Author: Mo Alexander

In the “Why is Mo late with Video Game news?” category, Sony unveiled its next gaming platform, the PlayStation 4 last Wednesday.  Sporting a “a supercharged PC architecture with a x86 architecture CPU, an enhanced PC GPU, and 8GB of GDDR5 system memory as well as a local hard drive”, the PS4 looks to give gaming developers more freedom to create games vs. the old PS3.

Although the system “box” itself wasn’t officially shown (more likely due out for the E3 expo in June..), Sony did show off the new Dual Shock 4 controller.  It includes a touch screen, Move capabilities, a new “sharing” feature, and a streamlining of the controller design itself.

Along with the announcement, Sony touted its own game developers, showing off a demo the next Killzone game, called “Killzone: Shadowfall” (more screens here); “inFamous: Second Son”; “DriveClub”; and “Knack” just to name a few.  Sony also scored (and I mean scored) a big win in 3rd party developer support, namely with Activision/Blizzard bringing “Diablo III” to the PS3 and PS4, the next game from Bungie called “Destiny”, Ubisoft with “WatchDogs”, and SquareEnix bringing their next untitled “Final Fantasy” game.

Looks like the next Gaming Console war is just starting to heat up.  How much do you want to bet that Sony and Micro$oft will charge an arm, leg, and your first born to get your hands on a console this Holiday season??

Check out more info from gameinformer.com

“Yeah, go ahead and push the button already…”

Gearbox’s latest release “Aliens: Colonial Marines” pulls in a whopping 46% score.

Billed as being a sequel to the original “Aliens” Movie, enthusiasts of the series complain that the game simply needed a whole lot more polish.

Textures are muddy, “Woeful AI for the Aliens themselves”, shoddy lighting.. you name it, it seems the game has it all.

And to top it off, Gearbox actually out-sourced the Console versions (Xbox and PS3) to a third party developer for completion.

To quote IGN.com “Aliens: Colonial Marines is an uninspired and unfinished game, and not remotely worthy as a sequel to the Aliens film.”

Shame on Gearbox! This could have been one of the best games around!

Guess ill keep on playing Dead Space 3!

Rumor has it that Sony is set to release information about their next gaming console on February 20th.

Wonder if this will get a $599 initial price point like last time?

Rumor also has it that the famous Dual Shock Controllers will be gone, and replaced with “Biometrics and an LCD Screen”

Set your calendars…. or synchronize Swatches..

Sony Announcement

Electronic Arts is dishing out their next iteration of Space Horror with the up and coming release of Dead Space 3.

The third round is set to raise the bar with the addition of CO-OP gameplay.

(I can’t tell you how many times i died in the first two…)

Check it all out here, including images and the launch trailer.   The game releases February 5th, 2013.

Dead Space 3