I’ve been a Gamefly subscriber for the past few months, and it has saved me a ton of money. Games that I normally would have bought new at full price, play for a few days and then totally give up on now go back to Gamefly instead of collecting dust in my collection.

Today Amazon delivered two games that I knew that I had to have and not simply rent: GTA IV Special Edition and Mario Kart Wii (an extra Wii Wheel).

I subscribe to the RSS feeds of several gaming sites, so it isn’t uncommon for big stories to appear multiple times when I check Google Reader. It is slightly annoying to see the same headline over and over, but today there’s one that I can’t get enough of: Gamerscore Correction, as reported by

• Joystiq
• Gamerscore
• Major Nelson

This is hilarious. 360 gamers who use exploits to increase their score are having their scores reset and being branded as cheaters, as can be seen on StripClubDj’s Gamer Card page. I can’t stop laughing.

We brought in the New Year the way you might expect us to: playing games! We started off with some Scene It! Lights, Camera, Action. Up until tonight, Nadia and I were undefeated in that game, soundly beating any person who would test their movie trivia skills against ours. That all changed when we met our match; John and Sylvia, our friends and now neighbors, came in and showed us what it is to be movie trivia experts.

We moved to Rock Band. Nad and I have never been able to get a group of four going before. Knowing that both of them are fans of Guitar Hero, it only made sense that they’d want to give this game a shot. Nadia hit the drums as usual, I was up on bass while John took his usual post as lead guitar. This left Sylvia on the mic; she had never done karaoke before.

We rocked out up until and after the ball dropped playing songs like Creep, Paranoid, Don’t Fear (the Reaper) and Highway Star. Guitar Hero’s fun factor cannot match a band of four in Rock Band; I never really understood how fun this game could be until tonight. Below are a few pics from tonight’s gig.

I hope you all enjoyed your New Year. I wish you all the best!