So it's been almost a year since I've written anything here. Not that I haven't visited Gamespot on an almost daily basis since then, but I guess that I just haven't written much. So begin with the short update:

:cry:Richie-G has left us. Rich has been my favorite personality on Gamespot. Since I've been following the site closely, we've lost Bob, Carrie, and Greg, and this loss for me was the biggest. I guess that I felt a bit of a personal connection with Rich because his job is right in the vein of what I want to do, as well as he graduated from the college in my hometown while I am currently attending the college in his. Rich always seemed to have lots of energy for his work, and greatly respected and appreciated that.

Rich, you are irreplaceable, and surely will be missed. Good Luck with your future!

Last weekend I attended The Simpsons Movie world premiere in Springfield, Vermont which was pretty cool. Matt Groening, David Silverman, James Brooks and many other 20th Century Fox people were there, so it was pretty cool. Not to mention that the Simpson family was there in person (in costume of course!) and the town was filled with adoring fans. I was able to get myself into the background of lots of TV coverage, so I can only imagine that I must have been on some channel somewhere at some time.

This weekend (Friday actually) I went to our semi-local theatre to watch The Simpsons Movie. I wanted to go into the movie with low expectations, but hearing swimmingly positive reviews made that hard to do. Nonetheless I still enjoyed the movie a great deal and I do believe that it is worth the price of admission. According to Steve Mason over at Fantasy Moguls it looks like The Simpsons Movie made about $72.5 million which makes it the third-highest opening weekend gross of an animated movie only behind Shrek 3(#1) and Shrek 2.

Finally, since I obviously haven't written since E3 2007 I can't NOT comment on it.

My initial impressions of the press conferences is that Sony seems to have the biggest and best gameplan for the future, while Microsoft will definately be the strongest this holiday. Ninty is still just doing their thing and as long as they contine to make money at what they're doing (a skill the Microsoft and Sony seem to forget to use most of the time) I think we ought to leave them to do their thing even if we don't agree with the direction that they're heading.

Gamespot's coverage was immaculate, and I would know because I saw more of it then I would care to admit to most of the general public. The games that I'm most excited for this holiday season are Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, and Mass Effect. I'm not going to have much free time this fall while at school, but certainly it will be filled with me either making money to buy these games, or me playing the games.

For now I bid you all farewell.