Anticipating Perfect Dark: XBLA

Ah, Perfect Dark; is there any hope of you ever making it to XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade)? "This winter" they say... It's obvious by their Twitter that it's already playable! But some argue that they don't want it to clash with any big-name releases... Let's look at last week's XBLA releases, shall we?
KrissX for 800 points, which is a word-friggin-puzzle game

And next week we have Chime, which is a rip-off of Tetris and Lumines.

And yes, I see Chime being fairly fun, but it's 400 points. If Perfect Dark is going to be 1200 points (which most people have guessed), purchase of one would actually boost sales of the other, considering MS point cards come in intervals of 1600 and 4000. And being non-profit, it'll all go to charity anyway. Why not release it this week? Think of the children!

So what is holding back Perfect Dark: XBLA? I haven't the foggiest. But RARE will hopefully get it out before a tantalizingly-awesome Deal of the Week comes around. Luckily I already have Splosion Man and Portal, or a guaruntee the 1600 points I have would be gone.

Traditionally in the UK, Winter ends on February 1st or 2nd. But good ol' RARE, they'll surely stretch it until the official ending of Winter on the 21st of March, leaving March 17th as the last available Wednesday to release on. That leaves up to 8 unnanounced Deals of the Week between now and PDXBLA's release. Make your time, RARE, you're alienating the fanbase by having no release date after all this time.

Oh who am I kidding? You show us renders like this, I think we'd follow you til next winter.

If you're going to wait that long though, a facemapper would be nice. Preferably without requiring that Vision camera.

Oh, Hello Again!

Why hello blog! I've forgotten you for a while, haven't I? Well why haven't I posted lately? The computers finally got GIMP, so I actually had to do assignments. But now I'm back.

Admittedly, that's not all that held me back from posting. I also was waiting to think of another reason to use "Chicken" as a blog tag. Hopefully I can use it every blog and make it my most used tag!

I recently played through "The Simpsons Game", loved it. I'll likely review it tomorrow. Fantastic humor, loved every second even though it was a bit clunky.

I also recently rented Assassin's Creed II. It's pretty sweet so far. I haven't got very far in the story because I've become addicted to hiding in haystacks, jumping out, stabbing people, and bringing them back to the haystack with me. A lot of fun, since I'm in the magical time where I have a sword and the guards do not.

Also having a touch of self-inflicted girl trouble, but self-censorship on the net and all. Maybe when I can look back on it calmly I'll post about it. Let's just say I'm an obsessive freak and leave it at that.

And I'm open for game suggestions. I'm sending back The Simpsons Game, and since I recently acquired a PS2 I'm likely gonna give Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memories a go. I kind of enjoyed the GBA version, and I need to complete that part of the story before I move on to 358/2 Days. And possibly Birth by Sleep if I can get access to a PSP.

But anyway, since I've gotten out of women for a little while, I've obviously moved back to games. So expect some reviews. Especially Heavy Rain if I can get my hands on it.