Happy Thanksgiving
I hope everyone has a great holiday and if you live outside of the US -- goooo Thursday!In the meantime, the folks at GameShark are running a Black Friday sale for the store. I'm not going to pimp stuff I don't own/use so --25% off the Fender Stratocaster replica is a nice deal. I own the Fender -- it's normally a $300 piece of fake guitar equipment but it's truly a replica guitar. It's heavy, real wood, it's gorgeous and would make a sweet Christmas gift if you have money to burn and a Rock Band fan in the hous

Todd Does Dragon Age
Todd's on vacation right now so I'll post the link to his well thought out DA review -- this is the PC review and we'll post some console thoughts later. (Boo console version)As for me, I'm slogging though King's Bounty Armored Princess and it's basically a lot like King's Bounty. A few tweaks here and there but it's still addictive, but also pretty much the same game sans the dragon pet. At least so far.Thanks again for all of the emails re: Mary. She's fine now and back to being her lovely self. We STILL don't know what caused the reaction, but hopefully will after her trip in Januar

GO BUCKS
8-1 vs Michigan just astounds me. Yes, Michigan is down -- way down -- but rivalry games are just different. I was at Ohio State during MANY a loss to the Wolverines. I was in school during part of the "Cooper" years. Young Michigan fans think it's bad now?Funny thing about that -- John Cooper was 2-10-1 against Michigan. JT is 8-1.In other words -- we still owe you and next year it won't get any easier.Some people talk about feeling bad for UM or how this is no longer a rivalry. Screw that nonsense.After a shocking loss to Purdue OSU has outscored its opponents 155-48, beat two ranked teams and have had 5 straight games with at

Bioshock 2 Special Edition
Let's open the curtain and see what they won, Bob!The BioShock 2 Special Edition carries a suggested retail price of $99.99 for Xbox 360 and PS3 and $89.99 for Games for Windows LIVE and is limited to a single-production run. The edition contains the following:· Vinyl 180g LP with BioShock orchestral score· Audio CD with BioShock 2 orchestral score· Three vintage Rapture advertisement posters (rolled)· BioShock 2

NCAA 10 -- Some Evaluation
Today the embargo lifts so I can talk a bit more about NCAA Basketball 10.My overall feeling thus far is that the series continues to make some steps with this release but it's still not a prime time ready franchise. There are a few things that I think a basketball game needs to model reasonably well in order for it to have staying power.You need fouls. Fouls need to matter, and you need to see a reasonable amount of free throws, particularly if the penetration/low post game is a big part of a team's game plan. If all you do is shoot 3's you won't see the line very much.AI substitution patterns need to make sense. Subbing when