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For what it's worth, here are some random notes I grabbed during the MS Press Conference on this game. Also, I agree Chuck, looks awesome.

- Origins story of Lara Croft - 21 years old

- Lara being held captive to start on some island

- Very cinematic in style - lots of camera tricks, slight shake when walking, highly interactive environments

- Lara talks quite a bit, makes lots of audible noises as she does stuff, very emotive

- Environmental Puzzles

- Ability to light all sorts of stuff on fire

- Weirdo captors continuously pursuing her

- Launching Fall 2012

Oh hot damn, I want this game. Loved Shattered Dimensions, so I'm sure this one is also going to be great.

So, this is three years in a row with Assassin's Creed adorning the outer walls of the convention center. The first year I was there, it was a picture of Ezio with his arms spread out, showing off his hidden blades.

I'm in the middle of Brotherhood right now. It's alright, but definitely lacks something that I can't put my finger on from ACII.

The character artwork featured at last year's E3 for this was just awful, but man does the game look cool as hell in motion. Consider me officially excited for this. I love off-the-wall stuff like this.

This is a crazy bit of news. Zone of the Enders HD remake is total hotness. Peace Walker now actually playable? Unpossible! Maybe they'll make MGS 2 less sucky in the process. Hey, I can dream.

This looks pretty cool, though I don't want to get my hopes up too high. Seems almost like a merge of Jump Stars and Smash Bros.

Hey look, they are also releasing a new Super Stardust (Delta) on the NGP - go figure!

Chessa and I have been playing this (slowly) and I have to say that I really hate the tasks for full synchronization. Often, they are really obnoxious or uninteresting to complete, but my OCD completely prevents me from completing them at 50%. It's currently harming my appreciation of the title, so I'm going to have to find a way to mentally get past it.

I'm also finding the story and setting far less interesting thus far, but we'll see how it develops. Long story short - I'm not finding the game to be as good as ACII thus far.

I wanted this game for so long as a kid. Now that I finally have it, my interest in it is almost completely gone as almost every Castlevania game past this one has surpassed it in significant ways. One day I'll actually play a bit further into it, but I always get an hour or two in and give up. Oh well.

I'm still unclear on the differences in Legacy of Darkness, so I'm really looking forward to the next write-up, Kathrine. Also, glad to see the Tour de 64 back in full force on PB 2.0!

It's about damn time. I can only hope that after it goes up, it isn't immediately hacked again, causing further downtime. While it's great and all that the hackers managed to hurt Sony, it has wreaked havoc for all users and sites like us. During the downtime we were unable to redeem review vouchers, putting us way behind on providing proper coverage on a select number of games. I hope Sony really learned something from all of this and have a better idea of how to protect themselves and their users' data.