Kotaku has no idea what they're doing in their Game of the Year reader polls.
The big idiocy is that they limited it to three games per console. So there's no Metroid 3 on the Wii vote, no Locoroco on the PSN vote... and, unbelievably, no Warhawk on the PSN or the PS3! I guess Kotaku Editorial selected the three per, but that number is just way too restrictive. It's a poll, gang... you can have more than three options.
My ratio of Wiis to Friends is getting closer to 1:1.
Josh got a Wii for Christmas, bringing the number of Wiis among my friends and family to seven. Seeing as I only talk to about fifteen people a year, this is a pretty outstanding anecdotal sign of Nintendo's success.
Hal didn't kill as many Lanterns as we thought!
This has probably all been Prime-Punched out of continuity, but I thought the big point of the Hal-Goes-Parallax thing was that he killed all the Lanterns. The GL Secret Files book that just came out lists over 200 active Green Lanterns, including plenty of old ones that I assumed were part of Hal's post-Coast-toast slaughter. Even KT21 from that one-shot "Forever Blowing Bubbles" 1985 story is still around!
But even after all that, the book suggests G'Nort is presumed dead? Highly unlikely. As soon as a writer needs comic relief, he'll be back. Probably hibernating, or lost his lantern.
Why did no one tell us we get CCTV9?
This must have just been added to our cable lineup recently and we didn't notice until now. CCTV9 is China's international english language channel... which seems to run a lot of documentaries, travelogues, and news/culture programs about China and other Asian nations. We're always on the lookout for Asian shows and faces on TV (there's too few!), so this is a great addition for us. I should write my local cable office and thank them or something.
The new Warhawk dropship pretty much makes my experience perfect.
As soon as a Team Deathmatch round starts, four to six of us will run for the dropship, jump in, and head off towards the enemy base. What I love about this is that it provides a way for me to feel like part of the team even though I'm not necessarily a great Warhawk player. All I have to do hop behind my missile launcher and scan the skies while the pilot maneuvers through the madness. It becomes very much like an on-rails shooter. I racked up a five-kill streak last night, which is pretty amazing for me.
Just realized that the PS3 reads SD cards and Pro Duo cards.
Well, duh.
We've enjoyed the Wii's ability to pull photos off of an SD card for a year now, but it only just occurred to me that the PS3 does the same thing! Nintendo's clear interface and focused marketing FTW.
