It’s been a while since I’ve been on, and knowing the lack of fans, I’m sure I wasn’t missed. Either way I’m back, and as the title says I’m all outta gum. Makes me sad. Onto current gaming affairs, I’ll begin with my gaming update, Super Smash Bros. Brawl style.

As of it’s release day, March 9, Nintendo totals sales to around 1.4 million, becoming one of the fastest selling games for the Nintendo Wii. It garnished scores up to 4 out of 5 ratings, and a mass of fans have cried out with joy over this game, me included. With characters ranging from Kirby, Mario, and Captain Falcon, with hidden and new entries in the series, like Solid Snake, Wolf of Star Fox fame, and even Meta Knight from the Kirby series. With new items, such as the Smash Ball, allows the character to unleash a devastating final move, and the Assist Trophies, items that send a character on the field to attack your enemies with sometimes powerful attacks. With the introduction of the adventure mode Subspace Emissary , this game in the Smash Bros. series has a ton of amazing new features and characters, expect a review from me soon.

In recent events, my step sister had another performance last night with her new band, Ashley Austin and Southern Rule at the Back Porch Grill in Grapevine, Texas if you didn’t know that I resided in Texas. They were amazing, except for one show boater, but besides that they did great. If you haven’t heard of them you should definitely check them out here.

Leave some comments and join the fan club, it’s free at the moment, just go see them, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.

In other news, I’ve done some searching and found some worth while information, including Mass Effect 1 and 2 coming to the PS3, which I think might do an amazing job at but my hopes for ME being an Xbox Exclusive seems to be shot if the rumors come true. Capcom is apparently in works with Dead Rising 2 for multiple consoles, including PS3, once again destroying the Xbox Exclusive rules. Those ideas would be fairly decent, though once again break the exclusivity rule and that just ticks me off, the idea that once upon a time Microsoft claimed that these games and any sequels would be exclusives only, which made the idea that owning a 360 would be a good idea based on it’s content, such as Mass Effect, Dead Rising, and Halo 3, though I do know that one will only be for 360, unless Bungie decides to change that, be an independent company now.

My final word on this blog today is this message to Harmonix and Activision. When you milk a product for what you believe it’s worth, the product goes stale very quick, and with the release of Guitar Hero: On Tour for the DS, I think you’re hitting that mark. The concept is original and may be innovative in terms of using the DS but with the low blow you’ll receive from Aerosmith and most likely this one, the party game of choice might be switched very soon.

I realized just a few days ago that I have neglected my blogging duties. I guess with recent events, it slipped my mind to write something every now and then. Oh well, it’s in the past and now here I am once again, alive, refreshed and full of….. words and phrases that are stringed together to make thoughts in blog form.

As of 4 days ago, I finally reached the end of Assassin’s Creed. I am missing 11 achievements for the 360, but besides the fact that I don’t think getting all the flags will serve me, (if I collected them all, what would I do? Throw a flag party?) so I finished my first of many runs through the awesome game. With an ending that signifies a sequel, I’ve been pushed to search for any leaking info on the next AC title. So far, I’ve only turned up info on a PC release and the prequel for the DS. Those and a few tips on how to make numero 2 better, some I can agree with others not so much. Below I’ll post a like to the ideas, so just in case someone from Ubisoft accidentally finds this blog, they’ll read it or just start a wild fire of debate between the non existent gamers who flock here.

Tips for AC2

Other news from the gaming world rests with Sony, dishing out two new bundles, one for PS3 the other for PSP. Last week was GDC (Game Developer’s Conference for the newbies), which apparently Sony claimed ‘08 was to be there year in gaming, where they rake in the gamers that Microsoft so skillfully took from them. I, myself, don’t own a PS3 or PSP, I have a broken down PS2 and sold my old PSP but from what I’m reading lately I’m starting to think I’ll be adding Sony back to my list of gaming products. I was convinced that when MGS4 came out, it would be the game that I would shell out my money for a PS3 just so I could own it, I love the MGS series and what better for Sony to do than read mine and other gamers thoughts and create a bundle just for us. A 80GB PS3 and a copy of MGS4 will be available hopefully around June. I like the idea of it, even though it’s right around $500.00 after tax. Though, I’d be more likely to give away my cash for this bundle if I were getting say a bundle-exclusive gift/content. Snake Eye patches, I’d take that even though most wouldn’t, or game content that will add some new features or videos at the end of the game that stand alone game holders wont see until months or more down the line for a download. The other Bundle is the a Blood Red PSP with the enigmatic game character Kratos from God of War in bundle with a copy of the G.O.W. PSP game, a copy of Super Bad UMD and a voucher for Syphon: Filter: Combat Ops from the PlayStation Store. Not a bad deal if you ask me, just enough to get me to go out and spend $200 to reclaim a collectors PSP and get some cool game with it. It’s release is pending for June as well, coincidentally. I’ll include pics of the bundles I found below, just to get a good look at what you’ll need to find on their releases.

That’s all I have for the moment, not really much I can think of, once I have some sort of update I’ll bring it to you. Anyway I’m off, got a music thing to go to. Jam session, and seeing as how my Step sis is in the music business I have to go with her for support. I’ll go ahead and give her website a plug, maybe someone will visit it. Ashley Austin Music

I’m gone, and as Master Chief would say, since he had to, “Permission to finish the fight.” I would have said “Permission to kick some alien ass, sir!” but Bungie knows what they’re doing, hell they made $170 million in sales on the first day of selling for Halo 3 because of it, I obviously have no right to question their dialog. Anyway, Adios