The soon to be famous author of This Gaming Life is the one and only Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun and PC Gamer UK fame.

Jim provides some insight into why he wrote this book here. He says some very interesting things regarding the writing of the book and the book itself. I personally pre-ordered the book back in March and am really looking forward to it and hope it is a success for him.

You can get this book on pre-order from amazon.co.uk and read more about it on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

I now know why people play consoles. PCs are a friggin pain in the arse to figure out what the problem is. I have been having various errors cropping up for the past few weeks and right now I have hit such a point where I am just like ‘whuuuuu?!’

My laptop with Vista is my saviour at the moment. Really, a Vista based machine. I’m boned :(

In an April 1st shock move EALA have revealed that the new logo for the Soviets in Red Alert 3…involved a flower!

Showcasing the new attitude of the Soviet Premier and his legion of comrades, we are unveiling our brand new Soviet Faction Logo for Red Alert 3, the “flower and the sickle”. While this is certainly a departure from the legendary hammer seen in the Soviet logo for Red Alert 1 and 2, we felt it was critical to showcase the growth of the Soviets power in the upcoming Red Alert 3 through the “flower”: a powerful symbol which represents the blossoming of a new seed, a rebirth of the Soviets if you will.

Oh how I wish this were true and not just an April Fools!

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Official comment from C&C Community Manager - shhh, hehe

I should be busy writing my dissertation proposal but I am struggling to make any headway. I have been randomly fast forwarding through my songs on Media Player failing to find anything to inspire me to work.

Suddenly I hear the opening notes of ‘Still Alive’ that brilliant closing track to Portal. It immediately lifts me from a growing mood of ‘I can’t be arsed’ and instills some work ethic into me. Unfortunately this inspiration led me to write this blog post instead of carrying on with my dissertation proposal, but that is not the point really is it.

This song instantly turned my mood around. All praise to Jonathon Coulton and Ellen McLain for their work on this amazing track. Now back to my work…

Quick note about the new banner. The design was done by my good friend DigiQ8 and the code implementation was done by The Green Bunny. There may be some other changes over the next few weeks, but that will depend on what you, the readers want to see.

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Edit - I know there are some issues with the banner still, bear with me and they should be sorted soon.

I have taken the plunge and upgraded to the new version of WordPress! I am now running version 2.5 RC2 (more information here.) which provides me with a completely new admin set up, it is very nice!

Other new features - Gravatar - simply head over to the Gravatar site sign up and select an image. Use the same email there and here and you will have an avatar when commenting. Pretty cool!

Other new feature is a new anti-spam tool, lets wait and see how it works!

So on with the show, enjoy.

Everyone loves the Weighted Companion Cube. They loved it so much that when the plush version was originally made available on the Valve Store that it sold out within 24-hours. Luckily for all of you who failed to get your Companion you now have the chance to get it. Yes the Weighted Companion Cube is back in stock!

For $29.95 you can get the Weighted Companion Cube Plush for the Fuzzies. Knowing how fast they went originally you best hurry over to get them at the Valve Store.

Now if only I had the money spare to splash out on this! By the time I can afford it…it will be out of stock again :(

And that means that I am heading off for a few days to visit family. I shall be back on Monday I hope, so see you all soon!

I am currently in my second year of University, and I have had to start thinking about dissertation topics as by the beginning of May I have to have written a Dissertation Proposal. Which is going to be all kinds of fun…I may actually be serious there.

I have an idea of a dissertation title: “The Digital Age: The Internet and Video Games as Political Tools and Victims of Politics.” Well it is going to be something like that anyway. Why I hear you ask? Well for my the internet and video games take up a massive part of my life (wow…that sounds a bit sad) and they are of great interest to me.

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Argh! World in Conflict annoyed me to hell earlier, and I now hate it for not implementing some kind of auto-save feature! Third mission, got to the last objective…and somehow I fecked it up. Had to go start the whole thing all over again! :@

My fault for not saving myself, but it is maddening at times!