The future is coming.

Honestly, I have no idea how good it'll be. I don't know if I'll be blown away, but I'll have to put it through its paces on GameSpot. If it can do copy/paste and centering, it might just win. Sorry FireFox, but v3 just wasn't as good as 2. Besides, 2 had better themes .

But tomorrow I'm going to download it and hope for the best. Considering that Google does some very nice work, here's hoping!

Since I'm back from vacation, I finally got to download the new Force Unleashed demo. I'm a Star Wars buff, and I didn't know what to expect, but I loved it.

The graphics in the cutscene were painful, but the gameplay's were crisp and mind-boggling. Blowing up a Tie-Fighter by hurling an explosive at it looks (and feels) awesome.

I've played the demo three times, and now I can't wait for the actual game. In the meantime, I might go back into the demo and watch as I impale people while crushing others while Force-lightning(ing?) the rest.

Hack 'n' slashes live!

Another massive road trip for me. I'll be back in a week, but I'm not taking my laptop, so no contacting me for seven days.

How will you all survive without me for seven whole days?

I noticed that I love The Orange Box so much that I've actually been enjoying getting Achievements for it. I've long since abandoned attempting to get Halo 3 to be my first 1000/1000 for Achievements after realizing it's hyper-competitive and fairly unbalanced. I'm at 715/1000 for the Gamerscore and 84 out of 99 for the Achievements. Here's what I have left:

Half-Life 2

Counter-Sniper-I'm in the middle of that chapter, so I'm ready to do it. Not that it's hard.
Lambda Locator- This'll be a complete playthrough to find every one of the 40+ Lamda caches.
Zombie Chopper-All of Ravenholm with the Gravity Gun? I'm not looking forward to this, but I'll survive. Stupid zombies.

Half-Life 2: Episode 1

Citizen Escort-Spoilerific actions without letting any allies dies.
Pacifist-Do something spoilerific without killing anyone.
The One Free Bullet-This will either be really fun or really annoying. I have to do all of Episode 1 without firing any bullets except for the required one to shoot a lock. At least I can use the rocket launcher .
Zombie-que-Lighting fifteen zombies on fire with flares is more time-consuming than hard.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Yes, I did the Gnome Achievement. I had to start over for it, too

Get Some Grub-There are 333 Antlion Grubs in Episode 2. I have to kill them all in one go.
Neighborhood Watch-I have to do the awesome finale without letting buildings blow up. I hope it's easy.

Portal (Blargh, this would be much easier on a PC)

Basic/Rocket/Aperture Science-Every Portal map with bronze/silver/gold medals, respectively. Devilish, to say the least.
Camera Shy-Simply knocking down the cameras.
Vanilla Crazy Cake-I have to finish the advanced maps, which aren't too bad.

Team Fortress 2

With Friends Like These-A game with 7+ people from my friends list. Hm, this might be the hardest.

Well, I have work to do. Anyway, see you all in a week!