Clearly we have another day of gaming goodness upon us. Word has it that Demu added 15 SNES games early this morning, one of them being Bronkie The Bronchiasaurus where you control a cute little dinosaur in an action/platform as he learns about his asthma. Now is that a classic or what? I never got to play an health educational games as a kid - what a bunch of crap. Where was the "don't get the flu" game or something like that?

Since our Google ads have been screwed for so long (Angry looks at LD and Lone Lee) I guess I can talk about World of Warcraft again. My character is up to level 48 and I'm already wondering what I'm going to do as I get closer to 60... I mean theres no more goal in the game. I've already lost some interest in the game because I got my mount back at level 40, and now I'm just working hours a day to get my number to 60... It would be cool if there was some other purpose - some mission - some things - that I could accomplish. Hopefully the new expansion pack for the game will add a little spice.

The new programming/forum for Demu has begun! I have some bad news however about the design. It seems the person I chose was an ass as he is trying to charge me double to intergrate the new design with the current PHP code, and then $35 per HTML page (he only wants to provide the uncut PSD files). It was in my request for proposal that the bids would already include both of these services so I told him to @%#$. I've filed to cancel the contract and will be leaving him the worst feedback I can. I'm already in the process of selecting another bidder so I hope to have the new design work stated sometime next week.

I've been looking forward to the new game Gun for some time now. I loved Outlaws, and I like western movies - so I thought it would be another great game. Unfortunately, Gun is nothing like Outlaws (Is Outlaws abandonware btw?, I don't think LucasArts has sold it for years...). Gun is a lousy FPS plain and simple - they seem to be trying to make some hybrid FPS like Max Payne, but didn't put much work into it. So bad gameplay would equal great graphics and sound right? Wrong, the graphics in Gun are rough and I really don't think much work was put into them. The sound and music is even worse - it's better to play it on mute. Bottom line - pass up Gun and just load up a copy of Outlaws.

The second game I've been looking forward to for awhile now is Shadowgrounds. I'm not sure what to qualify it as... some sort of Action/RTS hybrid played in the third person. You control a mechanic/soldier at a space station on a planet that has become infested by monsters. The gameplay, graphics, and sound are all amazing and I would highly recommend that you try the game. Unforunately, it became stale for me as I just don't care about blasting away waves of monsters in the third person... but if thats your sort of thing I really think you will enjoy it.

A little update now on the Demu/Abandonware Ring code progress. Funds have been escrowed so work can now begin on Demu's updates which will include a joint forum for both Demu and AR. As soon as the Demu updates are done I will be offering jobs to the Designer & Coder to come over here and give us a long needed update.

Why didn't anyone tell me a new season of Stargate Atlantis had started? I'm struggling to catch up now :(

Updates ready. Go enjoy.