Fishter from TC splintercell, Logan Keller from TC Rainbow Six and Cpt. Michell of TC Ghost Recon will form a team, i think that dream is coming true. Though its still a rumor, it contains bits from every TC franchise and takes place in the future, more deep into the future than tradional TC games. IT states that in the future, the world is in complete disarray, people r leaving "the land of once opportunity" in numbers. Whatever the game is based upon, it is not clear. Maybe SC 5?...or maybe something else..... Maybe all the special forces "have to join" in order to save the world, or whats left of it. This is very interesting in deed. Is it the dawn of unity about Tom Clancy members?

2 days ago, there was a match in Europe, AC Milan vs Bayern. I was so hyped for this match, I bought all the junk food i could find and sat on my "superlazyboy" chair. I had so much faith in Milan, as knowing the fact that Champions League or CL is the only thing milan can win and they have a history of doing good in this tournament. The match got under way and KAKA was fouled which should have been a clear penalty...but it was not given. Than Andrea Pirlo scored by a header which gave milan 1- 0 lead. I was so happy, than... bayern equalised. I was very very scared...then KAKA was awarded and penalty and milan lead 2-1. It was ok......but then the horror started when just 30 sec left....bayern again equalised by another scrappy goal. The match ended 2-2, a huge advantage to bayern. As now milan not only has to score once....but twice at Germany if they want to qualify...things r not looking good. The next morning i got xtreme high fever...the doctor said it had to do with mentality. As I had too much faith in that match and was mentality broken by the result..that pain transformed into this stupid fever. It sucks! Not everything was disastrous. As another excellent Italian team, ASROMA, the sons of ROME. Faced of against the English gaints Manchester United. Throughout the match, ROMA dominated like i have ever seen before. Their work rate was fantastic and didn't give MANU a chance to move freely with the ball. With the talisman Totti in the team, anything is possible. The man was just awesome as u expect from Totti. Now roma have a great chance to knock MANU out.. I hope they will. If any man who deserves a trophy for his loyaly, its Franchesco Totti, of couse... Paolo Maldini of Milan comes first hehee. I hope i get well quickly enough and hope milan can win 2-0 againt bayern.

There I waited patiently for like 5Hrs till the R* kickoff of GTA IV. I spent the time chatting with Karl and some other guys who were equally GTA fanatics like me. As we were like 1Hr away, we went to HardRock Casino where me and da guys met up and to witness the unveiling of the next gen GTA on a pretty big screen. Lets be clear that it was not an official sanctioned Rockstar event, we just told the guys working there than in this way, u can attract a lot of people. So as the clock was ticking away he final seconds, we shouted 10!..9!...8..! And so on and when 1.....the page refreshed and everyone was picturing the moment, but.................I bet non of us imagined what we got instead, the deathtifying SOB...."PAGE ERROR". Everyone was like WTF!!! We refreshed and refreshed and it still didn't work, some of us were saying isn't it to early for R*, to pull of an early April prank? I then released nothing will come of this, and grabbed a computer nearby and see with Karl or any other guys knew it was going on. Then..yep...its expected...........the servers of R* crashed, it was later found out that over 15 million people tried to view the trailer at a given moment. Then after about 6 mins of confusion, some random guy called out, HEY DUDE!!! its loading! Then I quickly shutdown Windows Live and grabbed the nearest seat I could find. Then......the next 1:some seconds were nothing about the world we live in, we were sucked in the world of GTA. The first things we took notice were obvious graphical lift, though the graphics were like F****** Amazing! IT was extremely F**KEN well u get the point, even though GTA is not known for its technical quality, but for its art style and its presentation, and it quickly got 10 in a form of claps from the wanabe audience. Then we got the first look at the protagonist, we were bit unsure from what background that dude came from, some of us were saying he was a Mexican immigrant, others were saying spanish, some were saying he was middle eastern and even Pakistany/Indian. Then one of us said he must be Russian, and it seams he was right. What Intrigued me most of how the way R* teasing us by saying "Everything will never be the same", while it is pretty unclear what it means....but, it seams that the game will go atleast a bit more realistic than arcade. All the Best R*, u will always have my support, being my fav developer, being all about..........CONTROVERSY. What were ur reactions?

Today's the day people, at 2 PM PST, Its gonna be revealed, GTA IV. The franchise which has by far and away the biggest fan base ever. The Franchise which is all about controversy, just like a R* :). Since GTA, every developer tried to copy it, but none of them could reach that perfect "GTA formula". There is something about phenomenal about GTA that everyone likes, I bet even a rocket scientist cannot figure it out, it just simply GTA. Bros and Sis, brace urselves, just a few hrs left. Here in Vegas i invited alot of friends so we can watch it together, as our fav franchise makes its next-gen Debute.

My copy for UEFA Champions League 06-07 will arrive tomorrow, the reason for this cause such football game is not popular in the states and even more to the fact that many believe it is much more "shortened" experience than the full fledged FIFA. While it is true to most extent, but actually this sort of release allows u to experience some of the features that will go to the next iteration of the series before having to wait for the next FIFA. Also.... its UEFA Champions League for Godsake, the World Cup of club football and most of the times, more exciting than it, The excitement starts from the Starting orchestral intro of UCL to the postmatch interview. Also...much more bigger reason for me to get this game is because the last time I bought it, AC Milan (my club, my family) won the tournament against forever rivals Juventus. This season especially we need luck and good influence more than ever if we want to make any kind of progress in the tournament because of the problems we faced. Hopefully.......it would be Milan triumph this year as well and Milan becoming...THE CHAMPIONS!!!

Max Payne series undoubtedly is one of the main reasons got me into gaming. The Franchise is all about action movie gunfights, slow-mo and terrific story to complement them. Also the song of the Max Payne 2 credits "Late Goodbye" is one of my fav music of all time. The game was developed by Remedy and MP2 came like in 2003, 4 years ago! After that there was a rumor that Max Payne 3 is in development, but other than that, there is no solid info. One of the disappointments of MP2 was that a different un-likeable character the role other then previous Sam Lake. Remedy is a small Fin developer and they r hard at work creating a Max payne like game called Alan Wake for Microsoft. So it high unlikely we will have a Max Payne 3 anytime soon. Unless, since it is owned by 3D Realms, another developer is working on it, but I don't want them to mess up, so I rather wait. Also from the next Max Payne I want the original actor and writer Sam Lake to star and respire his role. Next stop, E3 Media Festival (e3 sounded better to me), and hopefully they officially announce M P 3.

Sorry guys I couldn't come the past weeks as u know the college stuff.....yeah...the thing which makes or breaks my future, I have been studying hard and engaged in multiple science projects, like the one me and my team made, using Radio Frequency to transfer data across computers, sort of like a hombrew wi-fi network if u will. I have been playing alot of games at the same time to keep being freaked out. In this month I finished GRAW 2 and ......the legend...god of war 2. God Of War 2 maganificent sequel which improves anything possible from the former near to perfect, Sony has magnificent IP here, and sure as hell its IPs are the only thing which can save it, as for friend, Devil May Cry 4 is gone, and I am sure MGS and FF will also go, its because xclusivity is not-profitable these days. While I am very happy with multiplatfrom games as everyone can enjoy it, my only concern is whether the final quality of the product will be degraded.........usally....Multiplatform games dont have a good history when it comes to quality.

It had to happen one day, and it did, Microsoft's first stupid idea this gen, Xbox 360 elite for 480$. Ok, so u added black (shinyless) paintjob, HDMI cable and 120GB HDD, good, but.........wait... this console is so similarly priced to a certain PS3 and that certain PS3 can atleast make better use of HDMI with build-in HD-movie player. BTW: Blue-ray is currently winning. Also...to be honest, this is nothing near what pisses me off then this statedment "120GB HDD to be sold under 200$", so casually. F U!! DUDe... I bought an external HDD for 200$ capacity of 500GB! DAMN!!

To me, first and foremost sony should cut 100$ from each console atleast if it has any chance this year, I mean give me one good reason to get PS3 now....

 On the other hand I am very happy with my PSP, playing MGS: PO again and waiting for the blockbuster God of War PSP to arrive this year.

So...well I will soon start playing STALKER, then... 2 more to go this month....C&C 3 and Shivering Isles.

What have u guys doing these days? Let me know:)

 Peace out Bros and Sis

 V Montella