This Sunday I'm going on vacations to my home-country Lebanon for the first time in 6 years! And I'm going there for a full 2 months or so.

So I'm packing stuff already and getting ready for it but my laptop isn't coming with me. It's having some problems so I'll have to send it for repairs (I bought a warranty for something). So that's about it, I'm really excited about the thought of going to Lebanon again. Hopefully it'll be problem-free this summer so we can all enjoy some well-deserved vacations.

I'm only bringing my PSP along as far gaming goes, my 16GB memory stick and three batteries (don't ask ) will provide me enough playtime. Sadly I can't just plug the DS to the wall in Lebanon so I've decided to leave it behind. BUT I WANT TO FINISH PHOENIX WRIGHT FIRST . But yeah I want to finish that one before going . I've been also playing Ninja Gaiden Black on my 360, pretty good game but hard and frustrating as hell .

So have some good vacations guys and see you in two months!

I said numerous times that I hate the Wii, most of you know that too well. But if there's one thing I never disliked about it, it's the Wiimote. I praise the new controls and see it as becoming a standard pretty soon. In fact, the Wiimote+Nunchuck combination is one of my favourite controller setup of all time!

But aside from that I've disliked the Wii for it's raw power, graphics, poor selection of games to my taste and so on...

Just recently, for no apparent reason, I turned on my Wii for the first time in God knows how many weeks (or months) after coming back from College. I insert Wii Sports and decide to play some tennis (my favourite on the disc). And guess what? I had fun! That was Monday, and ever since then I have played some Wii Tennis after coming back from College for about 20 minutes and had lots of fun with it.

I have actually started to look at the Wii with a different point of view for quite some time and finally decided to turn it on this Monday. I don't know why this sudden interest spark. I'm still playing with my 360 in case anyone wonders. Right now I'm on The Orange Box and playing Half-Life 2 which isn't too bad so far.

Am I back at Wii gaming? Yeah I guess so. But still there's a serious lack of interest with it's games (outside what I already own of course). Maybe I'll take a different look at them. In the meantime 2 other games have joined the lonely The Conduit on my Wii wish list; Red Steel 2 and Resident Evil Dark Chronicles something. We'll see if anything else gets added but I'm in no hurry. And yeah E3 is coming soon but I won't be in Canada with my laptop to watch any of it. In fact I'll be on vacation in Lebanon. I will try to come online, read about what happened just so that I can be up-to-date but that would be pretty much it. Hopefully some good announcements for the Wii, 360 and most definitely the PSP.

The PSP is my favourite handheld this gen and there are rumours about a so-called PSP Go!. All what I can say at this point is that if Sony makes it right, makes it something significant for existing PSP owners then I might buy it. Everything I've heard about it sounds interesting but I'll wait to see it and hear official words about it first.

So College is almost over, I've got 4 exams next week and two on the week right after. I'll be busy that's for sure. Once that's done, time to pack our stuff and get the **** out of North America for the first time in 6 years. I love Canada but I can't stand it for that long, I need some change and going to Lebanon will provide me all the change I need for a good vacation. Provided that Israel doesn't have any plans for this summer, if you catch my drift. No discrimination intended, just saying I want some peace this summer, I don't want to find myself in the middle of a battlefield. I've got Halo 3 for that...

So you guys got any big plans for this summer?

You all probably already know that I'm a huge fan of Digital Distribution (aka ''DD''). I dig it on the Xbox 360, on my PSP and sometimes on the Wii. DLC, downloadeable games, patches.. these are all things that will one day become standard for the industry. But not so fast! Home consoles will stay the way they are now next generation but DD will become more and more popular, much more then it is right now at least. Maybe DD will become standard the generation after it. Who knows?

But rather then speak about Home Consoles, I want to speak about Portable consoles, which I largely prefer. One day (not in the near future though) all will be portable including videogames. So handhelds are our first glimpse of the future.

Now I do prefer my PSP to my DS for numerous reasons and one of them is DD. Sony is the first to embrace DD this gen on handhelds with the PSP, heck even Wipeout Pure (one of it's launch titles) has DLC! Nintendo is slow to catch up with the DSi store and what it has to offer so far is nothing worth mentionning. But the DSi store will grow big and strong at some point that's for sure.

The PSP has had it's own version of the PS Store for about a year now and that service is also growing well. It's already offering full PSP games for download and also PS1 games, demos, videos, music, etc...... All what's left is the movie service and I'm kissing that PSP . But since the PSP is already offering full games through it's service, and Sony saying that they plan on offering more and more full games (Patapon 2 is rumoured to not even come out on UMD!!) I think it's safe to say that at least one of the handhelds next gen might go fully DD.

I mean look at the iPhone, sure it's a joke as far as qualifying it as a handheld game console, but it's fully DD and it has already met a lot of success. Now one might say that this is because most iPhone users have permanent access on the net. But what about those who don't? and what about Ipod Touch users? Well they don't have permanent access and they're all over the App Store last I checked.

If the PSP2 can appeal just as much as the iPhone, then it's a success, no argument there. But would it really work for Sony if the PSP2 was fully DD? Well the UMD sure is a failure and it's already a pain in the ass to play these things into the PSP without draining the battery life. I've got a couple of downloaded titles and I can pay these for about 6 hours whereas with a UMD I can only for like 4 hours.

UMD is going out, that's for sure, but is Sony preparing a new media or the definitive jump to DD? And for this matter what about Nintendo? I doubt they'll go fully DD for some reason. And Microsoft? Will they make a handheld?

What do you think?