Our publisher Mastiff is holding a contest for the Shimano Xtreme Fishing game that I have been working on as an artist for the past year or so. The "Off the Hook" contest is at the games website [link] . You can win some pretty sweet Shimano fishing and Hoyt bowfishing gear or a copy of the Shimano Xtreme Fishing game. Any fishing or Wii gaming fans go check it out! Also, the game comes out Tuesday October 20th, go buy it!

I've been excited about the upcoming release for Halo 3: ODST. Because of this I decided to do a new set of Red and Blue helmets. Check them out below:



They really came out beautifully this time. They are on ebay right now for anyone who may be interested here [link] . It will be sad to see them go, but I always know that if I ever want my own, I can just make them again. If you have any friends who are hardcore Halo fans please let them know about the auction. And 10% of auction proceeds are being donated to the World Wildlife Fund! "Because I loooooove animals stupid." 10 points to the first person to name the movie.

Was at the Chicago Comic Con this weekend, and let me tell you it was a pretty awesome experience for me, and I'm sure it was for many other BSG fans as well. I don't think I once walked by his booth and he wasn't there signing autographs and talking to fans. The only time I saw him away from it was he ate lunch two days at about the same time that I did in the cafeteria area. But anyways, onto my story.

To get an autograph from him would have been 50 bucks, and I don't have that kind of money for a signature. So Friday I just said hi and talked to him for a couple minutes, and he was pretty enthusiastic about the show and talking to fans. So that gave me an idea. When I got home that night I drew this deviation, which took me about 4-5 hours.



The next day in the morning I talked to him again. I took out the drawing and asked if he would be willing to trade my drawing for an autograph. He said it was beautiful then asked which photo I wanted signed. It was pretty awesome to say the least. So I got to talk to Edward James Olmos...frakking Admiral Adama! And get his autograph. It was a pretty cool highlight to a good weekend, even if some other parts of the con were disappointing.

Who is going to be there? I'll be aimlessly wandering around most the time all weekend.

I don't care...I'm tired of hearing about it. Another game where you play a soldier running around in first person shooting other soldiers...Didn't I play this 2 years ago? Haven't I played this every year since Doom? I'm sure it'll be a fantastic game...for people who love games where they just run around in first person as a soldier shooting other soldiers, or shooting other people pretending to be soldiers. Here's a list of other games coming out that sound so much better than another Call of Duty. You do realize this is number 6 don't you? DON'T YOU?!?!?! The "2" in Modern Warfare is just trying to trick you. Oh, and I don't need a crappy $90 set of night vision goggles, and neither do thousands of retarded gamers. I can't wait to hear some of the bad news stories that will come out of that one. (Driving with Night Vision and no headlights anyone?) Anyway, the list, accompanied by Game Trailers links and my short sum up:

1. Scribblenauts (DS) If you can write it, you can use it. Solve the games puzzles by spawning in any of over ten-thousand items to use (beavers, ladders, chainsaws, trampolines, balloons, fans...)

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2. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) Best looking game coming out. Its like Tomb Raider but better in every way. It even has a more likeable character (yes, I'm aware he doesn't have boobs.) The first one had fantastic environments, puzzles, gunplay, characters, voice acting, and a good story, this one will be like it, but better.

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3. Assassin's Creed 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PC) Ok yeah, I'm tired of everything being sequels too, but this is only number 2, not 6. And it takes place during the Renaissance! Thats cool! Other eras of time besides WWII and the 2000s existed? Amazing. Speaking of amazing, this game looks it. And if they can take care of the repetitive nature of a lot of the first game, it will play amazing as well.

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4. Brutal Legend (Xbox 360, PS3) The genius of Tim Schaefer combines with the comedy of Jack Black in a game where you play as an ax yielding roadie fighting darkness with the POWER OF ROCK! You can finally use rock the way it was always intended, to destroy! For good or for awesome. I don't think there will be much comedy in COD:MW2, an area which most games are severely lacking.

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5. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3, Xbox 360) Its Batman kicking ass and doing the detective thing while trapped in Arkham. You really need to know more?

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There, five games that will be awesome, aren't first person shooters, and don't even have COD in front of them. I didn't even mention the stuff that will come out in 2010 (Last Guardian anyone?) And I was able to avoid other sequels that went past the number 2. Why is it that 90% of gamers in the U.S. still only play FPS and Madden?