Ok, short blog. I have just returned from the cinema. Obviously, I watched The Dark Knight. And, WOW! It is absolutely awesome.

If, for some reason, you haven't seen it yet, drop whatever you're doing now and literally RUN to the nearest cinema. Everyone should experience the glory that is The Dark Knight!

Heath Ledger did a really awesome job playing The Joker, it's just a shame we wont be able to see him in the sequel

Bestest movie ever!

Well, I just got home from Roskilde festival 2008. It was awesome, except for the fact that I was sick all week. Really bad luck, considering I haven't been sick for a year It was still good fun though. Also, Chemical Brothers live = epic win!

Anyway, I just saw a decent deal on a Nintendo Wii and SSBB for $460. Yeah, yeah, I know it may seem like much for you americans, but that's what the wii usually costs here with no aditional games. A wii game usually goes for $85-$95, while 360 and PS3 games are $105-115. I also ordered Super Mario Galaxy, which I've been wanting to try for a good while now.

Tbh, I'm not the biggest wii fan. Frankly, I think it's a damn shame it was built with lastgen hardware, cause let's be honest here, most wii games look rather pathetic. I have a big HDTV, so why shouldn't I be able to enjoy my games to the fullest? Well, I'm not going to let that ruin my fun, and I still have my PS360 for HD gaming. Wii will be great for parties and games like SMG, I'm sure.

I've just been sitting here watching some of the Duke Nukem Forever footage, and it really takes me back. Duke Nukem was my first real FPS experience. Well besides Doom and Wolfenstein, but I only got to try those at my friends' places, since my family didn't own a computer back then. Not one that was powerful enough to run those games anyway.

My dad did have a laptop from 1989 though. I believe I've been told the retail price was some $8000. Yeah, suddenly those $3000 crysis PCs don't sound so bad. Anyway, being a PC from 1989, it didn't really have much of anything. It did let me play games such as Leisure Suit Larry 1, Police Quest 3, Pacman (oh yeah!), Prince of Persia and so on. Being 7-8 years old with no english experience whatsoever, it wasn't very easy to get past the damn age verification system! You had to answer a series of question in order to play the game. I usually just guessed till it let me in. In retrospect, I'm not sure how smart it is for minors to play Leisure Suit Larry. If my dad knew anything about Leisure Suit Larry, I'm not sure he would have let me play it. Well, it's not like I ever managed to get very far in the game. I did manage to get peed on by a dog and order a drink from a bar though.

Police Quest was where it was at though. I managed to take my clothes off and have a shower, and get the keys for a police car and take it for a spin. Why showering is part of the game, I'm still not sure of to this day.

Well enough about that, this was supposed to be dedicated to Duke! My first encounter with Duke must have been back in 1996 when I was about 11 years old. I tried it at my friends place on their LAN. Up to that point I had never tried a multiplayer game on PC before. Not on LAN anyway, and certainly nothing like Duke. I was impressed to say the least. Later that year my parents decided it was about time to get one of these "personal computers" and see what all the fuss was about. I was thrilled! Duke 3D was, of course, one of the first games I got. About a year and a half later, my mother got a a sweet deal on a PC from work, bringing our PC count up to 2. Somewhere inbetween that I believe we hooked up to the internet aswell. 56k baby!

Anyway, my love for Duke grew infinitely, now that I could finally play on our own LAN, whenever I had friends over. But the best had yet to come. For a good while I was unaware of the huge potential of PC game modding. I don't know how exactly it happened, but I found a modding site for Duke 3D with a bunch of TCs (mods). Frankly, a lot of them weren't that great, but it was interesting to me as I had never experienced modding before. One TC stood out among the others. That TC was SST TC (Starship Troopers). Really great mod. Every Duke fan should play it.

Having discovered a new side of duke and gaming in general, I decided to take up modding myself, or mapping in particular. In late 1999 I managed to get a position as a mapper for Aliens vs Duke. Being a huge Aliens fan, I was quite excited about this. Unfortunately development kinda died in 2004 and stopped completely in 2006

I miss you duke, I miss you modding. 3D Realms better bring out DNF soon!

Oh man it's been a long wait for MGS4, but it's finally here, and I just got it today. I'm glad the stupid postal service didn't take as long as they did with GTA4, which happened to show up eventually.

I've only played about 10 or 20 minutes of the game, but I'm loving every second so far. It's unfortunate that I have an exam in 10 days, but I'll try to squeeze some hours of MGS4 in now and then.

Ok, this is starting to piss me off! It's been nearly 2 weeks now since my copy of GTA IV Limited Edition shipped. And, you guessed it, it hasn't showed up yet!

Had it been any other game I probably wouldn't have cared much, but why does this have to happen just now! I've been so hyped for GTA 4 the last month, so I wanted the postal service to be on time just this once. To make matters worse, I can only contact HMV about my missing shipment after 21 days. So that's in like 1 week and a couple of days from now. If it really is lost, I wonder if they have anymore Limited Editions in supply, since it was removed from the site. If not, I'm sure they'll offer me the regular version, which unfortunately is still sold out, so I would have to wait for them to restock + wait for it to ship!

So, in a worst case scenario, I'll end up being told I can't get the limited edition I preordered and will have to settle with the regular version approximately a month after I was supposed to get it. Great, that'll be just in time for my exams then.

Dammit, this is getting frustrating

Oh man, I'm pumped for these games! I finally managed to get an MGO beta account after I dunno how many tries. You would think Konami would have been better prepared, tbh.

Up until now, I haven't really been too excited about GTA IV. I guess, maybe cause it was so far away. I'm being very careful not to get anything spoiled. I know some videos from the intro of the game have been flourishing on the internet. I'd rather wait for the actual game and experience it for myself

Unfortunately I wont even have much time to play the game when it's out in a couple of days I'm super busy at work atm, and I also have my final semester project to work on, when I'm not at work.