This coming Tuesday, the ModNation Racers demo is supposed to launch on PSN, meaning everyone with a PS3 will be able to get it and I'm assuming they'll be able to play online... so I'm thinking we should have a little party tuesday night with it. The PSN updates usually go live sometime in the afternoon, so let's say tentatively about 9pm EST? Feel free to RSVP in this thread if you like.

Also, I'm thinking about setting up a TF2 server temporarily... who would be down for that, and suggest dates please.

I've always been a huge fan of these third-person hack and slash, but does Dante's Inferno stack up to the more unique GoW franchise? Or even the Bayonetta, DMC games? Well in short it does and it doesn't. While the game is remarkable stunning in some areas, it falls short in a lot of categories for me anyway.


Pros:
Boobies! Hahha no but really, just about anything you can think of is in the game, hell there is a demon who shoots demonic babies from her nipples, how much weirder could it REALLY get?

Fluid battle system, and I mean pretty darn fluid. I can chain so many combos together with ease and still not feel its a button masher, although after a while it will definitely feel like it.

Going through the 9 circles of hell is just hellacious! Seeing all these souls die endlessly is just a tad disturbing but makes...

Perhaps it's because I'm Australian, but the "cowboy" fantasy thing growing up was never really there - the only real exposure I had to cowboys was that my dad was a huge fan of Mel Brooks, so I saw Blazing Saddles at an age that was most likely far too early.

That lack of cowboy hysteria growing up didn't stop me from enjoying Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood though. Nope, what follows is an interesting story (even if a little far-fetched) that spans from the civil war onwards. The civil war parts are actually pretty cool - they show how fucked up it must have been for both sides, without taking the southern-apologetic stance that pisses everyone off. Nope, Barnsby is every bit the racist southern scumbag we all love to hate.

As a first person shooter, CoJBiB ain't terrible. It's not awesome, nor is it gorgeous for showing off the PS3's capabili...

The "Horror" game genre is pretty much not much younger than videogames themselves, and it's had a few notables along the way in the field of horror-FPSes: Corridor7 took the Wolfenstein 3D engine and turned it into a space-horror game to moderate success. Doom, Doom II and to a greater extent Doom 3 all dabbled in the horror element.

But F.E.A.R. took it in a completely new direction being one of the first (that I can think of) popular games that genuinely scared the shit out of most folks on a regular basis. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin was the much-anticipated sequal to this, and doesn't disappoint in the horror department.

I'm by no means an expert in the FPS deparment - I've said this before - so take my reviews of FPSes with a grain of salt... but F.E.A.R.2 is a reasonably solid FPS in it's own right.

When I go to scary movies, I d...

So the other day, it arrived. I finally acquired a copy of one of but two games that I absolutely have to have - Borderlands. Here's a checklist of features required to make an awesome game in this genre:

• Post-apocalyptic-style survival: Check;
• Robust FPS interface: Check;
• Comic-book character design: Check and double-check for the rendering in general;
• Diablo-style RPG mechanics: Check (though not a long, "swooping" check, more of a "meh, I suppose so" check);
• A smattering of black humor: Check!

That's pretty much a running list of things that makes Borderlands great. Seeing stills of the graphics doesn't really do them justice - the "stroked comic-book" rendering has to be seen in motion to really get the concept of how gorgeously it's p...