A Tuesday morning at work. Great. At least I have Spiderman 2 to look forward to later tonight. Midnight show baby! This one is gonna be good. Real good. Everyone is saying “the best comic book movie ever”. Bring it!

So Jobs previewed the next version of Mac OS X to the public yesterday, Tiger. Looks like it’s gonna be good (like I would have said anything negatively anyways). Safari is going to have its own RSS aggregator. Very nice. You are able to check out a video demo of it if ya like along with the entire keynote to watch Jobs work his magic. Also, check out Dan Gillmor’s article on Mac OS X 10.4 for a little more insight.

It’s Wednesday and that means we’re half way to the weekend. I was planning to go to Arizona this weekend but that looks like it’s gonna fall through. My girl—— finally found a place to live and she’s gonna need help moving in on Saturday. I’m ecstatic if you can’t tell. Oh well. Next time I guess.

So there was this sale on DVD at Target (go figure) last weekend and I picked up American Psycho and Torque. Haven’t checked out American Psycho yet but Torque was pretty cool. Make no mistake about it. Torque is absolute crap, but it’s really freakin’ cool crap.

I picked up a game yesterday that I’d been waiting to come out for a while, Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising. It’s a very large scale, realistic, first person shooter using modern warfare that’s suppose to compete with the Battlefield series. Let me tell you right now that this thing makes me not want to even load up Battlefield again. You get to choose what type of character you’ll be playing (rifleman, sniper, pilot, etc…) and then you get dropped into a huge world with 149 other players online where you can drive any vehicle or pilot and ship. Pure awesomeness! Let me give ya a scenario that happened yesterday when I was playing. I got into the pilot seat of AH6 Little Bird helicopter. 4 riflemen loaded up with me. I took off and was then greeted by 2 AH60 Blackhawk helicopters with two gunners each that offered me cover and escort to our designation. As soon as we got there, the two Blackhawks immediately went into cover patterns around me as I landed and let out the 4 riflemen. I then took off and helped protect the base with the 2 Blackhawks. And all of this happening with bullets, RPGs, and stinger missiles from major opposition (also controlled by real people) flying by your cockpit. Now that’s just exciting, especially when it gets pulled off so fluently and with people who play the game seriously. Bottom line… get Joint Operations.

One more thing. Gmail is still freakin’ cool. They gave me a good number of invites to send out to friends so if you want one, just send me an e-mail at roguegeek@gmail.com.

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Just because I haven’t posted in a month doesn’t mean the site is abandoned. Quite the contrary really. I’ve reworking it yet again. Maybe you’ll see something up by the end of the weekend.

I got myself a Gmail account already and it’s so freakin’ sweet. IE on Windows is rock solid with it but Safari on my Mac is still a little twitchy. It’s mostly contacts management that screws up on me. They could also add in some sort of importing functions to use your current contacts from whatever program you’re using. Other than that, it’s sweet. I don’t mind the ads at all. In fact, they’re so unintrusive and specific, I’m actually enjoying them. As soon as the service gets out of beta and goes public, grab an account.

Send me some e-mails with specific topics so I can play around with the search functions and ads. You can e-mail me at roguegeek@gmail.com. Thanx.

I was cleaning house on my AIM buddy list today. Why? I had reached the maximum of 250 buddies per list. There’s no way I have that many people I talk to so it was house cleaning time. Most of them were girls I had met through Hot Or Not or something like that. Don’t really need that anymore so… DELETED! Any, it got me thinking that I still might have my HON account active. I went to the site and, sure enough, I do. Canceled that too. Can ya believe it? I must really be planning on staying with my current girl—— for a while if I deleted all of that.

Did you guys check out the biggest bomb of 2004 yet? Looks like a big old load of crap to me. Halle Berry isn’t even that hot to really have that role to begin with.

So I’m about a month into the new name change for my blog and I’m already hating it. I need help thinking of a new one. Something that still sounds kinda generic but a lot less… feminine. Any suggestions? Seacrest out!

Unlike last year, there was no slack in software this year. That goes for all platforms including Nintendo (strange, but true).

After what I thought was the terrible Wind Wakers game, Nintendo will be releasing a real Legend of Zelda game. Thank God! We’ve had way too many years of dealing with crap Zelda games. We also have Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. I didn’t think the first one was great and I really can’t see how this one will be any better.

PS2 has some great exclusives as usual. Sly Cooper 2, Gran Turismo 4, Devil May Cry 3, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, and Grand Theft Auto: San Adreas all look to be definitely buys.

Xbox has their own laundry list of exclusives. As if Halo 2 wasn’t enough, let’s throw in Fable, Dead or Alive Ultimate, Conker: Live and Reloaded, and Jade Empire. Oh, and EA has announced an agreement to bring their games to Xbox Live and that can’t be bad.

Then there’s all of the PC games to look out for like Black & White 2, Battlefield 2, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, Matrix Online, Everquest 2,

Finally all of the other games for multiple systems like Splinter Cell 3, Metal Gear Solid 3, Driver 3, Burnout 3, Starcraft: Ghost, and Doom 3,

Yup. This year is looking to be a good gaming year. Bring on E3 2005!

Now time for the games. First off, there was a very good amount of Star Wars games to show off and the truth is everyone of them were good (usually not the case).

You remember all of the huge epic fights from the movies? The ones where hundreds of thousands of things were happening. Well you’re going to be in them and Star Wars Battlefront is going to take you there. Just imagine getting online with, say, 30 other people playing as Clone Troopers and actually fighting against 30 other people in the Clone Wars. It makes you think like you’re not the main focus of the game anymore but a interracial part in something much greater than you could imagine. The feeling is unbelievable. Throw in things like vehicles, bases, an stationary weapons you can use at any time and you have yourself a game.

Need more Star Wars? How about this? You are the ultimate solider trained by the best with access countless weapons and gadgets to aid you in the field. You move with the rest of your squad and are conditioned to do only one thing, fight. You are a Republic Commando. Check out the trailer for this one. It’s truly something to see.

Even more Star Wars? Well ok. Lucas Arts also releases the follow up to arguable the best game of 2003 with Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. I’m just starting to get through the first one but the second one looks like it’s going to be quite a treat. Lucas Arts and SOE will also be releasing the first expansion pack for the massive multiplayer online game Star Wars Galaxies later this year, Star Wars Galaxies: Jump To Lightspeed. It’s extending the virtual world of Galaxies into space with both combat and exploration. I’m very much involved in this game and this is going to be a tremendous add on that I just can’t wait for.

Yes folks. It’s time for one of the largest and definitely most fun expos of the year. Looks like I was able to break free from work and head down to the Electronic Entertainment Expo yesterday. Let me tell you, this year it was everything that E3 has been known to be and much more. Dark, loud, and exciting. I find that there are two different types of E3 events. Ones centered around new hardware and ones centered around new software. This year, there was big news in both worlds.

Probably the biggest were the announcements of both Nintendo and Sony’s handheld gaming platforms. Nintendo has their DS, a dual screen portable with graphics that rival the N64 platform. It also has wireless connectivity through 802.11b and one of the screens is touch sensitive. This is a gigantic step above the current Game Boy platform and, really, it had to be because Sony is leaping into the portable market guns blazing.

The PSP has a huge wide screen with amazing graphics that are damn near close to first generation PS2 games! On top of that, you have a control lay out that is very close to the PS2 that includes an analog stick (something the DS seriously needed). Add in USB 2.0 and wireless connectivity through 802.11b and you have yourself a serious portable gaming system. The DS will be available at the end of the year and the PSP will come to the US in Spring 2005. When do I get to put down my deposits?

Looks like Lindsay Lohan will be hosting the MTV Movie Awards in June. Sweet! It’s as if God is reading my mind. I had no idea she was getting that popular.

Yesterday, Sony unveiled the PSP, Sony’s portable gaming system to compete with Nintendo’s Game Boy. The think looks and sounds amazing. Gimmie gimmie!!!

Is anyone going to E3 this year? It might be the first time in the last 4 years that I might have to miss it for work. Sucks for me definitely. I guess I’ll see what I can do about tomorrow.