There’s a bunch of new games out this week. A bunch came out last week and the MOAB of games will drop like the mighty God of Thunder next Tuesday.  I don’t have time to play them all, but I did have time to play the first couple of hours of:

Ratchet and Clank: Crack in Time

GTAIV: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Read on for initial impressions and see if either is worth your time.

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Podcast number two from the UK team of Yamster, Pillowfort, MightyMutt and Krelith, recorded at the end of the first day of the Eurogamer Expo. Hear what they had to say on the games they saw including Split/Second, Heavy Rain and more! Check out part one of the podcast here…

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We took loads of photos (well, I took a load of photos) at Eurogamer over the course of two absolutely brilliant days. While we still have plenty of things to come over the next couple of days, I figured it’d be cool to share some photos with you so you could see what you missed out on.

You might even be in some of them! Check them out over the jump.
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This is important. So important in fact, that if Chuck Norris approached you and said, “Hey, the contents of this box I’m holding are REALLY important,” you’d be all like, “No way Mr Norris, this article on SG is more important than your box. Goodbye, and I loved you in Forced Vengeance.”

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Welcome to Eurogamer London, where the games of tomorrow (as well as the games of last month), are playable, and you can’t get anywhere near them because in true gaming fashion, the event organisers have set up what I can only describe as “choke points” throughout the building. Were I a hunter of gaming nerds, I’d be on a guaranteed kill streak.

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NB: This should’ve gone up yesterday but I sorta fell asleep before I could put it up. Enjoy regardless!

Guys: STREET FIGHTER. MightyMutt’s winning.

It’s just coming up to 1am in London, and I’m sitting here with MightyMutt, Pillowfort and Krelith in MM’s humble abode having recorded our first podcast (which might hit soon, might not).

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UPDATE: My bad. The mission is called Overwatch.

Sometimes serendipity comes when you least expect it. I dunno if that ’s the case here, but if it’s not, then we need to seriously think about redefining “serendipity.” Because of some scheduling snafu’s Doc, Dave and I didn’t record the Red Show until this past Monday, October 26th. During the show, we discussed Modern Warfare 2 and we happened to gush over our “wishes”  for Spec Ops missions.

The next day, our wish became true. Enter Spec Op Mission: Overwatch. Video and geekgasm, after the jump.

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Choochoo! Trains don’t make that sort of noise anymore. In fact, the one I’m on at the moment is practically silent. And it tilts in the corners.

Why am I on board such a marvellous contraption? If the header image and the title weren’t much of a giveaway, I’m making my way down the country to London for the Eurogamer Expo!

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Haven’t you heard? Online petitions seem to carry a stigma. For the most part, the Ivory Tower gaming enthusiasts had set forth this idea that those that produce and possibly sign such petitions are nothing more than basement dwelling, Anime porn lovers that do nothing all day but sniff vending machine panties from Japan. Yes, these people exist and yes there are some crazy-ass online petitions, especially when it comes to video games.

On the other hand, most gamers are like you and me. We play games and we have a fierce devotion to how the medium works and those developers and games that do “right” by a gamer. When something comes along that breaks that trust, we freak the heck out. Our only recourse? Mobilization.  How do we mobilize? Online petitions.

The question is though, do they work?

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Modern shooters position you, the player, in one of two positions: inside the poor protagonists orbital bone, or so far away from the aforementioned orbital bone that every bone in the human (or otherwise) body can be seen. These two positions are commonly referred to as ‘first’ and ‘third’ person perspectives. Now I don’t know about you (really, I don’t!), but the lack of a ’second person’ perspective in video games has always struck me as odd. Do all developers harbor extreme prejudices against the ordinal number that corresponds to two, possibly as a result of being scared by a very large number two when they were younger? Perhaps. Does two’s ordinal number refuse to be featured in any game on legal grounds? Possibly. More likely, though, is that developers haven’t fully considered the sheer brilliance of a second person shooter.

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Editor’s note: This is yet another in a long list of kick-ass Sarcastic Gamer Survival Guides. If you want to check out the others in the series, click here for the list of guides, which includes GTA IV, Call of Duty 4, Gears of War 2 and Far Cry 2.

In Dead Space Extraction, it’s kill or be killed. You have to think fast, with a finger ever at the trigger. Of course, it’s important to make every shot count. You don’t want to get caught with your pants down, forced to reload with a bevy of foes bearing down.

For those having some difficulty surviving the Necromorph-infested halls of the USG Ishimura, I’ve put together a handy little guide to ease the pain. Even if you’re an ace shot, you might find that some of my tips push your star rating to a new height. So, as Black Label Society singer and guitarist Zakk Wylde would say, fire it up.

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I want to peel my face off with a lemon zester.  NBA 2K10’s RIDICULOUS bugs have made me THAT mad.  In my honest opinion, there is no way that 2K thought this game was finished when they released it.  The enormous number of bugs (I have a ton of video evidence coming up below) that sit up and bite you in the face on virtually EVERY play-through of the game suggest…nay proves… That 2K cared more about hitting a release date than maintaining the normally astronomical standards that their sports games are known for.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you that 2K Sports did knowingly and willfully release a broken basketball game to its fiercely loyal NBA2K fanbase.  My evidence, after the jump. (more…)

File this one under “We Shoulda seen this one coming.”  It looks like the relationship between Burger King and Microsoft goes far beyond the Seven-patty burger we learned of yesterday, in support of the launch of Windows 7 in Japan.  Evidently the promotion provided a HUGE boost to both burger and Operating System sales.  SO much so, that this morning, an even bigger, badder burger was announced.

According to a source, Xbox Live subscription renewal figures are dismal in the land of the rising sun.  Like any problem, you throw enough meat at it and it goes away.  Or so they seem to think in Redmond.  Behold the Xbox Live Burger!  After the jump. (more…)