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Things are same old same on here in squidland.  I recently picked up a copy of Commanders: Attack of the Genos and have been working on a review for it - I used to think I was good at turn based strategy games.  Either I really wrong, or I am realy rusty - its kicking my arse.  I would have the review out all ready probably - but I wanted to progress a bit more of the content covered in the review.

I was selected as an Xbox Ambassador recently, joining the ranks of my friends Pat2k9 and ZaaM IT, from what I hear Tallboy2005 also got selected (congrats buddy)

Still cranking away at Support and Code at 360voice - my wife things that I am crazy for the amount of code that I work on during the day and also at night - maybe I am.

TheLiveEye.com is officially no longer tracking gaming - I want to compile some stats about the tool and put it on 360friendspot, I just haven’t decided what stats to build yet.

360friendspot.com is officially moved over to my hosting, and all my baby now - minus the domain name transfer, its all mine to make or break.  It has been covered before, but maybe not here on my blog, or maybe you missed it.  ZaaM decided to step down developing at 360friendspot, and I wish him well in all that he does in the future. Everyone make sure to vist ZaaM IT and tell him hi once in a while OK?

I have a few things in the works to try and revive 360friendspot, especially after theliveeye and friend finder parting ways with 360friendspot.  I picked a few people to try and do some blogging for the front page, some people to help out with game reviews, and we are always kicking around the idea of a podcast. 

One request that we never got to before was member blogs - so I started testing out some stuff to make them happen, its kind of like a “3FS Profile” if you will but allows you to blog, or connect to an RSS of another blog.  It still has a long road to travel, but give it a look - what do you think?

http://www.360friendspot.com/blog/squidpunch

Would you like a free blog, all centralized with other gamers like you, and showing off some of your gamer info?  Well if I ever finish it, 3FS blogs will be open to all of you that wish to do just that.

Just realized I haven’t posted anything on the blog lately, which got me wondering why that was. Especially with all of the new GDC news - the blog should be exploding with info!  Long story short, I have just been busy I guess.  Doing some major code changes at work during the day - and filling my nights with some coding as well :-)  You might have seen me respond to one of your support requests at 360voice (boy you guys submit alot of support requests!), or you might have noticed the recent rollover changes on your challenge page on the 360voice front, and in relation to 360friendspot - it went through some pretty major (background) changes which I am working on it here and there - we are still battling a DNS issue - so if you cant see the site (like me at the time of this posting) its because somehow the DNS got out of wack again  - so I had to ask ZaaM to update it again, I really am begining to hate DNS issues.

I also just re-built a LAMP server in my house to play around with - mostly to try out Ruby on Rails.  It’s a bit different but interesting.  If I ever really get a handle on it, maybe some new tools will show up using Ruby on Rails

Finally my wife accepted a new job, starting tomorrow - so we have been reorganizing the office - mostly taking out her work stuff that she no longer needs - and rearranging my desk area with the new found space. 

Was just checking Unscripted 360 as i try to do as often as possible, and noticed Deacon posted a new video trailer for Army Of Two.  So I did what every other ‘web journalist’ does, stole his video and put it on my page - but at least I am sourcing him

This video is a direct cut scene from a video sequence in the game, about halfway through the game if I recall from when I got to play it back in October, ironically Deacon was the one who sent me to Montreal to check it out as a represenative of Unscripted 360 - ever since that day I have been waiting for the game to come out.

thanks deacon

Hey Squid you skipped a week again!  Yeah I am aware, but this week of all weeks I have a pretty valid excuse, perhaps a few.  I joined a new site officially, a site is moving, and unfortunately a site is dying.  This should be an interesting update. 

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Got a press release for the movie based game “Spiderwick Chronicles” which shipped today.   It is coming to us from Sierra Entertainment and developed by Stormfront Studios releasing on most platforms (even PS2 - I didn’t even know they were still releasing PS2 Games!).  I am downloading images and box art  as I post this and will submit links to the images once I have them available.  I normally think that movies that are games and games that are movies usually end up not delivering, but the last couple I gave a real chance ended up pretty enjoyable.

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