Weekly Report: Game Releases Brain?

Announcements

Command & Conquer 4 Beta Keys
We have a variety of beta keys set aside for GameSpot Total Access subscribers. While this may be a closed beta test offer for premium members, there are plans to have an open beta offer for everyone else in early 2010.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 PlayStation 3 Beta Keys
All GameSpot registrants who live in the United States should take advantage of the beta keys giveaway this Thursday!

Modern Warfare 2 Game Night
The official Modern Warfare 2 game night is set for December 1. I am hearing a lot of people around the office with a desire to play sooner. If editorial staff sneak behind my back to play the game, you might want to check their blogs and the radar thread in the game night union to play it sooner than December 1.

Forza 3 Game Night Update
The GS UK/US/AU editorial staff showed off their racing and paint job skills, but there was one thing on the minds of everyone--Modern Warfare 2. We were surprised by how many people actually stopped playing Modern Warfare 2 just to play Forza 3 with us for a couple of hours.

New Emblem Unveil!
This emblem was used for the Forza Motorsport 3 game night, but we also have plans to repurpose it for other Forza related paint job activities that happen on the site. Keep an eye on Justin Calvert’s Forza Paintjob Union to increase your chances of getting it.

Member Spotlight: Setho10

This week’s member spotlight goes to Setho10 for offering his perspective about the single-player campaign length in Modern Warfare 2. One of the interesting aspects about the blog was how he described the number of people who actually finish games. Here is an excerpt:

“… over 80% of all people who play games never finish any game they start. Making a game 20 hours long is nice but the fact is that only a fraction of your audience will see the game through to the end.”

User Reviews

- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3) celtic1962
- Return to Mysterious Island (PC) SYdoggXxX
- Aion (PC) Azghouls
- Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (PS2) ebbderelict
- Shadow Complex (X360) NeonNinja
- Super Bomberman Party Pak (SNES) Garrison_Ford
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition (PC) LGTX
- Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2) c_rake

Staff Fingerprints

- Shaun McInnis shares a list of games he has been playing.
- Ryan MacDonald posts a variety of blogs about the Modern Warfare 2 game launch.
- Sophia Tong updates everyone with the latest happenings.

Blog Bunker
- ImagineryFriend purchased a Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 machine.
- johnsteed7 believes that role-playing games are the last hope for single-player fans.
- ubergusterfan is considering older games that remind him of the Diablo series.
- PAJ89 and dark_being posted Dragon Age: Origins impressions while topsemag55 posted sweet Lair of the Werewolves screenshot.

Misc. Drawer
- Skipped the featured user videos for the week.
- The HotSpot homework emblem granted to punkrocka and gopulpfiction.
- New addition to Soapbox feature: johnsteed7.

Tip of the Week
This week I share some general tips about how you can share GameSpot user videos. That is all for this week. If you have any tips worth sharing with others, feel free to send me a PM.