I was.

Let's see- what hasn't been mentioned?

PSP GO comes with GTPSP in Europe and a demo for Rock Band Unplugged in NA (lol)

No Real/Unreal Talk episodes since you left.

New PSN game called Dead Nations. Top down Left 4 Dead, but more apocalyptic.

Yeah, the PS3 Slim is real. Seriously.

The PS3 also does everything. Apparently.

As has been mentioned, Gebx and Legend11 left (hooray!) and d21lewis left () and then came back ()

The user review index is back.

The IM is occasionally interesting again.

MaxwellGT2000 became a moderator (this may have been before you left)

Heavy Rain won IGN's PS3 Best Game of GamesCom award (above Uncharted 2 and R&C:ACiT, which both had awesome trailers- Ratchet & Clank now has space exploration). It's beginning to look less like a clichéd movie filled with QTEs and more like an awesome game with a great story. The E3 gameplay still puts me off, though. 5 seconds of exploration and 5 minutes of QUICK TIME EVENT! God of War is the worst QTE offender I've seen, and none of those went on for more than a minute! And those were the MOST DIFFICULT of the bosses, not some random guy with a pipe in a scrapyard!

MGS4 is officially coming to 360, with extra Otacon levels. Sony went bankrupt, Nintendo bought Sega, Microsoft sold the rights to the Halo franchise to Activision. Obama was impeached and Nixon is now President of the USA. And there's a giant UFO above Tokyo filled with aliens that look like Kif from Futurama.

That's about it, really. Oh and also, Malstrom is whinier than ever and seems to need to make a "WAH WAH EVERYONE HATES THE WII" blog post every few hours.

Does the crow have cloth physics?

Heavy Rain still has quick time events.

Also Michael Jackson died.

New World of Warcraft expansion pack was announced... now Goblins and Werewolves(there's another name for them) will be playable.. since no one mentioned that.... if it's important at all to anyone O_o

I just saw the trailer. I haven't seen any grocery store footage. I'll look it up later, because it's late here, and I'm tired.

That trailer is awesome. But something about it seems... fake. It just makes it look like a game. I'm not sure if it's the lighting or the eyes or what.

- Final Fantasy Versus XIII Dev time "comparatively faster" than FFXIII
- New screenshot for FFXIII plus two new characters details
- FFXIII will be released in NA/Europe spring 2010.

Holy shit, those graphics are amazing, even in SD! I watched the "Robbery" footage as well, which is the same scene but earlier, and at one point, at the end of a cutscene, I thought "Why isn't Scott moving?". I then realised it was gameplay. WOW.

More than that, the actual gameplay did look appealing this time around. No pointless QTEs, but some that actually seemed to work. And there are different ways to approach the problem- in the Robbery footage, it looked like Scott was going to take out the robber from behind, without saying a word!

The E3 gameplay killed my anticipation for Heavy Rain, but those videos just renewed it. Thanks!

No just wait till Fall.