It looks like the guys at Maxis - Will Wright to be exact - have this new game Spore, which looks tight.  Take a look at the demo video here or see the official Spore Website.  Looks like this will be out latter part of 2006.

 

Look out Sims and Civ, here comes Spore!

Finally, i have made my debut on the famous all inclusive Xbox Live (special thanks to Major Nelson for the gift after participating as the continually massacred Dead or Alive 4 chick on Xbox's Mystery Gamer Feb 28th).  This was immediately followed by a complete annihilation by a few chipmunk-voiced 13 year-olds from Nebraska.  Had i known that my Halo 2 skills were so rusty, i would've brushed up on some 'yo mama' jokes.

 

Due to the graphic nature of last night's Live events, there may not be much of a change in my online gamer participation.  But I'm also afraid to admit that it's taken me more then 6 months to rid myself of the evil Sith in the Platinum Hit Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic which i think was released sometime in the late 80s and, although it's Xbox Live Compatible, that just means it can download patches.  And every time I throw the controller down in tedious disgust that Jedi voice in the back of my head prompts me to use the force just a little longer.  I don't know how many more +2 modifiers i can handle.

 

Bottomline:  my poor sniping skills combined with a neurotic addiction to complete an outdated game have crippled me from truly experiencing Xbox Live Bliss.  Maybe i'm just doomed to play Zelda on Gameboy and live a life of video game solitude.

 

Oh, yeah.  I forgot to mention that I'm still 360-less, which is a mockery to the enitre family name. 

 

Don't cry for me Redmond.  The truth is I'm not ready to know you.

 

So, I've been wondering.  In this day and age is it kosher to register for your wedding at a single store sole for one particluar item?  Even if this one particular item isn't even a household appliance and it may even have the possibility of infringing on a solid and heallthy relationship?

 

While talking with some friends the other day, i firmly took the stance that registering for an Xbox 360 for my own wedding was ludicrous.  Unless i saw a 360 at macy's or Bed, Bath, and Beyond it was thoroughly beyond me for sure.  How could a man with any integrity register for an item whose relationship could rival  his ladies?

 

Then i got home and mentioned the hair-brained idea to the wife-to-be.  To my suprise, she didn't think it was so hair-brained after all.  Far be it from me to refrain from a gift heartily worth giving but to register for toys on your wedding?  what's next - tube socks and top ramen?  is there nothing sacred left that can not and should not be consumed for the ultimate event of a lifetime? 

 

Where are all the scruples?  Friends, neighbors, countrymen, spare no expense in this economically governed society to burn through the KitchenAid $400 mixer and look kindly on the $300 Tyson vacuum, bot of which you'll see our registry, but tell me where we draw the line??  

 

Oh, and we're also registered here and here - let me know what you think!  :)