So we're well into the summer holidays and I hope everybody has been enjoying their games as much as I have. Firstly I am going away on holiday in a few hours so I won't be around to read your blogs for the next week and my next blog will be 1-2 days later than usual, just so you know. Among other things I have spent more of this week on Giant Bomb instead of Gamespot, they just have a lot of stuff Gamespot doesn't. It's not that this isn't a good site but Giant Bomb has all the best editors, better features and at this point I'm not too impressed with the new version of Gamespot in beta testing. I'll tell you what, I've listened to the Giant Bombcast and it's easily five times better than the Gamespot UK Podcast.

But you probably want to know more about actual games. I've had more time with Dawn of War: Soulstorm and it's a good game but not a great game in my opinion. It adds some fun and inventive new armies and units to the game and once again stays loyal to the Warhammer 40K storyline but the campaign is very similar to the one from Dark Crusade and outside of new armies after 3 expansions we still haven't seen any great jump forward for the game as far as new features go. There's also a little gripe I've always had because despite adding most armies to the game, the Daemonhunters (Grey Knights) only got one unit in the game where as the Witch Hunters (Sisters of Battle, I refer to them as the Witch Hunters because.. Well they are the Witch Hunters, I think the name 'Sisters of Battle' was badly tied in) get an entire army and even worse than this the games have added pretty much every army that could be asked for including the 2 types of Space Marines and Eldar and yet still no Tyranids but I guess my nerdiness is costing me some enjoyment of the games. Overall with Soulstorm though although I don't regret buying it, it felt like they tried a little harder with Dark Crusade.

I've got Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 now and man is it superb. I'm not guaranteeing you'll like it if you liked the original Geometry Wars but the game is well worth a look. Despite being a simple Xbox LIVE arcade title they took the game and completely revised and reinvented it, it's a joy to play and it's like discovering Geometry Wars all over again. Hopefully when I get back from my holiday I can get a review out.

Now it's time to bash British Magazine MCV. As many read the magazine shocked readers by bringing out the news that the Wii 2 was in production and speculating over the idea that Miyamoto was out of ideas. I know the media will do their cheap eye-grabbing headline thing but this paticularly annoyed me, for starters the idea of a Wii 2 being in production was nothing more than a downright lie and they knew it! They also concocted the second piece of news from the fact that all the initial ideas for the Wii had been released, the key word there being 'initial' but again they didn't seem afraid to deceive readers. I hate when media publications do this, it's cheap and underhanded.

I'd shoutout to everyone but after I finish writing this I'll literally be packing up my things and leaving, but I don't want to end this on a low note so I will leave you with a fine use of TF2 machinima. See you all some time next week.

-Gamer_152