Her: Wait. … What about the gold you lose?
Me: You mean the gold YOU lost?
Her: Yea. the gold we lost?
Me: No…you lost.
Her: Yea, the gold we lost.
Me (sigh): Yes, the gold you lost. That’s where we have the problem. I’ll now start Fable II in debt. As in poor. As in owing money.
Her (turning to look at me for the first time since I walked in): Wow. That sucks. (she put the controller down and walks out of the room)Her: I hope you can pay off that debt before the game comes out. I am going out, see you later.

I am playing the Fable II Pub Games…but I have a little problem - Xbox Lives Major Nelson

Stolen From: consumerist.com

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Portal Telecommute (Working for Xbox Community Team)

My brother needs one of these for his commute …

Quartermann: God of War 3, Gears of War 2 in 2008 news from 1UP.com

A little out of left field, however, is news of Sega reviving Skies of Arcadia. The sky pirate RPG was criminally overlooked, despite releases on both Dreamcast and GameCube, but apparently Sega been quietly preparing a sequel to the swashbuckling adventure.

Rumor: Sega Working on New Skies of Arcadia on Game | Life

PS3 News: EGM Rumors: God Of War 3 For Holidays 2008

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Maybe this will get my wife into first person shooters …

Gamerscore Blog : My Wife Found My Copy of The Orange Box

I "caught" my wife via xbox.com playing it before she left for work this morning. Maybe The Orange Box or at least Portal is one of those games that wives and girlfriends will play?

11:30:

I’m getting too old for this. Seriously. My back is killing me, my butt’s sore, but despite this, I can barely keep awake. What good is waiting till midnight if I don’t have the energy to play?

I’m getting too old for this …

10:25:

Some ‘tard just walked by on his cell phone, up and down the line, yelling to his "buddy" key plot points. 1. Everyone knows you’re being a jerk, so we don’t beleive you. 2. The guy next to me in line joked early that "blood will be spilled" tonight. He’s probably right …

Did I just call someone a ‘tard? I think the demographic I’m hanging out with tonight is rubbing off on me

9:30 PM:

OK, I just got out of the line to get in the line (I am not kidding) I’d say there’s at least a couple of hundred people here already. Just crazy. So far, so good, everyone’s in good spirits. Game Stop just handed out free water and chips, which is sincerely appreciated (see, honey, I told you I’d get fed )

I swear the kid at the front of the line is Chris Crocker (NSFW)

8:45 PM:

Arrived about a half hour ago. Just found open wifi (thank you Burger King!). Security won’t let anyone lineup until after 9, but people are beginning to queue. Better get my place

10:02 AM:

Getting ready for the line:

The blogging machine. Notice all the crap on my desktop, as I struggled last night to enable internet access via my cell phone. We’ll see how well it works tonight.

Cool Links:

Halo 3 Launch Events - Xbox Live’s Major Nelson

Twitter / majornelson

Flickr: Major Nelson’s photos tagged with h3

Analyst: 4.2M Halo 3s already at retail - Xbox 360 News at GameSpot

Impressive homemade Master Chief costume at Halo launch NYC - Joystiq

Halo Sweepstakes: Last One Standing: Discovery Channel

Gamerscore Blog : See You All Tonight…

Very cool custom face plates …

SpaceGhost2K’s "In Your Face Plates" *Updated Aug. 25th with new pics!!* - Xbox 360 & Xbox Forums

Retrograding Gaming: Dreamcast: Sega’s Last Scream

Imagine if you released the first videogame console with a built-in modem. Imagine if you released a game console that put no restriction on online play, not forcing the purchase of any add-ons, services, or subscriptions. Imagine if you created a gaming machine that took memory cards that doubled as GameBoy-like mini-PDAs. Imagine if you had the strongest quality-wise launch line-up for a gaming console debatably of all-time, including staggering support from Capcom, two of the greatest fighters ever made, the first football series to give Madden a run for its money in years, and the true debut of a Sonic the Hedgehog full 3-D platformer.

Now imagine if you screwed all that up.

Very Cool. Happened between 9/3/2007 and 9/5/2007. Getting 6666 will be problematic, though …