If you have been looking forward to playing the game it would be best to avoid clicking on YouTube videos and online streams relating to the game until its expected September 20th release date.

I’m interested in how the game will look on the 360 considering that I still cant get the game to run well on my PC.

While the games looks like an interesting mix between House of the Dead and Condemned (and is also being developed by the team behind the former franchise), I can’t help but feel that the Kinect controls will pretty much kill it. Since it’s, you know, Kinect. But we’ll find out soon enough, as the game is slated for a stateside release some time in September, probably not too long after the Japanese one.

July 20th will be the day we’ll all be able to jump into the colorful world of Bastion, for 1200 MSP. If you’re into the good kind of dust, you know, the one where silicon comes from, you’ll be able to go with From Dust on July 27th. August opens up with the aptly named Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, for 1200 MSP on the 3rd, followed by Fruit Ninja Kinect on August 10th, in which you massacre helpless fruits while flailing your arms like an insane person, all for 800 MSP. Closing the promotion, Toy Soldiers: Cold War will relive your childhood Rambo fantasies without the need of any steroids on August 17th, for 1200 MSP.

And if you buy all five games, you’ll get Crimson Alliance along with three downloadable characters, for free. Unless you’re like me and live in one of the three countries that Microsoft expressively excludes from the promotion – Brazil, South Africa or Japan. In that case, you get nada. Nani-mo. Fokol.

Microsoft is hoping to get the program running by 2012 and use it to give voice recognition to ads. When you see a ad, “Xbox More” will be the option you get to obtain further information about an ad. “Xbox Near Me” give you the ability to track a retailer that sells a particular product near you. Finally, “Xbox Tweet” ads the function to Tweet about the ad you were looking at. I’m sure that will either go unused or call for a lot of unfollows.

So far it’s not known if advertisers are sold on the idea but if it is, you’ll definitely see them next spring. I’ll leave the “Xbox (Insert line here)” jokes to you.

- Xbox 360 limited edition Gears of War 3 system
- 320GB harddrive
- Two Gears of War Xbox 360 wireless controllers
- Gears of War 3 Standard Edition game
- Built-in Wi-Fi connection
- Wired headset
- Download token for Infected Omen Weapon Pack (Lancer, Retro Lancer, Hammerburst, Gnasher, and Sawed-Off Shotgun) and Adam Fenix multiplayer character.

Microsoft will also be selling limited edition Gears of War 3 controllers separate from the bundle for $59.99. Check out the video to see the console in action via Epic Games. To order the console head here.

“Core focus for us in our press briefing this year with Kinect actually came from two sides. As a first-party, we believe that Kinect will be important to all genres of games, be it racing games with Forza, combat games like Ryse.  Even games like Halo Anniversary has Kinect integration.”

No specifics were given as to how Kinect would be used in the title but there is speculation that it involves voice controls.  Microsoft seems intent in pushing Kinect as much as it can and Phil Spencer even went as far as to say that Kinect functionality would be coming to all Microsoft Game Studios titles.

I personally don’t want Kinect to be in any of my games so hopefully Microsoft keeps the support to optional only.

Dead Island has been pretty controversial since it was announced. At first people were mad about the depiction of children within the game, but that seemed to give way to the excitement people felt for a new, realistic zombie game.

Here I give my opinion of the game, and I talk to a developer who tells me about a spoiler.

This video was made specifically at the request of a fan. It’s just some gameplay of Ninja Gaiden III with some pop up commentary.

You’d better love this @RPGReviews on Twitter!

I get an interview with Jesse Houston from Bioware who teases what could be in store for the future of the Mass Effect franchise after 3 launches. He also reveals some interesting facts about the story of Mass Effect 3 so if you’re a fan, make sure you don’t miss it.