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Evening, all (well, from Seattle anyway).

I'm breaking up the political postings to make a simple plea.

The holidays are coming, and for gamers it means a whole bunch of new product is coming down the pipeline. I'm looking forward to "Jedi Outcast," "Nightfire" and a few others to grace my petite, ebony Gamecube in the coming weeks.

Plus, I'm well aware that a) a good many games are being written for all platforms and b) some games will forever stay on an exclusive system. However, I want to wish on my BlogStar (patent pending) tonight for two games to come to Gamecube. Just two. I don't want to waste my money to fork out for a Playstation 2 and an Xbox, each for one special game.

First up, "Rez." Developed by the good folks (yes, I'm sucking up) at United Game Artists, the game could be easily called a "first-person shooter" set inside the movie "Tron," if the filmmakers wrote the script at a rave whilst on X. Besides being a completely outside the box kind of game, it's picked up a bit of notoriety for giving the female players quite a thrill.

Second, this one's going out to LucasArts. Dear George, you can make up the train wreck of "Attack of the Clones" and the impending Episode III disaster by making a Gamecube version of "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic." C'mon, George, think of it this way. You get more people to fork over more cash for your content. Everyone is happy and I get to be in a Star Wars RPG, battling countless Sith warriors and cruising around the universe with my best Wookie by my side, who is currently tearing apart some smart-ass robot. Plus, the game is set some 5,000 years before the rise of the Empire, meaning no Jar-Jar Binks, no Anakin "horny bipolar Jedi/bad perm" Skywalker and no embarrassing kung-fu Yoda.

Third, the game of "Darkened Skye" must be wiped clean from the human consciousness. Playing about 15 minutes into it, the damned thing, a game with clever potential to be a necessary spoof of hack-and-slash adventures, became a commercial for Skittles. That's right, the multicolored candy globs. I did not pay $7 to rent a fucking candy advertisement from Blockbuster. Shame on the makers of this game for tricking players into such a cheap marketing ploy. I mean, I understand "Caveat Emptor," but this is beyond fair play.

There, that's it. I just want two ports and one game burned and buried in hell's deepest pit. Is that so much to ask?