However, there’s a poopload of new games coming down the pipeline for consoles that I just won’t be passing up. Nothing can stop me from that. Seriously, now.

Amazon just emailed me to tell me my copy of Dragon Age: Origins shipped, so I’m looking forward to that hitting my 360 a few times over the next couple of weeks.

After that, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is on pre-order from Amazon as well, as I’m far, far too lazy to even care about picking it up at the store on release day. I’d rather way a few days for it to come direct to my mailbox after the servers get slammed. I’ve got other things on my mind anyway.

Plus, even before that, and I think I’m anticipating it far more, is Left4Dead 2. I need some mayhem zombie-shooting and for some reason I skipped out on the first release, despite having a solid feeling about it, especially after the reviews. Going to pick up a used copy for $10 in any case.

Also, looking forward to Assassin’s Creed II. I’m a fan of the 3d puzzle action thing that it’s got going on, and it will be a good break from anything else, perhaps.

Ah, the holiday season is insane. Too many game releases. And all sequels. What’s up with that?

Get outside and play in the sunshine, everyone!

As you can well see, we’ve shifted around some look and feel here at controllercode.

Not only does this mean a more regular post schedule again, with the upgrade to a new WordPress, it should also mean better usability around the site. Maybe more for the editors, mostly, but you know, it’s kind of good for everyone.

So, for the readership here, is there anything you’d like to see covered? I know what I’ll be looking out for anything interesting, but if there’s rumours you want quashed or confirmed, please leave a comment or send an email via the contact page!

But seriously, E3, in it’s toned down form just isn’t that amazing thing we all once remembered it to be.

I miss the old E3, where you couldn’t see a day pass without some new incredibly breaking news gushing all over the industry turning it on it’s side. Maybe my nostalgia is calling out for the golden days (maybe I’m just bitter I never got to go to it when it was good) or maybe it’s a good thing that it’s not all jam-packed with excitement for the upcoming fall release schedule. I’m not sure. But it sure is different.

Fine, fine, it’s now aimed at the business and industry itself, trying to be a little more GDC-like in it’s scope, sure. But there’s nothing like a good ol’ boothbabe-filled gamer haven. I guess we’ll have to wait for the other half of the split to hit this fall, E for All, to see if the old bag still has it in her.

Big announcements, I hope we have ‘em.

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!

I’m not sure if I should be annoyed or intrigued. I mean, the creativity of it is just so humorous, yet, I can’t help but dislike any kind of advertising spam

[via Raph Koster]

Famitsu

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Seal Grimoire, the sequel to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, goes on sale in Japan in Q4 2007, and is TBA released everywhere else. Poo.

“Hiyumu”, the human-like race, are jack-of-all-trades, good at attack and support. The standard and simple race that’s probably good to have in a party.

“Moguri” hit up aerial-assault style jobs. Resembling mice and specializing in engineering skills, they’re the only ones that can surf in the clouds and drop wtfbombs on the enemy.

“Vuiera”, like Hiyumu, are a bit of all-rounders. They have rabbit-style ears and tend to be better for support and healing positions.

“Banga”, being covered in scales as they are lizard-like, are great at tanking, offensive assaults. They’re the ones that will suck up all that high-HP damage while everyone else is laying down the smack on things.

The “Mou”, are the opposites of Banga. They’re delicate but possess powerful magical abilities with which to nuke the living crap out of opponents. And quite honestly, I can’t even begin to tell what animal they look like. In this screen-grab they look kind of like Tails.

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