Saints Row (360)

Didn’t play for long this evening. I managed one more Rollerz mission, but had to spend much of my time building up my respect bar to allow me to take part in it. There’s not actually much that annoys me about this game, but having to keep stopping the missions to veer off and do sideline stuff irks me a bit. Surely I shouldn’t be forced into doing them?

Fusion Frenzy 2 (Demo) (360)

Hmm. This is Mario Party, only without Mario, without the actual game, none of the party, and none of the fun. You get 6 non-descript players, and a few (three in the demo) mini-games. None of those here are any good either. It’s even by the same people as Mario Party. For shame.

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

Just a brief play today. I have a new resident – Gladys the bird thing. She didn’t have a lot to say as she was unpacking. Buck seems to have vanished. His house is still there, but he’s not in it or anywhere else in the town. Aliens, probably. Either that or Nook has sold him for glue. It wouldn’t surprise me. I was only offered 55 bells today for my turnips too. He’s evil, is that racoon.

Brown’s Arctic Monkeys admission

Does anyone really actually care if politicians like “popular music” or not? Does it matter if Gordon Brown said he likes the band, then can’t name any songs? I like Editors, and even have their album, but can I name any of their tracks? No. They should just stop trying to be “down wid da kidz” and stay away from all that sort of thing. BBC NEWS | UK | Brown’s Arctic Monkeys admission

Sony: Nintendo is losing audience, not expanding it

Won’t the Sony lie-spewing machine ever stop? “And if you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months, not only does it trail the PSP but it also trails their other platforms“. Oh my. Do they even realise the rubbish they come out with sometimes? :: Sony: Nintendo is losing audience, not expanding it – Joystiq

Cooking Mama (DS)

Managed to unlock a few more things to cook, taking my total up to (I think) 62. Apparently, there are 76 in total, and I’m almost certain I’ve done all of them at least twice and taken every available “branch” to open up more options. I can only assume I need “all silvers” or “all golds” or something to get the rest. Oh, and cutting up meat is hard. Bah.

Wario Ware Touched! (DS)

Gosh. Not played this in aaaages. I found it in my big case o’ DS games when putting some other DS cards away, and after a load of Cooking Mama, I decided I wanted more of something similar. Imagine my surprise when I realised I hadn’t actually played all of the game previously. In fact, I hadn’t even got the high scores in about half of the characters’ sections, so I set about righting that wrong. The robot’s levels were …

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

Turnippage! Spent around half a million bells on turnips, at 90 bells each. Once again, I’ve left them all round Cheese, mainly outside my house and on the path near Nook’s. Many of my animals were in bed, so I couldn’t talk to them, but those who were not were complimented by me as it is Yay Day today. Compliments consisted of “j00 r0XX0r!”, “Burgermoo!” and “I wish you dead” amongst other things.

Simon the Sorcerer (Mac)

OK, so technically it isn’t a Mac game. It’s actually the DOS “talkie” version, being played on my MacBook under ScummVM. But anyway. So I explored a few places, found a ladder, tried to nick a broom from a witch, spoke to some woodworm and then reached a troll on a bridge. It has, of course, been hilarious so far.

Cooking Mama (DS)

Having exhausted all of the recipes available to me, I set about finding others. You see, sometimes when cooking you get to open up other recipes along the way, like turning beef curry into beef stew instead. Found a few more, and now have about 55 or so available.

Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)

Oh noes! I didn’t play yesterday, so missed out on possible turnip sellage! I could have set the clock back, but I forgot to do so. Luckily, then, Nook was giving a decent price this morning – 192 bells. That’s enough to double my money this week, so I put half in the post office and left the rest in my pockets for buying more turnips tomorrow. As for other things going on in Cheese, Chief has moved out (already), …

Saints Row (360)

After a few more (accidental, in one case) hostage “missions”, I set about doing the next two Westside Rollerz missions. The first was a race, of sorts. I didn’t have to win, however – I just needed to get close to the Rollerz and taunt them enough to make them use a nitro boost. Which was rigged to make them explode, of course. Obviously. Then I had to attack some garage owned by Donnie, and Lin (a Saint, but undercover) …

Cooking Mama (DS)

More cooking today. Recipes this evening (cooked whilst watching Celebrity Masterchef, bizarrely enough) included curried pork and rice, chilli prawns, hand-rolled sushi, and some strange macaroni dish. ACES!