While in class yesterday, I was introduced to a toolbar expansion for Firefox called Stumbleupon, which based on the interests you choose, will send you to website pages with said criteria. As I went through the customization process for the toolbar, I found gaming was one of the interests, so I check marked it to see what cool things might come up. Within about 10 minutes of use of Stumbleupon I found this amazing video for San Andreas, that helped me figure out something I could do to pass time until Halo 3 or GTA4 arrives.

I’m quite excited now to go back an venture the streets of San Andreas, searching for things I had never thought of doing. Should keep me plenty entertained ’til the big titles drop.

And speaking of biding time until Halo 3, what are you doing during the wait? Diving into Skate or Stranglehold? Re-playing through Halo 2 on Legendary? What has your attention off of the week and a half wait?

Many times in the gaming industry, you see games often pushed and sometimes even cancelled. The question I have is, why must they be the games I care about?

Yesterdays push of the next chapter of the ever popular Grand Theft Auto series left me a bit shaken, since this has been the first time in years that a GTA has been delayed for more than two weeks after original launch date.

As I look around at games, I wonder… what do I care about buying this holiday season, now that a few of my most anticipated have been pushed into the abyss. I know, I’ll probably get a lot of flak for saying that I’m really not excited about Halo 3, and it’s probably deserved. However, multiplayer is the only thing I care about with Halo 3. Let me make a psychotic Warthog Wars gametype that all players involved will love, and you’ve got me hooked… but the slayer and team slayer matches have just been overplayed.

Along with my Grand Theft Auto fix being Car-Jacked, I’ve recently read that The Wheelman has been pushed to 2008 also. Now I guess I can’t really complain much in this situation, because we’ve never even seen gameplay for this title. Maybe something critical is being tweaked, so the core gameplay mechanics will be fixed. Speaking of Midway games, Blacksite: Area 51 also was pushed to November 5th. That isn’t as bad, as it is still this year, but the constant delays have me going loopy.

Don’t get me wrong, there are things I am looking forward to, for example: Guitar Hero 3, Mass Effect, Half Life 2 Orange Box, Stranglehold, and Bioshock. I just wish a couple of my most anticipated would be available, but I suppose I have others to tide me over until then.

Speaking of Most Anticipated, What is your ‘Top 5′ for this holiday season?