I have a number of things I could talk about right now since I’m now running Windows Vista, and I just finished Call of Duty 4 (I know I’m a little behind on that one,) but I really wanted to talk about Wall*E which I saw over the weekend.

Well I wanted to, but then I read my friend Jamie’s post about it on his blog and he basically covers everything I was going to say and then some. So go read that instead, but sufice to say the movie is amazing. I think it should be nominated for best picture.

I finished Metal Gear Solid 4 last night, and I would review it but I don’t think I could correctly. I think I’m just too much of a Kojima/MGS fanboy to do a proper review, it’d be a bit too biased I think. Plus right now I’m still sort of digesting the whole thing, it’s pretty epic. On the other hand I think that I can write about it more critically, deconstructing it and what not, which is what I’m going to do a little here.

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It’s Metal Gear Solid 4’s release day, and I hope you are all playing it. Well all of you who have a PS3.

I’ve already gotten through the first act, and I can say that it is pretty awesome so far. I still can’t believe, that on some level, I’m actually finally playing this game now. I would say I’ll talk more about it when I do a review, but I think that I’m going to start writing critics as opposed to reviews. I’ll talk more about why later, but if you listen to the newest GFW Radio you’ll get the gist of most of what I’ll likely say.

Anyway I hope everyone is enjoying their Hideo Kojima day. It only comes around about once every 4 years so savor it.

I think ever gamer has a pile of shame, it may go by another name for you, but its the same thing for every gamer. These are the games that you never got a chance to finish or play, but you always wanted to. One game on my list was Beyond Good and Evil, which was a GameCube/PS2/Xbox game when it was first released a number of years ago. It’s a game that has always been well spoken of. It’s something I’ve been meaning to pick up for a while now, and when it appeared on Steam recently I decided it was probably my best chance to get it.

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Embed below is 1up.com new show, RSVP. It’s a really interesting round table discussion between Erik Wolpaw (from Valve, having worked on Portal as well as Psychonauts,) Dylan Cuthbert (the head of Q Games who are behind the PixelJunk games, and he worked for Nintendo of Japan on the original StarFox,) and Jonathan Mak (the one man team behind Everyday Shooter.) I love listening to game creators talk like this, you always hear some really interesting things. I can’t wait to see what they do/who they have in the next episode.

I was going to write up a a good sized review of the Penny Arcade game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One, but I’m not sure there is really all that much to say about it. I mean if you’re a fan of the comic, you are most likely going to buy it, and I would certainly recommend that you do. I thoroughly enjoyed the game from start to finish, but I can certainly see it not being everyone’s cup of tea. Continue reading this post…

Now I’ve written a number Rock Band vs. Guitar Hero posts here in the short time I’ve been doing this blog, (two is a number,) and now I feel that is time for another one. What has brought this on is the Game Informer magazine cover story on Guitar Hero IV, and you can probably guess my opinion on the game from the title of the post. Continue reading this post…

I signed up for Twitter a few weeks ago, mostly because it seemed like everyone was talking about it. So I figured what the hell I’d give it a try. After trying it a bit I can see there being some reasons to use it, but I’m not sure many people are using for reasons that are actually productive.

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Today I applied for a job at 1up.com as a News Editor today, basically because it would be an awesome job to have, and I think the 1up staff is probably some of the best there is. So I figured why the hell not? Worst case I don’t hear anything, best case I get a dream job. But my applying for the job isn’t the point of this post.

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At work Monday I managed to get through two of the comic books I picked up at Comic-Con on Friday, Mouse Guard Fall 1152, and Lost at Sea.

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