Hello Gamespotters and TV fans.

Excuse the fact that I haven't posted a blog for at least three months and know that that is only due to the fact that I hardly use TV.com anymore. I don't like the new design and the site was turning rather dull, and besides, I only use it to check and see if anyone has submitted any TAR Asia information since I recently became the new editor (Please submit if you like), and to post on show forums of course.

As for Gamespot, well, that's a different story. The website itself is still aceeptable, even with the changes to the rating system and the design. From now on, I will continue to do the usual, play games I enjoy (which are Racing, Platformer or Adventure only) and then review the game here. My most recent review which was for The Need For Speed which was a tough one to plan out. The game is so old and old-school that there are just some things you can and can't criticise an old game for.

As for my life, well, the school holidays are still on at present and I have officially returned home after having been away three times all in one 9 week vacation period. Christmas was alright, and so was new years. Life is doing fairly well at this time and I have just one week remaining of school holidays before I enter my thirteenth and final year of high school. I'm going on eighteen this May, and have carefully planned out what I'm thinking of doing as a career. I know it'll be Computing, but for what course I'm still not sure on that one.

Living in New Zealand my whole life (with the exception of one year) has been great, and I'm just looking forward to getting school finished so I can apply for university down in Auckland (the city where I spent the first 15 years of my life).

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As for TV, I've seen the first two episodes of Lost season 5 and thoroughly enjoyed the first episode, but the second, it was rather disappointing. Before watching, I was not expecting much from this season, seeing as how the last series was a let down. But now after having seen a glimpse, I have high hopes about this new series.

Now I move on to The Amazing Race. I watched the last season and could have not have been any more disappointed. It was most definitely the worst season due to it's weakness. I don't want to go into it really, because so many things were wrong with it. I was not happy with who won and liked hardly any of the teams. How could the producers screw up so badly? This is now a show that fits the line of: "Going downhill fast". Lastly, Two and a half Men is on to it's sixth season and it seems to be a great season so far, perhaps even greater than the third, fourth and fifth seasons. The real comedy is back, and those real memorable storylines that were remembered throughout the first two seasons are there again. It's just a matter of time before Men turns into the #1 comedy again. Quite simply, these aren't just the only shows I watch, but are just well known to me.

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Finally, onto my gaming. I've recently returned to the Gran Turismo series which I am a die hard fan for. I'm also a champion and have hardly lost a race against anyone in my entire reign, but as much as a champion as I am on the first three games, I'm not so flash good on Gran Turismo 4. I only allow myself to keep concept cars, race cars or cars by Polyphony Digital so my home garage doesn't get infested with sloppy road cars mixed with ultra-fast vehicles.

I've also been concentrating on Need For Speed once again, but let me get this clear: I HATE all Need For Speed games from Underground onwards , I do not like them, they suck and I will not talk about them. I have only ever followed the series during the first six games, which are actual NFS games. So that means the series was alive between 1994-2002. Hot Pursuit 2 is the last game in my opinion, and then we are given the true crap from EA. I have always found the PC versions slightly greater than the PS editions, due to the extra's. High Stakes, is the best in the series, just an awesome game. The two Hot Pursuit editions are second and third place as they were also fantastic. But I often play NFSII SE and NFSIII on my laptop as often as I can, for fun and practice.

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This is all I really need to review on for now, but it is great to be blogging once again, and I shall do it more often if I see reasons to do so. Thanks to you readers, please comment if you wish, and I will get back to you.

Bye for now...

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