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.
Naturally, I’m not the only person who thought of this when the Surface was first announced years ago:
People talk about the ultimate RPG equipment, and I have to say that the surface really comes close. This could help take care of a lot of the mechanical stuff that bores me as a game master, and allow me to focus on plot and dialogue.
Source: Crunchgear
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.
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.