Well, what's up guys & girls, welcome to our readers here in New Zealand, & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger, but first on to the gaming stuff that they announced between the Christmas & New Year period of 2025-26 that the 4 Grand Prix racing games set to relaunch under the name Geoff Crammond Racing that will be re-released on PC under the Steam platform, but without the licensing since EA Sports is the current holder for rights to the F1 game series, similar to Rugby Challenge 4 launching under the name of Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge 4 in February last year digitally (But it came out in late May physically also last year, but there was one reviewer who commented on the game about the lack of bump offs when the late Jonah was notorious for that, & it is a bit like a Mike Tyson game without any of the knockout punches being featured where I had to burst out laughing about it, but there won't be any future add on for some reason, & one of another commenters responded that he has seen it happen in that game, asking the developer to make it an actual maneuver instead of random sub to the hand off, then the reviewer replied that he was disappointed on the logic when what most of the rugby development fails mainly is the use of motion capture tech quality, & the reason why that EA Sports Rugby 08 (For which I still got it on the PlayStation 2 as part of my holy trinity of retro games along with Star Wars Battlefront II 2005, & V8 Supercars 3) had a heap of success was because of real life movement & none of that studio copy paste stuff) in response to the disappointment of the Rugby 25 game (Which had all of the licensing such as the All Blacks (New Zealand), the Springboks (South Africa), the Wallabies (Australia), the Red Roses men (England), les Bleus (France), the Men in Green (Ireland), & others) at launch which did not reach the heights of both Rugby 08 (For which was one of the best rugby video games that they ever made) & the most successful rugby computer game of them all, Jonah Lomu Rugby as a tribute to the great legendary rugby player of our country of the late Jonah Lomu (And yes that the 1995 men's Rugby World Cup held in the 'Rainbow Nation', had created a legend like no one than any other modern day greats, such as Antoine Dupont of France & Eben Etzebeth of the Springboks), but also with no licensing as well just like Geoff Crammond Racing 1 to 4 (The 1st one came out way back in 1992 was set in 1991 while the 2nd one had been released also way back in 1996 was also set during the 1994 season, then the 3rd one also came out back in 2000 was set in 1998 (And there was an expansion pack was released in 2001 was also set during the 2000 season), & the 4th & final one came out also back in 2002 was set in 2001).
And secondly that I'm going to reveal the full story of one of my Facebook friends of Marisa Lopez but first & foremost, how the hell did I end up meeting her? Through Facebook of course because I never even met her in person before, but that's unlikely due to the fact that she lives in Florida in the United States with her husband (Who used to play gridiron during school days just like Marisa's bro, Marcus the cop) & her 3 daughters who are aged between 13, 9 & 6, because that's the reason why her life is just getting personal up there, & of course that she is an American citizen who is of Filipina (Through her mum), Kiwi (Because of her dad Marty) & English (Who Martin is British along with having New Zealand links) descent, but I did not know Andy is related to Marisa due to the fact that they're cousins along with Marcus & Marat through Marty's side, as well as Yasser & Areje through Zaki therefore Andy has 5 cousins in fact...These are the questions that haunt me.
And thirdly in music that female Canadian-American pop rock singer Alanis Morissette, could be rock's equivalent of Madonna, compared to Canadian Avril Lavigne being rock's version of Britney Spears, & American Michelle Branch being the rock music equivalent of Christina Aguilera (And also that Amy Lee of Evanescence is compared to Taylor Swift, then Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong share the same role as Katy Perry, & last but not least, Daniela Velez Villareal from the Mexican band of the Warning is similar to Billie Eilish, but I haven't had a topic about music for a while on my blogs (And also that the lead singer of Killing Heidi of Ella Hooper could also be rock's equivalent of Kylie Minogue).
And finally that the Winter Olympic games at Milan-Cortina in Italy are due to get underway on the 7th of February (6th there in Italy) with the opening ceremony at the iconic San Siro being staged in Milan, but I have been watching the curling so far which is my fave winter Olympic sport to watch, but there are signs that the Santagiulia ice hockey arena won't be ready in time, but it hosted its first women's match between hosts Italy & France despite several delays & all of the controversies that a lawsuit had been set up by the Roman Catholic church meaning that construction had been stalled, but continued then ready to go, & most ice hockey fans were slammed about that little jumbotron that they had, compared to most arenas in the NHL in North America (Although the teams competing in the National Hockey League are usually accompanied by those legislation enforcement officers when the players, coaches & support staff are on a bus whilst on their way to training, & to a game) just like in 1996 or 97 where a jumbotron had been collapsed at a ice hockey arena in Buffalo, New York.
So that is my 677th blog of the year 2026 (MMXXVI) & my 29th of this year, viva Ukraine.
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