This list is much longer than I intended, but I do play a lot of games. I was supposed to have one list for everything that happened this year, music movies, games, websites, and so on. I have to do the other things later, though, so here's the long games list. Let me know what you think of my picks, the full list is after the jump. Downloadable Game of the Year Band of Bugs (XBLA) Band of Bugs is still my top-played Xbox Live Arcade game. I have really enjoyed Fire Emblem in the past, but it is a pretty heavy game. Band of Bugs is the perfect casual turn-based tactical game. It's colourful and has wonderful variety, a great selection of multiplayer modes and a stellar level designer. Band of Bugs was also the first game to fully utilize the Gamescore policy and add an extra three Achievements with downloadable campaigns, which were also great. Honourable Mention Carcassone (XBLA), Super Metroid (VC) Carcassone is the perfect port of a board game to a video game. Super Metroid finally getting re-released was also a great gaming experience for me, as now my Metroid collection is complete.

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It's coming up on a year since I got a domain for the site and actually started using a real version of WordPress. My theme has gone through many small edits, but everything remained more or less the same. I don't really like the theme, I'm caught somewhere between wanting to use someone else's theme but I don't like having things on my site not done by me. I'm going to try doing a complete overhaul on the header and bottom bar and try out some new stuff with my Lifestream. I've kept the same sort of styling for the posts and meta since what I had on my Blogsome blog, and I like that, so I don't think I'll change it. The rest of the theme needs some real flare (and I don't mean just some Web 2.0 gloss or something) as the design never really became what ...

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Back to the regular programming. I've met my goal of getting 10,000 Gamerscore within a year of acquiring my Xbox 360 console. I was actually hoping for a bit more of a challenge to hit it, but borrowing BioShock and then getting The Orange Box, Assassin's Creed and now Mass Effect made it easy. I've still got a ton to do on Assassin's Creed, but Mass Effect is so captivating. I've swayed at times since some of Mass Effect's side quests get a little repetitive, but the story really gets involving and the conversation is great. I actually love the combat, too, but I know some people don't like it as much as I do. If you are looking for a 3rd person shooter, it's not Mass Effect. It's an RPG despite how it was hyped. Enough of that, though, I'll finish ...

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