Best of 2010

So 2010 has been and gone and has left in its wake some great gaming news stories. Harmonix being sold, the falling out between Activision and Infinity Ward's founders (and subsequent hiring by EA) and at E3, Sony and Microsoft showed off their motion controllers to the world.

More about 2010 after the jump...

Rebooted SSX Seems A Step Too Far

First, an admission. I was a HUGE SSX fan back in the day. I'd go as far as to say it's probably one of my all time favourite game series out there and I've been wishing it back for a while. Well at the Spike VGA's it was announced, and the fans went mild.

Finally hit 40,000 thanks to Sgt Slaughter and others.

Well, I finally broke 40K, which is not bad going seeing as I now have 6 weeks to make 5000 points. This week has been full of ups and downs, playing Mini Ninjas, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja Bionic Commando: Rearmed and passed the 40,000 mark with WWE Legends of Wrestlemania. My thoughts about each game are below.

How I learned to hate Pat Benatar: 45K Challenge

This weekends been busier than I thought it was going to be thanks to an unexpected Paramore ticket (thanks Allan, still will pay you back in some way for that) so I've been unable to play as much as I'd like. I thought I'd get the annoying Band Hero achievements out of the way.

45,000 Gamerscore Challenge

I've been really bad at blogging for the past few months, mainly due to unemployment = no games but I digress. I checked my gamerscore earlier and saw I was just off of getting 40K. Now with nothing to do in the foreseeable future, I've decided to go for 45,000 Gamerscore before the new year.

Before I begin, I have to admit, I am not great at gaming, far from it. I see this as a good chance to complete some games in my back catalog that I've been meaning to get back to and finish. (I'm looking at you Mirrors Edge). If you do want to give me a hand, then please feel free to lend me any game that you may not be needing, Or anyone else reading this, send me free stuff!

I'll be posting (usually) daily posts of any achievements I've been getting and thoughts on games. I've got a list of games I'm wanting to play through: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Mini Ninjas, Mirrors Edge, Dragon Age, Fracture, Prototype. So I'll see how things go and post back with updates.

Current Score: 39187

Just Cause 2: A Dissection

Just Cause 2, for all intents and purposes is a good game. Unfortunately it could have been a lot more than that due to several factors. Why was this game only good, and not the great game it could have been?

Dragon Age Gets A Sequel

Dragon Age:Origins was very much the black sheep of the BioWare games portfolio when it came out last year, overshadowed by the similarly excellent Mass Effect 2. Now though Dragon Age gets the sequel it most rightly deserves with it's existence announced by US games magazine Game Informer. I can only hope that Dragon Age 2 follows on from the excellent Dragon Age as it was most definitely in my top 3 BioWare games.

Picture is after the jump...