Recently i have been playing a fair few games it is safe to say.

Last week i took a trip down to the town that i am going to university in starting September. I stayed with my friend who lives there now we spent the trip looking for houses. Well sort off. We ended up playing a massive 347 matches of Street Fighter IV over the 1 night i was there. That also did not stop us from playing Resident Evil: Code Veronica X as well.

So it was quite an eventful gaming week, i also was getting to the end of FF VII: Crisis core. Which is fantastic easily worth the £10 i payed for it! I also have got back into getting trophies on the PS3, i recently just spent a whole night getting all the Trophies i could, i am now up to 199 on Level 5 and i do not know what percent.

I am thinking of either starting a podcast or video blog soon, i am not sure which anybody got any comments on that at all?

Also i downloaded a fully fuctionally DS emulator which has nearly every DS game already programmed on it, so i have been playing again alot more Elite Beat Agents as that officially is the best rhythm game ever created.

Recently as some of you might know i got my PSP back, battered missing an analogue stick and has a scrached screen. But none the less my PSP. I do also have a DS.

When i recently got my PSP back i looked forward to being able to watch and play games on the go, being fed up with the DS and just not touching it. I was happy to have the PSP back, but then i realised that i when i gave my PSP away i had next to nothing games, and what games i had were either really bad or boring. So i went out and i brought two new games, FIFA (because i love football, and football games) and i also brought Crisis core.

After downloading the first series of The big bang theory to my psp and putting Quantum of solace on there as well as also having the UMD slot filled with Crisis core, i was ready to go out into the world again with my PSP. I went on a train to work and i was so looking forward to playing or watching something on my PSP, that iwas looking forward to going to work.I firstly watched an episode of TBBT and i just felt my eyes squinting all the time and the sound was terrible, i had completely forgot what it was like to watch something on the PSP. So i scrapped that idea. I then turned to playing Crisis core which don't get me wrong is a fantastic game! (Review coming soon), but it just lacked some sort of importance because it was on a handheld console.

Now here i get to my point. To me i haverealised that i don't feel the importance in handheld games that i do on console games. For some reason, i would never pay the same price for a PSP or DS game as i would for a console game, i feel like in some way i am being ripped off. I feel that handheld games just aren't as important and i would much rather spend my days trying to complete a console game then i would Crisis core no matter how much of a good game it is.

I just feel in some way that handheld games lack importance, they don't drag me in like console games do. I don't really know how to explain this in more detail. I just feel like when i pick up a handheld, my gaming spirt isn't all there. I don't no whether it is just me or it is something to do with handhelds. Yes i like them, but i just don't feel the same when i play them.

Anybody get what i mean.....?

I always often wonder what the hell i would be doing with my time if gaming had not been invented, or that it had never taken off. I suppose to start with i would have got my MCSE by now and i wouldn't be going to University in Septemeber.

Huh strange, if now thinking back my life actually would be completely different. Different friendsand people thathanged about with in school, better education(Would have revised instead of playing Tony Hawks and Devil may cry), different career path and come to think of it i might have been a succesful footballer if i had trained more instead of playing Ocarina of time.

Would it is true come to think of it, gaming really does change your life. I think a new title is in order.

With out gaming you would have been a footballer! Jackass.

Oh well time well spent wouldn't you agree?

So as i speak the GDC conference for the new system Onlive has finished.

I have to praise Steve first of all on his fantastic presentation, and how they kept this a secret for this long. Thoughts off the bat are this is the death of console gaming. Really to be honest, most gamers have Internet and are online, which is needed to play with Onlive. This really must scare the crap into Sony, Nintendo and Microsoftbut to be fairthis idea is fantastic, it is easy, cheap and brings you games from all platforms.

Yes this still all seems like a dreamcometrue(i think thats what they said anyway lol)the biggest kick in the balls though was the fact that the target market at the moment is just the US. Being in the UK waiting all night to see the presentation that was a bit of a pain hearing that we would have to wait. But with that, what these guys have created even if it stayed in the US is huge this is technology at it's peak.

Being able to turn crappy laptops and TVs into high performance gaming systems that can run Crysis at the click of a button is just outstanding, no wonder it took seven years. No installs, no going to stores to buy game disks, no looking after CDs, no buying three different consoles, no high performance PCs to buy, no nothing! It is just brilliant.

I think that what was just shown was nothing of what people expected! I only wish i could have a chance to check one out at GDC, but we will have to wait.

The only problem was that the menu screen was so ugly i hated looking at it. But i suppose with all the games you could play it won't bother anyone!

OnLive = THE FUTURE OF GAMING

Worst game you own?

I was recently looking through all my games to find a good old game to pla while i waited for Resident evil 5 to arrive. As i was looking i came to the conclusion that i actually don't own any really bad games. I mean there were a few, but most of them were either really good games at the time or are right now or they were some of my personal favourites.

I did come across a few bad games though, these are the worst games i own:

Wave racer 64, Resistance: Fall of man, Superman 64, Transformers and Dynasty warriors: Gundam thing?

These games in my opinion are just truly awful. Oh well i have games like Fallout 3, MGS4, Goldeneye and Red steel to back it up. Yes RED STEEL is a good game!

Fifa 09 update came out on Thursday, with a new patch for trophies and for the new gameplay format of ultimate teams.

Now i have only just installed the update for trophies around about an hour and a half ago, the percentage of trophies i have already on fifa 09 is 32%. These are official the easiest trophies ever to get so far. I highly advise anyone, who is online and has fifa, download the update!

Trophies include:

Winning one online game

Score a penalty

Score a free kick

Score a header

Lots and lots of easy trophies!

I recently started playing Bioshock.

Yes i know, quite a way behind, but i have already seen someone play through the game and i had to wait for it to be released on PS3 so i put off playing it myself for a while.

Okay i no the title proberbly makes no sense to anybody, but seriously has there ever been a game that you really liked that you just didn't want to play because either you did not want it to end or the time wasen't right and that you needed to wait for a really long sesh orto finish the game?

Well.. I have come to the fact that being three quarters of the way through Bioshock, i just don't want to finish even though i love it so much! Bioshock is a brilliant game and i suppose i should finish it soon as of all the talk of Bioshock 2 being released now.

I give the game so much praise to other people yet i just cannot bring myself to finish it, it's not that i am lazy and to be honest i hate not finishing a game, i just feel like it's to good to be finished and that i knowthat one day, one afternoon i will be able to sit down and enjoy the deep under world of Rapture with a special glee.

I think this must be the stupidest thing ever written.

MGS4 REVIEW NOW UP.

Follow the below link.

http://uk.gamespot.com/ps3/adventure/metalgearsolid4/player_review.html?id=650390

So the latest review out is GTA: Chinatown wars. It got 9.5.

9.5! Rockstar managed to convert GTA to DS which by all means was going to be a bit of a feat to do. But let alone did they do it they managed to create a game just as good as GTA 4.Too be honest i am not a massive fan of the GTA series at all, i find them very boring. But i am fascinated by how Rockstar manage to create games, all based on stealing cars and shooting the hell out of people interesting and better everytime.

They manage an average of 9.5 for games they create, that must be some sort of record, with each GTA there is a new hype. That is something Rockstar must be proud of. To convert GTA to the DS is something very special and to get 10/10 and 9.5 from lots of different critics that is just amazing. I mean i myself don't sing praises for GTA and i no for every person that doesn't like GTA there is at least 5 who do. I mean at that ratio Rockstar will take over the world.

Fair play to Rockstar, but when will they make a bad game within the GTA series?

Second post of the day yes i know, but this is something that got me thinking.

At Christmas i was gifted with a couple of games, one being ROCKBAND and the other Resistance 2 .

Even though these gifts were given to me by my parents, my mum asked me why i still play video games at my age (eighteen). This kind of annoyed me as she said it was childish and that only kids played video games. I argued with her that video games are not childish and that most of the great video games out today cannot be played by kids as they are games that have high age certificates.After a long argument i tried to prove that video games were just another form of entertainment like watching TV or watching a movie, she didn't agree and we both decided this was because she grew up with out video games and so did my dad.

This made me think then.

Do they not enjoy gaming because they did not grow up with it or do you at some point just lose interest in gaming? My parents grew up when video gaming was rare and when the industry had only just begun. I grew up in the main era of gaming with the NES, SNES, N64 and playstation being out when i was younger, people who are as old as me or older would agree that really i believe we were born in the pinnacle of gaming boom. We have grown up with gaming being a big part of our lives and it always really being there. Plus with children now these days growing up with better consoles and gaming being more well received around the world does this mean in the future gaming will be just like movies and TV with everyone doing it, grandads, grandmas and older adults with out people thinking it is a strange thing?

I mean these days to see somebodies grandad playing GTA 4 would be a weird site to anyone, as you do not at all expect it. But in 50 years time say, will this be a normal occurrence because i think i can safely say i can easily see myself still playing video games when i am an old man. But there is also something else that makes me think all though it is a stupid thought, that maybe one day i will just lose interest in gaming (which i really do hope doesn't happen!).

I really think that gaming in the future will not be ascontravorsial as it is these days. Hopefully i am sure it will be accepted by everyone and that when i am old and frail i will still be able to play MGS22 with my grandkids just as a normal thing.