.....not that I'm complaining about it. In fact, quite the opposite. Here's the story.

Back in the middle of September I bought World in Conflict, little did I know at the time that it would be the last new game I purchase this year. Then all the good games for this year start coming out. Games like Orange Box that I had been waiting for all year long. When I start talking about going to buy it the wife tells me that every year she never has anything "cool" to buy me at xmas because I always just go buy the games I want. So I cave in and from September to xmas I haven't purchased any games at all.

Fast foward to xmas morning. Under the tree I find all of the following:

Orange Box

Crysis

C&C 3 Tiberium Wars

Universe at War

Jade Empire SE (I know not a new game but one I wanted and didn't have)

Plus to top it all off I also got a brand new xbox 360 and a copy of Mass Effect

Where do I even start? I've been playing Mass Effect off and on (that game is really hard to put down once you start playing). On the PC I started with Half Life 2: Episode 2 out of the Orange Box. Once I'm done that I'm gonna check out Portal and go see how much of a noob I am in TF2. I installed Crysis just to have a look at it. I can't get the 64-bit launcher to work with my Vista 64. Reading up on it I've discovered that theres a patch due any day that will fix the SLI issues and such. So I'm gonna wait to play Crysis until it's patched.

Well I have a lot of gaming to do and a lot of games to get through. I still want to get a copy of COD4 but I'll wait until I've gotten through all the games I have first. I do have to say the wait was well worth it.