Speaking of which...

I've been motoring through a few games of late.

Indigo Prophecy is an awesome noirish detective story told via an adventure game format. The cool aspect is that you play as all of the main characters, the killer included. It's probably one of the most cinematic games I've ever played as many things such as split-screen and multiple perspectives are used to help ratchet up the tension whenever you're playing as the killer and the cops are closing in, or vice versa. The story sort of gets wonky at the end, but it's still a fun ride.

Ultimate Spiderman was a lot of fun although some of the boss fights made me want to throw the controller through the window. I love the style of the Ultimate Spiderman universe and the game really conveyed the feeling of playing a comic book. Unfortunately it only took me about 5 hours to beat it all told, but it was fun while it lasted. And Venom is a lot of fun to play as, regardless of the reviews out there that say otherwise.

Actually, that's about it right now. I've got some other great games that I'm working on (Sly 3 and Radiata Stories mainly, though I am also giving Final Fantasy 1 a run for its money on the GBA) but those two games were the ones I've finished most recently.

Oh, and don't buy Black & White 2. It's Black & While 1 with more grass and fur. It's not a bad game but if you've played the first one, you've played the sequel.

Now to eagerly await the coming of Shadow of the Colossus. Huzzah!

To keep you entertained in the meantime, go read what this insane lunatic is proposing. I tell you, if he were going after anything but videogames he'd be laughed off the street (and given his latest behaviour, that will soon happen regardless). I've never seen someone who is such a frothing-at-the-mouth lunatic actually get so much press. Evil Avatar is just shutting down any message board threads about him since it's just feeding his ego. Sigh. JT is a guy who rants and raves about how videogames are evil and violent, receives an e-mail from a gamer about how a gamer related charity is raising a lot more than his piddly $10,000 and then proceeds to tell the gamer that he'll regret it if he ever contacts JT again. Heck, he's sent back angry e-mails to people that happened to reply to a press release that he sent them unsolicited (check the VG Cats news from a while back) AND THIS GUY IS TREATED BY THE MEDIA AS A SANE WATCHDOG AGAINST VIOLENCE!

Sigh. No wonder so many in the gamer community can't stand him. It's just funny that the general public really can't see this side of things. The politics and shenanigans that are going on with games and the gaming industry are getting to be more fascinating than the games themselves.