I love it when I meet girl gamers. Not saying they're super rare or something, but they're kinda rare to me. I don't know awhole lot of them. Just a few. One of them is someone I converted to gaming. I convinced a girl to buy an Xbox 360, mainly because she wanted Guitar Hero of all games. Too bad I haven't been able to convince her to jump with both feet and get on Xbox Live. Oh well, at least I've got her down that path. More recently I turned someone onto the magical experience that is Peggle, on the DS. That made me buy it myself on DS too even though I already own it on my 360.

I don't hear alot of the girl perspective on games. Not that I'm trying to make out that a girls perspective would be that much different from a man, but they could be. I just enjoy it because even if it isn't, it feels more balanced having viewpoints from both sides of the gender fence. Haha, gender fence. PEACE OUT!!

Peggle!! What a word that is Peggle. I love peggle. It's stupid fun. The kinda fun you can just turn on when ya got ten or 15 minutes to kill before you ride picks your up or while you're waiting for your girlfriend to change for the nth time before going out. I only wish there were more levels. I don't imagine it was the hardest game to code so why are there only 11 stages with 5 levels each. Maybe they've saved it for some DLC, but if that's true then maybe I should just resort to being a jerk and call the developers abuncha jews. I hope it's because they wanted to get it out quick and maybe have more levels to be added in later. But really, that's not gonna happen. I just feel like it was over alittle too quickly.

Whatelse have I been playing? Alittle Halo 3, some Lost & Damned and finally Call of Duty World at War. I haven't played much of these 3, combined it's maybe 5-6 hours this week because I've been remodelling my damn kitchen for far too long. The crappy part is that it'll probably be another week till the kitchen is usable. Till then I'm stuck squeezing in what precious little scraps of time I can. PEACE OUT!

Living in Canada, near a border crossing to the US, I've always had to deal with the exchange rate. I've never really had it impact me in a personal way because I buy most everything here in Canada. But now that I'm regularily buying content on Xbox Live it has. I'm talking about Microsoft points.

Seeing as most of the gaming press comes from San Francisco (yes I'm generalizing) all prices for downloadable content is quoted in USD. For example: GTA IV The Lost and Damned has been pinned at costing 1600 points or $20. For me this costs more than that. 2000 points costs me $29.00 or $32.48 with taxes. So instead of it costing me 1.25 cents per point like it does for all the Yankees on Xbox Live, I'm stuck paying 1.45 cents per point. Why would they need such a price increase? It's not like they have to pay the extra shipping to send the content up here, it's digital content sitting on the microsoft servers. I know full retail games are usually the exact same price up here in The Great White North as they are in America.

I actually have an example of prices on Killzone 2 that favours Canadians. On amazon.ca Killzone 2 costs only $53.99 CDN, while it cost $59.99 USD on amazon.com. I know that being in Canada means I get a small on retail discs most of the time because a $59.99 game in the US is usually the same price here. So it all comes down to points costing more only on Microsofts console. I just bought Flower on PSN which only cost me $9.99 CDN plus taxes of course, which is the same it costs in USD from what I've heard and read on the interwebs. I'd really like an answer from Microsoft in some way so I've actually forwarded a link to this blog to Major Nelson & E. Here's hoping I get an answer, even if they are just gonna give me a broken record response. PEACE OUT!