For all you football or videogame lovers out there, the game that I’ve been slaving away at in Boston over the past 14 months has recently gone live in Beta. The game is Quick Hit Football and it’s a free-to-play online football game that you can play on your PC or MAC. The game is still in Beta, so it’s buggy and we have a long way to go before it’s considered complete — however, even in it’s infant stages it’s a lot of fun and admittedly quite addicted.

• Stretch Panic (PS2)
• Frequency (PS2)
• Shadow of Destiny (PS2)
• R-Type Final (PS2)
• Z.O.E. (PS2 – Import)
• Gran Turismo 3 A-spce (PS2 – Import)
• Gran Turismo 4 Prologue (PS2 – Import)
• Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (PS2 – Import)
• NHL ‘08 (Xbox 360)
• Leon Integral Version (DVD – Japan)
• Hynix 512 MB DDR2 Laptop RAM
• Yasmin Bratz Kidz Doll
• Mandy Moore The Real Story (DVD)

If I get even more desperate, I may have to start parting ways with my Saturn/DC collection, Turbo Duo, Dracula X, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and the DVDs that I have left that I actually really love. The Hannah Montana box set will never be sold! It will be there long after the blanket that’s supposed to keep me warm on freezing Winter nights on the streets of Boston!

• All-Star Vinyl Alexander Ovechkin collectible figure
• Dragon Force collectible wrist watch
• 2 official Nintendo GameCube Memory Cards
• Blood Bowl miniatures board game

I think I’m getting to the end of the stuff I can/want to sell, but we’ll see. Might get rid of my PS2 Guitar Hero 2 and 2 guitars and my JPN Nintendo 64, too. But I might just use Craig’s List instead so I can avoid the hassle of shipping those. After those are gone…all I’ll have is some Dave Z-used cum rags and dirty underwear.

• Nintendo Wii + Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Play, Wii Sports, 2 Controllers, 1 Nunchuck, RGB Cable

• Lot of 148 DVD movies
• Lot of 20 James Bond 007 DVDs
• Lot of 10 Walt Disney DVDs
• Lot of 5 Nintendo 64 games
• Lot of 7 Nintendo GameCube games
• Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360)
• Battlestar Galactica – The Complete Epic Series (DVD)
• Sega Superstars Tennis (Xb0x 360)
• The Bigs (Xbox 360)

The Philadelphia Flyers have been a welcome surprise, though I don’t want to get too confident because a 2-1 series lead doesn’t mean it’s a lock, particularly after they almost blew the 3-1 lead against the Caps. Still, it’s been awesome cheering them on and I’m hoping they can continue to play great and make it to the Eastern Conference Finals against Malkin, Crosby & the Pens (assuming they continue to dominate their series).

On a more personal note, I’ve been experienced what I’ve self-diagnosed as kidney pains. It might just my back muscles, but the signs and symptoms point more to the kidneys. I have a doctor’s appointment today, so I’ll find out more later this afternoon. Shit hurts, though, and really makes it hard to concentrate.

Luckily, amid the kidney pains that started Saturday afternoon after downing 12 diet Pepsi’s in 10 minutes and the struggles of the C’s and the stress of watching the Flyers get big leads, blow the leads, then either win or lose at the end, it was really nice to be able to release some stress killing random people in GTA IV. God, I love this game and this series.

I’ve only played a couple of hours of the single player (going through some really boring parts) and had a lot of fun playing with other 2K guys online multiplayer, but I can see why it’s gotten all the 10s. There’s just so much good too it. So much that you can forgive all the flaws such as the horrid animations, sloppy camera angles, god-awful AI, fucked up targeting issues, etc, etc. It is easily the most-flawed “best. game. ever” that I’ve yet played. I could probably write an IGN-esque 25,000 word review just bitching about the game. Then again, I could write as many praising the hell out of it. In the end, I’m sure the good will mightily outweigh the bad and I’ll love this as much as the previous games in the series and quite possibly more.

I just missed 1 diary, 1 weapon upgrade and the achievement for getting into Cohen’s room (I killed him too early and the jack ass didn’t have his key on him even though he somehow got into the locked room later….not to mention I had enough weaponry on me to knock down his wooden door) . What sucked was that the diary was in Ryan’s office that I couldn’t go back to and the weapon upgrade was in Cohen’s room, so I pretty much had to play the entire game over again and find every single diary and weapon upgrade for a second time. Pain the the ass, it was, but I finally finished it off. Sorry for the Yoda speak, I’m not sure why I phrased it like that.

The Clive Barker game was obviously much simpler than both. I was able to get the majority of it in my first play through on the hard difficulty level and then finished off the weapon achievements with the level select. The game itself wasn’t all that bad, either. I thought the story was interesting and I also liked the character & weapon variety. The big problem with it is that it’s just way too linear and over too quickly. It is a PERFECT rental and I enjoyed my two days with it, but if I would’ve forked over full price, I would’ve been sorely disappointed.