I’m not going to talk about comics today. Honest! My awesome wife (who is awesome, don’tcha know) spoiled me like a week old egg for Christmas and we’ve spent the last few days doing pretty much absolutely nothing besides playing them. (And yes I kept making comics, no slacking off around here…but I gotta do something when I’ve stuffed up Plant-Man’s arm for the fifth time in a row GOD WHAT I WOULDN’T DO TO BE ABLE TO DRAW HANDS THAT DON’T LOOK LIKE OVEN MITTS)

First up, the Wii. I didn’t like the machine back when I borrowed one early in the year but now I get it. It helps if you have games that don’t suck like Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games. That thing cheesed me off big time. It was like an interactive exercise in the effects of negative reinforcement. The whole premise was ridiculous anyway because Sonic the Hedgehog should just win everything.

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga: These games don’t really rely on graphical showoffiness (that’s a new word Firefox, deal with it) so it’s just as good on the Wii as it is on the 360 or the PS2 or even the DS. A lot of fun and each of the levels is broken up into tiny chunks that match how much ‘free’ time I have to play pretty well. I’m working through the prequels at the moment and saving the good movies till last. The flying levels suck though.

Super Mario Galaxy: For some reason I’m not digging this. Maybe I just don’t have time for another action adventure game right now and I’ll get into it later. Blah blah blah princess has been kidnapped blah blah blah spherical worlds blah blah blah. I’ll get back to you on this one.

Boom Blox: Wow! This is a fantastic game. It’s the first game I’ve played on it that feels like something you just couldn’t get on any other system. It’s like Jenga but without having to clean up or have friends. Tons and tons of physics-based puzzles and great multiplayer games. It’s rare as hen’s teeth but totally worth the hunt.

De Blob: This is the big surprise of the lot. It’s a 3D platformer where you paint the world with different colours and mix them up to make new colours. It’s fun, presented with flourish and just exudes style from every frame. Plus it reminds me of Wizball and anything that reminds me of Wizball is aces in my book.

OH by the way if you have a Wii and you haven’t got component cables then sell your body fluids and go and get them. I seriously thought my Wii was broken before I plugged those suckers in. Ouch!

We also bought Guitar Hero 3 to get the extra guitar, and Lordy is it a lot harder then World Tour. Some great tracks though, I always wanted to play Cherub Rock. Can’t stand playing the single player though, it’s just way too hard to be remotely fun.

While picking up Guitar Hero 3 I also grabbed some old PlayStation games. The original Need for Speed is still the best one. It’s almost like Out Run with the long sweeping roads…shame what happened to the franchise since. It’s so weird playing a racing game without analog controls.

Recommend me some video games! I always want to know what people are playing…

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