so, you probably dont know me, but im dave. thats not my real name. i dnot trust you not to steel my identity so im not going to tell you my real name.

The school where I work observed spring break all last week and on Saturday, I drove out of town and arrived at my parents' home in under 4 hours. I haven't seen them since Christmas vacation. I also needed a much-needed break from a surprisingly punishing work week. I buffed school building floors, did detail cleaning in all 3 gyms and ended each night cleaning some offices for a local gas company (the employee in charge of this is still recovering from a bad fall she had back during one of February's icestorms).

While many of you may or may not know this, I felt rather obligated to share some Pixl-Staff news with you all real quickly here. Nothing too major, but I felt that I needed to address the recent lack of Dark Souls II news and the impending review that I’m sure many of you all have been waiting for.

The thing that I love about Marvel as a movie studio is that they’ve been willing to pull out some of their lower tier characters and put them on a pedestal.  This is partly out of necessity of course; Spiderman and the X-men franchises are arguably the biggest cash cows in Marvel’s potential arsenal, and those franchises are tied up at Sony and Fox respectively.  Don’t get me wrong, Iron Man and Captain America are hardly B listers in the Marvel U, but they certainly aren’t the most recognizable faces in pop culture either (or at least they weren’t). 

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Big news, everyone!  I just got a new job working for SEGA.  I’m going to be one of the heads of creative development for a new studio they’re opening up called Flicky Tails Studio.  I’ve got big plans to revive some of SEGA’s forgotten characters in great new games, so I’ll be really busy and you may not hear much from me here anymore.  But before I go for good, I thought I’d give you guys a sneak peek of what I’ll be working on over the next couple of years.

Hello Pixlbit! It has been a windy last couple of days and as I type this, the sky is actually clear. Yesterday as I was out and about the sky was tan because of all the sand. Of course there was a shaker over the weekend here. I live a good distance away from the epicenter so all we got was a little rolling. Local news made it out to sound like we had a big one but Reddit had a good explanation on what folks around my parts endured

Unless it's a cruel April Fool's day joke Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army will be available on PSN tomorrow.

 So I went away from this site for a few days and when I came back I had roughly 2 million blogs to look at. Fucking hell, either it's time to lose some friends or invest in Asian labour, because I'll be fucked if I'm reading all of them. So as not to discriminate, I'm just going to ignore them all unless they look important. If they are important and I've missed them, let me know and I'll get around to them!

This may end up being a rehash of stuff that I mentioned yesterday.  The big difference is that I can actually think today.  Yesteday I had not consumed a lot of food throughout the day.  This meant that when I poured myself a beer it affected me a little bit more than I was expecting.  So, now that I have a clear head I wanted to write a bit.

I finished my first game since January.  I am so excited.  I put 6.5 hours into Strider and finally finished it.  I quite enjoyed it.  I always seem to enjoy those games that have those metroidvania influences...

So my son picked up Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, Defiance and Blood Omen 2 from Steam, all for $7.99. 

Arkham games 75% off. Just bought Arkham City: GOTY for around $8 and Origins for $10 to go along with my previously installed Asylum GOTY. 

I've been sick lately, due to lack of sleep. My coughs sound like my organs are coming out and it's painful. I spent until like 6am cleaning my apartment one day, and I don't think the dust in the apartment likes me very much. I need to borrow my friend's vaccuum and start dusting soon. It looks very spacious though, and everything has its place, so I'm happy with that at least. 

I dont know how many of my fellow pixlbiters are Sims fans but Im a huge one. While I have a love/hate relationship to EA the Sims as kept me arund to see what the company is up to. The Sims 4 was announced back in 2013 and it made me very happy and excited for it. I have a majority of the Sims 3 expansions and while I dont play it all the time. I still love going on and acting like a unforgiving warlord over my people!....but thats neither here nor there. Anywho upon the Sims 4 being  announced they gave away a decent amount  of info to keep us occiupied for a time. However it has come to my attention that their barely talking nor announcing things about the Sims 4. Even the facebook page as gone silent and silence can mean bad things, very bad things. GDC 2014 has come and gone and not even a release date or barely any new announcements came  out either. Im quite concerned, it was pushed back to Fall 2014 before last year ended and there not releasing details to keep the game in the know.

Happy Friday Pixlbit! So my Aztecs didn’t get the win last night. It is disappointing that the season ends this way but for a team that in the preseason was picked 4^th in the conference, to knocking out Marquette, and Creighton in the John Wooden Classic, both of which were ranked, to going to Kansas and beating the Jayhawks in their barn, to winning the conference, being ranked as high a 5^th in the nation, to finally making their 2^nd Sweet Sixteen in four years, this wasn’t bad for a “rebuilding” team. I can’t complain. Hell of a ride, and I can’t wait for next year when the three super freshmen join the squad. S-D-S-U, SDSU AZTECS FIGHT! WOOOOOOOOO!!!!