Yeah, this is cooler

The portable fighter line up is a little on the light side featuring 8 characters: Ryu, Ken, Guile, Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, M. Bison and Abel

Credit to Kotaku for the heads up

If I’m honest, as great as it looks I may have been more inclined to keep ME2 if this had been released a few weeks ago. Instead all I was left with was a 2nd play through and some updated text to read at the title menu.

Microsoft big boy Stephen McGill had this to say on the matter:

“We have no plans to adopt [a] Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360. In fact, the future of home entertainment started last autumn when Xbox 360 became the first and only console to offer instant-on 1080p streaming HD movies.”

Well that’s a step forward, but if Microsoft fully believe this, why are there still DVD boxes with Xbox 360 games in them? I honestly think it’s a ridiculous claim to make, but that’s just my opinion … which maybe shouldn’t feature in a news post … anyway, I wonder what Sony will have to say on this one?

Some interwebers are finding this a little worrying…..I find that a little worrying. Robin can be done well, In fact there are plenty of Batman storylines where the Boy Wonder doesn’t suck. So stop the negativity folks.

Lets not forget that the original Robin was killed by none other then the Joker and famously kidnapped by Harvey Dent (another rumored inclusion), then there’s Frank Millers female Robin who in my opinion rocked, even if she did roller skate in the sequel.

With so many great ways to implement the Boy (or girl) Wonder into the games story I really can’t see how people would be anything but excited. Imagine a Batman game centered around themes of guilt and revenge over the fate of his little companion. Think splinter cell conviction without the plastic surgery or intentional child endangerment .

So, lets not jump to negative conclusions people, Rocksteady know what there doing and even if they don’t there is plenty of time to moan when we know exactly how he or she is being implemented.

*Another small tidbit that I forgot to mention last week is that Rocksteady just got purchased by Warner Bros. Lets hope they give Rocksteady the same freedom Eidos did.

Quick, That way!!

How did he do it?

Well, the insurgent lobbed a grenade down at the British soldiers, but the plucky Brit picked up the grenade and lobbed it back at him… as if he were playing a videogame.

“I remember thinking that if I didn’t pull this off, it was going to hurt,” he said. “But at that stage I was pretty much committed”, said Rifleman James McKie. I heard what sounded like a mini flare come from our right where I knew there were none of our guys, so I thought this was really unusual. We were in a high position on a compound roof. There was no way you could throw yourself off and not get injured, so I made a decision to pick up the grenade and throw it off the roof. My platoon has taken a lot of casualties. I really didn’t want to see anyone else get hurt.”

He then threw a smoke grenade down to give the soldiers cover as they made their escape.

Some will argue this was classic MW2 action, but I would argue that a real MW2 gamer would weep when they face a street of insurgents, without a local Dunkin’ Doughnuts to comfort them. No no, this was the work of a Battlefield veteran.

“I don’t feel particularly brave,” he said. “I’m not expecting anything from my comrades … I don’t want any thanks from them. I just don’t want them to get hurt.”

You can download the events official preview guide here and the official site is packed with info on this years speakers who include among others Mr Sid Meier.

So like I said people expect stuff.

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Shank Gameplay GDC2010

My advice? Stay away from all this stuff, one review I watched this morning shows an event that out scales anything iv seen in a game before and I’m disappointed I didn’t get to see it first hand.

Its great to see Sony finally shelling out AAA titles that leave the competition in the dust, although Mass Effect 2 is still the best console exclusive I’v played this year so far. That could all change come March 16th.

Barnes uses (mostly) in game footage to create a brilliant Machinima using some of the levels from Modern Warfare 2.

Take a look below, its pretty impressive.

As a long-time Mac user this news blows my mind in ways I couldn’t even fathom, but Valve have finally seen the white, brushed-steel light and decided that in April, us glorious users of OS X will legitimately get to play Source-enabled games, including the full roster of first-party Valve titles (half life, counter-strike, team fortress et al) and a number of the 1,000 plus third-party titles on the Steam platform.

This opens steam up to a new roster of fans, as well as allowing current fans to carry over their Windows-purchased titles to Mac at no extra cost and continue to interact with their friends via Steam’s excellent social networking features.

In a press release Valve said, “Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac,” said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. “Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play.”

Portal 2 will be the first title to get a simultaneous release on both platforms. Fitting, given Portal is set in a serenely efficient white world environment.