Well I've been through more hell with my router. After picking up the elusive USB-ethernet adapter I needed from Maplins on Wednesday, I went through the hell of trying to set up my wireless network and it can now connect to my 360, but if I so much as decide to turn my 360 off it no longer registers the DNS next time I try to connect and I have to set up the whole network all over again. My signal for the network still isn't too good though, but there's nothing I can do about the neighbours connection interfering with mine really and at least it's working with my DS and Wii. I have checked the Xbox site to see if my router is compatible and it's not on the list but then again few routers are. Once again I'm unsure what to do next, but I think I might just return it to PC World and get a Linksys or something similar.

But it's not all doom and gloom, I've only got 1 more legendary mission to do in Halo 3 before I'm done, I've caught over 200 pokemon in Pokemon Diamond (I even had a dream where I found a vending machine in the game which would dispense any pokemon I wanted), I'm seriously stuck on GH3's hard mode and that's about it.

Now be afraid, be very afraid of mega exclamation marks as I go on a rant. It probably comes as no surprise to you that I love the Wii; it's a great console and a marvel from an industry point of view (now once again outselling the PS3 4/1 in Japan) but I have a serious bone to pick with Nintendo and all developers concerned in the making of a certain popular fighting game. While I'm happy for all of you out in the US that it will be simply be a few days until the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, us here in Europe have to wait an additional 3 months for the release of this game! This is not the first time something like this has happened, everywhere outside of the US and Japan often pulls the short straw when it comes to release dates but considering the already staggering delays for this game and the demand for the title, this is ridiculous! You may have already heard of codejunkies magical device, the freeloader, giving you region-free Wii without affecting your warranty and I fear this may get a lot of business from Nintendo's hold-back decision, but then again it's by no means outside the realms of possibility that they'll just release a patch rendering the software useless. I love your games and your consoles Nintendo but this is probably one of my angriest moments with you!

Anyway now I think I'm just going to count down the time until the new episode of Pure Pwnage and continue pondering over whether to buy Burnout Paraidse or No More Heroes (or whether to just blow the money on a better router). I'd like to give a shoutout to everyone who has read and commented on my blog but also to AJMarra, a Gamespot user who strangely just claimed to have revelation yesterday saying that video games were wasting his life and left the site; good luck to your AJ where ever your going. Finally I'll leave you all with Pure Pwnage's excellent "tribute" to Jack Thompson. Thanks for reading!

-Gamer_152