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^(Just about at the end of "A History of Bad Men" by the Melvins.)

So far, Audiosurf seems to be the most promising game of 2008. And as far as I can tell it pretty much delivers the goods so to speak. The basic idea of the game is very simple. You control a little Wipeout-esque craft of some kind, sliding along a track hitting blocks to create clusters of three or more of the same color to score points. Not that in itself is not terribly groundbreaking. The really fun part is that you get to use your own music. Load up an mp3 from your hard drive and the game will create a visual interpretation of the music within.

I've already had the pleasure of putting myself up against some of the most brutal and unmusical tracks in my collection. It really gives you a whole way to think of music. Reminds me somewhat of Richard D. James incorporating an image of his own face as a musical composition at the end of the track [symbol] on the Windowlicker EP.

This game is exactly what the rhythm game lineup needed. I can definitely see myself wasting a lot more time on this than i'd ever have the patience to do with Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Mostly because I here get to choose exactly what I want to play.

If I have to put my finger on one thing, it would be the controls. You can move your craft left and right on the track with either the arrow keys or the mouse. But really when you get cracking, it feel like you're just frantically moving from side to side hoping not to hit the wrong blocks. It can get frustrating.

The game has three difficulties and each one sporting a few different "surfers" with different abilities. One can pick up blocks and save them for later, another can force push blocks left or right and a third can shuffle up the blocks you have already in hopes that some of them might form clusters.

The graphics are simple but stunning in their own right. Feels kind of like a mix of Tron and Wipeout… which is GOOD. The art direction is amazing and you can really tell there's gone a lot of work into making this game feel just right. I really feel this is the perfect game for people like me who never got into the whole Rock'n'Roll tyle gameplay offered by other games recently.

Now I feel like giving this game a pre-release grade. But I don't have a grading system, so I'll just say this:

**** YES!

Just posted my all time top 10 on my blog. Had a little more time recently with being unemployed and that so I sad down and created my list. It might change at some point but I highly doubt it will happen any time soon.

The list is not as diverse as I initially thought it was going to be. When you sit down and start cropping out, you begin to realise what your true tastes are. I like to think I have a very broad taste, but when it comes down to the 10 best ever, it really isn't.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took some of the most influential black metal tracks and played them in 8-bit? I haven't. But here's the answer anyway. "De Mysteriis Dom SuperNes" is a free album of 8-bit interpretations of tracks like Cradle To Enslave, Transylvanian Hunger, I Am The Black Wizard and the all time favorite Black Metal Ist Krieg.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PNQZR7JI

I've noticed a rather uninspiring trend recently in Team Fortress 2. I took a break some months back because I had to focus on school preparing for my exam last November. And since I came back in the new year, I've noticed that a lot of people have stopped working together. Matches will start off fine, but then at some point everybody changes classes and everything just turns to poo.

I was playing a match yesterday on 2fort, and this happened. we went from a well balanced team to 4 scouts, 2 snipers, 2 spies and me... an engineer. We lost the match. Now I'm not saying we would have won for sure had the others done what I said, I'm just saying we wouldn't have lost 0-3. I just like to go out with some dignity

So what's the deal? Has the whole world been infected with the virus of retardation? And also, can anyone point me in the direction of a few active servers where this problem may not be so prominent?

Much appreciated.