I've got it. Haven't updated this for so long, but I had to put this in... I've got it. It's not out yet, but I hold in my hands, and have installed on my drive, the Collectors Edition (UK) of Myst V. I have read the book, unraveled Rand Millers D'ni comments at the start of the book (No, I'm not going to tell it to you - buy the CE and work it out for yourself), and I have played the game... and got stuck. Not on a puzzle, but with a bit of drawing that should work, that the hints guide confirmed when I got totally annoyed with it and went to the hints site and checked, and that has worked on all the other areas of the game.

Grrr.

Well, It'll get sorted, I'm sure. I just hope I don't have to wait for a patch for it... I want to complete the game!

Went out Saturday, and bought three new games. Well, new to me - old in 'real' time. Black & White, Eurofighter 2000 and Caesar III. I'd read a bit about B&W, and heard it was pretty good, so I kind of expected a populus-like game... and it is, but somewhat more than that as well. Surprisingly good AI, combined with a neat system of learning stuff, as well as those cool 'gesture'-based commands makes for a cool game.

EF2K and C3 I haven't installed yet - I will, soon enough.

Just a quick entry today... got loads to do.

Disaster. My nice, new, paperback book - lying in pieces. Well, not actually in pieces, but the cover detached where the glue had not bonded properly. This means that the gorgeously printed cover, and the gloriously printed insides, are now separate at the front, and the spine, with its delicate and destructible paste holding the various parts together is now open to the elements.

I know what you're going to say, if you know books. "It should have been bound," you're going to say. "Properly sewn is the best way," you'll opine. "If you're going to do something, do it right," you'll advise. Or maybe not, I don't really know. However, in this case, with 930 pages, it's unlikely that we'd see a book like this with a sewn back for anything less that £50 - or it would be hardback.

C'est la vie - but amazon.co.uk have already despatched a new copy to me, and I have 30 days to return this one back to them.

Excellent service, quite stunning.

Spent some time playing SW:KOTOR last night. I'm going through Manaan at the minute, and I'm contstantly amazed at the twists this game throws up - now I'm underwater, combating maddened Selkath (Aliens that are water-breathing, vaguely humanoid, sort of manta-ray headed) who, apparently, have been driven mad by some sort of scream...

Speaking of Manta-Rays, it was with surprise I went to Dantooine, and saw what was definitely some sort of Ray (Probably Manta, though I don't know them enough - it might have been an Eagle Ray) flying overhead. Stunning when you see it.

The Myst Reader is now being read avidly; I've gotten quite far into the first book (The Book of Atrus), infact, I've gotten to Riven, and Atrus' first sight of his eventual wife, Catherine, or Katrin as she insists on being called...

I have just purchased the Myst Reader for myself. A gorgeous book, bought from Amazon.co.uk along with a Sony DSC-P120 (A gorgeous camera), I've just read the first couple of chapters. The book starts off with Atrus, at the cleft (As seen in Uru), with his grandmother, Anna. It looks like a good book, full of the sort of descripting writing, and occasional images, that made the journals in Myst a pleasure to read.

In other news, I just received the Subaru World Rally Team newsletter for Australia - starting this weekend. Hopefully the gravel conditions should mean that the team does better than the abysmal performance that has plagued the past two Tarmac races.

I just got hold of the new Flat-Out demo. Well, OK, it's not so new now, but it's still reasonably new. The game's not out, put it that way.

I like it. Especially the high-jump game - that's the sort of thing that I just love, and have done 'unofficially' in other games (Read, Colin McRae Rally 1 and 2 - there were some great points where you could see how many times you could tumble/spin/bounce/head-over-heels your car), but here made official.

Best I managed was a total of 312M across 3 events - the first one was a glorious 107M! Then I got an average 95M, and finally an even better 110M... I found that the trick was to wiggle the car down the first straight; the extra length travelled gives you a teeny, tiny bit of extra speed. If you leave the car at anything over 77mph, expect a +100M score. Only twice have I managed to totally clear the bars, and on one occasion I got 112M...

Looks good, but I don't know if I'll buy it - just, well, too frivolous. After all, I am a head-on Richard Burns Rally fan :D