Warspanner

I like Matt have been thouroughly enjoying Warhammer Online. It's addictive and highly accessible. Being an MMO fan myself, it makes a nice change to actually get involved with a game to the point that you miss it while away. So much so that I've had a couple of pints, sat down and clicked on "join server" only to find out that once again the server's full. While recently cloning our server it would seem that no bugger has moved and so we're at exactly the same point as we were a few days ago...sigh...click, click, click....sigh.

Over the moon

So, I have finally managed to get Jay into Football Manager! We've started a Premiership season as Liverpool (me) and Spurs (the big man) and currently our situation as of three games (well, two for me) is as above.

A great 4-0 win at Anfield over Villa and a solid 1-0 win away at a tricky Wigan sees me 4th with a game in hand, whilst Jay's had a win, a draw and a loss in his first three.

Watch this space for updates (such as both of us losing our jobs before Christmas)

Death Magnetic

Right, I presume that we've all found a way of hearing the new Metallica album, aye? Whether you were brave enough to risk downloading it and have Lars Ulrich possibly crawl through your telephone line and punch you in the face repeatedly or simply you have managed to pick up the various snippets and such that have been gradually released by the band themselves, if you're a Metallica fan and haven't heard it yet then you're either very disciplined or living under an internet rock.

All I can say is YEEEEEAAAAH! This is the kind of Metallica I like - not the confusing onslaught of noise that was St. Anger. Riffs flying left, right and centre, James Hetfield roaring away in some kind of blinding rage and some top, top songs. Current favourite tune: All Nightmare Long.

Perfect stuff for soothing the pain of having to watch Jay grind through Too Human! Looking forward to laying down the cash for the physical release next week (er, just in case Lars is reading of course :-)).

Too Human?

So, Jay is sitting just over <-- there playing Too Human, and looking mighty involved in the whole thing. In fact, for the most part of today it seems to have kept him rather quiet, which is unusual. Perhaps he's enjoying it!

From an observer's point, it looks fun if a little... well, repetitive. Having said that, I can't see for the life of me why it's been given such low scores at some places; it's not a classic, sure, but it still seems pretty decent.

Watch out for a review soon!