To say the last few weeks have been hectic for all of us involved with the site would be an understatement.  Things are getting back to normal now and we're just a week from Papa Sauer returning from the lands of Potatoes, Hash and Cheese.  For now though, you're stuck with me.  Here's an overview of the biggest geekiest stories from the last couple weeks:

Bungie Splits from Microsoft

So Bungie has made like 76 billion dollars for Microsoft and in turn, Microsoft rescued Bungie from relative obscurity.  It's still a bit surprising to see Microsoft let the makers of Halo go, but every indication is that Bungie will continue to work on 360 games and give Microsoft first look at all games, so this is win win for the industry as a whole.  Hopefully we'll see some Bungie Wii offerings soon.

EA Buys Bioware/Pandemic

Peter Moore, fresh off his Xbox gig, has added two amazing studios to the EA family: Bioware (Mass Effect) and Pandemic (Mercenaries 2) at the cost of just $860 million.  They say Mass Effect is still 360 exclusive, but my guess is that's about the last exclusive game from either of these companies.  Hopefully EA lets these studios do what they do best, buy I have a feeling we'll be seeing a million sequels and not so many new IPs from these companies. 

Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) Delayed

The crappiest news of the week is Nintendo has Delayed Super Smash Bros to February 10th 2008. Lets hope they're taking the extra time to tweak online (finally confirmed).  Many sites have been getting their hands on early builds of the game and the reviews are almost universally positive. Oh and Sonic is a confirmed character now. Sweet!

New Radiohead Released.

I'm going to save the full review for Mr. Sauer, but my two cents are as follows:  It's a truly amazing album which really flows from beginning to end. There is not a weak track to be heard, and it gets better and more nuanced each time I listen to it. I'll be picking up the limited edition as soon as I can possibly afford it.

Be on the lookout next week for many updates and reviews.

Mahalo,

Raul Duke