Yes, I’m a nerd. I don’t care.

It was announced yesterday that the new Super Smash Brothers game is going to have a level editor. A level editor, along with the ability to save replays, take screenshots, and play online means that I must own this game (even though I completely suck at the Smash Bros. games). I still need to get Zack and Wiki, Metroid Prime 3, and Super Mario Galaxy when it comes out. This year is turning out to be really freaking good for games.

I picked up Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction on Saturday and am finding it hard to put down so I can get some sleep. The graphics are really freaking good, there’s a ton of stuff to do in the game, and there’s explosions. Lots of them. Some of them are gooey. Between this and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, it seems like the PS3 game library might be getting a good kick in the pants just in time for Christmas. Which Sony’s game division seems to need, considering they posted a $845 million loss for Q2.

I’m afraid to play my 360 after reanimating it from its untimely RRoD. This is bad, because Mass Effect comes out next month and I really want to play it (I even pre-ordered it). Plus, what’s the point of owning a games console if you never play games on it? But I’m afraid, however irrationally, that it’s living on borrowed time and by playing games on it I’m using that time up. Maybe I’ll throw in skate. tomorrow and prove to myself that it’s fine, hopefully getting some funny videos of my skater racking himself in the nuts in the process.