Starting with Halo Reach. I’ve already done a post on this so not much need’s to be said.. I felt complete sadness when the beta was ripped away from me!

Next, Medal of Honor. Looking forward to this one myself I have to say! This one is the multiplayer trailer.

And this one is the campaign trailer.

A surprising one for most of us I think as this had been well kept in the dark, a new Metal Gear Solid “Rising” . Looks the business, as we’ve come to expect from the Metal Gear Solid series!

The much discussed Black Ops revealed a new trailer at E3 as well. I actually will not be buying this if they don’t sort out the JTAGer’s on Xbox. The leader boards in Modern Warfare 2 just being completely hacked and ALL THE GLITCHES has really turned me off COD. Get dedicated servers Infinity Ward! God knows you can afford them!

Keeping favourites for last, Fable III. I honestly cannot wait for this game to come out in September. It’s one of those games you just can’t put down until your complete.

Finally, an advertisement appeared on XBLA last night announcing Gears of War 3 to release in April 2011, seems to be an early slip on Microsoft’s part as the advert has now been removed.

IGN also have speculated the following about the new gamely features through a trusted source of theirs:

According to the source, Gears of War 3 will include all-new Locust enemies the feature "tentacle-like appendages" that can extend to cover spots. To combat this, Delta Squad COG members will now carry explosives that can travel underground and take out enemy positions.
Gears of War 3 will also have "a heavy duty mech suit" that COG members can use for both protection and causing havoc on the battlefield.
These new combat mechanics will be used in both singleplayer and multiplayer, according to Edge.
Gears of War 3 will be set during the summer, and include a host of new locations as well. The biggest addition are new underwater levels. [source]

Apparently a trailer for Gears of War 3 will be released this Monday, but remember all we are 100% certain of is this: Gears of War 3 is confirmed.

Get your chainsaws ready.

Infinity Ward just brought the new DLC for Modern Warfare 2, the Stimulus Package.

This beauty of a map pack adds five (5) new maps.

Bailout

Crash 

Storm

Overgrown

Salvage

The map pack is out now on Xbox 360 and will be hitting the PS3 & PC sometime later this month!

Cost? 1200 MSP and $15 for the PSN

Which averages at about €3 a map!

Ubisoft have now dropped Starforce DRM and are trying out an “always-connected” piracy plan.

In a nutshell, the publisher’s new anti-piracy measures aim to disarm DRM’s more troubling aspects, removing install limits altogether and allowing you to play without a disc in the tray. Also of note: cloud saves. For the uninitiated, this means that your game saves can be stored remotely on Ubisoft’s servers, which – while a fairly prominent feature these days – is still 12 different flavors of cool.

Cloud saves seems like a great idea, earlier in the year when Assassins Creed 2 first came out I was a victim of their “corrupt save” bug, where the Xbox froze up during a save process and destroyed my entire game making me start all over again! Hopefully cloud saves would be a way around that bug, perhaps a backup feature on Ubisoft’s servers?

However here is the kicker;

See, there’s one major string attached, and if you disconnect that string, then you can kiss your gaming time goodbye. It’s the Internet, and you’ll be required to connect to it in order for Ubisoft to authenticate your game. Despite the restrictive nature of that limitation, however, the publisher doesn’t seem too worried.

"We think most people are going to be fine with it. Most people are always connected to an Internet connection," said Brent Wilkinson, Director, Customer Service and Production Planning at Ubisoft.

 

See were the frustration is going to begin? If your internet cable goes down for whatever reason for even a minute, your Xbox screen will dim black and you will be locked out of your game. My question would be will this happen if the “Xbox Live” servers go down, which happens every few months.. Servers are reset, connections get lost, can we really rely on always on connectivity? For as “Murphy’s Law” states; If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong!

So if your going to be downloading the new DRM for Assassins Creed, make sure you are on an “Always On” connection.

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Over thousands of generations the peaceful Darwinians have been evolving in a beautiful digital world, but now their whole way of life is under threat from a devastating computer virus that has infected their world and decimated their numbers. Without your protection they don’t stand a chance and it’s up to you to lead them into battle to recapture their lost world! Once you’ve proven your command ability, take your Darwinian army online and challenge your friends to strategic combat, as tribes of Darwinians slaughter one another in a desperate struggle for supremecy.

Darwina+ is made by Introversion Software and it will be released to the Xbox Live Marketplace on Wednesday 10th February 2010 for 1200 points. [€13.96 / $14.99]

Personally I can’t wait for this to come out, Introversion are a great company in my opinion, they’ve made such greats as Uplink and Defcon.

So February 10th have your points bought, get Darwina+ and help support Introversion software!

I’m a new player to the Call of Duty series, but after playing this game I feel it deserves a review.

To start where everyone starts off, the campaign is rather short, 8 hours or so to be exact and I wouldn’t be the fastest gamer going through levels. However “Spec Ops” [another offline mode] has a set of 23 separate missions which can be played solo or co-op. They are rather fun missions, a few of the co-op only ones have one player trying to cover the ground of a level while the other player protects them in a gunner ship. These side-missions as you say move the length of game-play to about 14-16 hours. This is still short compared to other games however it is longer than the average big name shooter games that come out these days.

The online multi-player is what really makes the game. Even though you spend quiet a lot of time dying you are always right back into action after a very short spawn time. The levelling system is extremely addictive, you always get constant gratification as there is always one more challenge to achieve,  level to reach and weapon to unlock. Of course we can’t forget about the addition of titles and badges, which you get from anything from getting a 3 kill streak to killing someone on a 10 kill streak. Between the titles, weapons and accolades this all makes for an extremely large amount of content to unlock.

All in all it is probably the best shooter I’ve played in a long time. The story is compelling, the game play is fast paced and fun, and the various game modes make it well worth your time and money.

Your going to have to click into this to actually be able to read it but I found this really cool timeline of video consoles by Online Education .

Check it out if you get the chance!

Recently I’ve been working on a friend of mine Roger’s game. Tonight I was coding the profile pages, one of the more easier and mundane tasks. I still find it fun to do though! So said with my acomplisments so far I’d give a little sneak peak into the next generation of text-based games! To any of you Mafiamatrix or Injustice players, Red Republic is going to blow you away when it comes out! A whole new type of gangster role playing!

The game is going to be ready for an Alpha release soon enough, I’ll be sure to keep you updated on its status here on the blog and in the meantime if your interested register over at red-republic.com . As you can see the registration website is still using the old design!

Website Name: Legit Life

Development Stage: Pre-Alpha

Project Started: July 2006

Legit Life, is an online text based timer game in which you aim to become the strongest character! It is expected to release in Alpha stages in early September. With this project being kept top-secret and under wraps the last year it will be interesting to see what you all think of it!