1. Jeff Green is leaving 1UP, and we're all sad. That's 3/5 former GFW staffers gone. Oh, how times change.

2. Those CNET corner ads are good for something. Underneath what may be the creepiest "fancyman giving you that extreme look" cover portrait ever, comes the following bit of prose:

Looking dashing in a button down and black tie, 'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe shows the world he's no longer the little boy he plays in the movies.

YOU TELL 'EM. And that is all.

The game I was patiently waiting on for something like two years. I say was patiently because for about a year nothing was said of the game, and even with all the new stuff that's come out about the game in the last few months, I didn't realize until a few days ago that this thing is real. As in it's out Sunday or something. I had pretty much stopped caring about Spore for a long time.

I read 1UP's review, and it was a B+ I think, and that's a great score. Granted, I've had my mind made up about this game for a while anyway, so I'm not sure if a review would have persuaded me the other way.

I now hold in my posession a 1600 points card, or just a $20 card for my 360. I have 240 points left over from buying something... probably Rock Band tracks. I don't like it. What can I buy that's worth 240 points? Nothing, really. What are they even doing with all your free/purchased themes/avatars when they launch the new Dashboard?

So here's the scam: Castle Crashers is $15. I played the demo with my brother, and I know I want the game, but I have to pick between that and Geo Wars 2. Basically, I can either buy two pretty good games that each cost $10, or I can buy CC and have $5 leftover to spend on something dumb. Or not spend at all I suppose, further convuluting the number of ways I can get my space bucks back down to 0.

Really, I think I'd enjoy CC a lot more than GW2; while the co-op and new modes sound like a lot of fun, I'm not particularly good at Geometry Wars, so I can't get into it as much as I could CC.

I'll report back later on my purchasing decision. Sorry to, y'know, leave you all in utter suspense and everything.