Thanks to our local public library...

[Tortuga]

...I'll get to try a whole bunch of new XBOX 360 games without spending a dime.  Our local public library has just started carrying 360, P3 and Wii games.  You can rent them for 7 days and they have multiple copies so you don't have to wait that long.  I'm a shameless achievement-you-know-what, so this rocks.

Does anyone else's library lend out console games?

[vamp]

Mine doesn't Apparently they think learning to "read" is more important. So Timmy can't read, at least he is one heck of a gamer. 

In all seriousness though, thats pretty cool. Enjoy

[Tortuga]

So far I've reserved the following:
Star Wars: Force Unleashed
Mercenaries 2
Prince of Persia
Smackdown vs. RAW 2009
The Simpsons Game...(easiest achievement ever, literally!)
Spider-man: Web of Shadows
Mirror's Edge

There's a ton more, but this is the cream of the crop.

[thalaw2]

What happens if your students see you in the library renting games?   

[Tortuga]

Oh, they already know about my love for XBOX-gaming.  And Slurpees.

[detourne_me]

wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

[AfghanAnt]

Where do you live?!

[BWPS]

That sounds like the single best thing ever. I'm jealous.

[Figure Fan]

Wow..to the library has given up trying to push books on kids? Haha! I'm kidding, but having video games in a library seems..odd, to say the least.

Still, a lot of video games these days have amazing stories and visuals, not to mention more interactivity.

[JeyNyce]

I wish that they would do that here, but I'm sorry to say that some of the kids around the neighborhood has sticky fingers

[Gremlin]

wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

Hey, Starcraft would be a great educational experience.

[JeyNyce]

wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

Hey, Starcraft would be a great educational experience.

Do you know that Starcraft has been broken down to one giant calculus math problem.

[Gremlin]

wow,  that's great,  i remember how psyched i was that the local library (a few years ago in canada carried a lot of comics)

and Thalaw,  whats wrong with letting your students know you game?
my younger students and I used to play NDS all the time,  now i'm telling my middles school students about games like left 4 dead and fallout...anything to get them from playing starcraft! hahah

Hey, Starcraft would be a great educational experience.

Do you know that Starcraft has been broken down to one giant calculus math problem.

BRING IT TO ME.