Okay, now for some actual content.

Contracts review is up. I promise this is the last Hitman review for a while. What can I say? Its a good series.

A few days ago I stumbled upon an interesting new games site called Next Generation. It focuses primarily on the news and people in the industry rather than on blitzing the reader with screens and useless previews of games. The writing quality here is great, and the outlook is often cyncial. Sounds a lot like the old Next Generation magazine that was published (and canceled) by Imagine media and is my personal pick for greatest game magazine ever written. The interesting thing about this new site is that their logo is almost identical to the one used in the old magazine, and it is owned by the Future Network, which is what Imagine formed into a few years back. Has someone decided to rekindle the spirit of the magazine with this new website? Further investigation is needed, but for now its still a damn good read.

American League won the All Star game again, and from what I heard it was an absolute snooze fest. Why must a game that no one cares about count for so much? The National League will never get homefield until I'm dead at this rate.

And now for one of the coolest stories of the year, no pun intended. Two men who recently climbed to the top of Mount Everest brought Nintendo DS systems with them for entertainment. What's even crazier than that is the fact that the ten DS's the team brought with them were some of the only electronic devices that didn't break. That's right; the worst injury any DS system took was a few nasty scratches. I've always known that Nintendo systems were built like trucks, but this just proves it beyond a doubt. My only question now is how well would the PSP have fared on the same trip?