Since my last entry I…

*Played “Metal Gear Online” not very well and got excoriated for it on this here Multiplayer blog. For revenge, I used my magic powers to get the beta delayed.

*Reached the 80-Star count in “Super Mario Galaxy.” Are there any good, new power-ups in this otherwise wonderful game? Because most of the ones I’ve found so far, including the bouncy one (I’m trying not to spoil!) aren’t very fun. Well, I do like ice-walking. But that’s a side-effect of just one.

*Played through all three missions of “Ghost Squad,” the light-gun arcade-shooter ported to the Wii. It’s ridiculous and ridiculously short.  Unlocked a ninja mode, which let me hurl throwing stars at ninjas on Air Force One. Fun while it lasted.

*Gave up on the campaign mode of “Universe At War,” as I got myself in a bit of a jam halfway through the Hierarchy set of missions. Decided the world conquest mode would be fun, since it lets you play skirmishes on sectors of the globe and then claim that land like it’s a game of “Risk.”I got crushed in under five minutes in a match for part of South America. In my second,a battle over the American mid-west, my every-shaky Internet failed. So even though I think I’d like playing this game online, my set-up makes that impossible.

*Played one and only one mission of “Army of Two” with Joystiq’s Chris Grant. The game looks nice, but the enemy AI is for the birds, as is the melee, the flow of the action and the existence on my screen of Chris’ health bar but not mine. This game feels like a very rough draft. Maybe they’ll get it right if there’s a second one.

*Had a torturous time playing “N+” with Chris. Pro-tip: never play a game’s multiplayer before you’ve played its single-player. I was dragging the man down.

*Grinded a few missions in “Crisis Core.”

*Played a few demos on my PSP, but can I hold off confessing about that for one more day?

Next: I will play more “Crisis Core,” more “Mario” and hope “The World Ends With You” arrives soon.