Happy BaD! As always, I'm really bad about participating in BaD, my last blog was almost 5 months ago, but I do look forward to the BaD entries of others.

Well good morning Pixlpeeps! I am going to try and type this up as quickly as possible so I can jump on some pre Thanksgiving errands before all the crazies start filling up the stores. It is 8:22am right now and I hope to have this finished and the pictures edited before 9 so I can get the day going. So let’s get started with Chris’ Early Black Friday or as I like to call it Gray Wednesday!

So here I am on Saturday morning typing up what usually is a Friday blog because I got lazy on Friday. Actually I started the blog but then I got caught up in other important business (I went to pick up some Mexican Food for breakfast) and then went about my day without updating you good people. Anyways let’s get started.

Later today as of this blog supposedly last Nintendo Direct of this year will be live. I’m a bit excited to see actual release dates for Fire Emblem Fates but after a slow reimmersion of Pokemon I’m hoping to see a surprise trailer for a new main series Pokemon game. And with Pokken and Genei Ibun Roku ?FE taking more of my interest I’m debating, if possible, I should buy a Wii U or not. I hope that, if information will be available in the Nintendo Direct, Shantae makes it in Smash. I really like the character and this is pretty much a popular third party IP entering a game with Nintendo, SEGA, and Bandai-Namco characters.

I hate giving up on a game when I just start them, but I rarley have regrets when I do. Some games I never finished that I think were good games were Resonance of Fate, and Valkyria Chronicles. With Resonance of Fate there were long sections where you had to survive before reaching the boss at the end, a dungeon if you will. Dying half way and having to restart was very frustrating, but probably meant that I didn't understand the combat well enough. This is more likely true. Valkyria Chronicles, which is like an anime XCOM had long campaigns where you could end your game after an hour over a dumb mistake. Again, it probably means I didn't understand the game mechanics well enough to keep going. They are both really good games in my opinion, but with so many games to play out there, I don't feel like investing time to learn new systems all the time. I need to cut down to one or two games a month, instead of every week. 

Amazon has announced that, as of this very moment, they have launched Prime Instant Video on the Sony PlayStation 3. 

Last night, Sony revealed during their TGS 2011 press conference that the Vita will launch in Japan with a total of 26 titles on December 17. The launch will feature some major titles, like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Disgaea 3, Katamari no Biita, and of course, Ridge Racer. Click through for the full list.