If you’re a gamer you know summer time is the most uneventful time of year. The excitement and build up of E3 is as evenly matched by the extended calm that follows it. Developers must either go on vacation or start drinking on the job to produce the shitty titles that get released during these long months. I picked up a DS Lite today making me offcially cool, but even after playing it for hours I couldn’t help but think about the other purchase I made today.

Let me first preface this story by saying my Xbox 360 has been collecting dust for weeks. There’s only a few titles I can say are worthy of purchasing and right now I own four. I’ve returned two. For the love of god, stay away from Blazing Angels. If someone gave it to me for free I would still refuse to take it. Just trust me on this one. During the exchange at my local EB GAmes I traded enough games to gain a $150 credit so I picked up the DS and a used copy of Fight Night: Round 3. Normally I don’t play sports games, but the first game was good enough for me to give it a try and ever since I popped this game in I can’t stop playing it.

We live in a very exciting time. The graphics on consoles finally rival that of PC games. Fight Night is f*ckin’ beautiful on the 360 and sounds just as good. I’ve finally found a game to rejuvinate my loyalty for the console I’d abandoned  so many weeks ago. Oh Xbox 360, how I yearn for thee.