At my local Zavvi there are a tonne of games in a bargain bucket saying each is £1.00 only.

Amongst these are titles like: Red faction 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 4, Prey, Hitman. WTH games this good shouldn't be £1.00!!! (roughly $2.00) heck i'm not complaining when they're that cheap! Notice they are all PC games... well PC gaming isn't dying but this is a wound that i shall drink the blood from! (bad analogy)

I'm finding myself unnaturally attached to a game that hasn't even been released yet - Castle Crashers.

If it meant anything I'd put my reputation on the line for this game. It certainly has one of the best dev blogs of any game ever created and the long wait for ths game that started life near the beginning of the Xbox 360 is about to be released. Some say 1,200 points is too steep for an arcade game. Fut! Such blaspheme would give way to absolution upon the day of reckonin', the 27th August 2008.

Here's the jist: adventure beat 'em up with simple RPG system set in a cartoon- ****middle-ages land. 4 player co-op over xbl + 4 player arena battles. Hack and slash gameplay with magic spells to smash stuff and enemies. To get a good look at the game (if you haven't seen it already) go to the dev blog on the link above.

2d has come back in a big way, making 3d look like a bad joke, lets hope it's here to stay because I for one certainly believe we aren't finished with it.