Assassin’s Creed 2 developer walkthrough, Modern Warfare 2 gets taken down in Russia, Ghost getting his own game, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines patch, interview with Ray Muzyka.

Assassin’s Creed 2 Developer Walkthrough

The game still looks good, while the near-sightedness of the guards is still there and the boat physics are as amusing as they come. Nothing new here, just a heads up to what you’ll get to enjoy later in 2010.. damn delays.

Modern Warfare 2 gets taken down in Russia

It’s no surprise that Modern Warfare 2 caused scandal, but this is just ridiculous. The game is being pulled from stores in Russia not entirely because Russians are the bad guys, but beacause of the same “No Russian” civilian-slaughter that the USA folks yelled about. What do you know, video games uniting people under the same banner. Sadly, the negative banner. Still MW2 was pretty much asking for it after actually delving deep into real facts… the first mission having you play in actual Afghanistan instead of a random arabian country that was shown in CoD4. Having played the game, i did not see what the problem is. The thing is that us gamers have grown used to this thing, but imagine saying to your mother or some dude that did not play a video game in his life besides Tetris, “Hey, so i had this mission in MW2 where i had to totally kill this mass of civilians with light machine guns, i was SAWING THEM DOWN! Then i threw a grenade for the lulz to see the physics effects work their magic… Why are you looking at me like that?”.

Ghost from Modern Warfare 2 getting his own game?

A voice actor apparently spilled the beans on a possibile prequel or something to MW2, involving Ghost, the leader of the SAS in the game. Some spoilers fallow so if you did not play MW, stop reading now. —- Right, since in the game Ghost dies, he either comes back a zombie or we have a prequel for the game, setting it either before the whole storyline of CoD4/CoD6MW2 or even during the Cold War. Anyhows, i think it’s a bit early to start talking about MW3 or CoD7 and we still have just a voice actor’s word.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines unofficial patch reaches version 6.6

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is a game launched in late 2004 and was a raw but sparkling gem of a game. A great mix of story, dialogue, characters, atmosphere and first person shooting action made this one of the best games of that generation. Sadly because of its many bugs and some shoddy gameplay features it did not garner much favor from the game critics. The developers threw out one or two patches but soon they had to close shop leaving the fans with a bit of a broken game. But the fans.. the fans never forget, and for the last five years they’ve been polishing and working out everything that was wrong or done poorly in the original game. After a long time of updating, removing, fixing and bugfixing, the unofficial patched reached version 6.6 and it appears it’s still not done yet. I highly recommend everyone to pickup the game, plug the patch in, maybe even a highdef pack and enjoy one of the most underappreciated games in modern gaming history.

An interview with Ray Muzyka about Dragon Age Origins

As always, it’s a vague interview, barely skimming the questions asked but overall, we get the sense of direction of what they’re aiming for. I’m really liking the game itself and i really hope they do more of it, but i would just like to underline a fact. It was briefly mentioned that they weaved the storytelling between the companions. Your choises are reflected in how the companions perceive you and what they say to you. That’s a wonderful system, a lot better then some meters on a scale saying you’re 64% bad. I would like to stress that storytelling is different from storyline and it’s a lot more important but that’d just be going into Editorial-field.