Still working on the actual Age of Conan review, but saw this and it made me chuckle. Woody over at GU Comics has been making his first steps into Hyboria and made a few observations about the rather gory AoC combos… (personally i think they’re awesome)

Check out the rest of GU Comics at gucomics.com

First, an apology. I know the posting has slowed to a crawl over the last few weeks. This is mainly due to a mix of me being busy, GTA IV, and now Age of Conan… There’s also been a lack of anything that’s caught my interest to post (probably because everyone else was off playing GTA too!) We are however, working on the Age of Conan review, so that’ll be up soon (hopefully!)

Anyhow, onto the news!

Ubisoft announced at the end of their Ubidays 2008 live conference that they have Beyond Good & Evil 2 in production! Half of you went ‘YAYYYY!’, and the other half went ‘Huh? Beyond Good & the what now?..’

For the uninitiated, Beyond Good & Evil (wiki page) follows the adventures of reporter Jade, and her ‘uncle’ Pey’j (who happens to be a talking pig), as they try to save their planet from the alien DomZ forces. In terms of gameplay, it falls into that vague area often decribed as ‘action/adventure’… Mainly because that’s easier than saying 3rd person/shooter/rpg/stealth/platforming/racing/puzzler! It was intelligently written, beautiful graphics, funny, with clever action sequences and puzzles.

Despite all that and getting decent reviews (87% on Metacritic for the XBox version), much like the genius that is Psychonauts, it didn’t sell as well as you’d expect on inital release. However, Ubisoft must have been counting the coins since it’s release onto Steam and other download marketplaces, and finally have decided it’s worth a sequel! To celebrate, they’ve released this trailer:

All we need to do now is convince Double Fine to make a sequel to Psychonauts!

Batman: Gotham Knight is a 2008 animated direct-to-DVD anthology film of six animated short films set in-between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Each short, or segments, are written by Josh Olson, David Goyer, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka, Jordan Goldberg and Alan Burnett.

Batman Gotham Knight – Official Trailer

Offical Batman : Gotham Knight Website

For those of you coming off an GTAIV high, and are jonesing for some more violent video game conduct, how’s about this:

Every Mortal Kombat Fatality in 7mins of old school video game violence!

Jack Thompson would be so proud!

It’s been a pretty quiet geek news day, but i was looking around the PC Gamer UK/ C&VG site, when i noticed an old article about EVE Online that happened to be featured. It’s a story i originally read when it was printed in the magazine a couple of years ago, but i thought it was worth flagging up again for anyone who hasn’t seen it. It tells the tale of a meticulously planned mission undertaken by members of the Guiding Hand Social Club in EVE Online to carry out a contract kill and heist worth $16,500 in real money…

“The client requested Pearl Harbor,” says Shogaatsu (spokesman for Guiding Hand). “Specifically a single, surprise strike designed to cause as much pain to a heavily fortified target in as little time as possible. The contract was the result of a vendetta between the primary target and our client, who, while certainly satisfied with the outcome, never expected the utter destruction we wrought.”

Although EVE is one of the few MMO’s i’ve not actually played (i did attempt a trial but found it so hard to get into), I do love reading stories about the skirmishes and battles on there.

Check out the story here if you haven’t seen it already.