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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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I finally put the time into finishing Super Paper Mario on the Wii.  I still haven’t played a ton of games on the Wii, but I have to say that I really did enjoy this one.  Then again I grew up on the NES and mario, so maybe I am somewhat biased.  Now that I have finished this and returned it to gamefly - I might have to spend some time on the game I originally bought the Wii for (The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess) if I can pull myself away from the Xbox360 long enough

Well home life has been pretty busy lately - my son starts preschool next week, and my daughter is officially crawling (and trying her best to walk like the rest of us).  Now with 2 kids on the move, and playing outside and such I haven’t been gaming, or keeping up with the news anywhere near as much as I have in the past - hopefully I will get into the groove again soon.  Along the same lines of my son going to school (and the extra expense of paying for said school) is part of the reason I haven’t went out and bought any of the newly release games that are oh so tempting.  I still have gamefly, but lately getting the newer releases hasn’t been as easy as it was in the past.

Finally, another reason you might not see me on xbox live might very well be the evil machine better known as the Wii.  Yes as some of you may know I purchased one when my xbox was out for repair, and I have made a very small amount of progress in the Zelda game that I purchased with it.  But thanks to gamefly I have been thoroughly enjoying……

Even though Ymiris will disagree, and say how much of a fool I am, I have really enjoyed the game thus far - I just finished the 3rd chapter last night - so I am nearing the halfway point of the game.

Recently I got Command and Conquer 3 from gamefly as well - so I have been giving that a bit of play time, since I wanted to keep the free copy we gave away on 3fs so badly.  I also picked up track and field from the xbox live arcade - which is a guaranteed way to get a gaming related blister injury.

I am not going to PAX, but wish I was if for nothing else but to meet some gaming related contacts I have worked with or communicate with like http://www.unscripted360.com, the XBLRadio Crew, and of course tipped back a few beers with Feelz Good.

Well last night I actually got a bit of gaming in for a change.  I booted up The Darkness one last time before it had to go back to Blockbuster today, and unfortunately I still haven’t completed the story - I am going to have to buy or rent it again soon.  The only complaint I have with the game is often the checkpoints seem a bit far between each other, for the second time in the story I am at a point where I travel quite a while and kill quite a few enemies but die and have to redo it over again.  I am 95% sure I am dying right before the checkpoint, but rekilling the same 20 or so enemies gets a bit tedius.

I finally got to play Carcassonne - well I played it back in May on the Gamerscore Blog Tour, but this is the first time I got to play the game on my own console due to my repair and lower play time lately.  The best part was I was able to play the tutorial, and actually get a better understanding of how the game works, in fact I only played the tutorial and a few 1 player games (which I lost).

Then I gave Spyglass board games a try.  Thanks to Deaconblade 360 I won a free copy of the full game.  Just to give the game a trial run I played 1 Player mode only.  Played a game of checkers (won), played a game of Reversi (won), played 2 games of chess (loss), and played 3 games of Mancala (lost).  I love chess, but clearly I am not very good at it.  Mancala - well I still dont even understand how this game works.  I read the rules and still it confuses me, maybe one of you readers know how the hell it works.

Finally I booted up Forza Motorsport 2, and played a few races and boosted one of my cars up with some parts.  My buddy Th3 Strange gifted me a pretty sweet custom car promoting The Live Eye and 360friendspot.  He had previously shown me pictures I will have to find them again and post them - or take new ones myself.

I briefly played a Price of Persia: Rival Sword (Wii).  Mostly just played the begining part that teaches you the controls and how to save etc.  It was relatively interesting so I am probably going to play through that a bit more.

I just realized how long it was since I made an actual blog post here, for the very few of you that even bother to check my blog these days

I have been mostly busy with the family, spending time outside while the kids play, going to water parks, the normal father things I guess you could say and during the day I have been pretty busy at work.  I also haven’t been staying up for my late night gaming as much anymore, perhaps I am getting old, not sure.  I also picked up a Wii recently (Friend code: 2057 7482 7233 6739), though I have played that less than the xbox.

At times I spend some time on my DS on lunch breaks.  I have been working on finishing Pokemon Pearl - but honestly its getting rather boring.  They have a few other titles for the DS (old and new) that I want to get my hands on - specifically Sim City, and from what I remember reading a while back there is a Zelda gaming coming for the DS…..I am such a sucker for Zelda - its probably 75% of the reason I bought a Wii.

Seems like since my 360 went out for repair I started falling behind on posting news, gaming, or just random blogging in general.  We haven’t had much changes to the 360friendspot or theliveeye websites that I haven’t posted about (as far as I remember), I guess I just dont have alot of ‘gaming’ related things going on.

I have the darkness on rental, and just as I said from the Gamerscore Blog road tour, it’s amazing.  If I had not spent the money on the Wii, and Zelda I would definately have bought it by now.  Speaking of buying, there are so many good titles coming out soon and I am not sure how many of them I will get to buy - my son starts preschool soon, which means another somewhat large monthly payment is currently coming out of my income. (i hope gamefly loves me and sends me all the new releases without much trouble). 

I think that will do for the “random post because I havent posted in ages post”

i know its a long shot, but if you are interested in joining gamefly, if you use this referral link I can get myself a free Wii. So yeah perhaps there isnt much reason for you to get me a free game system - but I will be forever grateful to you. So far I never see them in stock in my area, and I am not 100% sure I would spend the money buying another system or not, but you cant turn a free one down So far one of my friends did in fact use my referral link…..just need 4 more.

Just use this link to sign up

ok, shameless begging over.