No, i'm not talking about the hit TV drama ... although maybe i should, it's beginning to really heat up over here in the UK and is most likely far more interesting than what i'm about to write. But, i shall conceal my urges and get on with the matter.

Summer has ended, actually it ended well over a month ago, but to use lazy students it has only just closed its doors to us. What does this mean exactly? It means it's time to move back to Uni. Thats right, the lifestyle of living off ¿10 a week, eating 3 week old yoghurt and drinking your own sweat has arrived.

The situation above explains my absents from 1up, along with all online communities i participate in. The interweb has not yet been hooked up in my room. Tell a lie, it has been hooked up and from my knowledge is actually active ... but just not accessible. I am needing a helpful engineer to come along and fit a socket so my trusty modem has somewhere to connect to. And that engineer is supposedly coming on 11th November. Quite a bit away, and how i have been able to manage with my daily fix of BF2 and message boards is beyond me. I would of thought i'd have broken out in a cold sweat and sitting curled up in the corner of my room. It's all still to come.

In the meantime, i'm nipping on here and there at Uni between lectures and such. Reading up on all the latest gaming goings on. Luckily, there has been some awesome single player campaigns that have been released that have successfully kept me occupied. Fable, Winter Assault, Brothers in Arms 2 and the most recent Quake 4, and many to come such as Black & White 2 and Pro Evo 5. Next time i can grab a minute or two i'll post my opinions on the long awaited Quake 4 and why FEAR is missing from my list above.

Time to bring this novel to a close. Look forward to getting back into the swing of things in the next few weeks.