international nut of pastry - I think this lines mostly filler.

Whilst this rant is specific to Sony, in reality it's more about the Australian video games in general.

For many years (possibly decades) Australia has had a weak dollar exchange rate with the US and as such, many gamers had grown accustomed to paying a a premium for our video games - around $100AU for a console game. This price wasn't acceptable, but we dealt as there was no real way of getting a (legit) copy of a game imported any cheaper than what we could get here.

Shortly before the Playstation 3 was released, Playstation 2 games started being having a recommended retail price (RRP) of $90AU

Enter the "very good exchange rate" character.

Okay, yes I caved. I went out and bought a 40GB PS3.

My train of thought was that the 40GB offers no backwards compatibility so I could jump ship and get an Xbox 360. But I came to the conclusion that it's better the devil you know.

Yeah, 40GB is lame but apparently there's now support for external hard drives and it's not hard to replace the standard HD with something of a size that matters. There's even a panel on the side of the case that says to remove when changing the hard drive. Of course I won't be changing the HD for awhile as not all games load content onto the HD.

The games I got when I picked up the system are Motorstorm and Heavenly Sword.

I used to enjoy going to the cinemas when I was younger. There was a cinema near me that was owned by the same people that had a hardware store. They had a deal going where if you spent $30 at the hardware store, you would get two free tickets to any movie they had showing. For the 6-12 months that this deal ran for, we took advantage of this deal and I saw many movies that came out that year. A lot of things also got done around the house at this time too because of the money being spent at the hardware store.

This was back in 1993. I know this because Jurassic Park was one of the movies that I saw... Twice.

Since I've been starved for a new PS2 game since I picked up God of War, today I decided to pick up Bully, also known as "Canis Canem Edit" (I'd like to find out the English translation, if any, of that title). So, how do I like it so far?

Developer: Polyphony Digital
Distributor: Sony Computer Entertainment

The Gran Turismo series has been around since before I knew what this fancy PlayStation thing was, and is far too vast for me to review everything about the this, the fourth iteration of the classic game.

Over the years, I've managed to play GT1, GT3 and GT4: Prologue, so I can feel confident in saying this about GT4:

Not much has changed over the years.

You wouldn't know it... But I'm not happy with the look of this site, or it's content... And it's clientele, well... To put it bluntly, y'all need a shower! hehe

So, this theme is bright and colourful... But lame, hopefully I'll come up with a better look soon.

On the content side of things, I'd like to get some of my photos back online again. I'd also like to try and build up some sort of a community. Get friends and new visitors posting comments, or at the very least more visitors. Such things might come due to the following...

Developer: Luxoflux
Distributor: Activision

Welcome to 240 square miles of LA streets, crime and stupid drivers. Oh, and it's a video game now as well. You are Nick Kang Wilson, part of the freshly created E.O.D. The Elite Operations Division, a fancy new Police division that has authority over all of LA. No boundaries for you... Well, except for boundaries that stop you from leaving LA.

Yeah, so much for regular postings, eh?

I have a big lack of anything to say, so what's going on this week around these parts, lets see... Another movie night this Friday which shall be fun. Oh, and what's that? A day of much tube fun on Sunday. Woohoo! Time to charge up the camera to get some fancy tubing photos.

I've managed to get Gran Turismo 3: A-spec 77% complete, and gaining each day. With the help of a friend this game should be finally finished soon.

So, yeah... That'll do.