From Dust, Does Well in Reviews!

From Dust is an amazing looking game that was release on July 27. It is about using your strange and supernatural powers to change your surroundings - including using lava, oceans, earth and everything in your power to protect your people from the elements of nature.

So far, the collective reviews average out at 7.9 / 10.0 - which is very good!

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/puzzle/from-dust/review.html?mode=web&tag=scoresummary%3Bcritic-score

Source 2: http://ced66.deviantart.com/art/From-Dust-17-178728518

Final Fantasy XIII-2, RELEASE DATE!

And the release date is JANUARY 2012! For the US, anyway; the Japanese one is even earlier - in DECEMBER! I can't wait to play it :D - Unfortunately, I don't know of the European, Australian or any other release dates than the ones I've revealed... :( - all well, I'm sure they'll all be around that time :D

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6323875/final-fantasy-xiii-2-lighting-up-january-2012

Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, 17 Screenshots

Here are seventeen AMAZING looking screenshots from Witcher 2; this game seriously look like it could very well have the best graphics in any game that I've ever seen. Crysis looks nice... but this game definitely beats that easily! The designers of this game paid a lot of attention to detail when making the environments.

Source: http://store.steampowered.com/app/20920/

Conduit 2, Screenshots

Here is a compilation of screenshots from the Wii game, Conduit 2; it is a sequel to a game that was considered to have great potential, even if it wasn't the greatest game out there. I guess it would be pretty hard to make a good shooter for the Wii - it has terrible graphics capabilities.

Dead Island, Amazing and Emotional announcement trailer

Dead Island was announced with this trailer a while back, and while most people don't think the gameplay fits - I still think that the trailer was awesome. So, here is the amazing and emotional announcement trailer that the title of this article is talking about:

Portal 2, Coop Campaign Review 5.0/5.0

PORTAL 2: The single player campaign was very awesome, and the single player campaign is the first in the order of the story; I suggest you finish it before playing the Coop storyline, to understand it better. Now, Coop was an awesome experience - I haven't had this much fun in multiplayer... ever!

STORY AND CHARACTERS: There is a wonderful story going on - showing the emotions of the character GlaDos and the strange robots, P-body and Atlas. These two robots are the ones you play as during the Coop campaign, and GlaDos will occasionally whisper to one character individually and tell them that they are doing better or worse than the other player, tell them that the other player is plotting against them, etc.

QUALITY: It's a lot of fun and it's hilarious, just like the normal mode; however, I think the dialogue in the normal mode is much better - but this Coop campaign still stands as one of the best campaigns I've ever played - multiplayer OR single player.

COOPERATIVE: This campaign requires you to work together on everything; it was made fully for multiplayer, separately from the single player, which is clearly made for one player only. Having another player there doesn't make it easier; both players still have to spend a lot of time trying to figure things out, before they can get anywhere. They have to collaborate on everything or fail at everything.

THOUGHTS: I don't think there is a way to make the game better than they have; it is simply above and beyond my expectations for the Coop mode. The ending was awesome, and you'll love it when you play. The story doesn't seem very big, but the end changes everything for Aperture Science, humanity and... you might even save the thing that GlaDos loves the most...

OVERALL: This Coop campaign was awesome and you really should get Portal 2 as soon as you can! Or if you can't afford it, now, then it really doesn't matter. Valve always has sales every couple of months on their games on Steam, making them sometimes about 20% of their original price. As for 360, you can just buy a used copy from someone else - but for the PS3, you activate your game through Steam, so I don't believe you can return the game - but you get the PC and MAC versions of Portal 2 for FREE if you buy the PS3 version, so it might be worth it if you want it on more than just PS3.

SCREENSHOTS FROM SINGLE PLAYER - PART 1
SCREENSHOTS FROM SINGLE PLAYER - PART 2

SCREENSHOTS FROM MULTI PLAYER - PART 1
SCREENSHOTS FROM MULTI PLAYER - PART 2

REVIEW OF SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN

The Mass Effect series developed over time

Mass Effect captured me a few years back when I played the first game on the Xbox 360. I though it was one of the most amazing masterpieces ever! I remember playing through every single random planet I came across that was able to be landed on; when I look back at it now, I think that if it were to be released in the current day that it would be met with heavy opposition, but for its time it was amazing!

I beat that game and eventually sold it at some time that I don't remember. A few years later, I had Steam; this is an online service that sells games on computers (Windows and Mac). I saw Mass Effect was on sale, so I decided to buy it again. I played it again, and had the same wonderful experience as I had the first time! I waited a few months and saw Mass Effect 2 was coming in a few months, so I replayed the game once more, and once again had that amazing experience!

When it was about one month before the release of Mass Effect 2, I had already forgotten a lot of the smaller story pieces in Mass Effect, and that is bad for this series; whatever choices you made in Mass Effect get carried over to Mass Effect 2! So if someone is dead in my play-through of Mass Effect, then they're dead in Mass Effect 2 as well! This can change the game a lot. So I replayed Mass Effect again, loving it like each time before!

I realized that I'd not done some stuff right in this final playthrough, though; so, I quickly replayed Mass Effect again. These two final play throughs took me about 100 hours, together! It was awesome the entire time!

Finally I had gotten Mass Effect 2 and began to play it; I was amazed the entire way through! I was so blown away by the exciting and awesome ways my playthrough changed things - the awesome fighting - the awesome missions in the game. There were no recycled locations, like in Dragon Age II; it was all new over and over! It was called the 'Avatar of video games,' by some critic I remember.

Now, I look forward to Mass Effect 3 and its amazing addition into this amazing series! I can't wait. :D

  

Starcraft II - Achievements for Blizzard's Custom Maps

Blizzard has released an update with new achievements and avatars for Starcraft II! You can unlock them by playing the scenarios that Blizzard released a while back: Aiur Chef, Left 2 Die, Starjeweled.

Source: http://www.sc2mapster.com/announcements/impossible-bosses-custom-map-achievements/