So what's up with me this week? I've been playing World of Warcraft, Rock Band, Spore and a little bit of Puzzle Pirates and Burnout Paradise. After a little rooting around I've also discovered pretty solid evidence to suggest that Rock Band 2 will hit Europe this November which in my mind is a fair release date considering how much the UK and Europe have been conned in the past.

Some big console news this week, firstly the Xbox 360 has seen a double in sales over here in Europe, but the Wii still sees even higher sales; I'm surprised that with all the financial problems recently people are buying so many consoles. A lot of you will also have seen the DSi, Nintendo's new handheld console for 2009 and I'm pretty excited, no where near as much as I was when I first saw the Nintendo DS but considering Nintendo's work with the Wii and DS I'm sure the camera and other features on the DSi will be put to very good use.

Things haven't been at their best for Microsoft this week though. After sending out a message saying that Xbox LIVE would be down on Monday to prepare for the new dashboard update, however many took this to mean that the dashboard update would be implemented on Monday and so when that didn't happen a few angry and confused users came out of the woodwork to voice their frustration. However it didn't stop there because after servers went back up EXP and Trueskill were not being awarded on most online games across LIVE, this went on for a few days and when the engineers believed they had finally fixed the problem users were met with even bigger EXP and trueskill issues and networking problems. All is now supposed to be fixed but I'm not completely convinced that everything is running 100%. All this has information I've found only through Bungie.net, I accept that networking problems like these can happen but Microsoft themselves didn't seem to bothered about alerting users of any problems.

Finally the inevitable add-on saga begins a bit sooner than I expected as Gamestop have a parts pack for Spore heading their way mid November. I kinda feel like getting it but for £10? I hope it'll be available cheaper via digital download or something like that. Finally thanks everyone, I'll leave you with IGN's 20 Wii games you should already own... Perhaps it's time for me to get buying for my Wii again.

-Gamer_152