I am one lucky boy! Thanks to some very generous friends, I was lucky enough to be invited to the 3DS launch event over at Old Billingsgate and I wouldn’t have wanted to be anywhere else when the console was unleashed to the UK public.

With the Nintendo 3DS being the first piece of true 3D tech, Nintendo didn’t hold back on the spending when it came to the launch party where we were treated to endless booze, mini treats in the shape of hot dogs, burgers, fish and chips and steak and ale pie and of course, booths that showed off their pride and joy. On offer were all of the launch titles that will be shipping with the 3DS but also some surprises were on show such as LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean which was a joy to play. It’s games like this which really show off the capabilities of the 3DS well and with little strain on your eyes  one can enjoy fantastic graphics, improved control thanks to one of the best analog sticks I’ve used in years and of course, 3D.

Well that’s enough of me selling the 3DS (which I’m sure anyone who is reading this has already got!) but more about this party! The event kicked off around 7pm and allowed celebs, games journalists and selected Nintendo club members to come and have a great night leading up to the launch of the 3DS. They were selling the handheld device at midnight and the first 100 people to get one for the rather crazy price of £219 would get a free game and Nintendo mag – not too bad in the end then! To entertain us until the launch, Nintendo invited some class acts including DJ Yoda, Plan B, Hadouken, up and coming girl band Parade to perform while Russell Kane hosted the event. While this was going on they had Street Fighter matches on the big screen going on in the next room and chances to get your photo taken with Ryu and Ken or Mario and Luigi – I couldn’t find the fighting duo but I was happy enough with my photo of the two mushroom addicts ( I swear they aren’t meant to be this big?).

Oh, and I also got my photo taken with Ono-san! Amazing!

What else can I say? It was an awesome night, met a ton of awesome people and got to play games + drink – good time! Now if you will excuse me I’m off to try and clear my head and attempt to remember how on earth I made it back to the hotel room…nice to have a blog post up at last too!

I have no idea if people actually visited my website when I wrote a whopping three blog posts back in May 2010 but if you did you deserve a cookie or something and an apology. The latter I can do but you will have to go buy yourself a cookie I’m afraid!

I’m sorry if you came here with the hope of finding interesting articles on gaming last year but I found it very difficult to find time to write regularly (as the grand total of three blog posts shows!) because I was trying to pass my first year at university (which, ironically, didn’t quite work out as planned…). Now however, I have plenty of free time as the quest to find a job is not nearly as exciting as killing a few trolls in World of Warcraft and I find myself sitting at home becoming very bored.

With it being the beginning of a new year and all, I thought what better time to sort out my blog. I don’t think I’m quite ready to dedicate myself to writing a blog post everyday but I will be trying to write several times a week! The first mission is to find myself a decent WordPress theme, which I have been trying to do over the last week with little success but I didn’t want that to stop me though, so I started writing this little intro piece otherwise I would pile on the excuses and never get this thing going.

I don’t really have much else to add at the moment but just wanted to make sure I got something written on the 1st to get the ball rolling. I will be sorting out other areas of the blog this evening while playing a bit of Bayonetta here and there (which is fantastic and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to play it!) so, I’ll hopefully have a more presentable website sometime tomorrow!

Oh, and Happy New Year!