Greetings one and all. Straight to business, this week I've been playing Halo 3 and Spore but I eased off on them so I could spend the last few days getting some serious practice time in on Rock Band. Of course TGS, the Tokyo Game Show is currently on and it looks like there's some seriously cool stuff going on, RE5 is looking impressive while there are other aspects of the show which just come with it being set in Japan which are awesome in a bizarre way (e.g. the giant Norton Antivirus anime robot) and they're great to see. The show seems to be carrying a very different feel to E3 and I kinda like that.

Those of you who know me well may have guessed that my favourite feature so far of the show was Bungie's announcement of their new project, Halo 3: Recon. The trailer looked awesome, from the movement of all the characters there, to the awesome graphics and the continuation of the computer-themed SI perspective on things. Having an ODST as the protagonist really puts a new spin on things because whereas in the previous campaigns the world of Halo has been seen through the eyes of the UNSC's greatest hero and in Halo Wars allows control of the world from the perspective of a commander, Recon will give a look at the world from the view of a regular (well okay, almost regular) soldier. It'll be a very long time before we're all down at our local stores queueing expectantly, boxes in hand but with the Mythic Map Pack and Halo Wars coming out next year it seems Bungie are working harder than ever.

I didn't mention it last week but Bungie also have their new file share system alive and kicking and the ability for Bungie Pro members to render videos to a PC-playable format straight from Halo is the best thing that has come out of it in my opinion. If I had more awesome stuff on my file share I'd really be looking into getting Bungie Pro. Oh and anyone remember the Xbox LIVE update preparation from a while ago? Well it seems to have messed up Team Fortress 2 something fierce, it just seems glitchier than before; one of my friends even found a single leg on a character floating across a map, I'm still scratching my head wondering how a server update has done what it has done.

Thank you for reading again, I'm gonna get back to the bizarre goings on of TGS and maybe some more Rock Band, I'm having big trouble on the last set of the guitar tour on expert. This week I'll leave you with this altogether confusing trailer for Namco Bandai's Noby Noby Boy.

-Gamer_152