A New Year and new expectations

Seeing as these were the fabled Christmas holidays I and the rest of the team decided to watch Avatar and since that day i've been speechless when it comes to conversations on the film not just due to the effects and the 3D but also because of the story and the characters involved, this then led me to thinking about the latest Final Fantasy game and how this will change the gaming atmosphere for years to come, but it also got me wondering as to whether games will be able to live up to the cgi cutscenes used to advertise them, will they ever reach that much detail?

Maybe, but the time for such a console would have a long way to go. After days of thinking, it also brought me onto the topic of story and characters, we all know games can provide a detailed adventure with a fantastic story and character detail as there are already few examples of this in the market today (e.g. Dragon Age or Uncharted 2) but will it ever reach a day where I will be brought to such a point of emotion that I could burst out laughing or begin to cry, or at least shed a single tear, yes there have been moments of sadness after watching a loved character die or leave the group but I wonder if it will get to a point where im truly immersed into the scene?

For now I will continue to think on how these topics will outcome but if there is anyone who can provide their own thoughts, please do, we would be happy to hear them.

Trailers Galore!

Just as the title says, its been a great month for gaming trailers due to the many releases and the much loved news which has been spread worldwide. We'll start off with news that the award winning company of Bethesda has finally spread some light on their new product which had been officially named as "Brink" although this game shows as a Killzone 2 clone, I can honestly say that it has succesfully... no, exceeded Killzone and although this is just early demo footage I can honestly say that this game will probably also exceed my expectations I mean who doesn't love Bethesda's games?


While on the topic, Rockstar Games has finally released one of its first trailers featuring its newest game "Red Dead Redemption" which has revealed just a small portion of the games and gameplay, yet with just a small hint to the game I believe this will be a much more interesting game compared to Rockstar's earlier game, "Grand Theft Auto 4" which I believe was somewhat lacking what the earlier games had presented. After all this, I believe that the game will offer much more than what GTA 4 had to give as well as a polished story to submerge the player within the world of the West.

P.S. we are considering on bringing "The top of the week" posts as a full feature to the blog.

And I thought Halo 3 was big...

Its only been a few days and the Modern Warfare 2 sales have soared up to over 4.7 million copies! Its been said that this is the biggest launch in gaming history, and if you thought that was big, the total cost for all these copies reaches up to around $310 million. It may be ridiculous but it sure is a good amount of cash, who knows what you could do with that. Well all we know is that Infinity Ward has a good future ahead of them.

Beowulf replaced by a frying pan?

Out of all the strange games ive seen and played (and yes I have played psychonauts) this is truly the strangest, its a game called "78641" by GZ storm who are known because of their earlier game "Beowulf: the movie". Although from this video I believe they've changed their idea's drastically, but in my opinion: for the better, as this game may look insanely random but it looks like something I would certainly like to get my hands on when released, tell me you're opinions on the comments to the post.

Eurogamer Thoughts

Sad to think its over and the footage recorded was terrible because of the camera I was using. But never fear, no matter how bad the footage is, it will be posted up on our Youtube account and up on the site. Sadly because of the age restriction I was unable to see some of my most anticipated games although I have a reasonable idea on some of the games there, hopefully I will be able to arrange a podcast this Tuesday or Monday to go into more detail on this but for now I think its best just to list off my top 5:

1) Bayonetta
2) Tekken 6
3) Mass Effect 2
4) Left 4 Dead 2
5) Assassin's Creed 2

Thanks, Delta_03.

God of District 9?

I was already hungry for a Blu ray copy of District 9 to hit the shelves after missing its release in cinema's but I never saw this coming, a God of War 3 demo has been confirmed to hit shelves along with a Blu ray copy of District 9 on its release this December and for those who have completed the demo a featurette will also be added in. Something tells me these will fly off the shelves quicker than Halo 3 copies on its day one release all I can do is hope that i get my hands on copy before there gone.

Eurogamer events

As you all know, Eurogamer will be visiting London. We have been planning for this for so long that it still confuses us at why it took so long to plan but now that its done I can officially say that we will have video footage on the showcase floor as well as photographs around the floor. And as for Jkkfreelance (Jacques Hulme), hopefully he should have footage from within the conference room which will be seen on his second site which is currently listed in the links.

I just hope that I will be able to get my shaking hands on a good portion of the Bayonetta, Heavy Rain and Mass Effect 2 demo as ive had my fingers crossed for weeks.

Half full or half empty?

Hi to those who happen to be reading or visiting the blog although this is not all that we will be doing as this is just the beginning, we are planning on adding a broadcast and podcast I am assuming that the podcast will be up first and will probably be put up on Youtube and the site and with a little help from all those reading we should get the broadcast up soon after. All we need is a small piece of advice on which program and capture card we should be using and once this is done we'll be giving all the newest information/news on the gaming topics and provide video feed for those interested in a fun,commentated walkthrough... Oh! and as this is our first time here we'd love to say that its nice to finally be here.