Lo' folks.
Just droppin' in to say howdy and keep ya's updated on what I'm playin' and whatnot.

The other day I picked up The Sims Family Fun Stuff and Tropico 2: Pirate Cove.

I'm a huge fan of The Sims series, barring console and handheld releases it's all good stuff. But FFS just isn't great.
Yeah, it's just a "stuff pack" meaning it contains some extra furniture, clothes etc etc - but theres not enough stuff in the stuff pack to warrant getting it, really. The stuff there would've served better as free downloads, me thinks.
The next stuff pack however, looks better.
We'll see though.

Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is rather decent.
I'd frankly be more interested in the first Tropico (And I'm seeing about ordering it and it's expansion in as I type) but given this was all that was on the shelf and it was pretty darn cheap I thought what the hell and went for it.
And it's cool. What isn't cool about runnin' your own little Pirate island? After I've played a little bit more I'll write a bit of a review.

And after a **** of hunting, I'll finally have Guitar Hero on Monday. I've been after this for MONTHS.
And though the price is a little iffy ($129 AUD, yikes), most signs indicate it's well worth it.
These rhytham (Spelling error, I know) games typically interest me, but the music typically sucks in my oppinion.
But from what I've read, Guitar Hero kicks ass in that regard too. So should be good.
I'll also make a note here that I should track down both of the Parappa The Rappa games sometime. I played the demo for the 2nd one years back and thought it was decent but that was years ago, and the only genre I was really open too was RPG's.
I've broadened my horizons a lot recently as far as game genres go (Whodathunk I'd like a Madden game? Or Eyetoy?) so we'll see.

Haven't posted any Free Games in a little while so here ya'll go..

http://www.pardus.at/index - Pardus.
If youi like games like Elite, Freelancer, Vega Strike etc etc but would like to play in a MMO enviroment with a hellofalotta other people then this is a good recomendation.
Warning, it's browser based. So this won't be for everyone.
But I've played a few days and it seems to have some depth to it, and you only get something like 5000turns in a day, so you don't have to spend an awful lot of time in it.

www.nexuswar.com/
Sometime ago I posted Urban Dead, the Zombie VS Survivor game where you ran around, killing each other and barricading buildings. Well this is a lot like that, but probably more indepth.
But replace Zombies and Survivors with Demons and Angels.
Of course though, you start as a plain, ordinary human (albeit perhaps with some spells learnt along the way) and can opt to stay that way aswell.

Well that should do ya. Ciao folk.