Books: 5. Tales of the Emerald Serpent. Got this ages ago, just got around to reading it. It’s very, very short though. Interesting in how the stories intertwine, especially in the beginning of the book. Lots of characters that link up between the stories. 6. Shadow of Freedom. Whoa, 2 books in one month? Anyway, it was pretty good, though not as good as others in the series. It’s a whole lot of setting up for what follows, with a little bit of action in the middle.

Books: Almost had a book done this month, but was about 25% short of the end. Games: 33. Rymdkapsel (PSVita/PSMobile) Entertaining. It’s a 72 minute game if you know what you’re doing right off. For me, it took 5 tries to beat it, 3 of those tries taking oven an hour. When I finally beat it, I only had 1/5th of my minions left and had only finished exactly the wave I needed to get the win screen.

A lot has been made of Microsoft’s statement that their console will be more powerful because of 300,000 cloud servers on the net available for use. As an exercise, lets calculate “the power of the cloud” Lets assume for now that Xbox One matches 360’s first year performance on the sales charts. That gives it about 5.5 million units. Most companies use Commodity hardware for clouds because the idea behind them is that they’re essentially disposable and used in large numbers, and prone to failure with instant failover to another node.

Books: Another month where I’m too (la|bu)zy to read a book. Games: 25. Dragon Fantasy Book 1. (PSVita) Pretty good for a tiny little indie game. Faithfully replicates the experience of Dragon Quest, without being long enough to be annoying.  26. Jetpack Joyride. (PSVita) Fun, but it got annoying how it kept rebooting my Vita towards the end. Ended up with 6 badges in it, all awards, all trophies. 27.

Books: 4. Machine of Death. A rather interesting look at fatalism. Especially the last story, Cassandra. Games: 17. Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (PSP) 18. Cthulhu Saves the World (PC) 19. Commander Keen: Earth Explodes (PC) 20. Super Dodgeball (GBA) 21. Commander Keen: Keen Must Die (PC) 22. Heavenly Sword (PS3) 23. Dragon Quest 2 (GBC) 24. Bioshock Infinite (PS3) 24.1. Persona 4 Golden Platinum! (PSVita) Videos: 17. Adventure Time Season 1.

I’ve seen a ton of forum posts saying that the PS4’s memory will be so expensive that it will drive the price to stratospheric levels. The problem with refuting this is that it’s hard for consumers to find information on the price of GDDR5 chips. The closest I can come up with is the following. If we find two graphics cards that are identical in every way aside from the amount of memory on them, then we might get some idea of how much this memory costs, at least on the retail side.

Clifford Unchained: "Deal With It"dudehugespeaks: Yesterday reports that Adam Orth, the guy who somehow caused this shitstorm, is no longer at Microsoft. Let’s pay attention to the wording here. Resigned. Not fired. Now, beyond all of the use of the impact font and the “Haha let’s make an internet meme out of this guy we’ve never met” let’s… I have no problem with the guy personally, but his argument was pretty weak.

Books: Oops, didn’t finish any… Games: 10. Alien Breed. A lot shorter than I thought. Also better than I thought at first glance. It helps to A. have the mapping device and B. know how to buy new weapons. I was kind of surprised when I realized that the ammo and key count carries over between play sessions. 11. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. With this, I’m down to 1 Gamecube game.

I finished this game yesterday. I really can’t recommend it however… I only finished it off because I’m trying to polish off all my GBA and GC games this year. If you are foolish enough to play this game however, here’s a few things to remember. Use a guide when building your city and recruiting people. You’re given a choice on what kind of house to build, but the game doesn’t tell you what benefits each kind of house gives you.

I’m now done with Twilight Princess. That makes 3 Gamecube games down. Since I shifted Majora’s Mask off gamecube. Wind Waker was January, and Skies of Arcadia was February. I’m actually making progress on my other goal as well. I’ve gotten 5/7ths of the crystals in Link to the Past. I’ll probably have that done this week. That’ll be my first GBA game for the year.