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I have finally sat down and made some new backgrounds. Most of them are just screen shots sized down to fit onto the PSP. Enjoy.

I’m sure that Xbox Live has the demos also, but seeing as Live only makes new content available to Gold members for the first week I’ve decided to not bother with it, Gold member or not.  Real quick: you know what my problem with that is?  It doesn’t actually give us Gold members anything, everything remains exactly the same.  If I didn’t bother checking, I wouldn’t even know that “perk” was there.  Actually, if you see the date of the article I’ve linked, you’ll notice it’s 6 weeks old because I had no idea I was being granted such a virtual boon.  Now I am apparently more privileged than others.  Woo-f!@#ing-hoo.

edit: From the wording of Major Nelson, it’s possible that Live has always been like this, but they’re kind of restating it because we Gold members seemed somehow unsatisfied with our silent superiority.  How dare we have something unless others know they don’t?  I can’t remember waiting a week for my downloads when I was Silver, so I don’t know how long it was supposedly this way.  Either way, taking something away is a punishment, doesn’t count as a perk even to those left unscathed.

ANYWAY, the games:

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So we apparently have four authors here at Bad Soda, and not one of us made a single post in over a month.  That’s terrible, especially considering that a lot of video game news has happened at Bad Soda.  Examples?

I got a PS3 for Christmas, which is freaking amazing.  So far I’ve beaten Ratchet & Clank, and I’m almost through Resistance.

I also received a year free of World of Warcraft, and so I’ve finally started playing the game that I think everyone else on the planet is playing.

Stuart and I are prepared to take the dangerous dive: Eye of Judgement.  Stu owns his copy, I’ll be playing with him in a week and a half (payday).

T has aquired Pokemon Diamond, so in order to preserve our friendship our conversations have taken on a certain Bulbasauric tone.

T and I had our pasts and futures told to us by a NES Tarot game.  It was terrifyingly accurate.

Asian is hinting that he may move in with us.  But he’s being very sneaky about it all.  Hell, he might already be here; after all, how would we know?

I’m also writing a comic book, which will be drawn by Kelli Booth, and made specifically for the PSP (either as a flash document or a set of sized images).

So, we’ll have to see what we can do about the future of Bad Soda.