Gaming Next Week.

There's a problem with being a university student.

When you finally get around to doing some work you have so much of it that you have little time for anything else. Well, that's when there happens to be an assignment anyway. The rest of the time you're expected to do the work yourself, in other words you're expected to be independent. You ain't going to get a detention for not reading that book they suggested you should read, it's for your own benefit in the end. How can you read something that is so incredibly boring though? Forget it, let's go play some video games instead.

So, what better way to substitute missing a few hours worth of reading with exercising my brain? Enter Brain Training, the lovely little DS game that makes Chris Tarrant sleep on the sofa for the night. I've been meaning to pick it up for a while now, simply because it's one of those things you can pick up for a few minutes a day - something that really appeals to me as a somewhat casual gamer. So tomorrow, hopefully, I'll be giving my brain some good old probing while I sit on a packed train to Leeds.

Sometimes games travel through the vastness of space and time and end up shooting through your letter box, knocking out the cat at the same time. Tomorrow, or Tuesday, Canis Canem Edit (Bully) will arrive through my door and provide some good needed relaxation time for my aging PS2. My PS2 is like a guy who's just reached his sixties, not quite on his last legs but getting there. It's got pretty decent reviews so I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with it. I'll have a review up soon enough.

Coming to the shelves next week is GTA: Vice City Stories for the PSP. I don't use my PSP a lot, mainly because of the lack of games I have for it, but then I do it's to play GTA: Liberty City Stories. When I read about how many features are coming in VCS, even more than the PS2, I couldn't help but be stunned at how powerful the PSP can really get. I can't wait to play this on the train while listening to some quality 80's tracks! I'll also have a review up of this pretty soon.

Not content with those games I'll also be spending more time with Battlefield 2142, my pet love at the moment. There's always some moment that makes me smile, which is worth all the time I get horribly frustrated at it.

That's me sorted.