2001: Nintendo announces with Olympus that they will create e-cards (different than those annoying, I didn't really care but I kinda cared website birthday cards your co-workers send on your birthday, forgetting that you spent $5 on a paper Hallmark number for their day that alluded to a private joke they didn't even remember even though it defined the entirety of your forced social interaction for the last 2 years of your work life) for the GBA to share Pokemon characters. Note: that parenthetical never occurred to me or anyone I know. But it very easily could have, so let it be a warning.

2006: EA releases Burnout Revenge for Xbox 360 in the US. Sure, it's already been on some other systems, but the game never looked this good. Whoever claims that HD is just marketing hype or that the next-gen consoles are just a half step of improvement needs to play this title on a big screen...at its full 720p resolution...and then remember that it's an early title for the console...and that I love the drama of a good ellipsis. Mark Wilson

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