Having played through Diablo II: The Lord of Destruction the previous week (which I thoroughly enjoyed, by the way) this week I moved on to a game I had been eagerly anticipating for a long time now: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars. It's become a cliché to talk about being disappointed by a Star Trek game, but I really, really, really wanted to enjoy this one. And while I did enjoy it for a while, it was just burdened with too many problems for me to keep pushing through it. I may pick it up again eventually, but it just became too frustrating to be enjoyable after a while. I still have some credit at my local Software Etc. store from my last console game sell-back, so I think I'm going to go hunting for a decent Star Trek game this weekend. Voyager - Elite Force is undoubtedly the best one I've ever played, and is probably the best made to date, but nonetheless I'm going to see what else I can dig up. I've been told that Deep Space Nine - The Fallen is pretty good, and so that's most likely the one I'll be getting, since I'm such a fan of the show, but if anyone here has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them. Being a hardcore gamer and a big time trekkie should in theory go together perfectly.

On a completely different note, the contest to win my pile of junk has ended, or at least, technically it has. I won't be making the drawing until early next week, so any entries made over the weekend will be included. So consider this your last, last, last, last chance to enter. The real fun comes next week when I actually mail out the prizes. Yowza, that's gonna be a big trio of boxes.

Story of the Day: Two computer viruses making rounds (CNN.com). Thanks Micah Leiff Nutt. Following up on yesterday's Out of the Blue (story).
Bonus Story: Wild asses struggle for life in Iran (CNN.com). Thanks Tony Distler.
Image of the Day: This Reuters photo of the falling cow from Thursday's story of the day. Thanks Joe Siegler.