Forecast

It’s Friday and I want to express my gratitude for the overwhelmingly positive response to the blog. Next week I’m hoping to provide some extra content in the form of guest writers. I think you’ll enjoy that quite a bit. If you don't, well perhaps you will enjoy a healthy punch to the FACE.

There are quite a few huge releases on the horizon yet oddly enough, there are really no solid release dates for any of them. A few examples are the release dates for the Playstion 3, The Nintendo Wii, Gears of War, Mass Effect, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Crackdown, and Forza 2. At this time all of them are ambiguously listed as Fall 2006 or Winter 2006 releases and no further. This isn’t particularly a bad thing however as nailing down a release date is particularly ire inspiring when the company inevitably decides to change it (*cough* Nintendo…). At the same time it should be interesting to see which releases get the bump to 2007. That ship it seems is already beginning to sink.

So what are you going to play this holiday season? Will you perhaps pick up a $600 Playstation 3? Perhaps spend some time snapping necks in the newest Splinter Cell? You might not know at this point, but that’s ok…. neither does Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo.