Geez hasn't it been a busy few weeks?

Work has been busy - but there haven't been any late nights so I can't blame by absence on that. I've mostly been playing the Xbox, mostly.

The CoD 4 multiplayer Beta has been taking up a lot of time lately. It's one of the few first person shooters that I've enjoyed playing. Perhaps that's only because of playing it multiplayer.

I do have a couple of issues with it though, for biggest of which is that you cannot change a weapon's rate of fire. Most modern rifles/sub machines guns etc have the option to fire one bullet or three bullets in a burst for example. In COD CoD we're stuck with the same rate all of the time. Players of the Tom Clancy series will understand how annoying this is.

I've been playing Forza Motorsport 2 a lot. I'm levelling up. Slowly It takes a long time to go up the levels in the later stages.

I grabbed an Xbox 360 Elite yesterday. Sure, I have a working one but it was bought in the UK and that means it has a non-existent warranty out here and it can't play DVDs either. I didn't want my Xbox to die and find myself in a position where I have to go out and by another one which could potentially have the faulty hardware.

The next few months are gonna be tough on the wallet, with several great games coming out. Ace Combat 6, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Timeshift, Project Gotham Racing 4 to name but a few.

I already have Stranglehold and I have Halo 3 pre-ordered (it has a midnight release! they said I could collect the game at monday midnight - school day!!) and I'll probably use Bioshock (and possibly Stanglehold if I'm done with it) as a trade in for Ace Combat or Project Gotham Racing.

The weather has been a bit foul lately and I've been unable to have a good day out with the Camera. I'm suffering Flickr withdrawl.