MONDAY GAMING HEADLINES

Good Luck with the Move and have fun while doing it. We will still wait till you come back for news.

Good luck with the closing and the move.

Congrats and good luck moving bro, remember lift with the legs!

I've tested the friendly fire melee thing several times in L4D, and I have never found melee to do any damage to team mates. If I'm surrounded by a horde, please use melee to help me out and DO NOT shoot. If your pinned by a hunter or smoker, friendly fire doesn't do any damage, so fire away.

Somehow \"Midway\" and \"Better than Gears of War 2\" don't belong in the same sentence.

interesting read about the recruiters and games

So looking fwd to the Halo Wars Demo.

Surveys are silly. Does it really mean that gamers are more likely to get gooney, or does it mean drinkers/pot smokers are more likely to game?

I don't think the KZ2 devs admitted that there are problems with the controls. I think they admitted that a large number of people are complaining and that they are listening to the complaints and may make changes.\r \r I personally hope they don't change them at all.

Agreed BlowMonkey, seems like \"Jason Triplett\" is a cry baby. Controls are what they are, if you can't adapt you die.

Welcome back tank..

We missed you.

Yeah! the Tank News is back!\r Good luck finding more work!

Sounds like Microsoft is getting greedy. They know the word's \"Limited Edition\" will command a higher price tag.

Great news about Bioshock 2! I never got really into the first one but incorporating MP into the sequel should make it a must-buy.

Thanks TANK for the MUA 2 info

Ghostbusters Wii Trailer will be out later today. just got release by atari press just now.

Why would you want to play ghostbusters on the wii

I thought Fallout New Vegas was going to be an entire new game.

Groovy, yes that is correct.

Yay Sacred 2 !!!

xbox 360 motion sensing article was good, interesting. makes me think they are just going to take everythign from everyone lol\r wii is getting rayped right now, first the mii's now this lol.\r \r wolverine looks and sounds good from all ive read. im going to have to find me a bootleg somewhere lol

big surprise call of dookie 57 lol

things id like to see in DeadSpace2..\r \r 1. zero gravity throughout levels, not confined to certain areas anymore.\r \r 2. being able to manipulate the world, as in taking off /putting on vents for airducts and crawling through them, being able to pick up chairs and tables and block doors, hang from hands, climb ropes etc.\r \r 3. make this one have a deeper story thats told through problem solving and puzzles, not just audio files you find throughout the ship.

Welcome back!! You were missed.

Sweet! Now I don't have to dig for news myself anymore. Glad to have you back.

i want a master chief suit for my avi\r

Why ? YOu and like 3 million other people. Everyone will look the same. I like things how they are where you can have lots of customization options and the chances of seeing another you are pretty slim. But they release a spartan armor costume and milliosn of people will be sporting that all looking the same.\r \r I understand though, i'd love to have some COG armor myself. :lol:

Price drop sucks...I just bought a Pro 2 months ago.....Good for those who don't own one yet.

RE: Mass Effect 2\r \r The latest issue of Gamepro says something to the effect that if your character dies during the final battle, he's done. I guess there are a bunch of decisions that go into whether he'll live or die, so if he does die, you would need to restart a save from the middle of the game before those wheels were set in motion.

yeah but if they added helmets and color change and armor change then we could all be different\r i wish they had that level of customization\r

seriously, M$ sucks!...All I want is some ME happy goodness, is that so much to ask?? NO...no it's not!\r \r

http://majornelson.com/archive/2009/07/20/xbox-360-system-update-preview-program.aspx

that's because the shit heads at Microsucks won't release the Mass Effect DLC!!! JUST GIMME IT!!!

fat princess Thursday http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/07/27/fat-princess-worth-the-weight-heres-the-date/

did i call the armor for the avatars? haha

and its about time we get to choose color for our clothing, i thought this was a simple thing, but glad they are implenting it

AssassinsCreed is looking so damn good, its a 1st day buy for me. wishing Ghostbusters would hurry up on my gamefly queue everyones saying good things about it.\r \r at the moment im not real intrested in Avatar and 3d gaming cause im pretty confident Natals going to have headtracking which means 3d without glasses.\r \r Ive always been a fan of R-type but not for $10..\r \r Tank your the 1st place i look for game news, your efforts are appreciated.

Assasins is UBi's one and only holiday release i think now, they've delayed everything else. So it should be good one would think. I've already got two other titles for nov though, cod and l4d so i'll be passing on it. I liked the first 2 hours of play in the original, it showed some really good promise but then they just repeated that first two hours over the 30 hours or so it too to play. So i want to know how repetitive the game is befor ei put down my 60, i won't play it if it was like AC1.\r \r BUt ya the 3D game thing is a gimmick , much like 3D movies. But it could be interesting , i never planned on playing Avatar but maybe i'll check it out and see how good video games translate to 3D space. I'd rent it though or pick it up bargain bin.

I'm most suprised to learn that F.Y.E. is still in business. I t hought they went the way of all the other record stores.

Our FYE closed last year sometime

whats a record?

I\"ve seen them around, they probably just closed theunder performing stores.\r \r

I really hope that deal does happen between marvel & Disney and then hopefully some fun things will happen out of the normal.

I'm actually thinking that disney is fun kids family oriented adn that doesn't really mix well with the likes of punisher, wolverine and others. I actually view this as potentially bad for the future of marvel.

Agree with Tank - this doesn't fare well for further 'edgier' comic movies, etc.

Hm...I think they will pretty much leave Marvel alone. Marvel has done very well keeping the 'edgier' characters like Wolverine while at the same time having a 'kids' version that is in both comics and on the television. I doubt Disney will change too much what has until now been a winning formula.\r \r Plus the article I read pointed out that DC has been a company under Warner since 1969 and they have continued to put out edgy stuff.\r \r I also happen to own stock(1 share - woot) in Marvel so that is pretty cool, though I guess now I'll get a certificate that says Disney on it, heh.

“We feel like our system has done very well for us in the current form,” 360 product management director Aaron Greenberg told Kotaku.com.\r \r \r LOL! Funniest think I have heard all day! How many of us have had multiple 360's because they crapped out??

Looking foward to crackdown2- 4 person co-op is gona be great

ya im down for crackdown 2. Check out borderlands too, it's coming out in oct and is a similar style with 4 player coop

Fourtwenty? lol it's 402

whatever

Mass Effect 2 looks promising so far. Just recently played the first one on my PC and loved it.

Ah I will believe those games come out in 2010 when i see it. So many disappointments caused by marketing hype this year that from now on I am just waiting till i s see it in the store.

Well any game that advertises coming out in october or november you need to take that with a grain of salt. Those two months are by far the most competitive months of the year and if there's a halo, cod or gears coming out, everything else is going to get out of the way.

Odd thing was the copy of MW2 I nabbed on Friday last didn't have the orange \"DO NOT SELL BEFORE XXX\" sticker on it. I was mildly surprised, but didn't pause long enough to think about it until now. :)

yay, finally a FFXIII update. about time they put a date on that beast.

In the case of Windows Mobile, I want to work on my Forza3 tunes and liveries on a computer or phone. That way I can just race when I turn on the box.

That was the original idea behind the 'live anywhere' directive announced like 3 years ago but hasn't really materialized. \r \r What I hope is that xbla games can be played on windows mobile, i'd buy a lot more of them if they could go mobile. And as you said, id like to be able to work on customizing my character or whatever on the road. That wouldn't apply to most games but stuff like Forza or Chromehouds it certainly could work.\r \r

I just hope NATAL doesn't ruin games for the more lazy gamer.

bummer...EA has blocked the leaked sex from ME2\r \r thanks for the rest though :)\r

I just checked xbox.com and it looks like they \"fixed\" the free downloads. Bummer\r I saw the \"sex\" scenes yesterday. Nothing much to get excited for. Nothing like what was in ME1

Thanks for the news (as always)!!\r \r NG

The YouTube video in the Dead Rising link looks amazing. Can't wait for this game and I'll keep an eye out for the Case Zero demo. I just hope the psychopaths aren't as frustratingly difficult this time around.

I spawn camped a ladies restroom a few times in college.

transformers the game sucked balls, the second one anyway, it was hard as shit to move around and do anything and looked like shit

Welcome back...you have been missed.\r \r NG

People still read Time magazine?

\"METRO 2033 Guide (is anyone even playing this?)\r http://guides.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1073466/Metro-2033/index.html\r \"\r \r they freakin damn well SHOULD be playing this! even though the end ticked me off!

RDR = *drool*

L4D plushies? Really?

Wow bowling for NATAL, who would've thought? haha\r \r

All kinds of goodies on the horizon. Fallout Vegas has me super stoked. I almost don't want to read anymore about it because it's just too much of a tease.

Checked out the EA lineup, NBA Jam is making a comeback?? I will definitely be keeping track of that game.

Thanks for the updates Tank. Always like to check them out. I single game and its getting sad. I've heard that at $60 Assassin's Creed single player campaign will be 15 hours. That is like a day for me if I game on a weekend. I love, LOVE Gears of War and have to play it out come April 2011. Just gotta. But I heard its single player campaign is 12 hours and I've no doubt it will be about $50 - $60 too. GoW 2 was way too short for me as was Halo 3. I am starting to think I should be renting not buying because I can marathon and get them under my belt. Sad news, sad news. Also - I wouldn't mind hearing something on the upcoming Kane and Lynch 2. Fable 3 - I gotta tell yah - I got a lemon game disc and was royally pissed at Lionhead for releasing such garbage but FutureShop was excellent in taking the bad game back and the next one was more tolerable. Hope Lionhead steps up and has resolved the glitches. Haven't heard what the campaign time for single player is for Fallout New Vegas - have you?

Damn you. When i signed up for the beta I put down my Mac as my main computer hoping that would give me an edge thinking they would want to test out their Mac client. Then I could hook my Mac up to the TV with HDMI also :)

I actually was accepted into the Beta but took too long to respond and it had closed. So i had to wait until they were taking pre-launch sign-ups, the first 20,000 got a free game which I was one of. So then I just had to wait for it to go live and for my account to be permissioned. It's pretty decent but there's some give and take. But it does what it says it does, i'm playing games i wouldn't have a chance in hell of running on my old P4 system and it's smooth and responsive.

Let us know how good this works because it looks good on paper but.............

Dragon Age 2 is a must buy for me.

Looking forward to Deus Ex.\r \r Couldn't get into HAWX, so will probably wait a while for 2.\r \r Stalker 2 is great news indeed. Can't wait.\r \r Been looking forward to Guardian of Light, and I'm thrilled to read the review and see that the co-op may just work.\r \r Good stuff!

I thought there was a news story not long ago that co-op wasn't going to be in the release, it was going to be a post-release patch to enable it. hmmm. Guess we'll find out soon.\r \r \r

Don't forget, all the reviewers gave ODST high scores too and it was crap IMO. I hope Reach lives up to the hypes, guess I'll find out tonight.

Ya i'm always suspicious of reviews done by halo fanboys. My own personal rating on halo games is significantly lower than any of hte website and mag fanboy reviews. But i'm still going to give it a go.

the multiplayer for DeadSpace2 looks like its going to play like ass. i keep insisting that L4D just happen to find the magic moment to release that form of multiplayer and since it was successful everyone else thinks theirs will be, its just not going to happen. ill give the DeadSpace2 multiplayer 2months.\r \r

My sister works for the Youth Program on a Navy Base, they got an official statement from the Sec of Navy, stating that the MOH game will not be allowed in any military office/building/barraks...\r \r interesting that now EA has changed the Taliban stuff...too close to home if you ask me...coming from a person with friends and family that have fought in wars in the last decade.

500,000 Gamerscore.... And I thought Tank was an achievement whore.

Ya man, i'm only at 100k. I doubt i'll ever reach half a million, i'm kidna retired now. I don't want to do those grind'em out achievements, kinda getting sick of online achievements and also am tiring of 'finish it on hardest difficulty' level.\r \r So really i think i'm about retired from whoring. I'll whore on 'family' games and not really care too much about getting every cheevo in other games. I reached my goal, tiem to return to gaming for 'fun'.\r

Interested in the AC survey.

I think dragon age is going to fall on the wait for the GOLD edition bandwagon, so many expansions and theres so many games out that I cant keep up and its cheaper to buy later.

I'm pretty much that way with all RPGs these days. Doesn't make sense if it's a single player only experience to not wait an extra 9-12 months and just get the full game for one low price. I'm just now starting Fallout 3 from two years ago and got the Dragon Age Ultimate ed for xmas. I'll pick up fallout 3 vegas and dragon age 2 ultimate probably around holiday 2011 and get all the stuff for 50 bucks each.\r \r Mass Effect though I can't hold out for a year on although i may re-buy ME2 if a goty comes out of it since I lost my ME2 save. I still have my ME1 save though so i can re-import and play through again.

Yup Ive held out on Fallout NV as well but since amazon had ME 2 for 10 dollars I couldnt hold back luckily the xbox deals gave me most of the expansions fer cheap! Awesome game BTW, played twice through and started insane but it is indeed INSANE! I broke down before I broke my TV/xbox

Anyone know how well Plants vs. Zombies plays on the 360?

I'm not sure but all XBLA games come with a free demo. You can download it and try it out free and then 'buy' it in-game with a button press, usually X.\r \r

I would think that typing like that with your controller would have a rather large learning curve before you got good at it.\r \r As far as Ridge Racer goes...............no thank you

I despise CliffyB (stems from E3 2006), but he's right to a certain extent on his desire to build games for long term consumption, rather than an 8-20 hour one and done type affair. \r \r However, the market cannot sustain multiple ongoing platforms (platform == game). The crowd for BLOPS, MW2, Halo Reach, and Gears of War 3 will be roughly the same. At some point, one platform is going to cannibalize another. Therefore, I would reject a \"go long or go home\" mentality from developers. For every new IP or franchise, you can't spend more money to attempt to be the next big thing. \r \r Therefore, I suggest that \"middle class\" games still have a place. They just need to be developed smarter - limit the budget, don't hype the ever loving hell out of it, and see if a franchise can be developed. Forget tacking on useless MP - it's just going to get stonewalled by the games mentioned above. Concentrate on a compelling SP experience and gain credibility there (a la God of War).

For me, I don't want to invest a year of my life to one single game. I like to play them, finish them and move on to the next game. I'm kind of getting tired of the trend of devs trying to keep me playing the game for 3000 hours to get the full experience. I'm good with the 30 hours experience, show me what you've done, let me play it and let me finish it so i can consume someone else's product.\r \r

I agree completely. However, I think there is a place for some games to offer that 3000 hour timesink. I just don't think you can have too many of them, or the market will be too fragmented to support them.\r \r Me, I'd rather play a game for 20 hours and move on. Occasionally, one will completely take me in (like DragonAge:Origins) and I'll put more time into it, but those special games are few and far between.

Prey 2...interesting. I thought the first was a bit underappreciated, but also a stellar example of tacked on multiplayer for the sake of multiplayer.\r \r I hope the second is a story driven shooter, no multiplayer, and contains another Art Bell easter egg.

Thats great that there is gonna be a Prey 2...Now if we can get another shadowrun 2 going and Chromehounds, there will be peace in the universe :)

Prey 2 is a new dev/publisher though so we don't know yet what changes they'll bring to it, or even if it'll pick up were prey 1 left off.\r \r

Dammit Tank I need some Mortal Kombat demo info for the 360.

It's out on PS3 from what I understand. So it must just be caught up in the 'certification' process at microsoft.

I've dropped Dungeon Siege from my to have list. It's Obsidian. I don't need to add another game to this year's list of disappointments, really.

I have been meaning to Say Thanks for you posting. I look forward to these everyday. So Thanks!

YOu're welcome.

Zumba? Seriously? No wonder we get a pile of shittly shovelware every time new hardware comes out.

Portal 2, Yum! :-D

Great news on the FF DLC, Pinball FX is a really good pinball game and the Marvel content has pushed it to new heights. Only bad part is I have to wait 2 weeks. :)

Used V7K4C-9VD62-VV626-X9W3P-CX6DZ\r \r Thanks, Tank!

Used TXMV9-7FX2F-DDRCW-23CWY-94RWZ\r \r Glad I always read your blog :) Thanks

Anyone who has not played Oblivion should get the anniversary edition. $30 with all DLC is a steal. I am very tempted right now since I have about $50 of store credit sitting at Gamestop right now.

And here we go with this online pass bullshit again. I'm going to stop buying games in general and take up some other hobby at this rate. \r \r Devs can publishers can cry all they want about used games, but truth be told the reason the industry thrives today even in this shit economy is because of used game sales. If people stop buying used games because of these omissions then stores will give even less for trade ins. Eventually the used game market will dry up and gaming as a whole will suffer the consequences.\r \r They should try putting out a better product for the price and they wouldn't have to worry about losing out on new game sales.

I understand trying to get people to buy new, but there needs to be a limit. what if you bought the game for your family and had two xbox's? You force someone who wants to play the content play on your box. This dlc needs to be less than 10 bucks. 5 bucks would be reasonable i think.\r \r And the news about the skyrim speed test has me jazzed. 2 1/5 hrs for a speed test and oblivion and fallout barely took over an hour? awesome.

In fairness, the QA tester probably has played the game thru dozens of times. I don't think someone who buys it off the store shelf is going to finish that fast.\r \r As for online passes, yep, they're bullshit. EA started this crap and it's sad to see others are following .

You know who's to blame for all of this on an individual level? Peter Moore. That motherfucker trashed SEGA, did a good amount of damage to MS, and now he's going to bring gaming back to the dark ages of the mid 80s.

i think i'm going to grab the new saints row too. i got a kick out of the previous ones.

Man, 15 years of Lara.., it's times like these that I'm reminded of how old I'm getting. I remember the first game, I ran through my PC-rig back then using 2 SLI'd voodoo cards... The second one I had actually bought for Tomb Raider.\r \r Good times. Especially when you fast forward to now and realise how spoiled we are now. Ten to one none of us will be spending more than 3 minutes on the original tomb raider now, based on the fact that the graphics are rubbish...

I didnt' spend more that 3 minutes playing the original one back in the day. I remember it started you out in a cave with a lion or something attacking you and i couldn't get past it, epic fail :lol:

Just get Anniversary cheap and see what you missed out on back then.\r \r The maps are largely the same and all the original; puzzles are still there.\r \r The lions and jaguars aren't the big problem on the first level. The T-rex is. XD

I love the article about the theft of the MW3 copies. Jack Thompson would have a field day with that, if he wasn't the laughing stock of the legal community.

When you can get like 1300 bucks on ebay for a copy.... i guess that's pretty good motive. .\r \r

I had pushed Forza 4 to my back burner, but at $40 I don't see why not to buy it. Thanks for all the Black Friday linkage!!!

EA Online pass: Non-news news= non-news. Whatever else can be said about it, EA is uctally very helpful when it comes to solving problems with the OPs.\r \r Even though I would like to see every single EA-employee brutally butt-raped and left for dead in a ditch, not everything they do is the work of the devil's workshop.\r \r Death to EA -- but it's better to be fair about it.

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