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Another weekend update.

Its been an interesting one on the gaming front.

A fellow gamer has started an online petition regarding the price jump. If your as passionate about it as we are, please sign it and don’t buy Modern Warfare 2 at launch;

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?cod6

Remember, the majority of people may run out there and buy it because they don’t know better or are too dumb, but its not about anyone else, its about you as a gamer. If you think the price is unfair, don’t sit back. Do something about it !

The great thing as i said before is that there is that there is a lot of other stuff. Now if your looking for some military shooter action then you need to check out the new videos of Operation Flashpoint; Dragon Rising. It actually looks that good that it could be real contender against MW2. The video says it all and this is from the 360;

The big news this month however is the new dashboard update for the 360.
Now personally, i am not one for getting excited about updates, but this one actually annoys me a bit.

One of the new things is avatar clothes which now come at a wonderfully low cost of 80 points starting and some of them go up to 400 points. After all my ranting about about the price increase with MW2, its kind of hard for me to say its a great thing to pay £8 for a set of virtual clothes for an avatar that really does nothing except bob up and down in a party full of other equally stupid looking virtual wastes of space !

The bad news this month has been the delay with some of the big games that were due out. Splinter Cell, Bioshock 2, Max payne 3.. have all been pushed back. The whisperings on the net is that the games have all been pushed back because of MW2 and Halo ODST’s Launch. Quite simply, they are worried about the competition. In some ways though its a good thing, even i could not keep up with all the gaming goodness due out so it will help make my pockets a bit lighter.

Other good news to come out this week is the Lost Planet 2 demo. A co-op demo of the game is due out next week. While many slagged off the first game, i have to say i was a personal fan. It’s in my little collection of games to keep for all time.

On that note i will call it a night, but don’t forget to give the Batman demo a try either. I have to say, it really did supprise me and has now been added to my must buy list of games.

It’s been busy with me, moving house and sorting out the personal life, but slowly things are getting back to normal. Also had a few technical issues which have now just about been sorted. Most of the latest post’s had not saved for some reason.

Anyway, back to the games! As you all know this holiday is looking very good for games, in fact it could just be the best holiday for games on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Now from the Dark Witness himself I am going to give you my run down of must by games, but before I do let’s talk about the game not to buy this holiday.

Modern Warfare 2 ( AKA Cod6) is arguably the biggest shooter out this coming holiday. Now I love Cod4, everyone knows it, but I will NOT be buying Cod6. The reason is simple, price!
For those of you who don’t know the RRP for Cod6 is now £55.00, that’s for the regular edition mind you. Quite simply its unacceptable. At the moment there is a lot of talk from fellow gamers of boycotting the game. Well I am in ! There are enough good games coming out such as Halo ODST, Splinter Cell conviction, Uncharted 2… the list goes on.

The real problem here is not just the price hike either, it’s the hypocrisy as well. Only a few weeks back Activision was threatening to boycott development for the PS3 because they wanted the price lower. The reason they gave for their price increase was that its needed for them to deliver the kind of quality in the title that gamers want and expect. The game is using the same engine that Cod4 used, it’s just extra weapons, maps etc and a few tweaks…. and they want to talk about quality! It’s not as if it’s been in development for 4 years like killzone 2 and using the most advanced graphics engine ever to land on a console.

Ok, I could rant on all day about this, but there are better things to talk about. The last thing i will point out though before we change subject is this. If they up the price ( which they have ) and everyone still goes out and buys it ( which they prob will )… what is to stop other publishers following them? This is probably my biggest reason for not getting it.

Anyway if you’re out there and listening, from one gamer to another, lets no let them get away with this. Now here is my list of other games to look forward to in video;
At no 1 on my list is Halo ODST. Halo CE has always been my best in the series and i am still waiting for them to top it;

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/50404.html

At No 2 its Splinter Cell Conviction. One of the best franchises to hit the Xbox back in the days. All the games have been great except the last one in my opinion. Conviction has gone through a lot of change since it was first shown, with the developers stating that they had to go back to the drawing board with the game. See what you think now;

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/52214.html

Next on the list we have two racing games; Forza 3 and Need for Speed shift.
Forza 3 is looking great; a huge improvement over number 2 which I thought was a bit of a letdown. Shift is a completely different game to the usual NFS games that we know. Once again EA is really trying to show they have changed their way. Back in the day I would have written it off, but after Dead Space I have to say give it a chance.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/50145.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/51554.html

Next up we have uncharted 2 on the ps3. Could this be the best looking game we have seen so far this gen? Check it out and see what you think;

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/50248.html

Ok, so the action games are starting to heat things up this year. Now it’s Assassins Creed 2’s turn for the hot spot. The first one was one of the best looking open world games so far, the only let down was the repetitiveness of the game. From what they have said this is something they have addressed in this game;

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/50811.html

Next up Dead Rising 2. The first Dead Rising is one of the few games that i still have and its in my little collection of keeps for all time. That really says it all.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48568.html

So do you think you got enough action to keep you going without Modern Warfare 2? Don’t worry, there is more;

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48265.html

Now as I said before, this is just my list and not every game on this list will be for everyone’s taste. This is the problem, there really is so much coming out, just remember there is something for everyone and who needs Modern Warfare 2 !

Yep, the Dark Witness is back.

Been crazy this last month.  No internet connection so i was off for a while.  Thats just the half of it though, while i was offline, my blog got hacked…. ya hacked, i mean who would want to go through the trouble to in the first place ?

Anyway, the problem was fixed, but in the process some of the posting history seems to have been lost.  So now the sites looks a bit more out of date then it should.

On the gaming front there is a lot to be said, as most of you know last month was E3 and an interesting one at that.  Both MS and Sony showing off their answer to the Wii and it looks like both are going to be giving Nintendo a run for their money.

I will go into more details about all this later.  If your out there, give me a shout.

My new place is coming along well, i am just about happy with the way it looks now.  Watch out for my updates soon.