Let's recap

What? Four months? No way... Oh, wait.

So here in short are just a few things I didn't write about on the blog over that period, in no particular order:

• 6 months of playing Wii (with Mario Strikers Charged hitting my collection just last week)
• finally starting exploring GameCube capabilities (Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader being the first game I'm trying out)
• getting an R4DS flash cart for my DS, which let me start exploring the wonderful world of homebrew (Comic Book DS for the win), and yes, also being able to try out loads and loads of games and still ending up playing only a few
• getting a new gaming keyboard
• getting a new gaming mouse
• doing a World of Warcraft trial and what I thought about it
• doing a Dungeons and Dragons Online trial and what I thought about it
• ending up getting hooked on Guild Wars again and, uhm, what I think about it, I guess
• growing somewhat dissatisfied with PC gaming on a rather old rig and contemplating upgrading to a new computer
• contemplating getting an Xbox 360 as an alternative to an all-new PC rig
• whatever random stuff that didn't make the above list.

And there you have it. Now that I'm up to date, maybe I can actually start blogging again. Heh, wishful thinking.

Pwntendo, seriously

I'll keep it short and sweet this time round, since I still have a couple of pages to translate today before I can call it a day.

Big Brain Academy arrived a couple of days ago and I've been having real good time with it since then, as it's just a damn fun app. Mentioned it to my mother in passing a few times, but only today I could actually show the thing to her properly and let her have a go at it. And mind you, she's never held the DS in her hands before now (well, maybe a couple of times -- turned off and closed). Having shown her all the minigames so that she wouldn't have to trouble herself with the English too much, I let the unit lying on her living room table for her to pick up and try out when she felt like it. (Good way for me to actually get more work done, by the way, with the DS out of the way for a while.) So after a couple of hours she brings it back to me, saying she liked it, though still quite slow at it and all, but she needs to give it back for the time being... because it's too addictive.

Now I know I'm saying nothing new here, but if a single video game can bring together an avid gamer and his non-gamer mother -- whoever made that game has got to be on to something. Sure, it's not like this is anything life-changing or whatever. Still, it's just nice and I felt like mentioning it here. So -- Pwntendo, right?

In other related news, I've just watched the first couple of minutes of GameSpot's "We just got Wii" marathon (paused to post this entry, and well, to get some more work done, since the vid's quite a long bugger) and I can't be more psyched. No, wait, I can: once I see more of it. And hell, somehow come December 8 I expect some more experiences like the one described above.