The Summer drought is over

I’m currently writing this in somewhat of a zombified stupor, given the small amount of sleep I got last night after getting back so late, so I apologise if this post becomes a bit of a ramble.

After a fairly uneventful summer for videogames, it’s a big relief to see the release schedule pick up the pace – the recent release of Space Marine kept some of the crew happy (except maybe for our own Adapt-”It’s-a-2-for-£30-game”-UK0). Last night saw a few of us head to our local branch of Game for the launch of Gears of War 3, which meant I got to grin like an idiot while carrying this:

Not pictured: The slightly more irate version of me 5 minutes before when I thought people were pushing into the queue "to buy my bloody Epic Edition which I've already bloody paid for"

I know I was going a bit stir-crazy over the summer months, especially as the weather this year has been less than stellar, and so the usual antics of pub-gardens, beaches and other such niceties didn’t really happen, which meant the usual quiet summer for videogames was felt more keenly than in past years (at least from my perspective). It does annoy me a little, having a few months with very few games being released. I know it’s all to do with the whole Christmas rush and companies want to maximise their profits, it’s just a real shame that in ‘sunny old England’ (and I use the term ‘sunny’ in it’s loosest possible terms) we have very little to look forward to in the summer months in terms of games.

At least now, for the next few months leading up to Christmas, we’ve got quite a lot of big releases to look forward to, in no particular order:

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Batman: Arkham City
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Battlefield 3
Modern Warfare 3
Forza 4
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

And that’s just on the Xbox – I’ve not mentioned much about other systems (mainly because they get relatively little of my gaming time, which I do find to be a shame sometimes, but the releases there rarely fail to grab me as much as the Xbox release schedule). I do however want Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land (although I do need to get a 3DS first…)

The best thing about the above releases? We’ll get to try out nearly all of them at the Eurogamer Expo this weekend! I’ll see if we can’t write some sort of collaborative report after the weekend for those of you not attending.

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