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But I've been too busy playing that golf game. Today was good though - I got my first Hole In One - You could hear the crys of joy for a long way from the helsby household.

Discovered Albatross18 Season2 the other day - a free downloadable multiplayer golf game. It is golf as you've never seen before as the whole thing is done in a manga cartoon style with various special effects too. Very addictive and well worth downloading. The game can be totally free but if you want some of the premium characters,equipment or utilities you can buy cookies online to redeem for items. The ability to create your own rooms and password protect them means that you can host your own mini lan party and play golf instead of shooting each other ;-) The link above has my userid as I get extra panga (the ingame currency earned as you play) for each signup.

This might be useful to someone - a years free subscription to Electronic Gaming Monthly, thanks to a googlead in my gmail page for this one.

After reading Neil's post on StarForce I've now removed the software from my pc by following the instructions at Boycott StarForce. The company claims to be good but has sent threatening letters to people who have complained about the software - something people are legally entitled to do. My concern (along with others) is that the software is not uninstalled when you remove games and there was no consent or EULA to have it installed in the first place. UBISoft are apparently the biggest culprits for the bundling of the software but strangely it is starforce who are getting the flack not the game company!

Real Mahjong is going to be worth a download by Kristen and I - it's the first time I've seen the real game on a computer as opposed to the matching tiles version that you find everywhere.

After spending too long at it, I managed to get the men to their portal in Hapland. A great game although timing is everything. When you've completed it (or before if you are a wuss and give up) then you get to play Hapland2

I finally finished Halo this afternoon. It's probably taken me a month of on and off playing to complete so I certainly got my moneys worth - especially as I only paid about $3 for it!
The ending was pretty weak, I was expecting a big Evil Boss to appear but it didn't. After finishing I decided to have a few games online and although I came last on all but one of the challenges (where I came in the top 5 of 12) I enjoyed it.