In case you missed last week's post about it, I've re-opened the Skin of the Day section and new reviews are coming up daily. What was the motivation for my sudden, unexpected emergence from inactivity?

Last week my girl Kayleen was in the Final Four brackets for the Zinch online scholarship, and with your help she has made it to the championship round! Voting is anonymous and takes less than 10 seconds, but she'll need every vote she can get from you guys to take the $20k scholarship home. Don't forget to type in the security image code before pressing the Vote Me button. Vote for Kayleen now!

Meanwhile, don't forget to check out the new models we've reviewed, ranging from the amazing Hello Kitty M4 to today's offering. Don't forget to mention in the comments which weapons you'd like to see more reviews of. Thanks for your support!

In case you haven't noticed, the SOTD section has been rather inactive for a while now. The good news is that I'm totally willing to re-open it, but there's a catch as the title implies.

My girl is competing for a $20k scholarship, and the winner is determined by popular online vote. It's down to the final 4, and I know the CSN community can push her to victory! Voting takes less than 10 seconds, is totally anonymous, just requires typing a short code from a security image and clicking "Vote me!" under Kayleen Hannaway's profile.

In return for your support... I'm spending altogether way too much of my limited free time getting reviews done for your custom-modeling pleasure, starting with these new ones. Feedback on what types of models you'd like to see reviewed would be appreciated! I'd also love to hear from anybody who is interested in joining the CSN team and becoming a SOTD reviewer... I'll post details in the comments.

Don't let me down, get voting!

According to CVG, there's a new mode being added to the Wii port of The House of the Dead game that was originally released on the Dreamcast. Previous information made it seem like it was only going to be a direct port.

The new Extreme Mode can be unlocked for House of the Dead 3 after completing both of the titles. It quickens enemy attacks, shrinks bullet blast radius, quickens shotgun reloading and adds a melee attack.

So, basically, it's just a very challenging game mode as well as adding an up close and personal attack action. Between this and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles on the Wii, I'm pretty much in zombie heaven!

A rather ambitious map project, entitled Museum: Source was just released publicly this past week. When I say that this project is ambitious, it's no joke. Attempting to faithfully recreate a natural history museum for Counter-Strike: Source is no easy task when the designer modeled each bone in T-Rex skeleton displays found in the map.

The original CS Map was hugely popular and now I've redesigned the map from the ground up with dozens of custom models and textures. Huge, climbable dinosaur skeletons are the bomb targets. Bones go flying when the bombs detonate.

That map is looking amazing! If you want to try your hand at saving a natural history museum (or blow it up, if that's your thing), you absolutely need to download the first BETA (Filefront download link) this second. Good luck to the map author on their venture, and a special thanks to Theropod-X for bringing this to our attention.

The site, CounterStrikeStrats.com, is offering up a new section for your viewing and downloading pleasure. This new section focuses on providing the community with the latest versions of the top competitive maps for Counter-Strike. These are the maps played in leagues such as CAL and CEVO.

Sound like something you'd be interested in? Then make sure to check out the map section at Counter-Strike Strats.