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 Fuck your medals and exclusive status symbol hats, as for now TF2 has been replaced by Mass Effect on my HDD.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.

I hope you’re having a good time on Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock 2. Considering my limited resources of money, I’ll be waiting for the first weekend deal on Steam for both of them, in the face of retailers that leave most games full-priced after years.

The latests news include the announcement of Sonic the Hedgehog 4, previously named Project Needlemouse. Smells like New Sonic The Hedgehog Wii.

Regarding the new comic, I though of 2 versions when I was planning it but in the end I decided to use just one of the two and finish the other one just for fun.

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Cave story Wii is out guys. If you never played the pc version you should really think about it. I won’t play it because I already played the pc version and the time I spend on my Wii shortens every month despite having still a couple of games left to finish. My next PC monitor will have RGB/s-video input, I swear. The thing is that Cave Story may look too “retro” for some people and that’s why I never managed to get some of my friends playing it but I really recommend you to play it if you like metroidvania games and engaging storytelling.

Now that I covered the main news item, I’d like to add some complain paragraphs because it’s all I can do until I lay my hands on Mass Effect 2 or Bioshock 2.

Metroid: Other M: the more I hear about it the more i get scared. I read about it being originally an on-rail shooter, giving more depth to the character, defining the storyline ignoring Prime and stuff like that but I really can’t put up with team ninja developing it. The “remembah me?” meme was generated even before the game was release and we shouldn’t expect at least a big bullshit dialogue/cutscene in the final game? Yokoi please plead for us from up there!

New screens for Sonic the Hedgehog 4. Head over to the Sonic 4 Official Site to see them. Sega has been doing a nice job so far copying New Super Mario Bros and I really like the art style. I just can’t stand that “Episode 1″ under the title. Is it just my impression or Sega is a little short of money? They almost release a new sonic game every year with all the downsides this leads to.

Last week Valve release the first update of community content for TF2, including 9 new hats/misc and 3 new weapons. I read the stats on TF2 wiki and I think the new weapons are a bit underpowered compared to most of their unlockable counterparts but I’m confident the players will be able to get the best out of them anyway before they receive a little power-up.

Speaking of unlocks, has anyone sent any mail to Robin Walker yet? If  not I’m going to do it. There are tons of hats and no other way to get them than staying connected. The idle servers are still up and running at full players and thinking that those players have a higher chance of getting a hat really gets me mad. They changed the critical system to be more skill-based and they leave the drop system completely random? Sounds nonsense to me so I’m going to write a short essay about “my” drop system I put together over the last months. It’s completely skill-based, team-oriented and it still allows newbies to get new weapons while playing without paying attention to achievements. Basically, it should work as a reward system for what a player has been able to do in his past matches. I’ll post it here when it’ll be finished and e-mailed.

By the way, I turned 23. You’ll get the usual gift photo on Saturday.