A few weeks ago I asked if anyone wanted to see old video of Quakeworld I recorded back in the day and generally about nostalgic gaming recording, and got some positive replies.  Last night I copied my Quakeworld VHS tapes onto DVDs and surprisingly the video was already formatted well for Youtube so I uploaded a bit.
 
I always enjoyed making a record of my gaming, and I'd watch it over and over (usually in the background to other gaming).  I never had a camcorder until recently, but I would use VHS or audiocassettes to record my game playing.  These videos are obviously more valuable to me than other people, when I watch any of these I get a flood of memories and emotions.
 
Early internet gaming, especially Quakeworld - because it was my first internet videogame, is especially powerfully nostalgic to me.  At the time of this recording I had a really ratty gaming PC, but I had just gotten a 3dfx graphics card which doubled my framerate in Quake, uppded the resolution to 640x480, increased graphics quality substantially, and generally made the game much more playable.  In early 1998 I got a more powerful PC.  I also played a good deal of the original Team Fortress during this time but sadly never recorded it.
 
At the time of this recording I had been on the net for about a year and was still getting into the groove with it, the net was absolutely fascinating to me.  I bought a very good book on TCP/IP networking and learned a lot over time.  I would spend some of my spare time on Palace chat (a really old chat program), and Geocities chat (RIP Geocities :( ).  I also had all the consoles, and I was probably most interested in Sega Saturn because that's the last one I got.  I got the 3DFX card about a month after Goldeneye for N64 came out, so that helps me figure out when abouts this video would have been taken.
 
      
 
If people are interested I can upload more videos in the future, there's quite a few more parts where this one came from.  I can totally understand if people aren't interested though.  I'd be interested to see other Giant Bomb users videos if they'd be willing to upload them.

I don't have a facebook account, I think facebook is for dumb people.
 
I don't use twitter, it's only good for stalking celebrities.
 
last.fm?  Well I haven't ever bothered with the site, I mostly listen to MP3s, and I've put a lot of my favorite songs on my 360's HDD.  You can't listen to last.fm on the 360 in games, so it's almost completely useless.
 
All things considered, it's the most worthless 360 update yet.

Not going to post this to the forums, unless I make some horrible mistake.  The reason for this is self evident by whom I am about to quote.  This is from the main page at Penny Arcade today, here's what Tycho had to say about the MW2 dedicated server crisis :
 
"Everywhere the discussion is takes hold, the conversation surrounding Infinity Ward's decision to forego dedicated servers is an absolute fuckfest. I understand why this would be. It's an aggressive assertion that the universe is not as they claim.

On Four Zero Two, Robert Bowling's clearing house for Infinity Ward PR, the thread quickly reached one hundred and nineteen pages. The petition at the core of the conversation, entitled " Dedicated Servers for CoD:MW2," has (at the time of this writing) reached 143,991 signatures.

To read such lamentations, you'd get the impression that PC gamers still think they are the focus of the industry, when that hasn't been true for awhile. Indeed, hardcore gamers in general - and the dedicated PC enthusiast, which is a subset - haven't been the object of their desire for some time. I was under the impression this was well known, but it does require a willingness to perceive factual information, which is not a universal trait among cultists. Maybe if you had just put out, instead of becoming a signatories to a vow of consumer chastity, the old twinkle might return to his eye."
 
So true Tycho, so true.

Forza 3
Modern Warfare 2
Halo 3 ODST
Uncharted 2
Tekken 6
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
Brutal Legend
Assassin's Creed 2 (not necessarily absolute must own, I may skip it, but right now I have it preordered)
Ballad of Gay Tony
 
Demon's Souls is coming out soon in the US, but I imported it, but it'd be a must own for me if I hadn't.

A good half of ALL the best games are download only these days.  Bionic Commando Rearmed, Braid, Shatter, WipEout HD, Super Stardust HD, Pixeljunk Monsters, Trine, Trials HD, PacMan CE, Castle Crashers, just to name a few.
 
I worry about being able to play these games in the future, but for now the prices are fair enough.
 
Obviously it'd be hard to imagine getting these to work as a product in retail.  Castle Crashers on a disk for $30?  Probably would be the most likely outcome.