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After having nothing to play for awhile, I’m suddenly overwhelmed by the number of games I want to play. First off, I’ve been playing Burnout 3 on the Xbox. It’s surprisingly fun and a great arcade style racer. I’ve also been playing online league games of ESPN NFL 2k5 every week. I’m in two leagues. 2-2 with the Raiders in one, and 3-1 with the Redskins in another. And on top of that, my girlfriend has been getting really addicted to Final Fantasy XI, so I been finding myself playing that again to join her. And now there’s Sims 2, Fable, Sly Cooper 2, and a Call of Duty expansion. I have school in a week, so I should really play as much as I can before I don’t have time to.

Other stuff I been doing: Finished the free iPod thing, placed an order and now I’m waiting. Saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse over the weekend. I guess it’s good if you leave your brain at home, because it has so many plot holes. The action scenes were lame because they were all blurry and rapid fire editing. The dialogue was cheese. The plot was weak. The ending was lame. But, I still liked it more than Catwoman. RE was still somehow enjoyable even with all the things I can complain about it. But honestly, the movie sucked.

Here’s a trailer to a movie called Sin City. It’s based on Frank Miller’s graphic novels that has a very dark and stylized black & white noir style. The movie is to be created based on several stories from the graphic novels shot for shot. It is shot entirely on green screen I believe, with all the backgrounds being CG effects. I was wondering if they would be able to pull off the look of the comic, and it looks like it is coming out great. Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Spy Kids, From Dusk Till Dawn) is directing along with Frank Miller. Some of the cast include Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis, Michael Clark Duncan, Brittany Murphy, Michael Madsen, Jessica Alba, Benecio del Toro, Josh Hartnett, and Elijah Wood.

A bunch of programmers and artists got together to try and make a 3D version of the SNES favorite game Chrono Trigger. It looked pretty good as it was being developed but Square Enix sent a cease and decist order and the project is dead. You can check out some video clips and screenshots here.