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Wednesday notes

- Well, now I guess we can step away from the events at Penn State and get back to normal events.

- Last night I had a chance to finish up the campaign for inFamous 2 (for the record, I was a good guy.)

I have to say that I was surprised at the ending and the choices that the game allowed you to make.  Definitely one of the more surprising endings that I can recall in quite some time.   Not sure that I'll be going back to complete the game as an evil bastard now, but it has been fun to run around the city zapping street musicians... damn harmonica players.

- With the NBA Players association deciding not to take the owners last offered deal, and seeing highlights of an exhibition game last night, I wonder why the players don't just start a barnstorming league at this point.  Create 6 or 8 teams of superstars and travel the country playing in non-NBA owner owned venues and build up the public interest in seeing them play real games.

Sure there would be high costs involved with doing something like this, but right now, all you have is people thinking that rich people are not happy about how much money they are getting.

Give people some games (for very good prices) and they might think a bit better of you.

- Considering my run on all things sequels in gaming lately, I'm having a really hard time with buying Skyrim this week.  Uncharted 2 is sitting next to my TV begging to be complete, along with Killzone 2, Resistance 2, and other games from the past few years like Oblivion, and addons to games I have already finished like Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Retribution and Episodes from Liberty City for Grand Theft Auto 4.

Perhaps waiting a few weeks for prices to continue to drop would be for the best.

- As part of the most recent Humble Bundle I had a chance to start playing two indie games that were new to me, The Binding of Isaac and Blocks that Matter.

The Binding of Isaac is definitely a strange game with a very twisted story and plays as a combination of the Legend of Zelda and Robotron.  For the price, it's very interesting, and incredibly challenging.   You only get one life, and when you die... it's back to the beginning of the game. Unforgiving would be one way to describe it.

Blocks that Matter has been a very fun puzzle type game to play as you acquire various blocks with your character and re-assemble them to escape from each level.  The trick is that when you reconstruct your blocks, you have to do so in the form of a tetromino.   That adds an interesting challenge level to the game as well.

You also get Voxatron in it's current alpha state as part of the bundle, and all you have to do is spend more than $5.10.  Well worth it for those titles.

- Have a good rest of the day.