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not much to write about from this past weekend on the account that my right foot started to hurt…again, and i stayed home. whats the dilly yo? should i go see a podiatrist or something? i need a wheelchair. i did get to meet miller friday nite for din at danal. did you know theres a second floor? thats like wow…i never knew. ok, thats about it for the recap. everything else is pretty much halo halo halo…

so even tho i didnt do alot, i did learn alot of new things over the weekend. like really enlightening things. ive been watching arrested development since episode one, but i had absolutely no idea david cross played tobias fünke. no really, it shouldve been obvious in hindsight, with you know…the intro credits and all. i think the moustache just threw me off. and on top of his role in arrested development, i also found out that he did voice acting for halo 2. word’em up! hes apparently one of the marines that runs around and gets killed. so after i found out this bit of info, i was curious to see who else was in the halo 2 voice acting cast. not only did bungie get david cross, but they also got ron perlman (hellboy) as lord hood, orlando jones as a marine sergeant, and laura prepon (that 70s show) and michelle rodriguez (girlfight) as female marines. wow…rock on.

prologue: yea, more geeking today…word. i ran to four…yea, four stores looking for warhammer 40k: dawn of war after work yesterday. i swear, who are these stores buyers? hi, id like to stock my store with…hmm…5 copies. yea, that should be adequate. you fuck, i hate you.

anyhoo, the game rocks. im still trying to fig out how to input custom banners and badges. otherwise my space marine chapter, the orichalcyon: divine forge, are oot and aboot and kicking ass. still wish tho that i could somehow customize the game with my specialized space marine chapter, the seraphim (read: females in space marine armour).

ASIDE
oh, and m…smallville totally rocked. rocked you like a hurricane. lana got naked…like alot.

word, big news for morrowind fans out there. ign reported today that bethesda softworks officially confirmed the development of elder scrolls iv: oblivion. this is rockin’ news, as elder scrolls iii: morrowind was arguably one of the finest rpgs, ever. the realm of morrowind was ridiculously expansive (morrowind was just an island. it wasnt even the frickin’ main continent), and the amount of detail which went into everything in the game…races, cultures, history (you cant even imagine the depth), religions, and social structures was absolutely staggering. im not usually the hardcore gamer (anymore anyhoo), but morrowind had me up for months. so while doom 3 didnt necessarily get me to upgrade my system, something like elder scrolls iv just might.

> elder scrolls iv: oblivion (via ign)
> elder scrolls website

its like tekken day yo…woo. if you havent been religiously keeping tabs on the development of tekken 5, why not? its gonna be rockin’ yo. the official tekken 5 sites been updated a number of times since the last tekken post, featuring most of the playable characters now. the only (obvious) ones still missing from the character previews are lee chaolan, lei wulong, nina williams, kuma, and heihachi. ign incidentally also has a slew of new screenshots of the game in action, showing off the new character models and costumes. and over on tekken zaibatsu, not only do they have preview pics of the aforementioned missing characters, as well as a few character story descriptions, but they also have a preview pic of what appears to be heihachi standing amongst flames wearing a helmet with horns and a mane. badass yo…maybe heihachis channeling ogre/toshin.

> official tekken 5 site
> new tekken 5 screenshots (via ign)
> tekken 5 updates (via tekken zaibatsu)

today gets to be gaming day, just because im random like that. i love games, you know that. im just not as hardcore as i used to be, pumping $10 worth of quarters into arcade machines weekly and rockin’ the computer and console games 24/7. ah…those were the days.

ECHOES
first up are new movies and artwork for the sequel to metroid prime…metroid prime 2: echoes. two of the movies showcase samus in action, wailing on little defenseless bugs and fauna of a foreign ecosystem, while the third shows off some of the conceptual artwork behind echoes, including the new dark enemies as well as the dark samus. wooha.

FABLE
second up is a title that i just recently read about…peter molyneux’s fable. personally, i love open-ended rpgs that essentially let you roam the world. i rocked thru morrowind with 10 different characters, each a little different from their predecessor. so reading fables premise definitely had me interested. its morrowind on a completely different scale…where anything you want to do, you can do. and everything you can do, can and will affect how people perceive you in the game. you can choose to walk down any path of life you want…whether its to be good, evil, sadistic, hulking, scrawny, fighter, magic-user, hairy, well-groomed, tattooed, single, married, divorced, monster slayer, or chicken-kicker. you can do anything…which is just nuts.

“…you’ll find chickens you can kick. Man alive, I can’t pass up the opportunity to punt a chicken. Build up your strength and you can punt it further. You can even use magic to assist in your distance kick. Don’t worry, kicking chickens is apparently legal within city limits, so you can kick one right in front of a guard without repercussion.“

you can also decapitate enemies and play soccer with their heads…amongst other things. the game is definitely ambitious, and its looking pretty good at meeting their lofty goals. and while im hoping tho that its not just for the xbox, ill still be waiting to see this game in action…

WARHAMMER 40K
i also spied my roomie rockin’ the warhammer 40k: dawn of war beta last nite, and the game looked absolutely ridiculous. his eldar army was roaming the bombed-out streets, taking on ork troops and pink(?) space marines. the game is definitely the spiritual descendant of starcraft, which is pretty apt because starcraft was almost certainly influenced by the warhammer 40k universe. i was waiting for fonz to bring out the badass motherfucker himself, the eldar avatar (i painted one for myself back in high school)…but a game bug or something seemed to prevent him from making one. fuckers. anyhoo, definitely a game to watch out for. warhammer 40k is complete badass.

> metroid prime 2: echoes videos (via ign)
> fable preview (via ign)
> warhammer 40k: dawn of war beta (via ign)
> dawn of war

satanists rejoiced as the long-anticipated doom 3 has finally hit the shelves, and ign has a hands-on. ign takes a look at how doom 3‘s evolved from its predecessor, changing from a run-and-gun to more of a thriller. i spied my roomie fonz creeping his way thru freaky dark halls last night, shotgunning zombies and imps. the graphics looked pretty sick, and its a significant jump from the its predecessor, doom 2. i still remember interning at an office the summer after my senior year of high school, and a group of us interns had set up doom 2 stations and played deathmatches incessantly during lunch breaks. ah…those were the days. anyhoo, i may get the game, but im still not sure how my geforce 4 would perform. fonz was sporting an fx card, and the graphics looked pretty sweet at max settings (but at a reasonable resolution), so maybe my geforce 4 would be able to handle it. i really just want to see the revamped cyberdemon…

> doom 3 hands-on (via ign)
> doom 3 website