Even while describing a demo for Shadowrun as the "best tool [FASA has] to show people why the game rocks," it isn't going up on the Xbox Live Marketplace until June 6, eight days after its retail release on May 29.

An official post on the game's forums indicates their intent is to "release the demo at a time when players can focus their attention and time on Shadowrun, i.e., not i the middle of the Halo 3 beta." The demo contains three training chapters, solo and public match modes, one map, two races -- Elf, Human -- magic and tech abilities and some weapons, too.

Releasing the demo near the end of the Halo 3 beta may help swing some players over looking for a new shooter, but what affect will it have on the game's initial sales?

I was thinking about picking up the game, but at $50 for the PC version, I'm going to hold off until I play this demo. I'm an avid player of the Shadowrun RPG, so I want to give it a fair shake, but I'm not holding my breath.

Now I'm not a real soccer fan, but this trailer has got my interest. Maybe once I finally get my hands on a Wii I can try it out and see if it has enough Mario inspired innovation to keep me playing.

If you see this message, Microsoft has banned you. I'm very glad i didn't mod my 360 as I did my Xbox. I got banned there and that sucked. I enjoy playing online with my friends too much to risk modding my system. If you got banned, don't whine, you knew it was going to happen.

Now if I still was addicted to WoW, I would be pissing my pants right now. This would be the best thing in the world for me to have. It doesn't look like raiding/higher level combat would work well enough, but I could travel and do all my AH stuff with it. This is what I was hoping the iPhone would be capable of.

Maybe I'm slightly jaded, but the hair animation still bugs me. It always seems to me, that if it can't be done right then don't do it. Wrap up all her hair in a pony tail and just animate that. Or show her 4 long dreads wrapped at the "joint" points so it gives the hair a reason to be a polygon....

I was unable to get online yesterday to update, as my neighbors wireless wasn't working and I had the day off. I can't wait to get cable installed at my new place. This lack of internet is driving me nuts. I'll try and make at least 2 posts if not three today to compensate for it.