The Gamer's Eye of Judgement

So I thought of doing this little mini-discussion segment once a week, sort of like an interactive feed to get some feedback on the latest (or random) news in the gaming world as well as possibly a bit of other happenings in the movie/TV business.  I call it the "WeekEnd Entertainment Discussion" (or WEED), and as the name hints, it'll happen during the weekend either on Sunday or Saturday.

So Halo Reach is just a few days away from release, and everyone is going absolutely nuts about it! Are you going to be sitting in front of your local GameStop along with thousands of other gamers waiting for the midnight launch?  Are you absolutely sick of Halo, you wish the whole franchise would just die already? Are FPS's in general just getting a bit TOO much hype with such games as Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops (and of course all other big name FPS titles before them)?
Last night in the UK marked the final episode of Ultimate Big Brother, and the final episode of the entire reality series of Big Brother. 10 years, and 22 seasons of housemates living in confinement for a chance to win ₤100,000. The British version of Big Brother is probably the most well known and most popular version of the show with millions of viewers watching the show every night 7 days a week, and moreso on the live streams on the Official Big Brother website. With this nation's version of Big Brother who knows how much longer the US will last, as they've been airing Big Brother just as long. Albeit not as entirely popular as in the UK, it's managed to last 10 years on it's own as well. Are you sad to see Big Brother be over for good? Are you not a huge reality show fan at all, you just wish the whole idea of it never existed? Are reality shows really just false advertising knowing that they're mostly staged despite otherwise stated it's "all real"? What makes them so entertaining to watch?

It's simply a matter of life...

...or death!

and that's what Super Mario Bros. 3 has taught us! :D

11 years ago, these clips were setting the stage for Sega's greatest comeback from the Saturn, and were only found to air on MTV.






...then on 9.9.99, during the MTV VMA's, it was released:


Happy birthday, Dreamcast! Deep down we all know that you're still thinking...

EDIT: Also a very special 15th birthday to the Playstation, released Sept. 9th 1995 in the US!

Been thinking of my next gaming purchase for a bit now.  I've got between Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3, Bioshock 1+2, Scott Pilgram, and Earthworm Jim HD as my current "must haves" at the moment. I've been looking pretty deep into Mirror's Edge the past few days and kind of itching to get that first.  Of course Bioshock and Fallout 3 being very awesome games are not far behind.  Scott Pilgram I WOULD have had on release were it not for 3D Dot Game Heroes taking up my time to earn Platinum on. Now I seem to kind of want to wait till it goes on sale, because I'm almost SURE it's going to at some point in the future for $5 and that would be a good deal to wait up on.  I remember buying After Burner Climax and Final Fight Double Impact both on release, and weeks later both went on sale for $5 each, so in a way I've kind of learned my lesson when it comes to sales on PSN. I've still got the whole Kanto region of HeartGold to work on in the meantime, and that's not going to take very long I don't think (with a level 100 Typhlosion, I could probably finish in 1 sitting if I wanted).

Why was this made?...
Professional Mode: You watch the whole thing without rage

America? Seriously?...in the 90's, even!

(about damn time AdSense approved me...only took more than a week compared to supposedly 5-10 minutes? -.-)

Also, the "Glorious PC Master Race" in action: