Hello my lovelies!

I was watching the Super Mario Galaxy live marathon earlier and its the first game that Ive seen that made me actually want to buy a Wii and sit down and play it, as it looks like a lot of fun. If you've been wondering where I've been, Ive been repeatedly running dungeons in World of Warcraft, with my not so uber druid, hehe. Sadly, I dont have any plans on buying a wii at the present time, though one time I went into a Gamestop and walked out with about seven hundred dollars worth of games, so you never know (it was an impulse thing, I swear!)

Thats right, Happy Halloween, or (its a wee bit early , I know), Happy All Saints Day!

I hope you and yours have a very happy and safe Halloween!

If you arent planning anything, however, might I suggest a fun activity:

gravestone tipping!

Thats right, the ancient art of tipping gravestones, to anger the dead, and get their souls to rise up and chase you around. While, personally, I'd never do such a thing myself, I find it hilariously entertaining to watch other people chased around by various forms of undead. So tip over a gravestone today! The person you entertain may very well be me =P

Heres a short quiz for all you very bored readers (like me!)

What are your plans for this evening?

a. trick or treating.

b. steal candy from trick or treaters. (you monster!)

c. Hellgate: London.

d. steal Hellgate: London from trick or treaters.

e. carve various obscure and odd shapes on pumpkins.

f. try on 10 year old Halloween costume and try not to look as disturbed as the children that show up at your door.

g. get out the Ouija board and try to channel "Weird Uncle Al" in front of naysayers.

h. all of the above.

Happy Monday to you all ! =)

Thats right, I killed it ! (well technically, I suppose the two paladins, hunter, and warrior had a little something to do with it). It was in World of Warcraft, of course, and I guess they helped a tiny bit, but I was the one doing all the damage. They really expanded on the Halloween stuff this year. The Horseman is 70 elite, has tons of hp, and is wicked hard to kill (at least he is with my lame friends in the game). He rides a glowing horse, has a huge sword (and a nasty whirlwind attack), and throws pumpkins at you, that upon impact hit you with Conflagrate, a nasty warlock spell that makes you run around like you're confused, while you burn for 800+ dmg a sec for 4-6 seconds. Once you hit em enough, his head pops off and you have to smack it while it floats around for a few seconds. The good news is, is that he drops some killer items, like mage and warlock epic damage rings, a healer ring, magic broom mounts, and little pumpkin pets.

In non WoW news, those of you salivating over reading my next review,( for Hotel Dusk), have to wait a teensy bit longer. But I promise it'll be worth the wait !

If you've been watching cable tv, like I have, you'll notice the tons of horror flicks on at the moment. The highlight of these, for me, at least have been the Tim Burton stuff (Nightmare and Corpse Bride), and I enjoyed 28 Days Later, for being a unique kind of zombie-ish movie. I also caught some old school stuff such as Psycho and The Birds (I love Hitchcock), and even The Exorcist. I didnt catch Saw, even though I'd never seen it and it came on, cause a new episode of House was on, and I never miss that.

Glitchspot is still being weird to me (My PMs come up all blank and stuff, and some blog replies arent posted right away), so I dunno whats going on here. Its kinda freaky.

I preordered the Collectors Edition of Hellgate: London, and the funny part is, after messing around in the beta, I wasnt too impressed. I know, its just a beta, but it seemed so diablo-like. The good news is Eric's birthday is the 31st (what a waste of a day), so I'm thinking of just giving it to him, so it wont go to waste. I dont like Eric that much, mind you, but its better than letting it sit on the shelf.

For those of you watching the World Series, let me just say this....(eww gross!), hehe just kidding! I honestly cant watch baseball, due to my short attention span and all. Dont get me wrong, I like all the extreme sports, like ice skating, extreme ballroom dancing, etc. I guess baseball just isnt extreme enough for me.

Anyway, I'm sure I've rambled on long enough. Hope the week starts off nicely for you all !

No No, its not the name of a new reality show ("From the producers of When Food Goes Bad and When Sand Castles Collapse..."), actually, its just my chocobo tales review (finally, I know =P).

You can check it out here

In other news, I've been really enjoying Hotel Dusk, (its like the best use of bourbon in a video game since all those bottles of bourbon I saw lying around in Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow....or maybe that was just in my apartment, I'm still not sure...) and I've started the review, and I think I'm on Chapter 9 in the game, so I cant be too far from finishing it. After that, I plan on doing the original Phoenix Wright and hopefully playing through Final Fantasy III for the DS. Of course then I have a ton of comp games I can go through and review too hehe.

Sooo if you guys are really really really bored, feel free to check out the review, and let me know how you like it !

hello avid readers ! (all 3 of you)

I hope you all had a great weekend and early week !

I havent been doing much (as usual!). I'm going to get that chocobo tales review up soon, I hope ! I'm still playing that, and slowly making my way through Hotel Dusk as well, so eventually I'd like to review that too. I managed to find an hour in my busy schedule (full of mindless television shows and typing Eric's college papers), to try out Sherlock Holmes' The Awakened, for PC. It seems like a pretty good start to a puzzle-filled adventure game.

In other gaming news, I havent been spending much time with Hellgate: London. Oh its fun and all, but aside from the whole post-modern apocalyptic diablo formula, it hasnt been impressing me much, which kinda puts a damper on the whole pre order thing, hehe.

One piece of good news is that, after a little prodding on my part, they fixed my tolkien's emblem for watching the LoTR Online live stream, yay ! All is now right with the world! (except for minor problems like Iraq, Iran, Darfur, and the US Public Education and Health Care systems, but I'm hoping those will be fixed in the next patch ).

I hope you all had a nice holiday weekend. I was out of town, visiting the relatives...no no, its not that I like the relatives, its just that I'm a glutton for punishment.

In other news, Ive been going through Chocobo Tales for the DS and its tons of fun ! it has cute graphics and best of all, chocobo's! anyway, i'll probably finish it soon, as its a short game, unfortunately. Maybe I'll even stick up a review!

For some odd reason, Gamespot is either really slow lately, or something, because my blog posts arent showing up after I submit them. I'm not sure if I should submit again , but I dont want two replies, which has happened before. Either way, its kind of a bummer.

Hello avid Gamespotters!

I just got a chance to put in a few hours with the Hellgate London Beta and figured I'd let you guys know how its turning out. The charrie select screen is pretty nice, shows your charrie against a hellish backdrop of a now bleak London. You can change gender, faces, hair, hair styles, etc. There's a wide array of ways to customize your characters, even a slider which goes from anorexic to super size me.

The available classes are blademaster, which is a warrior type Im guessing, marksman, im guessing long range combat type, evoker, mage type, summoner, pet class type, and engineer, which looked interesting, apparently they build bots to help in combat.

Well for my first playthrough I picked summoner, and off I went. I started in a cruddy looking back alley for the tutorial and it was pretty basic stuff, the inventory is reminiscent of Diablo (a large window with multiple boxes, each item, depending on size is a varying number of boxes wide and tall, ), and even the quality of items seems diablo-ish with green seemingly uncommon, blue rare, and purple legendary. Well you are tasked with finding someone and then another someone and you head for underground train stations, where a number of quest givers and portals to quest locations are. Its all really simple and user friendly and a nice on screen map helps in case you manage to get turned around.

For the most part, at least in early levels, summoner functions a lot like the warlock from World of Warcraft. You start with a low lvl summon spell, which summons a cute magma imp like creature, made of burning magma rocks and it has a pretty low hp bar, but shoots a fire beam, and this is your only pet for a level or two. Even taking down critters only 1 level higher than me was a challenge sometimes, as I had to whittle their hp down for awhile before beating them. I ran into a level 2 "boss" and it killed the little fire imp in one hit and chased me around, while I hit it for a few hp each hit. You also have a weak gun and a mystic shadow bolt kind of spell with the summoner, and the shadow bolt doesnt use any mana, but does a lot more dmg than your gun (though as a summoner, it probably should).

At each level up, you get a point to stick in one of four attributes (like diablo), and a new skill from your talent tree. The early summoner talents were:

Afterlife: converts corpses on the ground to hp (I didnt take this, but since corpses dont vanish, I can see how this would be useful for the "hands on" summoner)

More Imps: adds a second fire imp to your army (maxes out at 10, so presumably you could have an army of 10 imps following you around, now that sounds fun!)

I forget the odd name of the third talent, but it gives you a freakishly ooglie spiky frog like summon, which has a nice long hp bar and some nice dmg, so I picked that. What's kinda nice is that putting more points into the frog talent beefs his armor up, first by 25% , then by 50%.

I didnt get too far into the class, I know, but I wanted to try some of the other classes in the game. It was definitely fun though, I'm gonna have to jump back into it. I'll definitely keep you guys updated !

well I updated my gaming collection here on GS and deleted the games that I had on there that I havent seen in many moons, really cutting down the list and losing my serious collector and old school emblems, which isnt a biggie, I guess. At least they gave me a shiny pc afficionado emblem for my trouble.

Hello true believers!

Thats right, my Bioshock review is finally up! You can check it out here. Its the most long awaited review since....um...my last review! (geez, when the heck was that, anyway??)

Soo if you have a spare moment between fits of gaming and food (and real life, I suppose), I'd love to know what you think, after giving it a read. I tried for the whole inform and entertain thing, I dont know if it worked on both fronts but it was worth a shot, hehe!

Hello nice silly people!

With all the recent blogs/reviews, etc, about Halo 3, I thought I'd join the club and make my own blog about the game. However, after sitting for quite awhile and not finding anything positive to say about the game, I decided on a not so scathing poem, so enjoy, (and yes, this is what comes from days of insomnia hehe!)

I do not like this Halo 3.

I would not buy it, were it free.

I do not like this Master Chief.

For one, he is a weapon thief

He shoots up stuff and runs around.

Picking guns up off the ground

Master Chief is such a tool.

Like I'd ever drink Game fuel.

Plus I think its understood.

That Mountain Dew is not that good.

I do not like him here or there.

For goodness sakes,

He has helmet hair.

For those who dislike my little poem,

And think to tell me such.

I'm sure there will be a Halo 4

That I'll hate just as much.