According to Kotaku, Harmonix will be delivering Rock Band 3 in time for Christmas:

Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman officially outed Rock Band 3, due for release this Chrismas, when it will “will innovate and revolutionise the music genre” all over again.

I know something I’ll be asking Santa for this year

Once again, I buy a game, get caught up in it, and forget to post. This time the culprit is Massive Action Game (MAG).

This was touted as being a new breed of co-operative multiplayer FPS… and in many respects it is. You do actually play games of 128-a-side (total player count: 256), and you are tasked with working together to attack or defend specific objectives in the same map. Read the rest of this entry »

Ok, I’m only writing this because I’m not playing. And the reason I’m not playing is that I’m at work on a Sunday. There’s a bunch of other posts I need to get out quickly too. Hopefully, I won’t lose momentum, and you’ll see those soon.

Mass Effect 2 picks up several years after the first game. Commander Shepard has joined the shadowy Cerberus network to continue his fight against the Reapers, a race of sentient machines that raise galactic civilisation only to destroy it. Read the rest of this entry »

It will probably never live up to that pre-rendered video, but man is it tempting to get the LEGO Universe MMO when it comes out. The Ars review certainly makes it appealing.

Bayonetta has made a bit of a splash amongst the gaming blogerati. Like it or love it, a game that centres around a woman whose clothes are made out of her living hair, which is also used in her weaponry is going to get some people up in arms.

Whatever your take on the gender politics, you have to admit that any press is good press. Certainly, that worked on me, so I downloaded and played through the demo. I was going to review it, because even though it was pretty brief, I was thoroughly entranced. And then I watched Ryan’s review over at Giantbomb:

I don’t think anything more can be said. If you like this sort of thing, then you’ll be getting it. If not, I don’t care – I’ll have a librarian-dominatrix game to play with.