This is an awesome TF2 Soldier How To Video. Goes into good details on how to be called a cheater with the soldier and tactics for the new map Gold Rush. I know I learned some things that I can't wait to try the next time I play TF2. 

I'm on vacation this week and took my PSP along with me but before I left I decided to pick up a new game. I always like to travel with a new game as it keeps me interested long enough to last all vacation and then some. For this trip I picked up Ratchet and Clank : Size Matters. Normally don't go with platformer on portables cause I've never had a good experience but man was I wrong with Size Matters.

This game is a blast and the controls are spot on. There are a few places where I miss landing a jump but they are few and far inbetween otherwise hitting the jumps isn't as bad as I first thought it would be. My favorite part of the game is the grinding door unlock mini-game. This is where you slide down a rail avoiding bombs and hit switches so you can unlock a door back on the normal size world. The game also includes other mini-games, so far I experienced the skateboarding game which I could personally do without and a destruction derby game which is also fun. As I am not finished with the game yet there might be even more mini-games.

The story to the game is also very good. I believe the story is what is really driving me to continue playing this game. I don't think I would go through the frustration again and again on trouble spots if I didn't want to know whats going to happen next. I believe its the humor of the game thats pulls you in.

Graphics for this game are outstanding its another game that shows me the PSP is more powerful than first thought. There are a few issues but those are rare to see and usually due to some weird camera angle thats being shown. Cutscene are in game graphics and are scripted very well. A few times I thought to myself this would make for a very good video. In fact I would love to see Ratchet and Clank shorts using the game engine too bad I'm not a very good writer or I would try to make one myself.  

Well back to the vacation and more Ratchet and Clank. I know this game will make me look at all the other Ratchet and Clank games out there. If you do not have this game yet and you own a PSP I suggest you go out right now and purchase a copy for yourself, you won't be disappointed. 

Derek French on Bioware's own Mass Effect forum as posts the DRM Mass Effect will be using for the PC release.  

"Mass Effect uses SecuROM and requires an online activation for the first time that you play it. Each copy of Mass Effect comes with a CD Key which is used for this activation and for registration here at the BioWare Community. Mass Effect does not require the DVD to be in the drive in order to play, it is only for installation.

After the first activation, SecuROM requires that it re-check with the server within ten days (in case the CD Key has become public/warez'd and gets banned). Just so that the 10 day thing doesn't become abrupt, SecuROM tries its first re-check with 5 days remaining in the 10 day window. If it can't contact the server before the 10 days are up, nothing bad happens and the game still runs. After 10 days a re-check is required before the game can run."

Hey Bioware don't think letting EA buy you out was such a smart move while granted Mass Effect as a big hit in the console market and it made you your money. This will just kill PC sales of the game. I had to in fact check the date to make sure I didn't go back in time to April 1st. Bioware glad to know you still care about your die hard fans, thanks to this move I now know to save my money and skip the game. By the way please tell me how this will prevent piracy all I can figure out is wait one day after the release of the game and you can have yourself a copy of this game without the headaches it will bring trying to play it. Its just as bad as DVD you buy that have the wonderful don't pirate movies, that you can't skip, commercial in the begining. Please tell me you see the stupidness in this type of DRM.

Simon Viklund, Creative Director, for Grin has stated on the company blog that Bionic Commando Rearms is nearing completion. They are putting the polishing touches on the remake of Bionic Commando.

Some information about BCR for those who don't know about it.

• Classic Bionic Commando side-scrolling gameplay, updated with new abilities, weapons and bosses
• 2-player co-op mode
• Total modern visual and audio revamp
• Cross-game interoperability - complete specific parts of Bionic Commando Rearmed to unlock new content and hints for the Bionic Commando sequel
• In-game art designed by one of Capcom's most talented artists, Toshiaki Mori

Ok this game just keeps getting better and better as new about it comes out. It turns out the first level of the game you are Darth Vader seeking out his new Secret Apprentice.

"We created a level at the beginning of the game where you play as Darth Vader and go to the Wookie homeworld of Kashyyk," Haden Blackman, project lead, told GameTrailers. "And during the course of the level he finds this boy who becomes, ultimately, his Secret Apprentice."

Too bad it's not the Endor Moon I rather saber some ewoks. 

Lets hope the game doesn't get overhyped.

Source : Eurogamer