I’m currently sitting here waiting for my Windows Media Center 7 setup to complete and thought I’d do a quick little update about what’s been going on recently.

In all honesty, not a lot. I’ve had the last three days off of work because it was my Birthday on Wednesday. I’ve been mainly chilling here and playing a load of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I’ve also got a PC Wireless Receive for my XBox 360 controllers (courtesy of Errkal), so I can now finally play the copy of DIRT2 that came with my graphics card late last year.

I’m enjoying this game so far, I prefer the Rally and Rallycross sections over the big truck thingos (I can’t think for the life of me what they’re called!) Of course, the game is not without its flaws. The two main issues I have so far is the navigator in the Rallies is a bit slow to let you know about crucial details. A nice example of this is *SMASH!* hairpin to the left, take it slow… YOU THINK?! Also, the rewind function is pretty useless in comparison to Forza 3′s. In Forza you can rewind to a comfortable distance before your crash, but in DIRT2 I find myself only being able to rewind to half way through my crash. Pretty lame.

Ooh! I’ve also got Red Dead Redemption, I haven’t played it yet but expect to hear more about my Wild West shenanigans here shortly.

Y’know, one day I’ll get this written on the Sunday – when it’s meant to be put up!

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For those of you who don’t play Modern Warfare 2 – you achieve 50-100 points for each of your kills, which add to your XP which in turn helps you rank up to earn various guns, perks and game modes. In the video posted below this guy was invited to an XP boosting match, so everyone in the game was cheating already. This guy in particular had an exploit in place that means anyone who kills him gets upto minus 5 million XP each time, affectively reducing their rank back to Private.

This is for the Xbox 360, I haven’t seen it happening on the PC version myself but apparently they’ve fixed it for the PC first with the 360 and PS3 patches in the works now.

The clocks have gone back and the evenings are going to start getting dark and, but who cares when you’ve got the Left 4 Dead 2 demo to keep you occupied as Winter draws closer.

The pre-load on Steam has begun and I’ve got mine downloaded:

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The demo is out on the 27th October 2009 on Steam for those of you who have pre-ordered with the mere mortals getting it a week later.