After much anticipation, I decided to try out City of Heroes. The past few months I have spent reading about the games potential and the breakthrough gameplay that it will house. I have to say that this game really delivers. This is my first experience playing an MMO, and it is really addictive. Pickle and I put our heads together to create a hero that I could see my self playing. So far, I have reached to leveling up my hero to 6 and it’s still a work in progress. So for those of you wondering if it’s worth trying, wonder no more. The graphics, the gameplay, and the different heroes you can create are magnificent.

So it appears that Amazon believes Halo 2 will be out on September 1st.

The Penny Arcade Expo is coming up very soon and not only is it going to be one awesome event, they are giving away a video game collection like no other. Aptly called “The Omega Collection” it is valued at over $15,000. If you weren’t planning on going, you need to make arrangements now. The full details are available on the PAX website.

Wired is running an article that seems to imply that Sony is in fact going to take over the hand held market with one fail swoop when the PSP debuts. Sure I think Nintendo has reason to worry, but I think they are neglecting a small key fact here…. If Johnny Q. Public has a GBA with 25 games and the PSP comes out and is awesome, his parents will be a little reluctant to toss that library of games out and start fresh. The backwards compatability that the GB/GBA has maintained has been a huge selling point for newer versions of the system.

It seems almost ironic to me that this isn’t discussed since I firmly believe it is the only reason the PS2 sold as well as it did. People had become loyal to Sony and the new console played their old games. Why would you switch to a different brand console. Microsoft and Nintendo have been playing catchup ever since. I think the PSP is going to sell well, but with all the added features, the price won’t be able to match that of a straight up portable gaming machine.

The author seems to have mixed up his facts because he says “The PSP (short for PlayStation Portable) reportedly would have graphics capabilities close to that of a PlayStation 2.” Unless things changed, this is supposed to be a portable Playstation, not a PS2. I seriously doubt they could make a portable PS2 with any type of decent battery life at this stage in the game.

Source: Wired