After being revealed about one year ago, we’re coming close to the actual release of this new peripheral; I would assume it will be available to the public by the holiday (we’ll know for sure next week).

Behold, the future of video games:

The game has been out for a while, but I’ll be finally getting it soon and it will be great.

Heavy Rain is an upcoming game for the Playstation 3, being released later this month. After first being announced in 2006, the viability of the game was widely speculated. Heavy Rain forgoes the traditional play elements of most games, using minimal on screen display and only contextual commands. It will probably be the closest to an interactive cinematic experience on a game console to date. The game also uses CG characters, so uncanny valley issues have also been brought up.

At the end of January they released a new trailer:

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By the way, have any of you tried the new Mario game on Wii? I played it this weekend with my roommates and it was ridiculous.

Edit 11.12: Day one sales figures are out. 4.7 million units sold, a rough total of $310 million, surpassing Transformers opening weekend (29.5).

Edit 11.11: Got my copy a few hours ago, put up some pictures at the bottom of the post.

Today (11.10.09) was the official launch of the latest game in the Call of Duty series.  Originally started as a World War II shooter, the series made the jump to the present day with their 2007 release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.  This latest iteration, simply Modern Warfare 2, was the most pre-ordered game in GameStop’s history and probably the largest game release to date.

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