Usually around this time games start to trickle down in the Summer months before the Fall rush of exciting new games. Most gamers have to keep themselves busy with something else in the meantime but for me this is not the case, I'm probably going to be extra busy during the Summer drought.

First off for many of us Halo: Reach multiplayer beta is starting on Monday, May 3rd and is going to be keeping a lot of us happy and entertained during the summer, hopefully you were smart to pick up ODST so you can join in on the beta. This is going to suck a lot of my time away.

Second of all I have a lot of games to be catching up on. Two of which are some massive RPGs; Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2. These are probably the most time consuming of the games that I need to catch up on and will take most of my dedication to beat but I'm trying to finish Dragon Age before moving onto Mass Effect 2 and after those maybe Final Fantasy XIII? Bioshock 2 came out but I still never played the first one, so in between those RPGs I'm trying to fit some quality Bioshock time in there as well before moving on to the second. I still haven't touched Left 4 Dead 2 The Passing DLC yet so I definitely want to take that on as soon as possible as well.

On the Nintendo side of things I still need to play through Super Paper Mario. I've always loved the series Paper Mario but for whatever reason skipped out on this one when it was first released. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is a DS title I need to finish as well but the problems with these two games is that they are RPGs as well! Slowly but surely I'll etch my way through.

All these games going on but I still like to squeeze Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction in with some friends and with Red Dead Redemption coming out soon I know I'll have to add that to the backlog list of must plays. Take a break video game companies I need to catch up!