Hey guys just a quick update on what I've been doing this week, first things first I lost 2700 gamerscore, I've been offline for a while and yesterday I brought my memory card to my sons house to upload my current score, unfortunately the server said the account info was incorrect and I had to recover my profile meaning, Mafia 2, Dark void and alpha protocol achievements are completely missing, it sucks but it's not a big deal.

I've also had a chance to try out the demo for vanquish and Ruse, the vanquish demo was great, I can't wait to get my hands on the full game though I was less impressed with the ruse demo, nothing particularly bad about the gameplay, the missions in the demo just aren't that interesting.

If you haven't already watched it, head on over to the now playing section of the site and check out the gamespot staff playing Halo: Reach.

I watched the show last night as soon as it was up and was extremely impressed by what I saw, the graphics looked amazing and Shaun even took the time to show us the grunt grenade rush, which happened a few times to my amusement.

As someone who is excited about the games forthcoming release the preview I watched last night gave me all the info I could possibly want albeit with a few spoilers from the early game.

Straight up I noticed just how much the game has changed graphically since halo 3/ODST the sprawling world is a beautiful mix of organic and technology, with trees and buildings both beautifully rendered. The games AI doesn't let down either, anyone who played the previous games will know that the Ai is one of the highlights of the series and the return of the elites just sealed the deal for me.

I can't wait to pick this up on Tuesday.