Here we go. Here’s my silly little Halo 3 comic. Just click the title below and enjoy.

The Unlucky Marine

Okay,

I’ve actually gotten a request to start blogging here again, so I’ll see if I can’t oblige. I made a nifty Halo 3 comic using the screenshot feature and Comic Life, a handy comic making program that came with my MacBook Pro. Oh yeah, I have a MacBook Pro now. I’ve had it for a while, but this is actually my first 8bN post written on it. Anywho, I’m sitting at a Panera and seem to be having trouble uploading the comic. I’ll try again when I get home.

So, here’s a request. If you’re reading this, leave a comment. It’ll help me gauge how often I should update this thing. See you soon. I cannot fucking wait for Rock Band. No. Can’t do it. Must have it.

That is all.

So, if you’ve been keeping tabs on Xbox 360 Fanboy, you’ll know that I went to E3. E3 is, as most gamers will tell you, a sort of gaming mecca. It’s a place where many gamers dream of going and a place that few of us ever get to see. Sure, we get glimpses of it through the gilded walls of video game journalism, but rarely do we get to crack it open, lay its contents bare.

I was lucky enough to do just that. If you are a gamer, then you’ll know that this year’s E3 marked a change. It was smaller, more intimate. Merely a shadow of the massive trade show it once was. I can tell you right now, I’ve never been to an E3 before and I don’t care. What I experienced was incredible to me. While I was there, I heard the complaints of wizened journalists lamenting the E3 of yesteryear and I didn’t care.

I got to play Rock Band before anyone else. I even got my performance forever captured in the workings of YouTube. Now everyone on the planet can see how much I looked like a tool while singing the Stone Temple Pilots song “Vasoline.” Suffice it to say I felt much cooler while singing it. Again though, I don’t care. I had a fucking blast. My only regret is that I focused on my particular avenue of coverage, the Xbox 360, and didn’t take in the other gaming goodness on display. I should have played Metroid Prime 3, damn it.

This very blog was started a little more than a year ago with the single-minded purpose of going to E3 under the auspices of game journalism. I never thought I would actually be employed for such things but there you have it. I’ve been doing it for over a year now and I haven’t soured of it. Hopefully, that remains true for a good long while.

If someone told me I’d be doing this for a living when I was a child, I wouldn’t have believed them. I only hope that the drive to keep it up is still here a year from now, and for many years after that.

I never intended this to be the sort of blog where I would leverage any personal messages. I usually make a concerted effort to keep that sort of thing relegated to my private life. However, I’m positively sickened by some of the things I saw in Michael Moore’s SiCKO last night. Our health care system is a joke. It’s a big fucking joke and it needs to be changed. You listen to the story of a woman whose child died because the ambulance took her to an “out of network” hospital and try to tell me our system isn’t fucked three ways from Sunday. That’s it. That’s all I wanted to say.

I’ve been watching the traffic at Xbox 360 Fanboy like a hawk this month. Why? Because this month we had the momentum to clear 2 million page views in a single month. We had the momentum and we finally cleared it earlier today, with 2 days to spare. While this will mean nothing to Xbox 360 Fanboy readers, it is a huge personal and professional accomplishment for me. If by some minute chance you read this blog, I’d like to thank all the 360 Fanboys out there who help make our site what it is. Of course, a big thanks goes out to family and friends who encourage me every day.

Next stop: 3 million.

Hey all,

Just a tiny, tiny update letting everyone know that I’ve been invited into the early “Friends and Family” phase of the Halo 3 beta. Um … fuck yeah!

Anyway, that is all.

Hey, hey, hey.

Just an update real quick-like. My wife and I are buying a house. As such, I’ve been swamped with extra things to do, many of which have hampered my blogging (for work). Still, we found a great house and we’re really excited to move in. We just got the inspections done and are waiting to see what we can get repaired by the owner (who is responsible for a certain portion of repairs). Dustin Burg, one of our writers at X3F, commented that the house looks a bit like the ones in Fable. He is right, and I am even happier :)

I’ll try and post a pic of the house sometime soon, so everyone can see what it looks like.

Peace out.

Hi everyone. If you’ve been keeping track, you’ll know that I’ve been busy as fuck building Xbox 360 Fanboy. It’s turned into quite a website and that’s something I’m very proud of. We should be launching our masthead soon and I realized I needed a website to link my name to. Just so happens that I’ve got a perfectly serviceable one right here. Yeehaw. I also realized that blogging about the same thing constantly can be a little tiring. So, I’ll use this space to unwind, as it were. I can write whatever I want, I can swear, and I can end as many sentences with prepositions as I’m inclined to do.

I don’t expect I’ll be here that often, just a few times a month, but there you go. It’s nice to be back (with a new version of WordPress and everything). Anywho, have a nice day and I’ll see you soon.

To anybody who still checks 8bN:

Very soon, 8bN will be no more. I began this site nary 2 and 1/2 months ago with one desire: to write about what I love. It turns out that this very blog helped leverage me into my current position over at Xbox 360 Fanboy. Hell, my gusto seems to have driven us to hire one more writer as well.

The truth is, I started this site by making myself a promise: by next year, I would attend E3. And, believe it or not, it looks like that could happen (I’m a superstitious person, so I can’t bring myself to say that it will happen). This website was very good to me, but X360F is my focus right now. It’s getting bigger all the time and I’m proud to be a part of that. If you’ve enjoyed this site — you know who you are — thanks. I’m glad for your support and I know some of you read my stuff at Fanboy.

Which brings me to the real point of this post: within a month or so, this site will likely be no more. Even as a personal blog, I just don’t have the time. I’ve neglected non-360 related items, for example (did I hear Wii is coming in October?). I haven’t decided whether or not to cancel my hosting altogether, but there probably won’t be any posts here for some time.

If you’d like to keep up with me, feel free to check out my Myspace profile. Don’t get me started on Myspace. I used to think it was stupid to see people wearing Nike swoosh shirts. “You’re paying Nike to advertise their product,” I used to think. Well, Myspace is the same thing ten fold. But, it’s fun and all my friends are there, so, yeah. And, at least I occasionally check it, which is more than I can say for 8bN lately.

Anywho, I’m not going away, just moving next door. Come on by. Sit a spell. Take your shoes off.

Later.

-Sense

Hey,

As you can tell, I’ve been pretty busy with Xbox 360 Fanboy. I’ve been doing upwards of six posts a day, which saps a lot of the time I used to use for posting here. Sorry ’bout that. I promised myself I’d never apologize for not having content on this site, but I feel I finally have a legitimate excuse.

I know it’s annoying to read “sorry for not posting” posts, but there you go. Check out my work over there and let me know what you think. Also, if you’ve got any great news regarding non-360 consoles, let me know.

-Sense