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Although I really bought this for the Half-Life series, I’m finding Portal terribly addicting. Portal is a first person shooter puzzle adventure. I was skeptical at first, but am loving it now. In fact I haven’t finished Episode 2 yet, since I started playing it.

Bioshock is definitely a game I have been waiting to play. The demo released for XBOX 360 was pretty damn awesome.

UPDATE: I am officially taking a moment of silence to mourn the passing of my Xbox 360. It was a good console for the almost exactly 1 year it lived with me. Hopefully the doctors at Microsoft General Hospital can resuscitate it, give it an organ transplant or just send me a clone. What a terrible time to go, with Bioshock released this very day. I look forward to the day it returns, hopefully in time for Halo 3.

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with a proven top speed of 407.5 km/h (253 mph), though several faster or more expensive vehicles have been produced on a limited basis.

Veyron going 253mph:

Veyron vs. Mercedes SLR McLaren - No contest….

I dig Ferrari’s, Lamborghini’s and all those other supercars, but 253mph, makes the 140 I did in my Vette look like I’m on a moped. What are your favorite cars and why?

Home Run Pinball puts you in Times Square. Your mission is to cause as much damage as possible by hitting balls off of the taxi’s, neon signs and those huge ‘jumbotron’ televisions. There are extra bonuses for hitting out all the letters of the ‘Hotel’ sign, and when you are fully powered up, you can take out the new year’s eve ball. This is a challenge, but fun to play, as you only get 3 strikes, and the game is done.

In Home Run Derby, you take on another player in a home run hitting contest. This is a pretty basic game, is played in a stadium setting, with the first to hit 10 out of the park winning the contest. You also have the option to play against someone online.

In the Rookie Challenge, hitting and pitching are pretty straight-forward. Push the button and release, but good timing is essential. Also, running full bore from third to home just to obliterate the catcher is pretty fun and vice a versa.

I do have one big complaint, though, and its the horrendous outfield controls. The defensive AI is so good its ridiculous. They can perform home run robbing wall climbs with ease (like 5 in one 5 inning game), yet damned if I can pull ANY off.

I seem to be having trouble just getting the correct guys to go to the ball. Controlling outfielders just makes you look like the three stooges playing ball. This gets very frustrating, and I often find myself yelling at the players - “Pick up the ball!!” Anyone else playing “The Bigs”, and having the same problems?

All in all this is a pretty fun game, and from a non-sports guy like myself, I was pretty surprised. While there aren’t any true baseball sim sections such as stat tracking and manager type options, this is an arcade style game, even big sim fans should be able to have fun with it.