Gears of War 2 - Game of the Year IMO

Where do you start with this game. Brilliant graphics, brilliant story, sound effects and above all brilliant game play. Big guys with big guns sorting out some big problems. Managed to finish the story on co-op with a friend (thanks TL) and feel like starting all over again. It is a bit hard to explain but there many bits and pieces that make the game very enjoyable - the maps, the guns and creatures. Details such as the tip of the gun getting red if fired for a longer time. Maps with impressive atmosphere. Head shots, executions, achievements, variety of weapons and the easy of using them are just some of the features that Gears 2 got it spot on, better then any other game I ever played. I think every one that like shooter games should get this game.

Gears of War 2 and 1 map differences

Wondered how will maps compare between the two Gears games and found this great video that shows some of the differences. Haven't received the game yet (3 hours to go until I get home) but it looks great so far so me well excited :).

Modern day Rapture

I was reading an article in the BBC website 'The Retalin express' and thought where are we going; will it ever end and if it does where does it end? If young people today use performance enhancing drugs what will their children use? Will we get new types of drugs that will allow people to use telekinesis maybe :) Are we heading towards the same destiny as Rapture in Bioshock? How is the world going to look like many years after we have gone?

Extremly funny video - "Front fell off"

My thanks go to Punk74 for publishing the link to it on TCK forum.

Stop to Xbox Live abuse

Had an interesting conversation today in The Console Knights Forum about an article from xbox360.au.com about some roomers that of the possible introduction of censorship on Xbox Live covering Racial, Sexual, Religious and obscenity.
Personally can't see this working. I think it would have been much better if they introduced the "record" option similar to "mute" option we get now. This'll allow users to trigger "record conversation" and upload to some processing unit able to ban or warn users as necessary. Also they could get every day gamers to join some sort of official Xbox Live moderator group, trusted users possibly on a small salary to moderate, educate, warn and ban users if necessary. Similar to Live forums. I really think this would have been easier to implement at present.