ShadowReality

It’s the 28th today and in less than 24 hours GTA IV will be hitting the shelves all around the world. Anticipation for this title has been extremely high with the first all handful of reviews all giving this game the rare 10/10 rating and stating that it not only lives up to the hype, but exceeds it.

Well this morning I found something fantastic in my Inbox, I’ll give you a clue, the subject was “Your Amazon.co.uk order has dispatched”. That’s right, not only has Amazon managed to process my order properly this time, but they are actually sending the game ahead of time so it reaches me on the day of release, happy days are here again.

Recently my new graphics card has been playing up a little bit when it boots up into windows, I’m pretty sure it’s just a driver problem but I really hate it when crap like this starts to happen with some of the newer gfx cards on the market, i suppose that is the price you pay for new technology.

Other than that small hitch I am really loving my new computer it’s been really fantastic whilst I have been making and editing some new youtube videos and has made me want to be a bit more creative where as in the past I might of not wanted to because it would be too much effort.

This week I joined in NoobToob’s Community Podcast to cover Sloth and even edited it together, and it really was nice to go through that process and join in on some discussion, I have really quite embraced being part of the forums over there recently as it’s good gaming with fellow gamers that are passionate about games. I’ve added an audio link to the podcast below.

Other than that I really have been in a bit of a gaming funk, pretty much playing bits and pieces here and there but not really settling on any one game, I think mainly because of my anticipation of GTA4 next week. I know I’m going to be playing that a hell of a lot, and have been trying to stay away from as many spoilers as possible.

But one thing I did try this week was the new Mario Kart on the Wii and I must say it really surprised me how true to the franchise it remained and how the Wii remote and Racing wheel was so easy to use, I didn’t need any time at all to get used to it, within my first race I was already firing off red shells and doing stunts over the jumps for extra speed bursts. That kind of intuitiveness in games really makes me happy. I really should save up for a Wii sometime.