Matthew and Hyde!

Well last night was interesting we hit Encinitas for our usual weekend night out, one of us had a few too many tequilas and ended up in a cell for the night!

This was after using street lamps as a lap dancing pole, falling into a 7/11 sign and then into the middle of the road. The local Sheriff's thought it was probably best to stick our friend in a cell for the night, probably just so he didn't die! :)

We can laugh about it now.

Home

Appologies again for not updating for a while. I've been a very busy boy.

As any regular reader will know I've been out in San Diego for nearly 2 months. Had a great time out here and took in some of the sights. Met some amazing people and genuine new friends.

I'll be heading home soon, really looking forward to catching up with my family and friends.

I recently got a new tattoo, it's the start of a full or half sleeve, cant quite make my mind up yet, HUGE thanks to the artist Billy who was a great guy and an awesome tattooist and did a great job on my arm.

If you feel the need for some ink and your in Lucadia you should check his shack out. You'll need to wait but it's soooooo worth it.

http://www.454tattoo.com/

Story So Far

I thought I'd kick off my latest blog with a gratuitous picture of our fridge! So I'm nearly at the end of my forth week out in San Diego things are going well. Jodie has now come out here to join me for a couple of weeks so that's cheered me up very much.

I'll be back in the UK roughly mid May. Not had much time to take in the sights but when we have been out and about we've had a good laugh.

A couple of places we've enjoyed recently were two bars in Encinitas The Saloon and D street. Great bars with a great vibe.

http://www.myspace.com/the_saloon

http://www.dstreetbarandgrill.com/

Other than that we've been frequenting the Karl Strauss bar on an it's fair to say regular basis. :)
When we initially got here we were staying in a very comfy but unfortunately boring hotel with no bar! Shocking I know.

Anyway I'm a busy boy so more soon, hope all of you back home are well? and see you in a few weeks.

Sorry its late! A few stories to come this is the first.

Sorry it's been a while since my last post, we've been out in San Diego for about 3 weeks now, so I'll start with a funny story.

During our first week out it was Saint Patrick's day, now we do celebrate St Paddy's back in the UK but I wouldn't say it's always a massive night. Over here it's a big deal.

Everyone was out and almost everyone was wearing Green, the whole vibe was very festive. We decided to hit the first bar in Carlsbad Village. Now stupidly myself and one of the other guys Sean (who happens to be Irish) forgot our ID, the bouncer politely suggested we go get it then return and so we did.

Upon returning the rest of our party were in a different bar so we had a few in there then returned to the previous bar at which we were originally refused entry. This is where it gets funny.

So we're all queuing up to get in to this bar again I get in with my driver's licence as ID, one of the other guys gets in then Sean gets stopped and told that his Irish passport (which he'd previously been told to fetch) will not be permitted as actual ID! And this is on St Paddy's day of all Days.

So you've got a bar full of people (of which I would imagine very few are Irish) all wildly celebrating an Irish holiday, and an Irish guy stood outside being refused entry! Made us laugh anyway.

BIG NEWS!

Me and Jodie are going to be parents! Christ I've been dying to say that.

Hope everyone back home is ok, missing all you guys like crazy. Will do a longer blog soon, I've got some interesting stuff to stick up when I get time, busy at work at the mo.

Rapturous Response!

GTA CTW is now out in stores, as previously mentioned I was a little apprehensive about the forthcoming reviews. I always feel like this at the end of a game.

You put your heart and soul into something you genuinely love and all you want to do is produce a very good game that players will enjoy.

Without blowing our own trumpet it seems like it's job done. I'm so happy with these scores, I genuinely thought that this was the best project I'd ever worked on I think this confirms that for me....

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ds/grandtheftautochinatownwars

As you regular readers know I'm now out in San Diego (more specifically Carlsbad). The weather is awesome and the place looks great but I'm missing Jodie like mad.

Met some great guys out here, and I'm really looking forward to working with them, looks like I may even finally get my sleeve tattoo started, one of the guys here has some connections in SD so I'm going to see about getting something started. I mean it this time Hollie/Andy! :)

Offski's!

Well I leave for San Diego on Monday, I'm very much looking forward to getting over there but I'm going to miss Jodie massively. I think in all our years together the longest we've been apart is about 3 days. So a couple of months is going to be a big deal for both of us.

It's fair to say I'll miss the dog and the rest of my family and friends too. :) I've got some big news to reveal on here, but unfortunately it's going to have to wait until next week. I'll still be writing my blog from my temporary home so hopefully I'll be able to post some great images and stories.

Chinatown Wars will be hitting the stores imminently, I think I mentioned before that we're all very proud of what we have built, I'm excited/nervous to see the review scores rolling in. After 2 years you just want people to enjoy what the team have created.

Speaking of games if you have an iphone or an ipod touch pick up Zen Bound from the app store. It's a really funky little game that involves wrapping up wooden blocks in string, much better than it sounds. Pocket God is also worth a look for 59p, you don't really do much its just a bit of a laugh.

Finally I must say Happy Birthday to my brother, we're off to Hooters tonight for his 30th birthday, so that should be a laugh, Pete Tong is playing at Stealth. Be great to drag everyone to that but I doubt that's gonna happen.