Well looks like I am back this week with another blog, I've basically been gaming as normal this but my time spent on video game websites has been near none. This week I've played Puzzle Pirates, Halo 3 and more Rock Band. All great games but I have a strange urge to go back and replay Bioshock for some reason and that was before I even saw the Bioshock 2 trailer. Which is a very nice looking trailer but I'm still very extremely eager to see the gameplay and backstory for the new game, I'm expecting a completely new protagonist (although given the fact that the player essentially filled in the part of any real protagonist in the first game that doesn't really have any great effect) and I wouldn't be surprised if this game takes place a few years on from the previous one, the seemingly older Little Sister in the trailer seems like a slight hint at this.

After a quick demo I bought Age of Booty, the pirate strategy game from Certain Affinity, the studio recently founded by ex-developers of Bungie. I feel like doing a review of it but I've only had it a couple of days and it feels too early, but it's a good game and the gameplay feels very strategic despite being somewhat simple, I like how the hexagon-based playing field affects movement and the fact that firing is automated so I'm not constantly hitting the A button to attack. I don't quite feel the Bungie in it but offcasts from a lot of different studios worked at developing it and its good to see another genuinely decent title added to the XBLA library.

The most surprising piece of news I did see this week was that despite all the recent international economic hardship Microsoft are reporting record sales, that really confuses me. That's about it for this week, I'll leave you with one of the best uses of forge I've seen.

-Gamer_152