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[04/01/04]
As someone who made it quite clear that I thought Everquest was boring as shit and that the thought of playing Final Fantasy XI was not high on my priorities, I must stand corrected. Check out the in-game screens of me and the others from the Forever Kingdom gang at the new FFXI Photo Album.

[03/04/04]
Usually I don't lend credence to websites that say they have "inside info" about games that haven't been announced, but when I came across this list of games that might show up at E3, I about had a stroke. So... many... good... games....

A brief rundown:

ACTIVISION - True Crime II - Hopefully, it'll be better than the last one. Or at least less ugly.

CAPCOM - Devil May Cry 3, Dino Crisis 4 - So conflicted, especially considering how poorly the last editions of these titles were received. Also, Dino Crisis 4 looks to be PS2 bound, because, apparently, DC3 wasn't received too well. No shit. The in-game camera made it hell to play.

Resident Evil ******* - Yes, that's how it's listed. Hell iff I know what it means. Considering RE4 is in development for the GC and they plan on showing Resident Evil Outbreak AGAIN, despite the fact that it's going to be out at the end of this month. Knowing my luck, it's another damn Gun Survivor title.

ELECTRONIC ARTS - Battlefield 1942 - This one's listed for the Xbox. Does that mean that EA and Microsoft are going to kiss and make up?

MICROSOFT - Perfect Dark Zero - I'm going to call bullshit on this one. I know the list says it's still up in the air, but considering the news vacuum Rare went into after Grabbed By The Ghoulies...

NINTENDO - More sequels galore. Go figure. Zelda The Wind Waker 2, Metroid Prime 2, F-Zero 2, Mario 128, Pikmin 2. I'm sure the Nintendo DS will also show up.

SONY - Sony looks to be also dragging out the sequels of just about every intellectual property they ever had. Arc the Lad Online, Champions of Norrath 2 (Didn't the first one just come out?), Colony Wars Online (About time for another CW), Dark Cloud 3, G-Police, Gran Turismo 4, Hot Shots Golf Fore!, Nico (Ico 2), Jak III, Mark of Kri 2, Syphon Filter, Twisted Metal, Wipeout, Ratchet & Clank 3, Rise of Honor 2 (You've got to be shitting me), Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves, and The Getaway 2.

SQUARE-ENIX - Actionspiel ähnlich Devil May Cry mit Cloud aus Final Fantasy VII (EGM) - I'm going to assume this means the aaction game starring Cloud from FF7 that's been rumoured. I hope that's what it means.

Actraiser (GBA) - Holy shit! If this is true, I would love to get my hands on this game.

THQ - Alter Echo - Why? No, seriously... why? It's out and NO ONE WANTS IT. Take the fucking hint.

UBISOFT - Nightmare Creatures 3 - Angel of Darkness - No shit. That'd be cool as hell.

There are a lot of games that are no-brainers (like Halo 2, Half Life 2, Doom 3 and Final Fantasy 12), but there also seem to be some interesting prospects, if they aren't complete bullshit.

[02/05/04]
Okay, folks... you can officially get over the whole Janet Jackson thing now. Seriously. Anyone who isn't a knuckle-dragging ape should know that it was another sad ploy for attention by a career-in-decline old maid and a 15-minutes-are-almost-up pop star. If this desn't reek of "we're doing this to one-up Madonna and Brittney Spears" then I don't know what it is. And the dumbest people is this whole thing is CBS for being stupid enough to not think that MTV would try to pull something like this. HELLO! MTV has done crap like this so often, they've actually made it a cliché. So, to get you over this travesty, some pictures courtesy of Yahoo News (Thanks Yahoo for making these softcore porn pics available for all ages!).

The sad thing is that this whole thing will overshadow what was a pretty damn good Superbowl. But, people won't remember who lost to the Patriots. I will - I live in Charlotte, NC. They'll remember when Janet "accidentally" revealed her boob in a ploy to outdo her mentally-deranged brother. This was only made worse by the fact that the advertising, what is usually the pinnacle of the event, and often proves to be more entertaining than the actual game, was just downright boring. Except for a few potty-humor jokes (horse farts, crotch biting), there was nothing worth paying attention to. Unless, of course, you can't get your wang up, then there were far too many penile erection drug commercials to watch. Also, the price of the commercial space must be getting pricey as I saw an awful lot of old commercials on show and even a repeat or two.

And, now onto something less painful - that bastard, Uwe Boll, isn't just happy enough shitting on one videogame license, House of the Dead, in film form - now he wants to defile three other videogames on his path towards the crown of Evil Overlord of bad cinema. As reported here, Mister Boll wishes to take on Dungeon Siege, BloodRayne, and Fear Effect in film form. While I haven't had the opportunity to play Dungeon Siege, I have the other two games and live in mortal fear of what will be done to them. I guess Bloodrayne will be nothing but hardcore decapitations and Rayne swearing up a bluestreak in her "I'm too bored to be bothered" tone. And, for Fear Effect, I only have two words: LESBIAN OVERTONES.

Honestly, I think Penny-Arcade got this one right.