It's a while I'm not talking about other games, so today took a break from working to write a post about PES 2008. Unfortunately isn't really a positive post... despite being overall a good soccer game, with the usual realism, it has one BIG problem... no, not the graphics everyone seems to complain about, but the crashing bugs it has! As of today I started already 3 master league and wasn't able to finish one season with any of them!!! it's incredible. All season stops after several matches (seems random, appearing after 9-10 matches, about in the middle of season). You play a match and after the first half ends, once you click to start the 2nd half the game crashes and quits on the desktop! (I'm playing the Pc version of course). It's really incredible that Konami has released such a bugged game. I've tried with 2 different pc with all different components (an Intel with ATI card, an AMD Sempron with Nvidia card). On both configurations, same result: that crash after first half. If I reload the savegame and try again, nothing - the crash remains on that particular match. Of course, I have the original game - but I'm quite pissed about this and probably next year won't buy the game, if they keep releasing it without a proper testing...!!! :( EDIT: ok so I found the problem... if you play in another language (at least that was my case, playing in italian language) you won't be able to play in master league mode! I solved it switching back to english, not a problem for me, but this doesn't mean that the game was properly tested anyway :)

This 2006 was a very busy year for me. Many things happened. I managed to release two Magic Stones expansions, The Ice Queen and Haunted Mines of Vox. I updated some of my old games, adding new interesting features in Universal Boxing Manager, like the new search screen, retiring boxers, new young boxer appearing, and many minor bugfixes and gameplay enhancements. I also made Universal Binary versions of my games The Goalkeeper and Supernova: Galactic Wars. So yes, was a very busy year, but very rewarding, also because I finished USM2, and started three more projects at same time. I can't reveal yet the details but can tell you that one is a RPG, another is a nice "tycoon" game, and the last one is an adventure game with manga drawings that I'm making together with Sakura Games. Oh was about to forget: Happy New Year! :)