Well honestly I don't see much a 360 version of Home as a bad thing, Microsoft proved they could support their Avatars, while Sony hardly gather 3rd party developers interest with Home (Capcom, EA, Namco with Tekken and Ubi with FarCry,but otherwise it's only first party developers, small indie devs or non-gaming-related), Microsoft brought many licensed clothes and items available for Avatars.

Also, I find Avatars less antipathetic than Home characters, more propitious to discussion and friendship (while in Home, if you're not disguised as a girl you can rarely gather interest). But a 360 Home equivalent requires a sensitive effort to give, and somehow I don't see Microsoft doing such thing, so the 360 Game Room is probably nothing but gaming-oriented chat lobbies for example (it's called "ROOM" after all, there's not much to do in a room). View

"Could it be something like classic arcade titles or a possible version of Home for the Xbox 360?"
Or a mix, a 360 version of Home where we can play classic arcade titles. View

Even in France (the no video game ad land), we had a taste of Master Chief, so it's pretty much legitimate (and not really new) that Halo 3 belongs to the most hyped games of the decade. View

Especially considering there are not that much girl-oriented games on PSP (compared to DS). So it's quite surprising, indeed. View

The informations are exactly the same but the headlines are different. If you look at this Edge article , it is written:

"Additionally the company ranked the top game consoles by share of total usage minutes:

Xbox 360 – 23.1%
PS2 – 20.4%
Wii – 19.0%"

Which is pretty much what the failed approval article slated. So yep, it's a duplicate. View

Years ago I could zay Zeppelin is pissing is pants, another rockstar bashing a popular game, but now I feel such decision is a good thing. Activision must stop [insert instrument] Hero games. Three Guitar Hero games per year is not a sane choice.

After Guitar Hero Van Halen, Guitar Hero Metallica, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, what will be the next? Guitar Hero Iron Maiden? Guitar Hero Scorpions? Guitar Hero AC/DC? Guitar Hero Rolling Stones? Guitar Hero Sex Pistols? Guitar Hero Nickelback? Guitar Hero Linkin Park? Guitar Hero Paramore? Guitar Hero Flyleaf? Guitar Hero Black Rebel Motorcycle Club?

Enough already. Activision need to stop their politic of "too much games, too much money" and rather focus on quality games. And that's available for non-rythm games as well. View

Hitman is still under development (my favorite franchise with Legacy of Kain and Metal Gear Solid) so I'm patiently waiting to see its release (hoping they wont adapt the game from the movie), but Metal Gear Solid 4 was great. Not better than previous Metal Gear Solid episodes, not worse aither. Just exactly what I wanted.

Concerning Burnout, I was a die-hard fan of the previous ones and an open world racing game wasn't what I was looking for (considering EA already released several open world Need For Speed that all disappointed me) but Burnout Paradise benefited of a great support from Criterion, with many additional things added through several months, mostly for free, and for such support Criterion deserve all my respect (and my money. Give me another Burnout or a Black sequel and I'm all yours).

And Silent Hill Homecoming is so much crap compared to other Silent Hill games I don't even want to finish it. I only put it in my console when I have a friend at home so we can both have lulz on that terrific thing. View

Is Metro 2033 really a 360 exclusive?
First time it was announced (back in 2006 IIRC) it was supposed to be PS3 exclusive, then few months ago it was announced for Xbox 360 and PC. Where's the truth?

Anyway, I think 2010 will be great on both side but we should wait until E3, where both Sony and Microsoft will announce their definitive line-up for PS3 wand / Natal, and so the number of exclusives on each side may rise. View

I realized few days ago that if I get killed, if I commit suicide or if I kill someone, the first thing people will know is my relationship with gaming: I used to work for video game websites, I work for the biggest French video game retailer, I have a small collection of video game figures and I have several convenient full of games and consoles.

Headlines: "Another video game psycho dies / kills because of violence in virtual worlds".

When you see that Saw is at its seventh episode, people critically acclaim Hostel-like movies, John McClane kills dozens of cyber-terrorists in a single night, we consider Quentin Tarantino as one of the best movie producer / director (don't misunderstand, I love Quentin Tarantino), there's not a movie without a dead and a sex scene... How can we consider video games as a violence trigger when movies do worse without any uproar?

Video games are just a scapegoat, people bash it simply because it's an entertainment that has no defender, they are considered as inferior culture and gamers are caricatured and marginalized. Just take a look at the conception of "gamer" in TV shows. Every time it's about a gamer, it's a nerd that talks in incomprehensible lingo and that cannot make the difference between virtual and real, good and bad, and they even tend to prefer virtual to reality. And when we see a video game, it's often a violent one with seasick camera and extreme violence.

People that commit murder or suicide with the influence of video game exist, but that's not the video game itself that encouraged the player to kill his neighbors, such people are already mentally disordered and video games are just a pretext, just like can be a movie or a song. View

I don't want to defend any side, I don't care who's winning or who is losing as long as all sides provide good games to compete each other, but I think Halo 3 flawed our perception of success.

Few games manage to reach the million milestone, 2 millions is even harder. Fight Night Round 4 hardly reached it, Forza 3 as well, Motorstorm Pacific Rift didn't even touch the million, neither did Ninja Gaiden 2, Mass Effect sold a bit more than 2 millions, both Left 4 Dead only sold around 2 millions on 360, etc... So if such games barely pass 2 millions, which games can be considered as successful if we take Halo 3 as a reference?

Assassin's Creed is not successful then, it "only" sold 8 millions, Fallout 3 sold only 4.5 millions on consoles, Bioshock only did 3 millions on console, etc... The only games that can be considered as successful if we take the Halo 3 reference are GTA IV with around 14 millions on consoles, Modern Warfare 1 & 2 with 13 and 14 millions on consoles. So taking Halo 3 as a reference for sales cannot be good. Yes, Halo 3 sales are extraordinary, but they are a world apart to the market.

If we had to talk about success, then Fable 2, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Gears of War are major success, because they sold around 4-5 millions without Halo-like marketing campaign. View

Yep, I had the same reaction when submitting both stories.
Eurogamer wrote: "One of the best twists in the story is the absence of a twist when you most expect it.", so I guess the main problem with Darksiders is the scenario, poor and predictable. View

I discovered Fallout universe with Fallout 3 so I'm not one of those nostalgic hard fans "the old ones were better", but I'm still very interested in upcoming Fallout games. And so far, those details sound very promising if they are accurate. View

Brütal Legend is the proof graphics are not enough to enjoy a game, there must be content and a gameplay that matches it. I don't mind if it's an open world or a linear piece (after all, a Heavy Metal linear game could be awesome too), I really loved Brütal Legend on the artistic side but the gameplay is so poor and we have so much nothing to do in the game I didn't pass hours on it. I even gave up doing side quests after I realized the game was split in two parts.

Aside the lack of interesting gameplay and content in the game, what I wished would be to adapt the soundtrack to the places we are. The first part of the game is set in a Heavy Metal medieval landscape, so Heavy Metal music is perfect for it, but once we cross the second part of the game, we are in a Gothic background, which I find really awesome and detailed, but listening to Motorhead or Dragonforce in such environment is a disgrace. I wish once you enter the Gothic world, the soundtrack switches to Gothic music (something like Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, Dead Can Dance or something along the darkwave lines) and vice versa.

Regarding Psychonauts, I didn't find its gameplay that awkward, only the "rolling bubble" was pretty hard to handle, otherwise it was a great game (one of my favorite games of all times, actually). View

While Playstation Lifestyle's predictions were somehow intriguing and probably suspicious in the way they managed to conclude them, those ones are pretty obvious. I doubt Agent will be slated for 2010 release but Examiner don't go much far with their expectations. View

Announced long time ago as a God of War meets Zelda then disappeared, then delayed and timidly showing his face these days as the game releases in mid-January. A game I was waiting for since two years. View

Just to inform people, Gamekult is the french equivalent of Edge. They are not hype-sensitive, they are not corruptible, their reviews are not commercial-oriented.

For example, they gave Halo 3 a 7, Fallout 3 a 7, Killzone 2 a 8, Modern Warfare 2 a 8, Dragon Age Origins a 6 on consoles and 8 on PC, etc...

They are very hard with reviews but they are fair and truly unbiased. Among all the French video game websites, they are the only ones I trust. When a game is a crap, they just say it.
Their scale:
- 7: Good.
- 8: Very Good.
- 9: Excellent.
- 10: Perfect. View

Not yet but I bought it two days ago on the US PSstore (I'm just waiting for finishing all the games I'm playing before starting other ones). View

Strange, how can we like BB but not GG? It's pretty much the same, the background is a bit different but globally it's the same (and that's what I love with BB). View

I don't like much 1337 5|*34|< Gamertags, the same goes for awfully unoriginal game character name such as "Cloud", "Squall", "Sephiroth" or "Snake", because people love to be identified to a character identity and the darker he is the best it is for them. As a result, you have tons of "CloudFF7 157982" or "XoX Master Chief 247 oXo", etc...

I like short and catchy gamertags. On PSN, I chose Nyoro-n because I used to love The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, where a character, Tsuruya, also says "nyoro~" at the end of her sentences. The character has been caricatured Utsura Uraraka where the parodied character, called Churuya, always says "nyoro~n" at the end of her sentences.
( check this: http://wiki.sos-dan.com/wik... )

For my XBL Gamertag, it used to be "Raziev" as a contraction of "Resident" and "Evil" (because I was playing Resident Evil 5 at this time) then modified to look like a russian name (and inspired by Raziel from Legacy of Kain series). I changed it to "Beau Masque", which means in French "Pretty Mask". It's a reference to a song I love, composed by Lonah: "Je te connais beau masque" (in English: "I know you pretty mask").
http://www.jamendo.com/en/t...

And Sangria because I hate sangria (yes, I do hate it). View

Isn't it possible to have a preview of each of theme -without looking at Youtube-?
Anyway, I found on the US Store last week the Heavy Rain dynamic theme and I really love it, pretty much my favorite from all I've seen so far. View