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     I was watching the Don Knotts movie The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (see trailer below) and the segments in the haunted house, with its small and densly detailed rooms, and all the cliches such as secret passages, cobwebs everywhere, pictures that change, and a creepy organ that plays by itself all made me think of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.

     I heard that there was an agility orb in the lower left of the dashboard shown in this still from the Xbox One reveal show on Major Nelson's podcast. Look below to see it. E said it could just be a place holder image that means nothing, but I can only hope. Crackdown 1 was my favorite game on the Xbox 360 and if #3 is coming to Xbox One, it could be a system seller for me. I guess I'll have to wait for the coverage of E3 starting Monday night June 11th to find out for sure.

     Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to watch this Mission Impossible episode "Odds on Evil", linked below, from 50 sec to about 1:40 and observe the 1966 arcade.

     I finished The Cave Tuesday afternoon and by finish I mean I got the last achievement. So really, I finished the game about seven times. That's 56 levels because each playthrough has eight levels. You would think that would be boring but it's not because three of those eight levels are character specific so three levels are always different depending on which three characters you choose at the beginning. Repeat plays are definitely not boring. Once I knew each puzzle well, I tried to figure out the fastest way to finish each one.  

     I preordered Muramasa Rebirth today for Playstation Vita, out June 25th. It's a port of Muramasa: The Demon Blade that came out on the Wii in 2009 with some extra characters and levels to play. I also hope there will be a upgrade to the graphics although this game looked great anyway and probably doesn't need much of that.

     I tried some demos on Monday on Xbox 360 instead of playing Enchanted Arms. First I played Gears of War Judgment with a friend. It's only Overrun mode that's 4v4. It looks and plays just like GOW3 and that's just fine with me. More of great is good. Then it was Army of Two: Devil's Cartel which was a really good co-op experience. The shear amount of destruction in the game is glorious! Then I played some XBLA demos. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was hilarious and fun. I absolutely loved it! God Mode seemed to be just an endless hoard mode. Serious Sam DD XXL had controls that were unintuitive. Sacred Citadel was overly difficult and Double Dragon II annoyed me by consistently surrounding me with enemies to disrupt my fighting moves. Enjoyable however was Poker Night 2. It's just Texas Hold 'em but it's fun to listen to the characters responses especially the Venture Bros.'s Samson, Glados and Claptrap. Plus you can unlock a Samson skin for the Gunzerker in Borderlands 2. How cool is that! Then I played the demo for The Cave and got hooked and bought it.