Ah, holidays. 2 weeks of not having to deal with customers. Good stuff.

To celebrate this event, we went and bought ourselves a PS3. Seemingly unnecessary, we justified a second console with the twin virtues of “it’s a cheap BluRay player” and “Metal Gear Solid 4” - the latter of which is a convincing argument all by itself even if it has been delayed *again*.

It came with Virtua Tennis 3 which is a steaming pile of turd, but we also picked up Folklore and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, both of which are awesome. The former is a quirky adventure in a Netherworld populated by odd little faery Folk, while the latter is a very competent Tomb Raider clone with some excellent ‘Cover and Fire’ shooting action thrown in, along with a rocking good storyline.

Speaking of which - the move toward solid story lines in games beyond “go kill the bad guys, quick!” is really making me a happy camper. Story lines are really getting involved, with intricate cutscenes drawing you into the game. Love it.

We also hired and completed Call of Duty 4 which again had an excellent story and was great fun to play through.

I’ve also been writing a good deal of music - more on that later.