Gears of war, R6 las vegas to name a few.

Ryo we will be looking to kick the shit outta newcomers around 8-9 P.M. EST tonight. Bring COD2 and GOW

Bullies on the playground welcoming the new kid at school. Are you gonna take his lunch money too?

it's a distinct possibility..........I'm poor

Seriously though Ryo if you have either game or pick either one up we'll be on both tonight most likely so look for some of the regulars.

alxreys
Tbird2340
Exodus Prime
Doctor West
goLUCKY
MARTIN5

Surely if you send requests to all those names one of us will be around to bring you into a game later.

I think he spells it

EXodus Prime

I'm hoping to make it on some tonight after the sick daughter goes to bed. I'll be particularly looking for Crackdown or CoD2.

Had to stay home with my daughter today and the little one wouldn't let me get up from the bed she was napping in. I have played more DS today alone than i think i have in the month i borrowed the thing. Luckily for me my wife brought me home a cool DS Lite of my very own this evening so i can return the borrowed one.

So long story short, even though i wasn't good enough to make Martini's list of regulars - i may be on this evening as well.

well you've been AWOL for what, a month?

I've got GoW and Rainbow Six Vegas right now. Looking forward to getting merked.

xmiyux I said "some of the regulars", jeesh you guys are so testy :S

It so hasn't been that long.

Unfortunately it is going to be that long soon. Daughter is sick tonight which keeps me offline and the next two friday nights i have to prepare for the last two standardized tests for my grad degree. *sigh* A total drag but at least the degree will be done and i can avoid the agony of these ridiculous classes.

I'm really hoping that I can kick my Crackdown habit and join in some other games. The rest of this weekend is blown and next weekend is a little packed since I am going to hear Kevin Smith speak about 6 hours away.

IGN reports that Del Rey Books is releasing two Mass Effects novels that will serve as the prequel to the game. The first book is scheduled for a May release.

Interesting that they're already listing the game as award winning.

Thier listing this as a "prequel" to the "award winning" game from Bioware... Im assuming they mean System Shock.

It's a novel based on Mass Effect that takes place before the game. And by "Award Winning".... they mean the Best of E3 award it won last year.

System Shock is not at all related to Mass Effect. System Shock is a very old PC game created by a little company called Looking Glass Studios that has since then gone out of business. Bioware is a Canadian video game developer that has nothing in common with Looking Glass.

When you think of System Shock as a "prequel", maybe you thinking of the upcoming Bioshock? A lot of the same people that made System Shock are working on Bioshock, and Bioshock has been called a "spiritual successor" to System Shock by them.

I thought Deus Ex was the sequel to System Shock. Or were the 2 just made by the same guys but different stories?

After Looking Glass went bankrupt, some of the employees went to work at Ion Storm which is the company that created Deus Ex. That and the fact that Deus Ex and System Shock were both futuristic sci-fi FPS/RPG hybrids are the only thing they have in common. Deus Ex was never intended to be a sequel or successor or anything to System Shock.

System Shock 2 is actually the sequel to System Shock. Bioshock is being made, as was mentioned above, by many of the same people who worked on System Shock 2. Mass Effect is being made by the guys who created the first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. The "Best of E3" award was given to a couple of cool looking videos, but no actual gameplay, so it seems a little disingenuous of them to call it award winning. I actually think the game will be great, but come on.

They (Bioware) also made the PC Baldur's Gate games, MDK2, Neverwinter Nights, and Jade Empire. They have never made a bad game, so hopefully Mass Effect won't break the tradition.

Alien Hominid is next week's XBLA game, according to 1up. If it's 800 points or less, I'll probably pick it up.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3157494

I'm all over Alien Hominid. Will it have any kind of online component?

Supposedly, the only online stuff will be in the PDA mode (where there are I believe 400 levels now), and possibly the ability to make your own PDA levels to play and share as well. But no actual co-op through the game over Live.

Definitely getting Alien Hominid, and yes hopefully it is 800 points, but I would not be shocked by 1200. Reading that article gives me hope that perhaps SOTN and Double Dragon might come out in March as they appear to promise a much better March release schedule.

I wonder who picked up the MDK2 license after the demise of Interplay? I would love another entry into that series.

And yes, Bioware RPGs are great. They have yet to even come close to disappointing me. Mass Effect will be an immediate, no questions asked purchase for me.