The characters were given all-new designs, and some of them will in fact be made into toys. The game takes place before Optimus gains his "Prime" designation, and shows his early days of gaining the trust of the Autobots; we get to see just how he learned to be a leader on the battleground. On the flip side of things, the game explores how Megatron met Star Scream. "We also explore why Megatron keeps this guy, who is basically a back-stabber, around," we were told. This game is taking the Transformers lore back to basics, and filling in some serious holes.

When the game opens, Vito Scaletta has just been granted leave from the war to return home to his mother and sister after his father passes away. Settling a $2,000 ($2K) debt his father owed now falls squarely on Vito’s shoulders, and he’ll need to accept any job from every wiseguy and hoodlum he encounters to make ends meet. It’s a deeply personal narrative, and to hear Denby Grace, the senior producer from 2K Czech, describe his team’s game, it’s more Sopranos than Scarface, more Godfather than Goodfellas.

Kratos is starting to look long in the tooth. His gruff growl, his single-minded pursuit of the gods, his willingness to destroy everything between himself and his goal... at the beginning of God of War 3 we already know who he is. We know how he got there. The only question for the Ghost of Sparta is simple: what next?

As God of War 3 begins, Kratos is laying siege to Mount Olympus, leading an attack on the gods using the Titans as living weapons. Zeus and a few others look down at the coming threat, and begin their defense. Riding on Gaia's back, aching for blood, it seems Kratos is close to achieving what passes for his dreams.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has an easy job on the PC: it just has to suck less than Modern Warfare 2. There have been videos released showing how the game has been optimized for the PC, there is a server browser, the graphical and sound settings can be tweaked and adjusted, and dedicated servers are back!

Of course, you have to rent the dedicated servers from EA's partners, but baby steps... right?

When you imagine a nondescript, hot, sticky, and oppressively crowded bar in downtown Toronto, the first thing that comes to mind probably isn't video games. But that's exactly the setting that indie studio Capybara Games chose to reveal two of its upcoming projects, at an event held by the Hand Eye Society—a local group of Toronto area developers, writers, and gaming enthusiasts. The 25-person strong studio had a big 2009 thanks to a pair of hits: Critter Crunch on the PlayStation Network and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes on the Nintendo DS. Both are puzzle games, both are critical successes. But for its next projects, Capy is going in two distinctly different directions.