Goldbumania

      So the XBox One requires a daily sign in to the shitty online service for single played games. Cool. So the final add-on for Borderlands 2 was announced, hopping on the crazy DLC train with an in game D&D campaign type thing (Sorta). So at E3 2011 the fine folks at Insomniac Games (The people behind Ratchet & Clank, Resistance, etc.) put out a CG trailer for Overstrike, what would be a whacky tale of four dysfunctional secret agents doing secret stuff. There wasn't much news on it until recently. but it was reborn as FUSE, and this week it came out. Guess what it sucks. The original Insomniac humour was apparently removed for a wider audience third person shooter. Because shooters with funny, irreverent heroes never do well. Like Uncharted. What a failure, right? Now a moment of silence to mourn the fallen project. Which had The Hives on the soundtrack.

I call it Lost Wages

     So Microsoft has revealed their new console that's going to push them into the next generation after what has been possibly the longest console generation in history.  Apparently they're taking it as a joke because they've marketed the damn thing as the 'XBOX One'. You'll be able to play great games like... Halo 5. And Call of Duty Ghosts... Y'know, that thing that also comes out on every other platform every single year. A constant connection to the motion controlled Kinect is required, which essentially means you might need a ten foot space between you and your TV to even use the console. All games are installed from disc, after which all subsequent users of the disc must pay a fee to install and use it, essentially killing a portion of the used games market. What a world. But oh, don't worry. You get a dog in Call of Duty. Unless any major changes or announcements are made about this thing soon, I can't see things looking good for Microsoft. But y'know.
                   

For everyone who wanted to play games on a VCR

Diego Brando

     So the next game in the Shin Megami Tensei series is coming out after ten years, as Shin Megami Tensei IV on the 3DS. The folks in charge of that, Atlus, have had their budget kinda cut so here's hoping that does alright. Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon and Deadly Premonition Director's Cut were released to some(?) fanfare. New trailers for GTA V and Call of Duty hit the masses. Here's a hint, one of those games looks good and it doesn't start with a C and end with 'all of Duty'. Dead Space 3 has officially failed, according to EA. No surprise here considering mass market appeal and actually entertaining gameplay don't always go hand in hand when it comes to survival horror. What I'm saying is Dead Space 3 is Arnie's Commando with space zombies and that's schlocky. So yeah.

Hip crews only.