Ah the scenic beauty of the mountains

Fujimi Kaido. A 10.2-mile Japanese mountain road featured in Forza 3. The course twists and winds up and down through this alpine scenery with Mount Fuji as a backdrop. With Takumi Fujiwara and his AE86 Trueno as my Avatar and a shelf full of Initial D DVDs, you know I was going to spend a lot of time travelling this mountain pass. Probably too much time.

Christmas is almost here again. It's been a long time since I so looked forward to it. Months of Facebook gaming and that old PC classic, Sim City 4, will soon be behind me. A shiny new Xbox 360 awaits.

Christmas is almost here again. It's been a long time since I so looked forward to it. Months of Facebook gaming and that old PC classic, Sim City 4, will soon be behind me. A shiny new Xbox 360 awaits.

Gotta love it. The Center for Disease Control has weighed its heavy hand into the video gaming world and come up with a rosey picture of the average gamer. What follows is a cut and paste from a story as it appeared on the Sympatico web site:

Gotta love it. The Center for Disease Control has weighed its heavy hand into the video gaming world and come up with a rosey picture of the average gamer. What follows is a cut and paste from a story as it appeared on the Sympatico web site:

I have just finished this amazing book for the second time and realized I have not yet done my part to spread the word about it. For that, I am ashamed.

I have just finished this amazing book for the second time and realized I have not yet done my part to spread the word about it. For that, I am ashamed.

I'm coming into this one a little late. I have only recently heard about this small elementary school in New Brunswick. Around Christmas there was a big stink because the school principal "banned" singing Canada's national anthem.

I'm coming into this one a little late. I have only recently heard about this small elementary school in New Brunswick. Around Christmas there was a big stink because the school principal "banned" singing Canada's national anthem.

You may have heard by now that Forza 3 is official and coming to us this fall. As part of the hoopla surrounding this, a cover contest is being held in the Forza web site forums. To the best of my knowledge, this is not sponsored officially by game developers Turn 10. Prizes include in-game credits and Forza 2 cars, which in a few months will be obsolete anyway. Winnings entries won't be the new box art, as that has already been released. However, some of these entries are good enough that they probably SHOULD be the new box art.