Official Participant in 2007 Readers' Choice Awards.
In a year that could only be rivaled by 1998, this user made their voice heard in GameSpot's 12th-annual Readers' Choice Awards. . . Now known as "Best of."

My xbox live, although working fine yesterday, is broken today. When I go to test connection the "xbox live" section fails, indicating that, either I,have been banned from Xbox Live or foranother unknown reason. I rang Xbox Customer Support earlier today and, to tell you the truth, I wasn't that pleased with the service. I was told to contact my internet provider, BT, and was told to get 3 ports opened up by them and to also get my firewall lowered - 2 things that I thought I could have done on my own computer. The thing which also confuses me is how, one day I don't need them open, but the next day I do - I feel that the source of the problem could have been solved if the support line had delved more into it. Hopefully, this port opening idea works, but until then I'll be playing offline.

I have 19 out of 20 flags in Masyaf and cannot find the last flag. After searching for an hour without success I decided to find a picture with all the locations on them (link below). I found a good one and I think that Ihave figured out that I don't have number 15 on the map. The problem is, even with the help of the map I can't find it. If anyone can, could they look at the map and try to explain exactly how to get to it. Thanks.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Kiyashi916/DSCN0411.jpg

I have just accessed the 7th and last terminal in halo 3 and have not got the achievement 'marathon man'. If anyone knows what has happenned or has a suggestion just leave a comment. Thanks.

I just got "rockstar games presents table tennis" on the 360. Wooooooooo.

I am feeling fairly bored so I have decided to do this blog listing all the games that I own for the consoles that I reguarly play. Those are the xbox 360, psp, pc and wii.

Xbox 360

1. Gears of War

2. Oblivion

3. Rainbow Six: Vegas

4. Hexic HD (XBL)

Wii

1. Heatseeker

2.Mario Strikers Charged Football

3. Red Steel

4. Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz

5. Wii Play

6. Wii Sports

7. Zelda: Twilight Princess

8. Donkey Kong Country (VC)

9. Super Mario World(VC)

Psp

1. Burnout Legends

2. GTA: Liberty City Stories

3. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops

4. Pursuit Force

5. Splinter Cell Essentials

6. Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror

7. Tenchu: Time of the Assassins

8. Virtua Tennis: World Tour

Pc

1. Age of Empires Gold Edition

2. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2

3. Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun

4. Geometry Wars

5.Half Life 2 Game of the Year Edition - Half Life 2, Counterstrike Source, HL2 Deathmatch, HL2: Lost Coast,Half Life: Source, HL Deathmatch

6. The Sims 2

Cake

These are the emblems I got from E3! -

Virtually There: E3 2007 Nintendo Conference.
Awarded for waking up early/ditching work to tune into GameSpot's live broadcast of the E3 2007 Nintendo press conference on Wednesday, July 11.

Virtually There: E3 2007 Sony Conference.
Awarded for skipping lunch to tune into GameSpot's live broadcast of the E3 2007 Sony press conference on Wednesday, July 11.

My life for Footage!
These special viewers caught all three days of GameSpot's live stage show at E3 2007. Now if we only put subliminal messages into our broadcasts, we'd have an army to take over the world...

EA Sports have been criminals the past years, bringing us slight updates of games, yet charging us the full price. So we pay £40 for new "first touch control" which doesn't make a difference and then also transfers have been updated. But should there not be an online service anyway, updating what teams players are at. But no, every year there is a new Fifa game, Madden game etc where there is the slightest difference in gameplay- it is practically the same game as before except for this one minor change and we have to pay full price for it. In my opinion this is pointless and if EA want to start caring for their customers they should automatically update it after every transfer window instead of the customers having to go out and buy a brand new game to get this. Also the changes in gameplay are so small you could easily fit them into an update as well, so just have that happenning, with every year, whatever pointless new trick they have can be updated. And sure if they want to they can charge a bit for it as this is better than paying for a new game when you are effectively getting the old one. So instead of releasing fifa 06, 07 an 08, they should just release, fifa. So you buy the one game and get updates so you aren't spending £200 over 5 years to buy the same game 5 times.

*This is excluding madden 07 on the wii which made very good and innovative changes using the wii remote*

I have noticed recentlythat the gamecube is fading away in shops with the variety of games getting less and less and then there is no restocking of these games. It seems that nobody cares about the gamecube anymore. Personally I never owned one but I always loved playing it at my friend's house. The games were excellent and the graphics were great. I never understood why it never did as well as the ps2 and xbox over here (in Europe), as it had Mario as its icon and the Nintendo 64 as its predecessor. What wasn't to like.

Anyway, my point is that when you walk into Game or anyother gaming store nowadaysyou are usually unable to find the gamecube games and you have to ask where they are and you are then pointed to a small corner where there are about 6 or 7 different gamecube games. What is the point in the wii being able to play gamecube games if you can never find any. They even sell gamecube controllers for the wii but they are useless without the games - unless you use it for the virtual console. But anyway I was planning on getting resident evil 0 and 1 for the gamecube to play on my wii but I might not go to the bother as I will have to buy the gamecube controller and if older gamecube games are going to stop being made I don't see the point in me buying it to play 2 games. There are other games I know, but they will probably be out of stock everywhere.

Another point which I would like to make which marks how the gamecube has now become somewhat obsolete is the fact that gamespot has removed it from the homepage as a link. It has gone the way of the NES, SNES, N64 etc. Although, why would they get rid of the gamecube link but keep the ps2 and xbox links as they are of the same generation of games.

I just wrote this to make everyone aware of what has happened to the gamecube and how if the wii doesn't make gamecube games for the virtual console the gamecube controller for the wii will be completely useless while the classic controller is still around.

I have recently been writing a lot of editorials to try and get one posted in the soapbox but I have run out of ideas. So until I think of a new idea I won't be writing as many blogs.

Randomly my profile picture and the "about me" section wiped and I had 2 redo them.