Exciting times with exciting games

PC

2009

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Wolfenstein -08/02/09

Modern Warfare 2 -10/11/09

Dragon Age Origins -10/20/09

Alpha Protocol -Oct 09

L4D2 -11/17/09

Borderlands -2009

Bioshock 2 -Q4/09

Starcraft 2 -TBA

STALKER CoP -Fall 09

Monkey Island -07/09/09

Rouge Warrior -Winter 09

Max Payne 3 -Winter 09

Section 8 -08/2009

BF 1943 09/2009

Jumpgate Evo -TBA

Dungeon Hero -TBA

Fallen Earth

PC 2010/11

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Torchlight

Deus Ex 3

Singularity

Brink

BF Bad Company

Homefront

MGS Rising

APB

Star Wars Old Republic

Rage

Mafia 2

Huxley

Alan Wake

Diablo 3

Mass Effect 2

Crysis 2

Fallout 3 New Vegas

Supreme Commander 2

Consoles

Xbox 360

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Splinter Cell Conviction -Fall 09

Need 4 Speed Shift -Fall 09

Halo ODST -09/22/09

Brutal Legend -10/13/09

Assassin's Creed 2 -11/2009

Guitar Hero V -Fall 09

PS3

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Uncharted 2 -Fall 09

MAG -Fall 09

Batman Arkham Asylum

Wii

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Red Steel 2

SM Galaxy 2

New Super Mario

2010/11

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Heavy Rain

The Agency

Avatar

Halo: Reach

Metroid Other M

MGS: Rising

FF XIII

FF XIV

Modnation Racer

The Last Guardian

GT5

God of War III

AGENT

To anyone that follows and loves 1up, this is as you know is a very sad day. The 1up Yours Podcast and Show were two of the best video game related podcast/shows I loved, and the people that were let go were of true talent. I really hope they all come together and form their own site. Time will tell.

It was hard enough when CGW turned to GFW(MS Advertising) and then went down, and then the departure of my favorite editors of the Magazine(Elliot, Green, Gladstone, and Malloy), and now to see Ryan and the rest of the 1up family almost all gone now, it's a really sad day for the community. The new PC LAN party podcast was really starting to catch on, but as far as what they are saying, ALL of the production team was let go. The 1up show producers and editors and talent were amazing week in and week out. That was true talent, and the people behind the scenes are most often forgotten.

RIP 1up. I will still give it a shot, but the site lost so much of it's personality(ie..People), I'm not sure how to spin this in my head that it's a good thing.

Just another reminder to enjoy the moment, because you never know when it's all going to crash. This recent mass firing at 1up reminds me of the Jeff G debacle last year, and in my opinion, the only thing GS has left in it that I care about is the people I know that still come here, not the editorial. I don't base my buying decisions at all on these reviewers, but I once did. That degraded over the years here, but at 1up, and especailly for the PC side of 1up, their reviews were my favorite, and always far more proactive in their reviews and preivews, I LOVED their writing to put it plainly.

Although I like some here at GS that never left(the few there is left), the personality of this site's editorial left little by little until the big blow up, and then the mass exodus. I'm just hoping that the peeps at 1up go on to do what Jeff and Company did with the Giantbomb. 1up had that very great chemistry of people that was really unique, and while I want all of them to find another place to call home, I would love for them to get their own deal going, together. We need more indie sites out there, it's better for all of us.

Peace.

From my experience, "once a PC gamer, always a PC gamer", even if you only play console games at one point, that gamer will ALWAYS gravitate towards PC Like games on Consoles(just look at all the traditional PC titles on console today, especially the 360).

Even though you will eventually get used to a controller to a certain extent where you WILL be able to play games at some comfort, it will never replace the mouse and keyboard, especially if you've been primarily a PC Gamer your whole life. It's a shame, you'd think AND hope that MS would include M/K support for their next console, I'd be all over that. Make it a standard option to chose from as well as gamepads of course(In racing games, we can play with a pad or a wheel, same sort of decision), and let us decide what we want to use. There are some really great lap pads out too that work well(since you wouldn't even need a full sized keyboard), and I see no reason at all to IGNORE a huge segment of the population that prefer M/K as the peripheral of choice. I know there are third party perifs to convert gamepad to M/K, but all of the ones I've used have been sub par at best.

Not only will it bring in more gamers, it will sell a ton of official peripherals for them too, and add further revenue. For Multiplayer games, separate them, or allow mixed P2P games, it would just be up to the host. As we see on XBL, this would be something easily done.

I think for sure, with the fact that the Xbox and PS are basically home theater PC's, (lets be honest here), I wouldn't be surprised if we see peripheral options in the next wave somewhere from someone. We already saw the Wii make a bold move, let's see what MS and Sony come up with. It would also solve the RTS and MMO dilemma on console(lack of inputs is all), which is pointless since they BOTH have USB connections! UT3 on PS3 proved they could do it and I'd like to see more of it in future FPS's like Killzone, talk about winning a segment of the Population over....