As anyone who listened to the gamespot UK podcast knows I didn't get my poem read out due to the fact that I had typed a little to much. However I won a copy of Pirates of the Burning sea, the MMORPG with 'realistic' ship to ship combat, later on in the podcast. Unfortunately when I got my hands on my prize the other day I was upset to find out that it was a game where I had to pay monthly for the honour to play. That was an automatic no in my parents book so I am not allowed to install the game. Now I have considered trading it in for cash or to obtain Sam And Max season 1 but somehow the packaging has got torn up in the post and that is bound to have a negative effect on the money I would get out of it. So I'm stuck with two useless discs. Maybe they can act as comemmorative cheese knives?
However on a lighter side I also got my hands on four PS2 games in that sweet 4 for £20 offer in gamestation. How did I get my hands on £20? A bribe from my mum to be a good boy around her new boyfriend who we were meeting on the day I got them. As if I would have acted nasty towards him :twisted: So I got my hands on Alien Hominid (maybe you remember me ranting on about the flash version on Newgrounds.com?), Broken Sword Sleeping Dragon, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Final Fantasy X. A nice little haul would be an understatement I think. :D In fact the guy at the till was so impressed with my purchases that, not only did he comment on my taste in games, but he also stuck the collecters DVD in my copy of Final Fantasy X even though I only picked up the single disc edition which was the one in the offer!
I am now also excited about something that will involve the creative side of my imagination. I have started my entry for the not yet announced competition that is hosted by magazine SFX every year, Pulp Idol. It's an opportunity to get my writing in print as the prize for the winners is to have their story published in a book that gets released with the magazine! I will give more information on that as and when it pops up!
Anyway I think thats about it for this blog post. Thanks for reading!