Oh my gosh, I'm totally obsessed with the Games for Windows podcast. SO GOOD.
CLICK ON TO HERE

I know, I know. A podcast with writers from a video game magazine that no longer exists. Sounds great! But it's just SO sucks you in. Interesting and pretty funny bunch of guys talking shit on all sorts of stuff, the least of which is PC games (which is supposed to be the focus.) The most recent one was kind of weak because they've got a guest on there who is such a fucking nerd, it's just irritatingly unlistenable. But just go back and start checking out random ones. Grade A shit.

More Info
www.bloodbowl-game.com/
Wonder if this is going to be good! Very little info on the site (other than it's coming for PC, PSP, DS, Xbox 360) but looks cool.

| Never a Better Reason for a DS FlashCard

I have seen the Light, and it is this guys pet project.

NetHack for the DS.

You can also find information and pics of his various knitting projects on the site...

Ugh, speaking of war, again. I'm watching 2nd season of ROME (which is fucking AWESOME!) and they just had this gnarly war scene (Battle of Philippi)of 17 legions vs 19 legions and it's just fucking sloppy stab-stab murder slop death. BLECH. And just like Private Ryan, there's shots of like the bloody fucked up dudes just kinda wandering through the melee all out of it with that stare. Fuck 300, this shit is just so depressing. STAB STAB. Stab in groin. Stab down the neck into the jugular. Hack into center of head. What a fucking mess.

WAR! / puke

| War never changes...

God man, that's a sad picture. It looks SMEARED. Eww...

Speaking of the western front, I got GTA4 in the mail this afternoon so I've been playing it for awhile. Pretty good shit. Kinda wished I hadn't played Bully recently, because it seems to be a very similar game style.

Yeah, the game comes with 1 month free of Gold, so you guys have no excuse (other than girlfriends, wives, kids, jobs, :( ) to not play with me online games. I played a few multiplayer games with dudes from Something Awful - that shit was hectic. Kinda fun, kinda too chaotic. I think everyone's so new to the game, it's all this "RAAAR!!" over the voice chat, so pretty rough. BUt the game modes are fun and it was pretty lag free. Seems like it's got LOTS of potential.

Single player is pretty neat. Looks like it's going to be a good story. But so far, really just seems like Bully with really good graphics (at least first few missions.) With all the ravingly good reviews, I hope something in it really clicks with me.

| Paschendale

Here is a before and after aerial shot from a little town in Belgium that hosted a 3 month long WWI battle, Paschendale. Only 800,000 or so casualties, so it's cool.

See, sometimes Gamefly pays off. I did the thing where I had 1 open slot and the only game in my Q was GTA4. I was gonna buy it if I couldn't rent it, but they shipped it today, so sweetness. I'll keep it for a few weeks or so and if I really love it maybe I'll buy it later on down the road. I also got a year of XBL (it's $40 bucks instead of $50 at Circuit City right now) so I'll be doin bookoo online.

EDIT: Oh and apparently the game comes with a 1-month free Gold trial, so maybe we can all play games together, that would be cool.

I'm picking up GTA4 as well on Tuesday! Definitely want to check that one out.