Serious month of gaming ahead

May is going to be a serious month of hermiting.

I only fond out today that Max Payne 3 was coming out in two weeks. I feel guilty. I was a massive fan of the originals.

Easily in my top 5 played games

I remember going into Game in Blanch with my Da on a Sunday (as we typically did while my mother shopped) and we would walk around looking at the PC games. We weren't as savvy as we are now, so we never read on line reviews and stuff. But we found some cracker and little known gems.

Deus Ex, Soldier of Fortune and Shogun total war to name a few. But I remember buying Max Payne just because of the box. A guy in a leather jacket holding a Beretta . I was sold.

To this day I still name it in my top 5 games I have ever played. The action was breathtaking alongside the quality story and narrative in the dark setting of a New York Winter. Max Payne 2 lived up to expectations raising the bar. So I'm hopeful MP3 can do the same.

Twelve years waiting

This comes out three days after another major release. One I have been waiting twelve year for. Diablo 3. Diablo 2 was really one of the first on line games I played. A simple concept that was easy to pickup and play but was built for endurance and longevity. Could you keep grinding for better gear? It is really little wonder World of Warcraft was a perfect fit for me.

I signed up for the WoW annual pass the hour it launched and part of the deal was a free copy of Diablo 3. It is already downloaded and ready to launch.

Max Payne 3 , Diablo 3, continuing to level alts in WoW and continuing to increase my ability in League of Legends is making May a pretty big gaming month.

Blogging ....... effort required

Keep stumbling over old blogs and stuff I made so long ago when I had grand ideas that people, gave a shit about what I say.

More then ever , people need to know what I have to say !

Watch this space!

Funniest customer e-mail I've seen in a long time

Here is a cracking e-mail I had the joy of reading in work, here it is , in its full, unedited original state

hi dear    i emailed xbox about my problem ive gotten , ever since new second xbox got rid of first black xbox , ive had problems with red lights . now i went true two with that problem . one i caught with guarentee an other i lost out on , so after getting new 1 back after guareentee went on that 1 , it got trown inn bin like others , now i bought a new black xbox , no red lights problem , but wrecked new call of duty i bought for 55 euro , im on social welfare and thats alot money for a game on my salary cos of recession in ireland with ring marks on disc. plus im paying yearly rate for crap online , that when inn games host ending , ive being inn lots games where like zombies host ending games at round 25 , now thats ballocks , im so pissed off with how bad xbox gone , im a real big fan xbox , im wanting my yearly rate i payed for xbox back , cause im not getting the servies im paying for , ive an 8 year old son , that wont be getting an  xbox off santa again , cause how bad xbox is gone , so whats xbox intend do about my matter , slan michael

Magical

Haven't lost it

So I've had about 2 hours played time on Call of Duty Black Ops. I was very skeptical of this tittle due to it being Treyarch, and simply not liking Call of Duty 3 and World at War, their two previous attempts in the series.

However I'm enjoying Black Ops, it is well paced and I really like how killstreak rewards don't simply dominate this game. So far, Impressed.

And I've had a couple of decent scores aswell so far

Not too shabby ;)

Where does he get those wonderful toys?

Well the last two days I've been playing with this bunch of fun stuff.

My job rates me on customer surveys and when you score a top box ( over 80% satisfaction) you get "perk points". These points can then be traded in for various different vouchers. So I decided last week to just look check my points randomly and saw I had loads.

So I churned them all in for Amazon vouchers and got

• Xbox 360S 250GB
• Call of Duty Black Ops
• Batman Arkyum Asylum
• Chatpad and headset
• HDMI splitter

All for the lovely price of, da dum, nothing, completely no cost to me, marvellous.

In anticipation for its glorious arrival, I grabbed myself Fifa11, Halo Reach and Mass Effect 2 and a cool controller charger.

I sold my original Xbox about 18 months ago and to be fair didn't really miss it, and when I started playing this machine, I realized I definitely missed it. The online community is annoying no doubt but the quick pickup and play and casual gaming is a nice distraction from the hardcore life of WoW.

So far I've been playing mostly Black Ops and Fifa 11, and I'm really, really enjoying it!