It’s been well over a week now since Mass Effect 2 came out and I still don’t have my copy yet, and as you may have guessed, it’s killing me. I loved the first title and I can’t wait to get my hands on the new one, but a little snafu has kept a review copy out of my hands, at least for now.
Bioware’s Mass Effect 2 is a little over a month away from hitting store shelves and details are starting to emerge about what could shape up to be one of 2010 biggest games.
For those of you still stumbling around looking for the perfect gift this holiday season, here are a few suggestions that may come in handy for that special adult gamer in your life. Including some of the best video games released this year, these titles are sure to please the person in your life who just can’t tear themselves away from their console.
From music and shooters to action and racing, here are a few suggestions this holiday season.
Ah, the genius of Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation at work in this tepid time of summer when nothing else is out there to review. This week he reviews two “2.5D” (as in dimension) games: ‘Splosion Man for Xbox Live Arcade and Trine for the PlayStation Network.
After three epic adventures in the boots of Master Chief, gamers have a new adventure ahead of them this week, where strategy involves a bit more than ducking behind cover and tossing grenades.
Exploring a new side of the Halo universe, Halo Wars puts players in control of a group of special forces in the United Nations Space Command as they go into numerous battles with everyone’s favorite religious alien zealots, the Covenant.
While I tend to game a lot, I have to admit I don’t play a lot of games. Between movies, music, and television, I only have so much time to game, so I usually focus on a handful of games each month and just play them until I’m finished.
Which means that there are a few franchises that I’m only just starting to pick up. Case in point, I only played Guitar Hero for the first time this week, and I think I may have to make a little more time in my week to play it some more.
For the last two weeks I’ve been playing Grand Theft Auto IV, the first game I’ve picked up in the whole series, and I can honestly say I haven’t been this addicted or challenged by a game in ages.
In a statement released to the media yesterday, Microsoft revealed that they have sold over 10 million units of the Xbox 360 in the United States. Considered by some to be the first benchmark of a winning console, the company suggests that this puts the Xbox in a unique position to maintain an ongoing lead in this generation of the console wars.
There is still no official launch date for Fable 2 for the Xbox 360, but I’m starting to get pretty antsy waiting for it. I think it’s safe to bet it will arrive in mid-fall, but at this point it’s pretty hard to say.
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Mass Effect fans didn’t have to wait long for their first add-on to the expansive universe that has seen some 1.6 million copies of the game sold since last November. On March 10 gamers got their first new adventure with Bring Down the Sky, a downloadable content pack that has our fearless Commander Shepard trying to save a colony from a mobile asteroid station that is on a crash course.
