CVG has been chatting to a senior gaming industry executive about how the credit crunch may affect gaming over this holiday season and he had the following to say. “As long as we can generate excitement, then we will be less affected than other industries” Which is just marketing talk that makes no sense… however he goes on to say …

Most of you will not need to be told that there are some massively anticipated games coming within the next month or so. Most of us are already assigning money to which games we are gong to be purchasing. To make your planning a little easier, I have put together a list of all the big titles and their SA release dates. If you are planning to rob a bank, I can highly recommend that you do it on the 23rd of October because the next day, a huge selection of titles are going to be coming our way. The Full List of releases, after the jump. Ok, so here are the SA Release dates for most of the popular games that will be coming out this quarter. Please note that some dates may change as well as the fact that I may have missed one or two titles that you believe to be important. If so, please leave info about it in the comments and I will try and update the list: 17 October Saints Row 2 24 October Dead Space Fable II Far Cry 2 Midnight Club: Los Angeles Motorstorm: Pacific Rift Bioshock (PS3) 31 October Red Alert 3 James Bond: Quantum of Solace Legendary Lego Batman Silent Hill: Homecoming 1 November Fallout 3 7 November Gears of War 2 LittleBigPlanet 14 November Call of Duty: World at War 21 November Mortal Kombat vs DC Grand Theft Auto IV (PC) 30 November Lord of the Rings: Conquest Mirror's Edge Left 4 Dead Tom Clancy's Endwar 5 December Resistance 2 Prince of Persia Damnation Well, there you have it folks. That is a lot of really great titles and although I am sure I missed a few really good ones, we can all agree that we are in for one heck of a great gaming season. Time to get excited I think!

Legendary has been bubbling around under the radar for a couple of months now and every now and then it pops up and teases us… I don’t know much about the game to be honest but after reading a few press releases it all sounded pretty interesting and it was firmly wedged into the ‘Beady Eye’ folder.. So when a …

Taking a look at the Metacritic scores for the two big survival horror releases this quarter, it is undoubtedly obvious that the Silent Hill franchise is in a spot of trouble. While hardcore fans of the series still linger on the good old days of Silent Hill 2, they are now left with very little to quench their thirst for another Silent Hill title that could match its quality. Enter Dead Space. While I have personally only seen small amounts of footage from this game and pretty much know very little about its story and gameplay mechanics, it is fantastic to see that there is a new cowboy in town that is willing to take on the the big boys at their own game. A quick glance at the scores on Metacritic reveal that Dead Space has raked in a current average of 88/100, while the new Silent Hill title, Homecoming , has only mustered up a measly, yet relatively decent 73/100. Has the Silent Hill franchise seen its glory days come and go already? With strong titles like Dead Space joining the fray and the remarkable looking Resident Evil 5 coming next year, one must wonder if Silent Hill will ever be able to pull itself back out of the deep hole that it has been digging for quite some time now. Could Homecoming be the last Silent Hill title that we will ever see?

A post on the European Playstation Community forum announced that PSN will have downtime today (14 October 2008) until the early hours of tomorrow morning. All Playstation 3 owners, please be advised that the network will be down between the hours of 21:00 on the 14th until 02:00 on the 15th. Due to the post being translated using a browser translator, I am not entirely sure what they mean by this but it looks as though you will be able to stay connected to PSN but will not be able to connect to it if you were not already signed in. The translation states that: "During this maintenance you can not connect to PLAYSTATION network. If you are connected before you should be able to play online without problem." So if the translation is correct, it means that as long as you are already connected, then you shouldn't have any issues playing for the rest of the night. You had better just pray that Telkom doesn't let you down.

I still very much wonder if this upcoming Horde mode in Gears of War 2 is going to be any good. It sounds like it has the making of an awesome gameplay mode but I also have the worry that it could very quickly feel repetitive and dull… To be honest this video doesn’t ease my fears at all but …

Useless trivia time… the Tokyo Game Show has come and gone and I have to admit that it wasn’t overly exciting, all the big news is getting released outside of the trade shows which ruins it a bit but never the less these things are important and need to be analysed. So here are some questions you can hassle your …

So I get an email today saying that Nick has some business meeting he needs to go to and he would like me to do the afternoon shift today… It all sounded legit until I got a surprise email from gamerlobby. Apparently Gamerlobby has joined forces with The Lair once again to bring us another Epic tournament, this time with …