Okay, so I’ve finally got around to writing this. I’m going to cover all the announcements and stuff that I’m really excited about, possibly in a satiric tone, it depends on how things go. Okay, so first up – The possibly best thing to come out of E3 this year.

Dark Millennium

Thats right, they’ve finally named the Warhammer 40k MMO.

Words cannot describe how excited I am for this game. The graphics look fantastic, Click here for some swedish site for screen shots. We’ve got lots more news and information still to be released however the game is scheduled for release in 2012. I for one cannot wait.

Metal Gear Rising.

Since day one the entire world has been waiting to be able to play as Grey Fox, and Sons of Liberty did stem that desire with it’s final boss battle, for a time. But after seeing Raiden in action in Sons of the Patriots, the best way to explain how bad ass we all thought he was is as such: A dude with a beard riding in a convertible T-Rex transformer though space, to choke god to death with his bare hands. That is essentially Raiden’s role in Sons of the Patriots.
Now from this trailer I have deduced that they are probably going to try and integrate Playstation Move into the PS3 version, I kinda hope they don’t. If I have to move my fucking controller around to select the direction I want to slice someone in half, I’m just going to rage, and look for the keys to my T-Rex.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

It would be wrong of me not to touch on this game, even though I have denounced it as my savior. FOR THE EMPEROR!

I must say, this trailer is fantastic, although I am not particularly happy of the change of tech from Knights of the Old Republic.
Okay sure, Swords vs Lightsabers was kinda stupid, but it was awesome.
The fact that now we’re moving a bit closer to the clone wars, and we’ve already got soldiers in Clone Trooper armour is just kinda gash. The old republic was always good because it was so separate from the main Star Wars lore, and they could pretty much do anything within the constraints of the universe.
It still looks epic, and I am still planning on giving it a try, even if all the Sith players are 13.
Republic, it’s the new Horde.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

What more can you want from a warhammer game? Orks, Space Marines, Blood + Gore.

If only they had chosen a chapter with some actual background. Bloody Smurf Marines are the worst of all.
I Don’t have much else to say on this matter, except that I’m still buying it, and I’m still going to mash thousands of orks into a bloody pulp with my powerfist.

I’ll probably add some more to this entry later, but I’m pretty happy with this so far.

So I’ve just noticed Sam Gower as linked to me in his blog about out little viral campaign “Futureoftheinternet.co.uk” I suppose I better write something about it, in case I get some interested views
We created Futureoftheinternet.co.uk to raise awareness of the coming web censorship by our government, who apparently advocates free-speech, but not free-internet.
The difference with out campaign is that instead of the website just not existing, we’ve got a lovely warning page to educate you about the coming censorship.
If you’ve come here, without checking out Sam’s blog, Then you should as it is much more in depth than this.

To anyone that’s spread our link, or used it to trick a friend: Thank you.

Explanation time!
I’ve been hideously addicted to World of Warcraft since I last posted here. I started a guild called Internet Protocool with a few friends, and it kinda snowballed from there to being a full 25man raiding guild, leaving me with no time to do anything except play Warcraft, eat, and occasionally sleep.
I don’t regret spending so much time playing, I had a good time and met alot of really nice people; Shane, Jim, Gav, Kim, Hans & Susanne you will be missed.

Anyway, I thought I’d do a quick update on everything that has been happening recently.

PPUK

I recently joined PPUK, and decided to get interested in politics, and I’ve picked Pirate Party UK to invest my time in, as their stance on copyright reform and surveillance is in line with my beliefs.
I’ve been following the party since they registered last year, and only decided to join now they are taking donations.
They’ve got 10 candidates running in the general election on the 6th of May, so if you’re in any of these constituencies, please get involved and support your candidates.
The party is also currently fund-raising and taking donations to support our candidates so if you can spare some money, and feel strongly about the issues involved go here and either donate, or become a member. At the time of writing we’ve raised £4000/£10000
It’s in your best interest to do so!
I guess I better finish off those posters from last year.

University

If you haven’t already guessed I turned down my place at UACB I was offered last year, due to it not being a particularly interesting course and having to pay for it.
I applied at several universities this year for degree courses, and got accepted onto Web Design at UWE and Digital Media at Portsmouth University.
So if all goes well I’ll be heading off to one of those soon.

Music

Uh, I reached 86,000 plays on last.fm recently I guess that’s cool.
Coheed and Cambria‘s new album leaked recently – I got the opportunity to hear it, and it sounds like it’s shaping up to be an awesome record. The levels on this release are not great, the vocals don’t seem as defined as in other albums but I bet it’ll be fixed for when it’s released officially.
Below is track 2 of the album, which I assume is the single. It’s pretty cool.

I might as well plug Chris Watts’ new musical endeavour, a solo acoustic project. Ex-Son of a Fox vocalist has fun with guitars and his brothers.

Obviously by now everyone has heard of The Midnight Beast but their new video is genius. “Lez be friends”

Anyway, with that I’ve run out of interesting stuff to post.
It’s good to be back.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.
- Martin Niemöller

This rewrite of the original poem by Martin Niemöller is particularly relevant these days.

Oh also, if you’re as pissed as me about the BNP’s seats in the EU, go sign this pointless internet petition.