Alexander the Great

March Madness has overcome me,and I'm pretty excited for one main reason - Joe Alexander. #11 on the West Virginia Mountaineer's basketball team, he's a star player who has recently been on an incredible spur. They just upset Duke in the second round of the NCAA Tournament to proceed to the Sweet Sixteen to face off against Xavier on Thursday. Big, big game, and I can't wait to watch the next game. If you guy's didn't know, Alexander lived overseas for a large portion of his life, 5 years of which were spent in Beijing, China. He went to the same school as me (International School of Beijing) and in fact I remember running around the Holiday Inn Lido Hotel and ding-dong ditching with him in elementary school. This guy's a beast, I'm hoping for a final four run. WVU BABY!

Gaming has been kind of dull lately, really only playing a bit of the Call of Duty 4 Single Player Campaign. I never finished it, and now that I've played more of it I can really say it's pretty freakin' amazing. Just the atmosphere will blow you away, and you get placed in a huge variety of missions ranging from stealth sniping to aerial bombardment. If for some freakish reason you haven't at least tried this yet, you better get off your lazy ass and start.

To finish off, I want to talk about a lesser-known movie that I got the chance to watch over Spring Break in DC. It's called In Bruges, and it stars Colin Farrel, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fieness, and a few other great characters. I believe this is one of those film festival movies that never really get advertised or wide-spread, but I've got to say this is one amazing film. I find it's whole film-festival situation akin to Little Miss Sunshine, but that's about where the similarities end. In Bruges is a very clever, dark, and humorous film with plenty of blood and gore to appease the goosebumps. Don't let the seemingly lack of action get to you, this movie is more for it's dark humor than all-out action. Obviously avoid this only if you want a family-friendly movie full of light-hearted laughs.

I also felt like adding some gaming news. Some of the things I'm about to talk about might not be very new, but I feel like covering it real quick.

Starcraft 2 - So Blizzard has finally revealed the Zerg, and man do they seem awesome. That said, it looks like they'll have quite a significant change in play style, and quite possibly be the hardest race to master at first.

Grand Theft Auto IV - That link will bring you to the IGN Hands-On, which really just makes me feel like some giddy school girl after reading. Hot diggity-dog does GTAIV look amazing. *drool*. There's going to be multi-player too, which if implemented correctly could be totally killer.

Metal Gear Solid 4 - Sony has announced that this game will be offered bundled with a PS3. I'm sure a large number of you just shat your pants. This is a huge deal, and will certainly boost sales of the PS3, which have been doing very good lately. That said, it does baffle me as to why Sony would announce this now, as it may kill the number of sales they make now on their PS3.

Other games to look out for in the future - Gears of War 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Too Human, and Mario Kart Wii.

The status of the Playstation 3 is looking pretty good, which GTA IV and MGS 4 coming out this year. Not only that, they still have Resistance 2 and possibly Unchartered 2 some time in the future.

The Xbox 360 is looking fantastic, GTA IV is also coming out, along with more games to compliment every month or so: Ninja Gaiden 2, Gears of War 2, and Too Human. Shaping up to be a great year for 360 owners.

The Nintendo Wii looks like it COULD be in the worst shape, with Mario Kart Wii being the biggest title people are looking forward too. There's still Wii Fit, MySims, and a hopeful port of Spore that make the Wii still future-proof. Also Nintendo has stated they have a big announcement for E3. I'm sure a lot of us are wondering what it could be, as the big guns have already seemed to be used or announced (Zelda, Metroid Prime, Mario, SSB, Mario Kart). Let's cross our fingers and hope for the best.

There ya go, a nice lengthy post. Be sure to leave comments :D