Here at the Incomplete Gamer, we love our basketball as much as our video gaming.  If we’re not actually hitting the hardwood for real, we’re either watching a game or playing a virtual one.  With Game One of the NBA finals just hours away, you would be right to imagine that we’re actually counting down the minutes.  Following today’s official announcement, that Basketball legend, Michael Jordan will grace the cover of Take Two’s Basketball game NBA2K11, and play a role in developing the title, we’re now also counting the days until the game’s release in the Us on October 5.   Jason Argent, vice president of marketing for 2K Sports, confirmed the news to CNBC.com.

The Incomplete Gamer has a brand new home, and it’s all your fault.  Too much traffic is never a bad thing, except when you’re on a capped bandwidth hosting plan.  You may have noticed the site was missing in action during the last two days of May as a result of exceeding our bandwidth limits.

With our traffic continuing to build, and not wanting to risk another disappearing act, we went looking for a company offering both unlimited GB’s of space and unlimited GB’s of transfer.  We also wanted great service at the best price in town.  JustHost.com ticked all the right boxes and while it is still early days, we would like to thank the Just Host support team for their assistance in making the move painless and swift.

While we’re tipping our hats, a quick shout out to WordPress Hacks.  Their advice on how to move a WordPress site to a new host or new domain proved invaluable.  You might notice some slight tweaking over the next few days as we restore the site to its former glory.  Thanks for your patience and, as always, a big thank you for stopping by.

There’s more shape-shifting going on in the fourth and mercifully the last series of ‘til Death than your typical episode of Fringe.

But rather than different characters inhabiting the same character’s body, over on the set of ‘til Death, four different actresses have played the role of Ally Stark,  daughter of Eddie and Joy Stark.  Just in case that wasn’t confusing enough, the shows producers have elected to play episodes out of order so that one Ally actress appears, is replaced, and returns throughout the final series.  One of the actresses playing Ally, even played a different character on the show – a waitress – one episode before joining the cast as Doug’s wife Ally.  Read on to make sense of the nonsensical and why we think ‘til Death didn’t merely jump the shark, but jumped in the pool and bludgeoned it to death.

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UPDATE: Stop the clock, or more accurately the Day Calendar.  Halo 3: ODST is in the building.  Ordered on the 1st, dispatched on the 4th and in the Incomplete Gamer Mail box today – Friday the 21st of May.  We won’t tell you that our purchase was in part motivated by a desire to play the Halo Reach multiplayer beta, if you promise not to highlight the fact that the beta just ended.  Fact is, we’re excited about playing the single player campaign and at a smidge over $28 we still feel like a winner!  Read on to find out why we’re rating the online retailers.

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Can’t get enough of The Incomplete Gamer?  I’m spreading the love and my writing to GameFlavor, a network of four sites, PS3 Informer, PSP World, Xboxist and The Red Shell.

You can find my first rant online and awaiting your reading pleasure right now!  Read on to discover why Alan Wake fans are reacting in horror. Game Reviews: Your Number’s Up.

I’ll still be dishing up regular servings of Incomplete Gamer.  Think of it as a bonus extra course!

Fire up your Xbox360 and head straight to the marketplace.  Episodes 3 and 4 of the Alan  Wake live action prequel have finally landed and are waiting for you in all their High Definition glory.

Episode 3 has been available over at www.brightfalls.com for almost a week now, but why watch it on your pc in a teeny tiny window when you can be scared witless in the comfort of your lounge on the big screen.

The appearance of the videos on the marketplace doesn’t explain why Episode 3 was missing in action for so long.  Perhaps the Microsoft code monkeys lost the video file down the back of the couch.  Perhaps it was there all along and we just didn’t  see it or perhaps it wasn’t even a week late.  The mind plays strange tricks especially in Brightfalls.  Why are you still here reading  How long have you been standing in front of your computer?  Who wrote all those words on the notepad?

Just last year came exciting news from Nottingham in the UK. Keep in mind there’s been nothing of note come out of Nottingham since the tales of Robin Hood emerged, and that was 800 years ago. This exciting news even has something in common with the fictional world of Robin Hood, in as much as  it concerns videogames and the tales they have to tell.

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While my preordered, Collector’s Edition of the game, Alan Wake, languishes somewhere in a Channel Islands warehouse and volcanic ash clouds gather on the horizon, a chap in Spain,  HeikkiX360, was lucky enough to receive his game 8 days early – courtesy of the good folk at GAME Spain, who it would appear, have diligently shipped off their pre-orders, a week and a bit early.  If it’s not cruel enough that HeikkiX360 has taunted us with an ‘un-boxing’ video, he’s also had the gall to put up a video walkthrough of  the first three episodes, lest there be any doubt that he did in fact have the game.  If you love a good unboxing (it just tends to make me jealous and annoyed), then make the jump and press play to see Alan Wake stripped of his shrink wrap.  Lastly, a community service message for any budding Spielberg planning on shooting an unboxing video of their own.  Don’t film the unboxing on your bed.  It tends to just come off as creepy.

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In order to be of service to our readers we’re making the ultimate sacrifice and ordering games from a select few on-line Video Game retailers in the coming weeks.  If you read Part One of our Rating the On-line Retailers you’d know that already.  You’d also know how to get your hands on a cheap copy of Halo 3: ODST and free postage to boot.  Today we’re trawling another UK site, Zavvi.com, in search of a deal on up-coming Xbox360 exclusive, Alan Wake.  If a price of just over $70 Australian sounds good and the possibility that it will ship to your door before the Australian release date sounds even more enticing, then read on.

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I need a game I can finish. Seriously; if I failed to complete books the way I fail to finish videogames I’d be illiterate and still half way through ‘Where is the Green Sheep’ (I’ve read it twice). Nor have I ever walked out of a movie screening either, and it’s not just my Scottish heritage or that I only see great movies. I once dated a girl who worked at a local art-house movie theatre which mostly screened the movies that Dendy rejected. I didn’t walk out of those foreign language stinkers either and they were free. Admittedly, I did fall asleep a couple of times.

No, I like to start what I finish. It’s the completionist in me. Blame it on a Protestant work ethic, stubbornness or determination, but there’s a level of satisfaction in turning the last page of book, watching the credits roll on a film, or the season finale of a favourite TV show. Ticking it off my ‘list of things to do’ is all part of the experience.

If you’re getting that same level of satisfaction from videogames on a regular basis then good luck to you. Not me. My collection of unfinished games – my pile of shame – far outweighs the titles I’ve clocked from start to finish. Sure there are more books and movies in the world then I’ll ever find the time to read or watch but the difference is I don’t tend to swing by my local Borders and drop cold hard cash on books and movies and then only partially consume them. My failure to complete all my games is my pastime’s greatest sense of frustration.

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