Finished the last of the Lost Empires group books and am moving on to the Th Threat From the Sea trilogy. The First book is called Rising Tide.

From the back cover

From the murky depths of the Shining Sea rises a prehistoric menace who commands a rising tide of invasion to crash over the shores of Faerûn.

Iakhovas has plotted for long, bitter years to regain the powers that were torn from him by an angry goddess. Now, nothing will stand in his way, and the face of Toril will never be the same again.

Oblivious to the growing danger of the undersea civilizations, the surface world is about to awaken to a new horrifying threat from the sea.

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On the gaming front I beat God of War 2 like a week or so ago. I was pretty happy with the ending and how it sets up GoW3. Been playing Forza 2 on the 360 and Pikman on my Wii lately. both are cool.

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E3 2008 is over as you know and the word is pretty uneventful. Will there even be another next year? The cry for a return to form seems to be getting louder this year from the inside. Bring it back to the people!

Anyway despite my view of the Sony press conference it seems the roundtable disscussion some journalists were privy to afterwards was much better and oh yeah I still want one and hope to have a PS3 this year.

So much reading to do in school so not enough time to do a rundown pf the E3 press conferences as I did in the past.

First I thought MS's was the best. The had most games that were in real time and the more impressive announcments. FF13 helped a a lot.

Nintendo's was fun to watch as usual but nothing spectacular. That add on the the Wiimote if it works should be helpful with the accuracy problem. Looking forward to the new Wii Sports game and Animal Crossing too.

Sony,....*sigh*. Lat year I seem to rememeber I thought Sony had much improved and maybe even had the best show, don;t remember exactly. This year,.....not so much. In fact I found it pretty boring. Resistance is ok I guess. I haven't yet played the first but I always thought it looked pretty mediocore and this didn't look muh better. I do want God of War 3 but yeah that trailer was not very good. And MAG,....Ok here is the thing Sony now has 3 titles that are focussing on online play heavily, all FPS and two them seem to feature no single plaer experience at all (SOCOM and MAG), I just don't know how well this stuff will work on a console,..any of them. Fact of the matter is these types of games have been done before and are actually a dying breed as games like Quake and Unreal have shown they are just not selling well any more. And worse large team based games almost never do all that great on consoles because that is stuff of the truely hardcore FPS player, many console gamers like to solo rather than work together. I don;t know though maybe it will be different but I still don't see any these becoming mass market big time sellers.

Oh and on a side note I was pretty impressed with EA's stuff. What change huh? Probably the best I have seen from EA in awhile lineup-wise because it wan;t so sequal focussed or filled with me-too games.

So I forgot to mention that I finished my schooling for my associate degree about 2 weeks ago. I only got about a week of rest though since I was still in the hospital for one of those weeks and now as of today its back to the grind witht he beginning of my bachelors degree program in IT/software engineering.

I finished Star of Cursah last night and it ending up being way better than I though it would be. Anyway though I have moved on next to the last of the Lost Empires series of books, The Nether Scroll.

From the back cover....

Ansoain has been murdered, and her son Galimer taken hostage.

Druhallen, a young magic user, must avenge the murder of his teacher and rescue her son from dubious fate. But not everyone is telling Druhallen the truth.

Druhallen and his companions must brave the ruins of Dekanter to find a missing artifact...

The Nether Scroll.

Without the Nether Scroll Galimer may die. With it Druhallen may go mad.

What lurks in the darkest corners of the haunted Weathercote Wood? A race for the possession of one of Faerûn's greatest artifacts is on, and the Beast Lord himself is in the running!

A young magic-user sets out to avenge the murder of his teacher and save her son from a similar fate. Facing evil and treachery, he must brave the ruins of Dekanter to find a missing artifact that might be a clue to the source of all magic in the Forgotten Realms.

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I did by the way get started back on trying to get through God of War 2