*sigh*

It's been a while since I last updated on here - work is keeping me busier than ever at the moment. However, in the intervening period between now and my last post I have bought a bunch of games, played a lot of games and also had my 360 die on me and be resurrected.

I have bought:

Dead Space,
Guitar Hero World Tour,
Guitar Hero Metallica,
Prince of Perisa,
Resident Evil 5

Out of those I have completed all of Prince of Persia and World Tour. I've just got Metallica so I'm working my way through it. Dead Space and Resident Evil have been put on the back burner for now.

As for my 360, the graphics card in it went (or that's what I suspect). A couple of weeks back I was playing Oblivion and the screen went to purple and green. So I turned it off and back on, which resulted in no picture just sound. After switching cables etc., I decided to check the warranty. Fortunately, it ran out on the Friday of the very week it broke (it broke on a Tuesday). Four days later and I would have had to pay for repairs. So I shipped it back to Microsoft and they've repaired it and shipped it back within two weeks. It seems to be working OK for the minute, but we'll wait and see how things go from here. At least I get a picture when I play my games now though. And the 360 downtime at least gave me the chance to play some more Okami on my Wii. Poor Wii, it only really comes out for MarioKart at parties....

Hi all. It's been a while! Unfortunately I am very busy with my PhD at the moment, and while I check up on GS regularly, I don't generally have enough time to blog between sleeping, eating, working and the slim social life i have in between.

So, what is new? Well I have got GH: World Tour now, which is making for some fun (and hilarious) parties. I also picked up Fable 2, Okami, Fallout 3 and Call of Duty over the Christmas period, as well as Infinite Undiscovery and Bioshock second hand. I'm now not buying anymore games until I have completed some of my backlog - though I was very tempted by Skate 2. However, this oath will be broken when Resident Evil 2 arrives - which I will most definitely be purchasing.

In other areas, I have finally managed to obtain the Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum Colleciton (after 5 years of fruitless attempts at getting the entire series), all of Cowboy Bebop, all of Noein, and all the Death Note DVDs currently available in the UK. All these series I am thoroughly enjoying. I've also managed to get upto volume 13 of the Trigun manga, so I've nearly finished the series, and will be looking for something else in this line too! I'm thinking the Welcome to the NHK manga as it is pretty short at 8 volumes to tide me over.

Finally I have succumbed to nerdyness once more as a friend of mine in the department where I work loves to play boardgames. Therefore, I have picked up Munchkin and Hunter: Deadly Prey, whilst I regularly go round to his to play the Battlestar Galactica boardgame with a bunch of friends. This has also led to me digging out Magic: the Gathering cards and being tempted into playing D&D again...

As i said, much nerdyness!

That's all for now - hopefully I will come up with something more poignant next time.

Another quick post! Does anyone know any good RPGs for the PSP outside of the Final Fantasy games (which I have). My PSP is being neglected after playing Crisis Core and I feel I should give it some love. As I mostly play RPGs on my handhelds I was wondering what the good ones were - the only one I've seen that really interests me so far is Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. Any others??

Thanks in advance guys!