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Since I'm sure you're wondering, "huh, what's that Dave guy been playing?"

I'm playing through Dead Space 2 again on a New Game+ so I can keep on using my powered up weapons and stuff. I started off strong but have been sort of losing interest in that one. Probably has something to do with playing the iPad version. Not nearly as good, mind you, but excellent for a tablet.

On the DS I've been playing Plants Vs. Zombies and Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. Which is quite a mouthful, but really a lot like Puzzle Quest set in a bad Lord of the Rings knockoff story. It's fun and challenging. I actually found myself having to grind a bit to make it past some demon dude when I was only a few hours in. Most games these days do a lot more hand holding than that, so I was sort of surprised. And not necessarily in a bad way.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is nice. I can see Criterion's fingerprints on it. They made Burnout Paradise, which I absolutely loved. I don't love this one quite as much, but it's growing on me. I really miss the open world and the absence of loading times from Paradise. I'm starting to like it more since I'm slowly getting to the point where I'm unlocking the good cars which are a lot more responsive and fun to drive. In general, musclecars suck and Lamborghinis rule. But everybody already knew that, right?

For some reason, I decided to get a PS3 copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and play through it again even though I played the Xbox 360 version when it first came out. What can I say, I'm a sucker for SW even if the game itself gets ridiculously difficult and frustrating towards the end. That I found a copy for $5 didn't hurt, either.

So I'm splitting my time between whatever game grabs me at the moment. Oh wow, I almost forgot to mention that I also grabbed Portal 2 and played through the single player stuff while PSN was down. That game is fantastic and really deserves its own post. I played splitscreen co-op with my wife after she got tired of me asking her to play. Her arguments against it were that she "gets confused just watching me play, how is she supposed to figure it out actually playing it?" and that that she's really bad at using dual joysticks to move around in a 3D space (even without portals). She did fine, and the pointer system that Valve put in place for the multiplayer works really well. I don't know that I'd want to try it without at least voice chat though. I'm looking to finish out the co-op but I don't know if she'll be willing to play much more, so let me know if you want to play on Steam or PS3 now that it's finally back online.