We covered:

• Don’t loan things to Doc
• Halo 4
• New console?
• GCN Promo
• Diablo fanboys
• Sony’s 2.4 Firmware Update
• Where did it go?
• Great customer service
• Doc’s fan club
• Dave’s not involved
• Bad Company single player
• Doc vs Lono
• Doc’s dog tag obsession
• Bad Company is getting fixed
• GCN E3 Update
• Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 gets free upgrade
• The gaming lull
• E3 trip sponsored by sumolounge.com
• Dave hearts Kojima
• Possible big announcement
• Rock Band 2!!!!
• The Ace of Spades!
• Doc’s ipod is hardcore
• Thanks
• Doc goes after Dave
• Dave take us out
• Martini time

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[Update]: Apparently, Harmonix isn’t satisfied with simply making all Rock Band DLC compatible with every game in the franchise. Kotaku has reported, based on statements made by IGN’s Nate Ahearn, that Rock Band 2 owners will essentially be getting two games for the price of one. That’s because every song that shipped with Rock Band will be available to download free of charge.

This is great news for those of us (myself included) that never purchased Rock Band. However, once again, early adopters seem to get screwed. Though, this free DLC will come in handy when you are craving REM’s “Orange Crush,” but don’t want to switch game discs.

This week has been a great for fans of Harmonix’s Rock Band platform.

On Monday, it was revealed that Rock Band 2 would be released in September for the Xbox 360 and later this year for the Playstation 3, Wii and Playstation 2.

Tuesday’s episode of X-Play aired a screenshot that was apparently taken from Rock Band 2’s in-game set list (9 new tracks revealed). A second list of leaked songs hit the Internet Wednesday, when a user on the ScoreHero forums, who claimed to have played the highly-anticipated sequel, posted 11 additional songs.

The full list of songs can be found here.

Alex Rigopulos, the CEO of Harmonix, recently spoke with CNN about the upcoming sequel to one of 2007’s best games.

Hit the jump to find out what he had to say. (more…)

CVG has somewhat validated what our source told us yesterday, that a new Halo game will be announced by Microsoft at E3. They did a bit of digging with their own sources and got the same answer we did, plus assurance that the new game would not include the beloved Master Chief. (Sort of a No-brainer)

Halo is one of the best selling game franchises in history, and it’s no wonder that Microsoft would be quite keen on expediting another installment to market. The reaction to the news is drawing mixed reactions from the gaming community.

Some are calling the notion of another Halo installment so soon after Halo 3 a mistake. Personally I think they’re missing the difference between “an announcement that a game is in development”, and “releasing a game”. They are far from the same thing.

Others, equally loyal to the franchise seem to be pretty excited by the prospect.

Do you think this announcement will be Halo 4? A Prequel? Peter Jackson’s entry into the foray?

CVG’s got a story about a couple of pranksters who figured they’d confuse Rockstar’s technical support by claiming to be able to play GTA IV on their PC. Writing with ’surround sound issues’ on the “free version of Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC”, the jokers were pretty astounded to find tech support writing back to them with the statement that “The PC version of GTA IV has not even been announced for release and is still in development“.

Still in development? We never even knew it existed! Rockstar have been quick to deny every rumour of the PC version ever existing, but it looks like the technical staff of their own company have betrayed their privacy. Whoops.

Have a read of the full story for yourself right here.

Now our source is really sticking her/his/its neck out.

As we told you earlier, our inside woman/man/thing got hold of some pretty exciting news.

News that Bungie was already hard at work developing what will be Halo 4.

Now we’re told that this will be announced officially at E3.

The prior news was probably like a weatherman predicting a hurricane “sometime somewhere.”   This starts the ticking clock for what would end up being a pretty big deal.

Halo 4.  E3.

Stand by.

At some point you’ll just have to trust us on some of this stuff.  We have to protect our sources to keep them from being fragged by their employers or associates.

A very good and anonymous source tells us that Halo 4 is already in full development over at Bungie.  (more…)

We covered:

• Dewey Cox
• Lono’s albino turd
• Who’s Next?
• Doc’s skirt
• Diablo 3
• Bad Company
• Doc’s golden mistake
• Guns, guns, guns
• Squad talk
• Blog banner winner
• New giveaway
• Predictions

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Here’s another post fresh from the Sarcastic Gamer Community Blogs and two day in a row front page blogger, Toshi!. If you fancy getting onto the front page of Sarcastic Gamer, head on over to the forums, sign up for an account and get writing in your own personal blog. If it’s funny, written well enough or just plain awesome, it might end up right here. Another good job, Toshi!

I know that every method of gaming has its die hard fans that worship the ground their chosen platform walks on. While I’ve heard of the fanaticism of PS3 fanboys, I haven’t heard much about the PC fanatics. My first gaming experiences were on the NES, Genesis and SNES, but around that time I got my first PC. To some extent, I still am a PC gamer, even though the majority of my gaming is done on my 360. What I have a hard time doing, is understanding the finality with which PC gamers decree that their way of gaming is the alpha and omega of gaming. I’m open to hear people debate the reasons they think their gaming platform of choice is the best, but I’ve been rather let down by the oversimplified arguments of my co-worker, who is a die-hard PC gamer.

Let me touch on these arguments, after the jump.

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Yes, I realize LEGO Indiana Jones isn’t as swift to be written as my MGS4 review was, but then again I didn’t pick this game up a day before worldwide release. However, I’ve got to say, right away, in all seriousness, with as much use of punctuation as possible, that this is the best game you could ever buy. If it were in a sale. A really good sale. A really good sale where you also had a gift card to use. And there was nothing else in the store.

Minor exaggerations to be sure, but it’s all good, as I shall explain in this little piece on LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. I’d make some kind of whip reference but the chances are I’d make it sound hugely inappropriate, so forget that: onwards!

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