I finally get the call the my Xbox 360 is back in from repair. Great! Except for it's not repaired. When I brought it home, I was like "Yes, just in time for Gears." When I turned it on, green lights. More good signs. Then things took a turn for the worse. I loaded up some PDZ to try out new maps. 30 seconds into a map, game freezes. Well ok, maybe it was just this once. Reboot, and reload. Same thing happens abotu 20 seconds in. Now I'm getting p*ss*d. I try other games. Same things. Then finally 3 red lights come on. Great, so my "repaired console" is broken again. So I turn it off. Try to turn it on again, and it turns on. It seems to only freeze during games about 30 seconds into a "game" (like a race in RR6 or a map in PDZ). Futureshop will STILL not replace it. They're like "We will send it in for repair again" So another 30 days. I mean, if their other repair can't last 5 minutes, what is this one gonna last? I'll talk to the manager. See if I can't get a replacement. I'll keep you posted. Update: It does not freeze all the time it seems. It has lasted 2 hoursw without freezing, and sometimes it lasts 1 minute. It's finicky. Going to ship it back on Monday. Hopeful I can get some Gears in :P Update #2: Well it seems that I can hardly get any Gears in. Lasts about 5 min before freezing :( Update #3: Seems to be working alright for now. No freezing today and I played for awhile. Good sign :) Update #4: Xbox going back to Futureshop tommorrow (12th). Continues to freeze. Gonna miss the GeOW tourny :( Update #5: It seems if it doesn't freeze within the first 5 min or so its okay. Parents said I can keep it till Tuesday. GeOW tourny here I come :) Update #6: Yeah it's dead. 3 red lights now almost everytime, or else a game freezes/boot up freezes. 2 min to the tourny :( Going back today. Onr more month :cry:

Finall Futureshop calls me to say my 360 will be back in 5-6 days. I dunno is it's repaired or refurbished. Either way, I'm gonna get the MS extended warranty this time. Only a 1 week turnaround I hear :) Anyways, I my copy of GeOW will arrive at the same time! So much to download first though! See you guys online :)

I can't believe I actually won a prize in the Pepsi contest. The one where every hour a new person is chosen. Well I won a Xbox 360 Wheel and Wireless headset! It could have cost me $210! A huge gain by me :D But everyone in Canada should try to enter the contest. HDTV's and Xbox 360's to be won :)

I guess all the hours that I've played it have worn it down. I always brushed off the freezing issues, and the 3 red lights, as I thought they wouldn't happen to me. Well they did. At first, it was just a few freezes here and there, then it just stopped working. I'm pretty sure the GPU fried itself. Regardless, Futureshop is not currently "repairing it". Could take up to 8 weeks. I mean, I won't even get to play GeOW and DOAX-2 if it takes that long. It sucks. At least I'm getting to play Conkers Bad Fur day on the N64. Pretty fun and funny. :P My top games that I have and or waiting for are (so far): 1. FFX-2 2. DOA4 3. DOAX-2 4. PDZ 5. GeOW. Can't wait for DOAX-2 especially. Getting very hyped.

I know, I know, this really shouldn't be. But, I dunno, PDZ has a much better feel then Halo 2.

First off, PDZ is alot more tactical the Halo 2 by a mile. I mean, Halo 2 all you do is jump around and shoot, and not alot of thinking is invloved.

PDZ you need to plan things out, and work with teammates. And the controls are much tighter.

While Halo 2 is good, PDZ is just much better.