EA bought Bioware

Check this out.
Can't say i'm not a little afraid... EA is kind of used to buy developers for their IPs and then effectively destroy them along with any talent or innovation that happened to be there. Bullfrog, Origin, Westwood... pick your favourite.
I hope Bioware (and Mythic) will get a better treatment.

Too much stuff on my plate

Ahhh a full 10 days without updates... so what's new? I've been committing most of the free time to complete Bioshock another time, so i could see the 2nd ending. I could have checked it on the tubes, but the game is so good I somehow felt I ought to replay it and deserve to get the good side ending (also slightly better than the evil one in terms of storytelling, if you ask me).

Now that I digested this heavy masterpiece I kinda feel lightier... and since i already had enought of Team Fortress 2 (it's very cool but it didn't blow me away) I'm ready to dig through promising new releases, such as Quake Wars (by now hopefully waiting at home in his Play.com package) and the new Zelda for DS.
By the end of the month I expect to give a try to Stranglehold and HL2 Episode Two. After that.... well it's probably going to be Xbox 360 time. Mass Effect and Rock Band are coming baby!

So Windows died on me (again)

Nothing out of the ordinary here... just another meticolously tweaked installation of Windows XP, gone to hell after a violent system crash of my gaming rig (during a NET 3.0 installation, of all things) that completely wiped out my booting partition.

Pixelated blue screen of death and *YAY!* it suddenly felt 1995 all over again.

So far no way to restore it... all I could manage was to reinstall the fucking OS on a dummy HD, mount as slave the busted one and backup my friggin Bioshock savegames...

I'm so angry that i might as well do the imponderable (like, install Vista, or something...)

Final Fantasy Concert

On a totally awesome note, I'm already getting all geeked up on this thing. I nearly burned out my ability to enjoy J-RPG after playing FF7 for most of 1998... it's been years since I actually finished a Square game, but anyway, I can't really miss a most likely once-in-a-life-time performance of Uematsu in Italy...

'Guess I'll start recruiting buddies for the trip to Firenze :D

Jedi Wiimote-Saber coming, finally, but...

Well, we've been crying loud for a Star Wars game for the Wii using the remote ass as a light-saber, and it's not exactly fair to complain just now.... but still, this looks like another cropped conversion of a promising "next"-gen title that the Nintendo console will handle poorly, just like all the others.

I mean, the cool factor of Force Unleashed is essentially his advanced physics engine, supposedly offering a new twist to the whole Jedi/Sith powers experience.
Remove that, add those awful low-res texture which are the bread and butter of the whole Wii third-party lineup and you have something not really different from any other crappy multi-platform title who looks shit on HDTV.

I doubt that being able to swing a lightsaber with the Wiimote in some silly last-minute "duel mode" would make me choose this version of the game instead of 360's...

R.I.P. Robert Jordan

Can't say i didn't see this one coming, but it makes feel sad, nevertheless.

RHCP in Rockband!

We're gonna have Red Hot, KISS and Soundgarden in Rockband. Waaaaay too much awesome, this game is gonna.. uhmm... rock.

Gotta fetch a damn 360...