Call for Sony Exec mass suicide

No longer Sony's "Douchiest Move"

I am calling on Sony’s executives to admit their failure as human beings and avoid any more shame brought upon their families by committing ritual seppuku.

Bullshit Round-Up

I’m about to beat Darksiders–and have grown weary as shit of it–but I still haven’t delivered my promised Bulletstorm review, which should be rectified soon.  L.A. Noire is dropping on Tuesday and will go head to head with Skyrim for game of the year, possibly for game of this generation.  Heady stuff.  Keith is excited for it.  What am I excited for?  Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, which I’ve bothered to learn nothing about except that it’s a Diablo clone and that’s enough for me, and Duke Nukem Forever which I feel I owe it to Gearbox to buy, just for giving us the punchline at the end of a 15 year joke.

I just learned, four months later, that Andy Whitfield will not be reprising the title role in Starz’ Spartacus, and am kind of in WTF mode.  They couldn’t wait another fucking year for him to recover from lymphoma?  Unwelcome.

Brink – Official Launch Trailer

This is the Official Brink trailer – it drops May 10th  and it looks like it took the best aspects from Team Fortress, Modern Warfare, and Mirror’s Edge to create one heck of a FPS.  The video says it all – take a look.

Progress

I just beat Bulletstorm, and while the ending left a bad taste in my mouth, the game itself is pretty and pretty interesting.  Look for my review on Sunday.  I’m still hacking away at Breath of Death VII and Darksiders, both of which are kinda awesome; Keith is playing Crysis 2 for review and bitching about it the whole time.  Those are the breaks.

In other news, I can recommend Outland based on five minutes with the game.  That’ll be next on the agenda.  Trouble Witches Neo premium themes for the 360 both rock the shit, btw.

Portal 2 Co-op Review

For SCIENCE!

You can find my review of the single player mode of Portal 2 here.

Portal 2 co-op mode consists of two robotic characters, Atlas and P-Body (pictured above), as they are prodded, coerced, and shamed by GlaDOS, the test operator, to complete numerous challenges in the name of science.  Like the rest of the game GlaDOS’ sterile and deadpan delivery of farcical information,  insults, and musings offer quick laughs for the players in between levels, and the pacing is similar to single-player: each chapter or “course” in co-op adds another mechanic you must master in order to complete the puzzle at hand.