I got into the RIFT beta!

Wont say anything aside from that though.

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A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is in so many words, fantastic.  At first I thought it was going to be a Mega Man clone, which I wouldn't mind in the least.  Mega Man is very near and dear to my heart but as I played this I realized it's nothing like my beloved Mega Man and that is perfectly fine.  However, this game is very much a Gunstar Heroes clones, and a very good one at that.  There are however some evolutions as far as the game goes.  The game is another one of those 2.5d games, where it all the game is happening in 2d, but it is rendered in 3d.  The game looks really good.  It plays well, and to keep this short I fucking love it.  If you want to pick up a game for under 10$ that will give you a few good hours of gameplay go ahead and look it up on steam.  It's 8.99 as of the time of posting and most certainly worth it.  I haven't found a co-op mode though so I think you're going to be stuck playing this solo.  However with any luck this game does the indie developer well and they can return with a sequel offering up such things as multi-player co-op.  Anywho, great game.  Worth the money.  Especially if you liked Gunstar Heroes.

I've been busy. Not playing many games.

Don't get me wrong.  I've been playing.  World of Warcraft like a god damned addict.  It saddens me that MMO's can hook me like this.

I got half way through Phoenix Wright, want to finish it but I find it hard to play my DS sitting around at my own house. 

I made out like a bandit during the steam Christmas sale, and it saddens me that I don't think I've put more than 2-3 hours into the nearly 30 games I bought during it.

I'll be sitting aside some time this week to finish Final Fantasy XIII (yes, I bought it on release and I still haven't managed to push myself to it's finale) and then a battle or two more on Valkyria Chronicles (I bought the sequel, but I never finished the first).  A battle or two on Disgaea for PSP, and then move on to some of my newer (to me) games. 

 Mini Review: I have however made time for one game in the past month.  Super Meat Boy.  This game is so damned awesome that if you don't have it you may want to consider rethinking your priorities in life.  It's a very finely tuned platformer so don't bother with your Xbox Dpad (unless of course you have one of the new ones that pop out).  I've been playing this on steam with my Xbox controller, using the analog.  It works well enough, I'd still prefer a good old SNES pad, or PS controller (pre-crappy triggers of course).