As I did a few weeks ago I come to you today in the form of a Sunday blog post; Friday and Saturday I stayed round a mates house and well, I got very little sleep in a very large amount of time and although I felt fine yesterday I didn't want to come to you with a half-witted, brain-dead blog post, so please enjoy todays half-witted regular blog post. Before I start I'd like to make a small but notable comment, the way Gamespot squishes everyones blog posts together makes them look longer than they really are, it sucks... Just thought I'd throw that out there. This week I've played more Spore, Burnout Paradise, Halo 3 and a little bit of Rock Band.

This week was in fact the birthday week of Halo 3, the actual day falling on 25th September and I noticed that some found it a little lacking but I thought it was great. They're new teaser trailer looked awesome and although very cryptic gave us quite an insight into what's coming next (a new Halo 3 campaign experience), it's interesting seeing all the different theories coming out for what precisely the new project entails, there's been everything from seriously detailed analysis of the trailer to suggestion that despite the very blatant statements that it is for additional content to Halo 3 it is in fact for a new game and then there's my favourite, the Bungie.net user believing it was a trailer for a new Halo TV show. With the ODSTs strongly hinted at I believe this could be the rumoured darker, grittier Halo experience, although I don't think we're gonna see Bungie cloning GRAW or anything like that. Whatever it is it's good to see Bungie still making proper use of Halo 3 and giving us more content without an entirely new game.

Halo 3 version 1.2 was also released earlier this week and the update is pretty sweet. Personally I can't say I'm blown away but the new ranking system but it's a change and pretty nice to have, partly because it allows me to experience the whole working my way up through the ranks thing all over again but I still get to keep my original Lieutenant [Grade 3]. I really like the new achievements though, despite them giving out a fair number of points compared to other games the achievements look fun and encourage a wide range of playing styl*s, achievements can also been seen for the upcoming Mythic Map Pack. Hiding skulls on multiplayer maps? Now that's ingenuity, they'll be fun to find and I'm also looking forward to a 6 map DLC map pack.

But there's more brilliant news, Jack Thompson has been banned from practicing in Floridian courts. No longer shall time be wasted with half-assed, crack pot court cases which the U.S. media exploit to disrepute video games unfairly. I hate to bring down the mood at this point but although I didn't mention it last week I am more than a little annoyed with EA again as last year pandemonium ensued among Europeans who were to receive Rock Band long after America and once again we've been put second best with no release date at all set for Rock Band 2. I'm almost certainly gonna get RB2 and that new guitar but there's also a battle raging in my mind over whether to also get Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Thanks one and all for reading, especially Kingrich06 and PJ24, don't worry guys, it may not look like it but I am keeping up with your blogs. This week I'll leave you all with the ultimate gaming quiz (note: quiz may be less ultimate than name suggests). Keep it clean.

-Gamer_152