Im still here if anyone was wondering. I left because of the whole Gerstmann senario but im back on gamespot on and off now just checking out some forums/reviews and stuff.

Well I've pretty much finished reading up on all the new info from E3 this year and have actually found it really good. I like the smaller venue and even though in my opinion there hasn't really been as much exciting info as other E3's i have still found all the new info to be great.

First off Microsoft, no new info got me back into my Xbox 360 again to be honest with the only exciting game in my opinion being Call of Duty 4 which looks amazing. As I'm a big fan of the Call of Duty series and Battlefield 2 Modern Combat, Call of duty 4 looks just plain perfect for me. I love the night vision, i love the new modern era and i really love the graphics. No other games really appealed to me except for maybe Ace Combat 6 which looks interesting but i think i prefer Warhwak which i will talk about in a second.

Next is Nintendo who from this E3 i think have really lost the plot. Instead of making games they're just making toys now. I mean That Wii Fit thing? what the hell is that? some weird wireless scales that sense how your balancing. The thing is hygiene, with everyone putting their bare feel and shoes on that thing it's seriously gonna get pretty rough, plus feet is just not the way to go Nintendo, stick with the hands. Thats just my opinion anyway, i do like Nintendo and i really love my DS lite but i think they're really going a bit crazy.

Finally Sony. Well well well i was very surprised. As an owner of a 60gb PS3, Sony's E3 this year was going to be pretty important for me as most of the games out now suck and I'm just using it as a real nice DVD player as it up-scales all DVDs to an HD resolution making them look amazing. I watched the press conference and was pleased. The games I'm definitely going to get are Warhawk, LittleBigPlanet and Colin McRae: DiRT. First Warhawk, when it was on On the Spot i was pretty amazed by how they have also really focused on the ground part of the game and not just the flying. I didn't actually know you could go around in 3rd person and jump in tanks, jeeps, and just shoot dudes. So knowing this and knowing that i could fly around in crazy 'warhawks' as well made me really love this game and the graphics are pretty amazing too. Its online only from what I've read which is still awesome but it would have been nice to have some offline with bots and stuff. The other great thing about it is that for £39.99 you get the game and a free bluetooth headset which you can use to talk online which is very handy. The next game I'm definitely going to get is LittleBigPlanet. Just from the new trailer and the stage demo on Gamespot's live E3 coverage it looks just plain fun and also having online co-op and being able to build a giant level with crazy physics with your mate seems awesome. Then there's Colin McRae: DiRT, basically it looks better than the Xbox 360 version graphically and the trailer looks just amazing and they've had more time to work on it than the 360 version so it hopefully shouldn't disappoint. The last thing I'm really glad about is that there's no price drop for the PS3 here in the UK and also that the 80gb model is not being released as the PS3 is selling well in Europe and there is no need for a price drop or a new model being introduced. It's just nice to know i have the best model.

So there's my E3 2007 round up. Basically Sony wins, Microsoft did ok and Nintendo are being taken away by the men in white coats.

I just thought I'd update this thing to let everyone know what I'm up to.

Well to start off my 17th birthday was on the 1st June and i got a nice Ford Fiesta 4 door which is lush, the only problem was they lost the logbook for it and had to send off for a new one. They then sent the wrong amount on a check and had to sent another. So its taken about a month but finally they rang this week and said my car should be ready anytime now. So this means when i eventually do get it i can start practising with my dad and just get the feel of driving, then I'll get lessons and stuff.

Come September and I'll be starting college again. I quit before Christmas as the course i was doing really sucked and i had enough of it. So since i left I've pretty much been working at my Dads music shop a couple times a week which has actually been pretty good fun, i get a bit of money which is always handy and its a nice working environment. The only problem is i have too much free time on my hands, and now that I'm at a stage where I'm not into gaming much and its been raining for about 3weeks non stop i really have nothing to do. I normally go out and play football and stuff a couple times a week but now its raining I'm just stuck at home. So I'm just trying to get back into gaming which is pretty hard when the online in Call of Duty 3 and most games is only fun when your used to the game and as i haven't been gaming in months its hard as hell.

And finally Space.. well what i meant was making space in my room. I love tidying you see, which means anything i see untidy in my room i make a real job out of it. What I've done at the moment is move my old Sony Hi-Fi and put it away so now i have a nice clear space on the chest it was on, which is good as i can sit on it and it makes my room look more spacious. Ok so that wasn't very exciting but having 'Space' in the title does look pretty cool huh? oh who am i kidding, no one reads this thing anyways :P

So there's just an update on whats going on at the moment.

So here i am thinking about wether or not to buy a ps3. Its just i have like £1000 sitting in my bank account and haven't bought anything new in ages, and it would only take me about 5 weeks to earn £400 back from working a couple of times a week. I have also loved sony to be honest from the good old ps1 and even spending like £400 on the PS2 when it first came out, good memories, but sadly sony just aint what they used to be, i mean the games out at the moment for the ps3 are shocking, pretty much nothing im interested in. The only thing that would be good will be 'The Getaway' but that wont be out for a while yet. Im confused but i have a lot of time to think because i cant go into a store without seeing like 3 PS3's sitting there on the shelf, i guess sony just made alot because apparently already 150 thousand have sold in the UK.

UPDATE: I caved and am now £500 poorer :P

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6166398.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;9

£39.99 RRP for a BlueRay game is pretty good, they will probably be about £34.99 on online sites which is even better, this is the first real smart move by Sony in relation to the PS3, of course the console is still stupidly over priced and fact that us Europeans are getting a weaker version in terms of Backwards Compatibility which has completely put me off because i still like to play all of my PS2 games, and don't forget we are getting it months after the US. But finally Sony has done something right, not that it matters in the long run though.

So my Christmas and New Year went pretty well. I just relaxed and played lots of awesome games I got on my Xbox 360. I also decided to quit College so I can now work at my dads shop a couple of times a week. My course was just getting me pretty stressed and I was finding it really boring. Also there's a course on next year which I'm more interested in so I might do that next year, I’m just going to see how things go at my dads shop and see how much I enjoy working there at the moment.
For Christmas I got lots of cool stuff including 3 games for my Xbox 360, they were: Call of Duty 3, Tony Hawk's Project 8 and Dead Rising. They're all great but I’m slightly obsessed with Dead Rising as there's so much to do and understand in the game it’s crazy. The Achievement points are awesome and there are 50 different achievements in the game. There all very different and some are pretty hard, some are easy and some are just really fun to do, this is really the type of game I like as i can spend a lot of time playing it.
Anyway hope everyone had a good Christmas and has a Happy New Year.

A couple of days ago my good friend Newnab sent me a Gears of War .gif with a guy getting a headshot that his friend had recorded on his Xbox 360. So i was bored and decided to put some text in it and make a funny little .gif animation. I did this because i like Gears of War and I'm pretty annoyed with Sony as they can't even confirm they're going to release the PS3 here in Europe in March, Anyway here's the .gif i made:



If you want to use this .gif in your sig then i advise saving it to your computer then uploading it to somewhere like ImageShack here: www.imageshack.us
This way we can keep the little .gif alive.
Thanks.

In other news, I've been playing Vigilante 8 for the PS1 lots because i used to play it soooo much when i first got my PS1 and i still love it now. Its like destruction derby and you can get weapons for your cars. You just have to destroy all the other cars and your all in one big map. Its awesome.

Not that anyone reads my blog but i just feel the need to say that Gamespot really needs to sort some stuff out. Now i love Gamespot but its a shame when i see things that should be fixed, for example: The user videos used to run perfect when they were first introduced but now they load slow and don't normally play that well, the next thing I've just noticed is that the links to the 'Forums' and 'Xbox 360' on the nav bar have moved which is annoying because they were fine before and I've gotten used to them, and finally my Tagging emblem has just disappeared, now i don't really care too much but stuff just shouldn't disappear when you've earned it. I just want to say that Gamespot really needs to sort this kind of stuff out as its pretty annoying.

Just got this game this morning for the DS and it's so much fun. I have to admit that i haven't played my new black DS lite much since i got it but this game is its saviour. I decided to get this game as it looked a lot of fun and was just what i needed, for when im bored i can just play some of the many fun games thus getting me playing my DS lite more. I started up the game and was delighted to see it had most of my favourite card games as well as battleships, billiards, bowling and darts, just to name a few. It's well worth its £16.99 price tag and i recommend it to any DS owner who wants a fun game which will keep them amused whenever they're bored. This game has made me fall in love with my DS lite again and is the funnest game I've played on my DS ever.

PS: This game is named Clubhouse Games in the US.

Well i got my GCSE results today and i did pretty well, the college i want to go to has excepted me and i start my Music Technology course there in a couple of weeks.
In Gaming news I've just been playing some Counter-Strike on my PC which im really starting to enjoy, never really got into it before but now i think its a pretty fun time killer. Also I've been playing my Xbox 360 a lot, just playing Battlefield 2 Modern Combat online all the time which i have to say is the most fun I've ever had in a game, period. I also downloaded Texas hold 'em for free from the Xbox Live Arcade which is also extremely fun.
Just thought I'd check in and let you all know what I'm up to.