I'm going to talk about a bunch of things that crossed my mind lately in the video game universe.

- What's up with all these delays in the shipping dates of games lately? It seems like everytime I load up a gaming website, there's news of a game being delayed a week or being delayed until next year. I don't know, weren't delays in shipping dates a rare thing in the past?

- Why is everyone complaining about the length of games? Once people read that Heavenly Sword took about 7 hours to finish, they quickly picked up their pitchforks and torches while telling others that they will not be playing the game now since it's "short" (although I'm not really hearing the same amount of complaining over Stranglehold's finish time). Is there really something wrong with playing a 7 hour game? I personally like games like that since I usually loose interest half way into a 25 hour game. Ofcourse not all games will be massive 40 hour adventures but if all games took 25-30 hours to complete, I'd be too intimidated to even jam the disc into my console.

- Finally, where's my crimson Xbox 360? I've sent it in like a month and a bit ago to get repaired but still have yet to see it arrive at my doorstep. I've got a bunch of 360 and original Xbox games to play but no console to play them on. All I really do now is play PS2 games/Super Rub-a-Dub on my PS3 and a few virtual console/mini games on the Wii. There's a huge empty (relatively cool) gap in between where my Playstation 3 and my Nintendo Wii stand right now.

That's all for now, I'll just go stare blankly at my copy of Stranglehold untill I fall asleep.