Happy 2012 everybody! Time for some TGP Resolutions! My biggest resolution is to not overestimate my time. The site's biggest failure over the past several years has been my attempt to make a zillion updates while also maintaining my life outside of TGP. I am already re-evaluating sections of the site and dropping a few planned sections. Loud Logic never came about, so it is being removed. YKAD is also removed, mostly for professional reasons. I am also cutting back on reviews and actually considering a new "mini-review" format for games that I'd like to review, but really don't have much to say about them. I have a ton of new games now and I want to review them all, but I'll hold back. Mallboro is also being basically removed, though the link will remain and it might have a few kicks of life left. I'm making a post in the Mallboro thread on the forum about this. I had a couple other sections in mind for the future as well, but I'm going to wait on releasing them and focus on fewer things, which at this point essentially means AFFR.

     Another TGP Resolution is to bring back the Auron! I think Auron was angry with me, and that's never a good thing. His image would rarely pop up for the main page image, so no more random images! It is JUST AURON.

     And finally, the last resolution is to update more often. It'll be hard considering my job gives me no free time, but I made a little progress over this break and if I use my time wisely, I just might get things done in time. I still wouldn't expect AFFR to officially start until summer, but I will be doing Rejects and Team Announcements until then. In fact, there's some of each of those in this update! Happy New Years, everybody!

     LATE BIRTHDAY UPDATE! Okay, so it's been so dang busy lately and I've missed several big birthdays. Wyvern, Skullboy, and Fleck have all had birthdays semi-recently (like...y'know...September), so this is the update for all of them! Happy birthdays y'all! And your update is......one stinkin' Amazing FF Race: Rejects!? Three combined birthdays, and that's all I can come up with? Well....not entirely. But umm, I'm busy! Sheesh! I did a kinda update for Skullboy back in November by making a Black Friday Mallboro update, but I'm starting to think Mallboro is a sinking ship at this point. Perhaps a sunk ship even. Too bad, too, because I was hoping to one day get my Arena program going again, plus so many other things, but maybe we'll just have to brainstorm this summer to make a new Mallboro-like game. We'll see.

     I have a bunch of things planned, but I'll need time off from work to actually finalize them. A Little Big Planet review is about 80% done, but needs some polishing up. I'm planning to do a bunch of reviews like Batman: Arkham Asylum and Silent Hill: Homecoming, but again, I need some time to write 'em. And as you'll see if you look at my "Currently Playing" list (which is basically a "what I'm playing/what I've recently bought" list), I've bought a lot of pre-owned games lately, even finding a couple that I've been looking for for quite a while, like The World Ends With You and Final Fantasy Tactics A2...woo! GameStop kept giving "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" sales on pre-owned games, so after some keen mathing, I got some great deals.

     I do have quite a few AFFR Rejects in the stash though, so those might to start coming out, as will the team announcements. So hell, in the spirit of missing three birthday updates, let's go ahead and release the first Amazing Final Fantasy Race: Season 4 team announcement! Woo baby! Go team! It's not the best birthday update, but it's what I can do right now. Enjoy, everybody, and happy uber-belated birthdays!

     It's coming down to the wire, so here's what we have for the upcoming year. For now, TGP is going to be pretty empty. I might do some reviews or slowly unveil a few AFFR Rejects, but it'll basically be update-less, at least for the next couple months. I'm going to try to shimmy in an update right before my job truly starts, then probably a bunch of nothing. Sorry, everybody, but it's what I've gotta do, at least until I have more of my year planned out.

     I have a lot of work ahead of me, so in my recreational breaks I'll be playing some video games (the type you can play for short periods of time and put down) and I'll be playing Mallboro. Mallboro doesn't require large chunks of time like a lot of this main site do, so I think it'll be fun to get more into Mallboro than normal. Hopefully people will join me in posting to make it a really fun pastime.

     For now, I have an all-new YKAD! It's out of order, so this one is Another Brick in the Wall (Part III). It's all about the Teacher Performance Assessment. Hope you enjoy it!

Batman: Arkham Asylum *complete