Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman most anticipated 2008 games

Source: IGN

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What is for you the most anticipated game this year? GTA IV? For me not really. I can tell you from now that the two new Lego games are top of my list. As Yahoo! Games reports, Lego Indiana Jones is going to hit shelves this May and Lego Batman will arrive later this year.

If you have played Lego Star Wars I & II, I am sure you will agree with me, together with all those fans that made them number 10 and number 3 games in 2005 and 2006 respectively. Here is a list why I think the new Lego games are highly anticipated:

• Lego is great! The fact that characters, objects, buildings, virtually everything is made of Lego bricks makes for superb, simple, clean graphics that do not overload graphics cards. At least this has been the case with Lego Star Wars and I hope that it will be again so with the new games.

How I upgraded to 24Mbps but ended up with 2Mbps

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Up to the start of January 2008 my 1Mbps ADSL connection with Otenet was working ok, apart from some very scattered disconnections when somebody was calling my home line. It was a minor problem, as I use the home landline only for Internet work and since OTE -the owner of Otenet- is the largest Greek telecoms company that effectively owns all lines in my hometown in Greece I did not dare move to another ISP.

So when OTE advertised 24Mbps speeds in January 2008, I jumped to the opportunity and applied for such a line on the 8th of January 2008. Here is what followed:

• I was informed that the necessary ADSL2+ modem that was necessary was not in stock, so I agreed to wait for its arrival. I asked for my line to be upgraded after the modem’s arrival, since the modem I was then using was not able to handle speeds higher than 8Mbps.
• Guess what! Next Saturday morning -12th of January 2008- my line was upgraded to 24Mbps and I was stuck all weekend without Internet as OTE offices were of course closed and the hotline could not do anything about my modem upgrade. The dirty story is that Otenet does all speed upgrades on Saturdays so that technicians get paid overtime. I am in no position to confirm the validity of this statement.