Druminfected's Super Special Spectacular Beautiful Blog: Primitive Days, Birthdays and Paper Mario Nights

Had another fun filled weekend back up in Madison. This time it was my friend Nick's kid Jasmine's birthday. She's 4 now and what better age to get a computer! Wolfgang and I, picked up a My First Computer, I remember seeing those things and it looked pretty kewl, plus Leap Frog makes pretty good learning tools. We also picked up like 3 different games so she can tear it up with the knowledge. The kewl thing about it is she can also bring it with her on trips to grandmas house and what not. We also picked up a web camera for Nick & Katie, so we can see the family on the Internet and vise versa. That camera actually will follow your face... pretty kewl.... I want one!

After hitting up a couple of stores me and Wolfgang hit the road for the 2 hour journey. I'm finding myself hating to go long distances without any entertainment to make the boredom go by, especially music. Music is by far a must and good music at that. It makes the drive go by so much faster since your jammin out on some good ol tune-age. We both had our Ipods so hit had the way up and I had the way back.

The Birthday party was a pretty good time, and I also seen some faces I haven't seen in awhile so that was kewl as well. Kids have a lot of energy! Geez, I pretty much goofed off and played with Jasmine to wear her out to go to bed, and that was definitely a challenge! I think she stayed up till midnight and then the sandman came.

After the slumber party and a pizza for brakefast later, we hit the road back home. I finally get home and crash out hard and wake up and... Suprise no internets! So I call up tech support and go through the bullshit automated messaging support that never works, and then finally talk to tech support. After 30 min on the phone we came to the conclusion that the modem is shot. So, no internet! what the hell am I going to do? It feels so primitive when you don't have internet it's crazy how much you use it and you don't really realize how much you actually do use the internet for different things like porno, to email, to checking what the hell a bukkake is on wikipedia!

Well I'm back finally online with the internet and here is some gaming news! Today a new demo released and the name of the game is John Woo's sequel to Hard Boiled... Stranglehold. You lucky ones that have a 360, will have the glory of the first taste of this game. This is already on my Pre-ordered list, and another game on my hit list. This is a great moment that I hate not having my 360. REPAIR IT GOOD MS!

In more 360 news it's confirmed new premium 360's with HDMI inputs are already showing up in stores and Microsoft has confirmed this. I price cut, a HDMI input, a new PC 65nm chip? (maybe) MS is stepping it up right before Madden 08 comes out as well. Oh yeh PS3 will only have 30 fps while the 360 version will have double the dose.... yes 60fps!

Here's a couple of horror games that look pretty sick coming out. This first one is a PS3 game by the name of Imabikisou. Has a kinda RingU feel to it, but looks pretty dark and actual scary game to play.

Techland the makers of the FPS, Call of Juarez and Warhound just announced that they are bringing their shooting-stuff talents to the zombie-killing genre. I'm a zombie junkie,sucker, whatever is more addicted to zombies, this is another game that just got added to my Gotta get list. This is coming out on PC and 360 due next year takes place on a mysterious island. After a plane crash, you have to hunt through the zombie-infested paradise looking for your wife... I hope they make that wife or husband. Anyhoo, the game is said to have amazing damage modeling (think torn flesh, exposed muscles, broken bones), an "artificial life system" that will allow you to take advantage of the instinctive behavior of groups and individuals, an open, non-linear world and the ability to use the world around you as weapons.