If you’ve not sure what E3 is, it’s the Electronic Entertainment Expo (hence E3 for short) held in Los Angeles, where all the big names in the gaming industry come out to show of their latest and greatest upcoming games, consoles and other cool stuff. Here’s some of the cool new games that’s going to be on show this year:

• DJ Hero
• Brutal Legend
• Final Fantasy 13
• God of War 3
• Bayonetta

There will be loads of other new games announced to be excited about, so keep an eye out! E3 is back!

What’s Thief and why should I care you ask? well it’s one of the best stealth games ever created:

Thief is a series of stealth video games where the player takes the role of Garrett, a thief in a fantasy/steampunk world resembling a cross between the Late Middle Ages and the Victorian era, with more advanced technologies interspersed.

If you’re interested to find out more Eurogamer recently ran a retrospective article about the first game, well worth a read. Also you can pick up the original 2 games for a bargain price.

Enjoy!

Also while I was looking for TF2 stuff I came across this really bizarre TF2 recreation of the Super Smash Bros (not brawl) intro, it’s really, really well done!  Kudos to the guy that created it!

• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion [Xbox 360 - £14.98]
• Super Mario Galaxy [Wii - £27.81]
• Half-Life 2: The Orange Box [PC - £11.91]
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots [PS3 - £17.81]
• Guilty Gear X 2 [PS2 - £7.99]

Looks like it’s a slow week again next week, so I’ll do another selection then!

Guitar Hero

• Blue Oyster Cult - “Godzilla”
• Boston - “More Than A Feeling”
• Deep Purple - “Smoke On The Water”
• Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
• Helmet - “Unsung (Live)”
• Incubus - “Stellar”
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - “I Love Rock N’ Roll”
• Ozzy Osbourne - “Bark At The Moon”
• Pantera - “Cowboys From Hell (Live)”
• Queen - “Killer Queen”
• Queens Of The Stone Age - “No One Knows”
• The Donnas - “Take It Off”
• The Exies - “Hey You”
• White Zombie - “Thunder Kiss ‘65″

Guitar Hero II

• Alice In Chains - “Them Bones”
• Avenged Sevenfold - “Beast And The Harlot”
• Danzig - “Mother”
• Foo Fighters - “Monkey Wrench”
• Iron Maiden - “The Trooper”
• Jane’s Addiction - “Stop!”
• Kansas - “Carry On Wayward Son”
• Lamb Of God - “Laid To Rest”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Free Bird”
• Motley Crue- “Shout At The Devil”
• Nirvana - “Heart-Shaped Box”
• Rage Against The Machine - “Killing In The Name”
• Reverend Horton Heat - “Psychobilly Freakout”
• Rush - “YYZ”
• Stone Temple Pilots - “Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart”
• The Police - “Message In A Bottle”
• The Sword - “Freya”
• Warrant - “Cherry Pie”
• Wolfmother - “Woman”

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

• Anthrax - “Caught In A Mosh”
• Extreme - “Play With Me”
• Judas Priest - “Electric Eye”
• Poison - “Nothin’ But A Good Time”
• Ratt - “Round and Round”
• Twisted Sister - “I Wanna Rock”

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

• AFI - “Miss Murder”
• DragonForce - “Through The Fire And Flames”
• Heart - “Barracuda”
• Kiss - “Rock And Roll All Nite”
• Living Colour - “Cult Of Personality”
• Pat Benatar - “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”
• Priestess - “Lay Down”
• Slayer - “Raining Blood”

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

• Aerosmith - “Back In The Saddle

It’s basically all the best bits from the previous Guitar Hero games, so if you’ve not had chance to play them before, or wanted to give them a spin with the drums, or sing along here’s your chance!. Thanks ShackNews.

If you’ve played our fab slot game Marine Mayhem Mini and loved it, then you’re in for a treat! We now have two rooms of Marine Mayhem, but not as you know it! These two new rooms are multiplayer slot games where you can earn points with each spin and compete with other players to win a share of the jackpot!

Play from just 1p to win cash prizes as well as points, with the top 10 scoring players at the end of the game sharing the community jackpot! Keep your eye on the countdown clock though, because when the time is up the jackpot reels will spin to decide which jackpot amount will be paid out between the top 10 players!

At its core it’s a Battlefield game, an accessible game that we’re delivering in an arcade fashion. We wanted to emphasize the accessibility, so you’ll access it through a download, jump in, and everything just comes to you… it quickly gets you in the action. They’ll be a ranking system, awards, all the stuff you’d get with a Battlefield game, like you got in Bad Company and 2142, all delivered in an arcade fashion.

What I picked up on was the arcade fashion statement which scares the hell out of me as a PC gamer.  What I loved about Battlefield 1942 was its lack of arcade.  I know this game is multiplatform and is being released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in June but where does it leave us PC gamers and what can we expect in September?   Battlefield Heroes was a huge disappointment to me and I really don’t want to see BF1943 go the same way.

That said there are some aspects I am excited about, firstly being the mention in the interview that this isn’t a true successor to BF1942, they wanted to leave that open.  Could be good news for us hardcore fans but the wait could be long, if not endless!  Secondly it is good to see that they are quite focussed on capturing the Battlefield moments, this is where my heart is and if they could pull this off then I might be tempted to look over the other omissions (and wait patiently in a mollified state until a true successor comes along).

Well, with this game we’re not trying to make a true successor to 1942, so we wanted to leave that open. The main goal with 1943 was to make a Battlefield game that really highlighted the essence of Battlefield, which are these great Battlefield moments — these crazy scenarios you can create… the sheer volume of things that can happen and what you can do in the game: You can fly an airplane, you can parachute out of the airplane, you can shoot someone while you’re parachuting. Or you can drive a tank, jump out right before someone destroys it, and go get the guy who destroyed it by hitting him over the head with a wrench. The amount of things you can do is endless.

So I guess we will wait and see, I am not ruling this out nor I am waiting with bated breath.  Cmon DICE, show me you can make something great again

First there was Operation Anchorage, there there was The Pitt, but tomorrow sees the release of Broken Steel:

It not only adds more content, but it changes the way the end of the game finishes allowing you to keep on playing it. That might sound odd if you’ve not played it, but let me tell you it’s a big thing if you have!

Since the game has been out for a while you’ll be able to get it at a great price now, and if you do get it you’ll be in for a treat!

Obviously I have been able to get some say in things, picked a lovely Samsung TV which I did quite a lot of reading on beforehand, but it wasn’t stressfull ;)  I had already resigned to the fact that as soon as I clicked buy, there would be another TV out that is cheaper, better quality and makes me a cup of tea too…

Take a look tho!  The Samsung LE40B650.  It’s not as good as Trip’s new Samsung UE40B7020, but you can’t have everything (and a gf!).

Anyway I think I am gonna go play some bingo and possibly drool over Jumpgate Evolution again!