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 been a busy week. I had Monday and Tuesday off, which was awesome. We started school a couple of days earlier than the other grouping in my area, so they gave us a long weekend here. Unfortunately, my teachers still crammed five days of work into three. I had two unit exams, and I've felt a little pressed for time. As I'm sure many casual bloggers can relate with, when given the choice between doing something you want to do on the free time you have or actually blogging about it, most will choose the former. That's why I've been playing a ton of Half-Life 2, which I had never really had the chance (read: never really took the chance to) play until The Orange Box. I finished it Saturday night, and was reminded that I had actually seen the ...

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While I have a number of topics to blog about, I've not been getting far before saving it as a draft and moving onto something else. Well, today I'm going to finish my review of Prince of Persia: Classic, which I bought off XBLA two weeks ago. While also being quite a good remake, it forced me to do more studying for exams than I otherwise might have, as I only could play video games for an equal amount of time to that paid to my studies. Now, exams have passed and I don't have to worry about anything school-related for a week or so, so I can focus even more time than I normally do to video games. Hooray! To be clear, PoP:C is not a new game in the regular sense of the term. It's half-way between a remake and a re-release. If you don't know the history of ...

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