Forza 3 is out, and it is brilliant. So, here I am trying my best to pull everything together for a racing league, and I’m having trouble figuring out how to tell you about all that we are trying to do. Hmmmm.

Well, If I were asking Doc to do a parody video about the Sarcastic Gamer Racing League, it might go something like this…

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Halo Reach. Perhaps the last Bungie-made Halo game ever. Our last, best hope at a coherent narrative. Whatever your take on the next Halo game, very little is known about the game. Is it a squad based shooter? Is it something altogether different?

I don’t know, but I’ve got seven screen caps of it, after the jump.

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HOLY CRAP!  Something other than a first person shooter!

This is what is called “cross promotion”.  You see, UndeadDog has his crazy little gaggle of racing game fanatics hogging up all the primo real estate over on the Gamernights forum, so I figured I’d  ask him to see if he cared if I used Forza 3 as the game of choice for this week’s Duelist League.  He agreed, and now they are going to run over the FPS kids with their crazily painted speedsters.

Will someone be able to show their prowess in Forza and knock Stoned Sheep out of his death grip on first place in Uncharted 2?  Let’s see what the stats look like from last week.  I’d hate for the last few weeks of this thing to just be a race for second place because people keep thinking they can beat him in UC2.

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Being a part of the Gamercast Network, we enjoy cross pollination of our podcasts and announcements.  Our friends at Gamertagradio recently released Volume 2 of their Grand Theft Auto pirate radio station celebrating the release of the Ballad of Gay Tony.

My friends we present to you, WGTR, or using Godfree grammar, ”We is Gay Tony Radio” after the jump.

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Yeah that’s what I look like, get over yourselves.

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Sit down and strap yourself in. I’m about to turn your world upside down. After this, you might question everything you know. Does the combination of blue and red really make purple? Is Tupac dead? Are Vienna Sausages really made with chicken, beef and pork? It’s highly possible that you could be driven to the brink of insanity, take to the streets to toss excrement at innocent passersby. If you’re nabbed by the Fuzz, you’ll surely share a cell with some guy with “Big” attached to his name.

You have been warned.

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We are almost two weeks out from the Extra Life gaming marathon and the money is still coming in!  This past weekend was the official make up day for those who couldn’t get their gaming in on October 17th.  On November 7th, Team VGEvo will be putting in their hours. Extra Life keeps going and going and going!

It is important to note that today is the deadline to meet your goal of $192 to receive an Extra Life t-shirt.  The t-shirts will be ordered this weekend and should be landing in your mailbox in the next few weeks.

Thanks again to everyone who did their part to make this an epic success!  We are well on our way to hitting $160,000.  A special thanks to our friends at Kotaku for doing a follow up story on Extra Life.

Have a spooky and fun Halloween!

While this story is over a week old, I let it simmer. I was hoping that someone would come back and debunk the information as PR spin, because to me, it just seems improbable.

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Just three hours into the Eurogamer Expo and things are already looking awesome with a capital-friggin-A. We’ve all just come out of a developer session with Blackrock Studios, the team behind upcoming racer Split/Second. We were treated to an exclusive look at a new track in the game and given a little behind-the-scenes tour of how the game was put together.

Read some more over the jump!

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Left-to-right: the back of Pillowfort's head, MightyMutt, Krelith.

Not much to say so far, but we’re here! MightyMutt, Eoco, Krelith, Pillowfort and I are here

in the Old Billingsgate in London for day one of the Eurogamer Expo and we’re off to a flying start.

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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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Some of the time leading up to a game’s release has nothing to do with development. It goes gold, the marketing cycle begins, copies start printing and then much later it’s opening day at the box office. You can’t keep designers and coders on the payroll if they aren’t doing anything, so studios throwing them an extraneous task to crack on with makes more business sense.

When that task finishes you’ve got another property that sits on the shelf while it could be making you money, the obvious reaction is to pump that out and earn some dollar bills while the game is still in the zeitgiest. Not to tell multimillion grossing companies how to do their job (especially considering my studious nature and current lack of income), but it doesn’t delight me as a consumer when I see an addition to a game, for an extra cost, available when I’ve barely taken the packaging off.

How soon, is too soon?

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Well, the Uncharted 2/Brutal Legend Duelist League week had an unprecedented number of fatalities at the hands of  newcomer Stoned Sheep.  Not only did he beat all challengers at mutliplayer (including yours truly), but he then went on to take humiliating still screenshots of him kicking the hell out of each and every opponent.  Usually, this involved him holding onto a grenade launcher and his opponent being blown into small pieces.   It was not pretty.

A few caveats: I started a match with Astro Nit.  I beat him on the practice, then he won the first of three matches, and then he had to leave, so I gave him five points for coming out and mixing it up.  Also, Eao and Stoned Sheep’s match apparently didn’t happen because of connectivity issues (Eao’s from Cairo? Wowza!).

So, Mr. Stoned Sheep rockets his way to the top of the leaderboard while everyone else if left to lick their wounds.  Let’s take a look at what the new leaderboard looks like!

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