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I don’t know about you, but I don’t get quite so excited, these days, when yet another FPS game comes out. Always the same thing, shoot this, get this key, open this door. I mean, I love FPS games, but the same tired formula comes out at least three times a year.

Well, Bioshock totally is the exception. I’m sure unless you live under a rock, you’ve already seen bits and pieces of this game being demoed and previewed all over the place, but I’m particularly enamoured with this new trailer feature Ken Levine doing a voice-over describing the action.

Seeing the different, although all quite gung-ho, actions you can take to “solve” a particular puzzle of a particular room makes me anticipate this game a whole lot more. It seems like even some emergent behaviour popped up while they were building this game, as Ken makes a comment about the traps in-game.  Enjoy!

European Xbox chief Neil Thompson says PS3 isn’t a next-generation games system. BUUUUURRRN! I’m not sure how it’s not a next-gen system, but I guess Microsoft is just a touch edgy about the upcoming system.

I think [Sony] has missed the ball, in that it’s not really a next-generation games player – it’s a next-generation DVD player. For us, that’s great news, because we think we make the next-generation games console. If gamers are desperate to get the next-generation DVD player, then they’ll start considering Blu-Ray and the PS3. But Sony is the company that brought us Betamax, MiniDisc and UMD – I’m not convinced people today will go and bet the farm on buying a Blu-Ray disc.

[PS3Blog.net]

Up on IMDB, there’s some scant news about who’s going to be involved in the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. Love the mills churning the buttery goodness of rumors.

[Aeropause, Joystiq]