So I sign into Gamespot for the first time in maybe a week or so, and I have a message from some random girl. Apparently I'm a "fairly noticeable person" and she "don't know what's with this site." So since they don't have a chatting program here, she sends me a link to www.datingcentrale.org and gives me her username there.

I might copy and paste the whole message later.

Did anyone else get this? I didn't think Gamespot was a spam target.

[Here's the entire message]

Hi there,

I was checkin' over the site, and I came across your profile. U look like you're a fairly noticeable person, although I'm sort of inexperienced at this sorta thing, and dont know what's with this site. Don't they have a chatting program here?? i don't like sending messages to ppl, & potentially never getting a responce. Well, if you are interested in talking with me, you can find me over at http://www.datingcentrale.org/?id=3592&mypics , my name there is chikbelle.

So, ya, hope to chat with you. I'm always lookin' to find more ppl.
Tara Evans

In my last blog I said I placed 34th in the Unlock The Achievement scavenger hunt. Well, the prize I got was Battle for the Pacific for the Xbox 360 and 200 Microsoft points... I was gonna give the points away to a friend, but she kinda tricked me into using them myself... LOL Anyway, I haven't played the game yet, but looks like it got bad reviews. I'll still try to milk those gamerpoints out of it though.

If you want to get yourself a free game, you can go to goozex.com and register and you'll get 100 points (which is basically what they use as currency). BUT if you sign up using a referral link, you will get an extra 100 points after your first trade (you have to give the person that sent you the game positive feedback to get the extra points). So you can get 2 free 100 point games! Most of the 100 point games are older ones, so there are quite a few available on last-gen systems. It's 100% legit... there a quite a few people I know on another forum who have successfully traded, and icstars2 from right here on GameSpot just got Sneak King for the Xbox 360 yesterday or the day before. And right now I'm waiting for someone to send me Kameo. So join up and get yourself 2 free games!

And also, visit my Xbox 360's blog because... well, because I want you to.

*Warning* This blog isn't about anything specific. I'm just going to ramble on about things. [Edit] Turns out it's about the Xbox 360...

Well to follow up on my last blog, I've gotten a couple more 360 games (exactly a couple), and a bunch of arcades. My rep has barely increased at all in the 3 months I've had my 360 (I don't play much online... mainly because I'm shy). If you want to play something though, my gamertag is ElektrikGuitar.

Oh, I've got GTA IV ordered and on the way, so that's why you don't see that in my games played list yet. Hoping to have it by the end of the week.

There was a huge scavenger hunt/charity thing going on for the past week or two (UnlockTheAchievement.com). There were about 40 different Xbox community sites participating and 216 total achievements hidden across them. I found 173 of em and placed 34th overall! The top 100 all won a prize (they haven't announced exactly what yet, but most likely games), so yay, I won something! I'll post back when I get my prize, or at least find out what I'll get.

By the way, my 360 still talks about me.



Check it out, it's really awesome. And JOIN if you own an Xbox 360 and aren't already a member! It's a great site... you can find me there a lot more often than here.

And finally, watch this short video... it's very enlightening...