Okay so my current playthrough series with Final Fantasy VI isn't attracting much attention. That's not to say I won't continue with it, just means I'm gonna start another one soon that hopefully will get a bit more comments. This will be Castlevania Symphony of the Night on the Playstation. Hopefully this will get you talking and is a great game to watch

If this sounds like a good idea, then let me know

Hello all - it's been a long while since my last blog post and I've now moved jobs (again) - and I'm working in CeX in Wakefield, selling video games for a living - woo! It's heaven

Anyway, I'm really back into gaming in a big way now and have started compiling various videos to share with the interworld - this being the first for you guys - my Final Fantasy VI Playthrough collection. We're still playing through as we're uploading so I'm not sure how many sections this will have. It will probably take about 60 hours to complete fully including numerous side quests, so I'd guess at about 100 sections to this series.

So, for those, like me, who enjoy watching games being played, may I present to you all my Final Fantasy III (oops, I mean VI) playthrough video. Please feel free to leave comments

My news updates - firstly, no longer working at PC World, because they're gits. Secondly, no longer living in Batley, because I've moved house (duh!), and thirdly and most excitingly - the landlord of my new house (shared) has just bought us all a nice Xbox 360 Elite. Man, I love this place!

And that's my news. I'm also happy to report that the guy has damn good taste too as he also got Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect - so I guess my gamertag is gonna see some action again! yay!

A quick blog to say that we got PGR4 in at work yesterday, which made me rather excited and irritated. Excited that another great chapter in this series is out and irritated that we've got it a week early and all I can do with it is look at the box. I might be tempted to have a sneaky play on it though, perhaps even put it on demo on the 360 in the store if I'm allowed to.

I am wondering why we can't sell it though, I mean the game is clearly ready, so it's just going to sit in our warehouse for a whole week until it's official release date. Perhaps they do it just to annoy us?

Re: the PGR series, I enjoy it somewhat, but I have to say it's not a patch on the Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport series and I'm very much looking forward to the next GT game, will definately stick that on display when we get it. This week's games I'm demoing are:

PS3 1080p: FIFA 08 - I know it's not actually running in 1080p, but it's such an important game that I replaced our Ridge Racer 7 1080p demo with it - it's proving pretty popular so far and I'm happy to see England beating Germany on many occasions on the spectator demos

PS3 720p: Motorstorm - Had this running for many months and it's still as popular as ever with the punters - don't make any wonder either - great game!

360: Sega Rally - Stuck this on demo last week in place of Forza 2 and it's been very popular so far - when I first got it going I was not overly impressed with the graphics, I thought the colours were too vivid and edges were a bit jaggy, but it's started to grow on me as it's a good fun arcade racer, even if the mud effects are still a bit hit and miss.

PC 8800GTS: Colin McRae DiRT - Runs pretty smooth on one of our most powerful PCs at full graphical settings on a 1440x900 resolution iirc. Unfortunately seems to be a bit picky about control pads, so it's just been arrow keys so far - does look amazing though, so shows off the PC pretty well nonetheless.

PC 8600GTS: Sega Rally Revo - Couldn't manage full graphics, but not a bad game to demo.

PC 8500: Pro Evo 2008 - Doesn't require too many specs, so works quite well on this machine - not proved too popular though.

Anyway, that's about it - guess it didn't turn out to be such a short blog after all - ah well...

I've just started work at the wonderful land of P C World - not sure why the P and the C are separated, but that's what it says on the address, so I'm sticking to it

Anyway, in this new role, I've decided to assign myself in charge of all the gaming in the store and much to my approval, so far no-one has stopped me. So, I've been going round sticking good demos on in the PC gaming section, on the PS3s and on the 360. Unfortunately the only games I'm allowed to demo are U, PG, and 12 - which is a shame, as that actually cuts out a massive amount of games! Oh well.

If you're ever in the Leeds, Beeston store - I'm the one to come and see for all your gaming needs - and I also know that have a whole load of limited edition Halo 3s hiding in the back that we haven't got on display yet - how's that for insider information?

So, come see me! hehe. Until my next blog - happy gaming!

Okay, so this is pretty much definately a fake design, probably created some time before the 360 was launched judging by its resemblance to the original xbox. But I have to say that I like it, I think it looks much better than the current Xbox 360 system, with it's revolting chrome and complete lack of character. Would probably look better laid on its side though, that angle just hurts my head

What do you think?