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I’ve been playing LoTRO lately and its great, except the fact that sometimes it can be hard to find the quest items and locations. And the Jump animations haven’t changed since Beta.

I bought Guitar Hero the other day and since then I haven’t stopped playing it, its so damn addictive!

So far I’ve beaten it twice on easy, Medium is more fun but the “boss” battles are harder (well duh)

Now I actually use my Playstation 2, before I bought Guitar Hero I never, and I mean NEVER used my PS2.

But don’t get my wrong, I still hate Sony.

Last night while I was trying to get to sleep I thought about an old game I used to play, “Star Wars Galaxies”.

So today I reactivated my account and started playing, after I figured out where the hell I was, I made my way to some monsters so I can figure out how to attack things.

My first attempt was bad, I almost died - luckily I remembered Jedi’s have Force Run, I ran off and got my health back, after that I tried again with success.

But after playing for an hour, I just couldn’t get the hang of playing that game, the combat is so different to what it used to be, and to what I’m used to in WoW.

I just have to say, That game is still a piece of shit, and will always be a piece of shit, nothing can change my mind now.

I regret reactivating my account on there almost immediately - scratch that, I regret it the moment I even thought about it.

Some people say games cause violence, others say they don’t, Well i say some games cause violence.

For example, my little brother wanted me to help with his Lego Star Wars game, he wanted to finish Episode III so bad he wouldn’t stop bugging me, So i decided to help him with it.

After getting to the last level i wanted to kill someone (But i didn’t so don’t tase me bro), anyway after about 5 tries later we finally completed the level.

But it doesn’t stop there, while taking a break from that shitty level we did a few levels on Episode 1, and the part with the pod-racers also made me want to kill someone (But again, I didn’t).

We finally finished all the levels he had left, and after all that I had a mighty bid headache from all that damn frustration, that game need a warning on it, “May cause violence”.

I reactivated my SWG account today and started an Entertainer, its actually pretty fun just dancing and playing music, then tried out my old Bounty Hunter - kinda boring…

The collection thing is just “WTF”, I mean they tell you to kill 100+ creatures, its kinda lame…

Well, my Stormtrooper armour is coming along great, almost finished just have to do the helmet and a few other things.

And believe it or not but I’ve started playing World of Warcraft again, and I’ve finally hit level 60 - amazing!.

Launched Steam today and remembered that it was the 11th here meaning its the 10ths in the USA, release of the Orange Box.

So I waited for the files to decrypt or whatever they had to do and then starting playing, I must say it’s actually pretty damn cool, I didn’t stop playing until the credits came up on the screen.

Heres a YouTube video of my favorite level.

As we draw closer to the release of the Orange Box, I started thinking about buying it, so I checked the price at my favorite game store GAME,
and was stunned at the price they have it listed for, $99 dollars.

Now before I say what I think, lets take a look at the price of it on Steam, $49 US dollars,
now who in the right mind would pay $99 when they can buy it on Steam for $49USD? better yet, $45USD if you pre-order it.

You could say it costs more because of the conversion from USD to AUD, but that would bring it to $55AUD,
It seems GAME like to overprice things a little too much, 60 or even 70 would be fine, but $99? I’d rather buy it on Steam.