Thanks for tuning in for another week of my blog. I'm still loving my new monitor and strangely over the last two days I've not played many games at all (I know, spooky) but I suppose I have a lot of work to do for college. However since last Sunday I have played more of the Orange Box, Bioshock, Burnout Paradise, Guitar Hero 3, Pokemon Diamond and Jam Sessions. I also guess I'm good to get Brawl and Freeloader now, it seems to be working fine for my friend PJ24 and there has been no patching to prevent it (although I did start getting a little worried when my console began glowing blue yesterday, but that turned out just to be an update for Wiiware). My 360 and my router still haven't come to meet in a happy partnership yet but I'll get occassional periods where there will inexplicably be no problems.

I am a little ticked off this week with a group I didn't expect to be. The environmental-conservation group Greenpeace have done some really good work in their time but their 3-month report of the most and least environmentally friendly companies has once again come and Nintendo are still scoring around the 0 mark on a 0-10 scale, way below any other company. Upon closer inspection though this seems to simply be because of a lack of information e.g. If Nintendo don't say they recycle plastics then Greenpeace just assume they don't recycle plastics. Now I'm not saying that as a company Nintendo don't have a responsibility to make their position on environmental issues clear but I think Greenpeace takes the majority of the blame on this one, portraying Nintendo in such a negative light because they haven't got the information they need.

In even worse news this week though, another of the old-school editors is leaving Gamespot, this time it's Brad Shoemaker, in fact after the last editor left I believe I heard someone say 'all we have left now is Brad', but it seems he's packing his bags and hitting the road too, so goodbye to another great editor. In better news this week though The Sims 3 site is up and it's looking like a pretty good game, as some of you will know I love Will Wright's work but this latest title doesn't quite look like it'll make the amazing leap that The Sims 2 did from The Sims, of course we can't tell everything at this stage but my optimism of seeing a revolutionary way of playing The Sims was slightly broken when I looking at what appears to be at this point a Sims 2.5 (although don't get me wrong, it still looks good), oh well I'll guess we'll see more of what the game has to offer over time.

Thanks to everyone for reading this week, I'll leave you with The Ballad of Black Mesa. Peace out.

-Gamer_152