A lot of things happened since august 15th but if we see it from an all different perspective we could also say that nothing special happened. Let’s go step by step.

Final Fantasy XIII got a japanese release date. It’s December 17th. It’s like any other date for me but not for japanese people. They’d better start saving money for corrupting the guys ahead of them in the queue.

Sega is working on a new 2D Sonic game in HD. They didn’t promise us that it won’t suck though. A couple of words for Sonic: “Stop hanging out with Tails & co and get the hell out of Nintendo games.”

Valve showed off more of L4D2 at Pax. New special infecteds and new campaigns with a working funfair. I don’t get why they didn’t do it all DLC. Oh, yeah, they like the moneys. Also, I’m working on an expo like pax: the GIX. It reads just like geeks, which is hilarious, see? People will come from the other side of earth just to spell it.

I renewed my hatred for macs. Nothing can justify €2000 for a low-profile laptop, not even DDR3 memory (NEDM, I’m sure it’s correct this way).

I bought Street Fighter 4. Zangief is still over-powered, Dhalsim is still a mummy and Cammy has still got buns. So fun with a friend next to you, so painful over the net. Small lag often prevents you from inputting combos and that’s not funny at all.

Ps3 slim: new console, same games. Hirai, what were you thinking about that day?

Final Fantasy Dissidia is out. Please, people, stop making fighting games with ultra-cool dudes compensating with their huge swords and sexy babes. Also, you’ll never defeat the colorful colors of Katamary Damacy, so focus a little more on style. Sad but true, Street Fighter 4 is the best fighting game you can stick to lately.

And, last but not least, Valve declared as “cheat” the external idler known as “steamstats”. I won’t discuss if this is correct or not, I’ll just say that adding frustration to frustration isn’t a good thing. Every player that used the idler had a little clean-up in his inventory and every player that didn’t use it got a limited-edition fake-halo hat called “cheater’s lament”, promptly modded as a real-fag hat by the community. Who got this hat? Uninterested, inactive and unaware players. They really deserve it after the hundreds of hats they dropped in 3 months. Seriously, Valve, make a “best player gets a hat” system and I’ll be back playing. Fuck your medals and exclusive status symbol hats, as for now TF2 has been replaced by Mass Effect on my HDD.

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Remember that we got a steam group! Join if you feel like playing with us once in a while.

My father turned 50 this friday. Best wishes!

I bought Metroid Trilogy and Kirby Super Star Ultra (finally). Both very good port/remakes, especially the Kirby one. Kirby Super Star was the first Kirby game I ever played and I beat it countless times. Replaying it is like having an HD deja-vù in my mind.

I’m also playing Final Fantasy X and P.N.03. The second is a very good shooter I shouldn’t have missed for so long while the first is giving me the same feeling again. I don’t know why, but in every Final Fantasy, when I get the airship and I can wander around looking for side quests the game becomes boring. Apparently because there’s no actual countdown to the end of the world and our heroes could loaf about for the rest of their days. Maybe the player should be compelled to fight the final boss once, before being able to complete the rest of the game starting from the last save point. My two cents.

About a week ago I was playing L4D in a public game. We were just outside the airport terminal when a tank charged and killed Zoey, leaving all of her stuff on the ground. Then Louis walked by and this happened.

A Halo 3 ODST comic is on schedule. Sorry to keep you waiting.