I don’t particularly go out of my way to buy Grand Theft Auto games, in fact, I’m not much of a fan despite playing through most of the series. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good series, nothing wrong with a bit of GTA… it’s just that with the whole rehash list they’ve come out lately which is just “bigger and better” versions of GTAIII, it can get tiring.

When Chinatown Wars was announced for the Nintendo DS, my interest was peaked when I saw images of an oldskool style top-down GTA of old. I was excited but still sceptical… after all, most people don’t remember the first and second Grand Theft Auto. Gamers who experienced the third person variants see the first two games as well as Chinatown Wars as alien entities… not “true” GTA games.

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I recently went on a trip back to the country I was born in, Fiji, for two weeks… which is why I haven’t been posting up any entries lately. But, now that I’m back I can post some stuff about my thoughts on Fiji. There is this blog entry as well as some stuff I will be posting in the forum as well.

Many, many years ago (in December it’ll actually be TWENTY years ago) I moved from Fiji to Australia. Before that time, I don’t remember playing any video games, at least that I can remember. I look back at those times and wonder, “what the hell did I have to do back then?” I think really hard about it and come to the conclusion that I really didn’t have much to do as a child in Fiji… it was pretty boring for me actually… I’m so glad that we moved to Australia when I was 5.

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Here we are again for another edition of “I fucking hate this country”… it’s getting tiring having to write these entries up, I don’t particularly enjoy it, but whenever I hear about some of that asshattery this country gets up to, So where are we now?

Well right now I’m wondering if it will ever get to the stage where the Australian government succeeds in its efforts to close off the country to anything they may find objectionable that they end up blocking my access to my own web site… sounds crazy, I know, but then trying to filter the Internet is some crazy stuff to begin with.

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At the beginning of last month I had written an article about Nintendo and the path they are following with Wii. This article is a bit of a follow up to that one, though this time I’d like to focus on the DSi specifically. E3 has come and gone and while we got to enjoy at least ONE nice surprise, the rest of what Nintendo showed at E3 was horribly predictable.

I was really sure that Nintendo would announce that the DSi would be getting “Virtual Portable Console” support during this year’s E3. After all, it would make sense on so many levels… though at this point, I don’t really know what to think with Nintendo. They obviously have a plan they’re following which they think will get them a lot of money for the least amount of effort, that much is obvious…

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