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Sorry for the lack of posting last week. Got ill because of a mishap with some gasoline (don't ask). Anyway, wanted to drop my weekly "It's Friday, let me recap what I am up to" post. You can probably come to expect this from me, a weekly post on Friday that sorta recaps what I've been doing and been following over the past week, only in Awesome Bullet Point Form! Here we go:

* Big news this week is, of course, Halo 3, and being a big Xbox 360 fan.... I haven't played it yet. Honestly, I just can't muster the energy to play it. I like Halo just fine, it's a fun game, it's single player story is interesting, and it's multiplayer is fun when you can avoid the idiot kiddies, but there is about a hundred games I'd rather play before it. I managed to fight off the temptation to buy it Tuesday and am glad I did so, cause really, I don't need Halo in my life right now. However, I am sure to get it at some point in the future, just like I did with Halo's 1 & 2 before it. I mean, have you seen the reviews? The game is clearly well put together and fun, you'd have to be nuts to pass over at least trying it.

* Blizzard dropped WoW 2.2 on us Tuesday as well. The only really big news out of it was voice chat being added finally. I suppose this is a good thing, but having weened myself on online play from Xbox Live, I was already kinda used to it anyway. My server doesn't have it at the moment, but I doubt I will be using it much since my guild is on the verge of disintegration (though maybe that means I'll end up using it a lot in my new guild?)

* Speaking of WoW, I did what I think is perhaps the most awesome singular accomplishment I've yet done this past weekend: solo farming the first three bosses of (well, two bosses and one rare elite) in the Stratholme instance for Large Brilliant Shards. As a mage, I think this is highly amazing that I pulled it off (cause I suck).

* So they announced three new Kingdom Hearts games at TGS last week. Bleh. Those clearly aren't for me anyway. as my wife is the one who plays those, but I am moderately interested in the series, at least from a cultural standpoint. However, per usual, Huggy Bear (a.k.a Squeenix, a.k.a. Square-Enix) has pimped out and diluted the franchise with a bevy of spinoff's that only the die hards will play. Sure, these may be just handheld spinoffs, and the core series may yet appear next year on the new gen consoles (I wouldn't hold my breath), but I can't help but wonder why they are wasting their time with these. The series is more popular in America than Japan, and I don't think the American market will eat up these spinoffs the way the Japanese market will. Here's to hoping this blows up in their face.

* Speaking of handhelds. I continue to enjoy my PSP much better than my DS. The long and the short of it, I just feel like it is a much better machine. It can do more, is more functional, and feels a lot better in my hands than the tiny DS (which I can't hold and play for more than 30 minutes without my hands starting to hurt). Now if only they could get more great software for it, I'd be all set.

That's all from me this week, still working on some WoW stuff, about to play through some more PSP stuff, and I hope to have played and have something to say about Halo 3 next week.