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Thought I'd give a little update on my progress after a week online. I haven't been silly enough to play a *lot*, but I've usually managed to get online and play for about half to one hour a day. I'm presently at world rank 8859 and have been as low as 8155 earlier today, but a Road Rage took care of that. Not too shabby, eh?

I finally did it! Yesterday I finally set things up (moved a network cable and used the redeeming code I got back in January for 3 months live play) and held my heart in my hands and... went live.

I started out with what I know best, Revenge, as I was waaaay too timid to try Paradise live, as I don't want to look *too* much like a loser to others. And my fears got proved.

I pass this sign every morning when I drive to work.  I guess this means that Paradise is actually in Norway?

As you all know, Paradise City suffers from a communication problem.

We have reported this on the forums over at Criterion Games.com in the hope of getting a quick fix to a bug which is stopping Paradise from being a great online game.

Burnout Team Rocks!! WooHoo! 😉

I just caught up with the last 3 podcasts, listening to them on the bus on the way to work over the last 2 days. Contrary to what I had been told about the content being boring and not adding anything new, listening to them has reinvigorated my enthusiasm for Paradise.

Keep it going, I hope Criterion are using the time to see if the Voip, problem can be identified.

I was going to join but my Internet does not like me, going to see if there is a room now, since it is up and running, and cheer them on with Nytol, a herbal sleep remedy, and play soothing music, lol.😈

As I've mentioned in the forums, a couple of weeks ago I finally got my 100% and some nice gold and platinum paint for my cars. Nice. I'd now got 45 out of the 50 available achievements and was nudging ever nearer to maxing out the 1000 (something I'm not sure I'll ever do mainly down to the fact that I can't race online...but I digress...).

After buying Stuntman: Ignition from play dot com for £9.99 almost three weeks ago it finally arrived last Thursday. Initially I was planning to leave it nicely in my shelf wrapped in its plastic like so many other games in my collection. I’m a sucker for the £9.99 deals and it is hard to resist when the retail price for the same games here in Norway are £57.99!

hkashdkhvhksdh Sorry I got writers block - had to type something or else I'll be sat here all day.... Well yeah of course I hope you're all doin' ok out there and still enjoying the games you play currently, any of the Burnouts or whatever else.  I'm still on Revenge but in a weird position with it:  what is it with Revenge tho?  Does she (yep its a no no to call it a she but it fits) love me, have fond feelings for me and my spasmodic attempts at brilliance on it, does she want me to end our relationship and find happiness elsewhere or continue with our tempestuous love for one another?  I think she would like me to leave and find love elsewhere and in a way I kinda agree with this schizophrenic diagnosis!

The Crash Time Demo is Out Now on the Xbox 360 Marketplace.

I downloaded it today, and have played through it, and had a lot of fun with it too!

I previewed Crash Time a bit in a previous blog which you can read HERE. It is based on a German Police drama TV show, so it has a story. The demo starts off with you working on a case "Beginner's Luck". You can choose 3 different difficulty settings and if you don't like the default controls you can choose between 3 different controller layouts.