Resident Evil 5 has been sitting in shrink wrap on my shelf for the past three weeks now and I finally had plans to crack it open and begin the campaign in co-op with a friend and then my 360 died. I was beginning to think that TNA Impact was a terribly glitchy game that had a major freezing issue and was going to come on here and write a post about how awful of a game it is but it turns out that while TNA Impact is an awful game, filled with bugs and poor design choices, my 360 was actually coughing up blood (probably from having to digest TNA Impact in the first place).

Upon seeing the three red lights I immediately filed a repair order with XBOX.com and then immediately began to think that a red XBOX 360 would be nice. I ultimately decided that my head was better off on my shoulders and that my wife would kill me if I ordered another 360, let alone a $400 one, when my console was still under warranty. I had justifications (like being able to play Peggle and watch Netflix in bed once my Elite was returned from the repair shop) but I don't think she would have bought into that anyway.

For those counting this will be my third system that has died. My original died in December of 2007 after my longest consecutive day gaming streak up to that point (73 days) and then the repaired console was D.O.A. so I ended up buying an Elite so I would have it for Christmas. This one died after an insane 142 day gaming streak, which will continue thanks to Games for Windows and Dawn of War II, I hope to get it back in a couple weeks though as this puts a huge damper on my attempt to reach 50K Gamerscore.

Luckily I am blessed with all the consoles and a kick ass gaming computer so I will still be playing pretty much all the time and I will finally kick into Dawn of War II and break the seal on Killzone 2 as well but damn I already miss my 360.

It's like losing a puppy, only worse.