Finally...

I promise not to end this post with the words, "You know what? Forget it." To both of you who read this once a month, I apologize about ending that way twice in a row.

I just get so unsure of myself, like, "Am I getting through to the people? Will President Obama and the corporate executives who analyze my awesome blog be satisfied that I am always right?" And then I get all self conscious about whether or not anyone cares about my steamy affairs with world famous supermodels, and I back off right at the end of my post.

Anyway, as of today, I, and all other Playstation 3 owners, can finally play this...




Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City is a bundle of GTA IV expansion packs: The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. These have been available for a while for XBox 360 owners, but they are now available for the PS3 for $4o bucks in stores or for $20 each on the Playstation Network. Yes, they still take place in the majestic but crazy world of Liberty City, and they involve characters from the original game.

The reason the expansion packs were available for the XBox for so long is that Microsoft paid money for the exclusivity, which just ran out. Microsoft owns everything, including your car and my laptop, which they said they want back. Nice blogging with you folks.

We are going to the top, cousin.

Uncharted 2= Better Than That Crap You Play

Nate is the new Indy.

For those of you in the know, this is your rallying cry as a serious video gamer. (If you are a Wii gamer, you're at the wrong blog- try Nick Jr.'s website or some soccer mom's blog.) For Playstation 3 owners, the Uncharted series is the best intellectual property of the current console generation.

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007) and its outstanding sequel, Among Thieves (2009), have set the bar for video game production values. Their third person gunplay and platforming action were nearly flawless, and their story/ presentation were second to none. Playing Among Thieves, I often wish I could take a screenshot and frame it, so beautiful is the lighting and color, even when I'm playing multiplayer.

The hero, Nate Drake, is pictured above, flanked on the left by Among Thieves heroine Chloe Frazer. (Chloe is the one on the left.) If you want more evidence of the artistry, check out the embedded trailer for Among Thieves.

That's right, a teaser trailer for this game is that good. And, yes, the music from the trailer is in the game, composed by Greg Edmonson ("Firefly").

Nate Drake, for me, has become who Indian Jones should be and was until sometime around 12:01 am on May 22, 2008. Yeah, I can't remember specifically when he lost it, but it was sometime right around then.

Here We Go

Hey, both of you who will ever read this, I'm just getting started. I love to write, but I don't do enough of it. I've got to write more often to exercise this lazy brain of mine.

Yeah, I'll often be discussing cinema and it's slow, younger brother, "Hollywood Cinema." Just kidding; Hollywood features a ridiculous amount of talent, and it always has. The point is that I'm the type of person who watches DVD/Blu-ray commentaries and reads entire books about one film. If you're not, then you're probably at the wrong blog.

The ultimatum is this: my blog will be about movies and videogames and whatever else I feel like writing about. You're going to hear a lot about the X-Files book I'm trying futilely to write. And you get to do it all in glorious, proper/grammatically correct English.

Peace,

ValkyrieSDF1