Does that title sound like something you'd rather see summed up like this: I have a new game, I like it, I still work at UPS, drink like crazy and have reached level 70 in World of Warcraft?

Well, too bad.

First of all, Resident Evil 5 Demo being restricted to Asian XBL users is a crime against human nature. After about a decade of "AMERICANS FIIIIRSSSTTT!" with release dates, this comes in like a bomb. ..... Yeah, I know, I suck. I try to care for the game, I try to care for the havoc that goes down on just about any RE5 board, I try to remain as patriotic and hatefull to anything else that isn't American. But I guess I just don't care for the game. Not for the demo, not for the entire series.

So, in a nutshell. Alot of people are trying that old trick by making a Hotmail e-mail address with your locale being Japan/China. And now boards slowly fill up "Pretending to be Japanese is a crime.". GameFaq's is a blast right now, go there ASAP.

Enough about the RE:5 demo craze for now. Christmas is coming up, and aside from some more food and the horrible George Michael 80's-song-reruns, there's nothing to it for me. What's X-mas to a pessimistic optimist? Snow, booze and TV specials. And the occasional Jehovah's Witness that people snowball in Central Park.

... I'll cut the crap and move on to the game I bought.
I bought Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts over Steam(who's service is a crock of bullshit, not even Microsoft's Support Centre is this bad). After about two days of messing about with Valve and THQ: I finally got it work, and it's worth it. Twenty bucks is what the expansion costed me, and I already had the original CoH for 5 dollar. So 25$ for one of the best RTS games ever made, not bad, eh?



(If you really want to know what the deal was with the Steam Support...

I tried to buy the game, my creditcard kept on getting rejected cause their service was out for half a day. Then, when I DID get to download it and install it - It asks me for a CD-key. I buy the thing Direct-2-Drive, and I'm asked for a CD-Key. Okay, next step was asking Valve on what I should do now. "Not our business, contact Relic or THQ.". Sure, I thought... E-mailed Relic, and got a response after five hours. The highlight of the entire thing... But their swift response got crushed by what they responded with - "For the CD-key, you have to be at Steam/Valve".

Back at Steam, I looked through the forums some more and came across a message posted by a Community Mod, saying I had to enter a special CD-key that would allow me to add Opposing Fronts to my original copy of CoH. A day later, after hopelessly trying to figure out where I needed to enter my new CD-key I finally could play the game. And I love it... British ARTILLERY FTW!)