Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 gets a new trailer and is pretty awesome.

I haven't exactly been all over Modern Warfare 3, despite enjoying the last few games. In fact, I've been firmly on the Battlefield 3 side of things. If anything can change that, it's Modern Warfare 3's crazynuts storyline rather than the multiplayer.

See, it seems that the focus has been purely on the setting and the multiplayer recently, and I can't be doing with that. I enjoyed MW2's multiplayer - I do so love it when a guy dominating me gets a helicopter so he can do it HARDER - but the multiplayer wasn't what was gonna draw me into MW3. This storyline trailer could well change how long I wait until I get Modern Warfare 3.

Keep your peepers peeled.

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Assassin's Creed Revelations has an epic trailer, with lots of killing.

How weird, it's like Assassin's Creed is a violent series or something.

So this gave us confirmation of stuff we kind of already knew; Ezio is on Altair's trail in order to do... something in the fight against the Templars.

I do love the AC series' storyline; the whole thing with (spoilerz!) aliens and gods is really compelling and I love the gameplay just as much. I don't really want any more Ezio, but I think I'll just have to suck it up until the end of this one and Assassin's Creed III. I'm sure that one'll be the one that has Desmond in the current times, which I seriously can't wait for.

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The Old Republic goes all EVE-y.

Bioware have released more information about their upcoming science fiction-opera MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. People have been able to sign up their guilds for some time now, in readiness for the launch. PC Gamer have already started setting up their US and EU guilds, and you can join today.

Today's news is that the guilds will have the ability to set up other guilds as allies or enemies, lending a EVE-like air to the game, even ahead of launch. I was considering cancelling my pre-order, but with the emergence of inter-factional wars, I'm rather more excited than I was before. I can't wait for my first inter-guild war to erupt. It lends an atmosphere to PvP that other games just can't scratch.

Go Imperials!

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Blizzard a games developer, not a PC developer

No-one could acuse Blizzard of jumping ship to the console market, even after people claimed that the PC was dying. However, Blizzard has rejected claims that it is a 'PC developer', intead claiming that they just happen to publish games on the PC. In fact, Jay Wilson (game director of Diablo 3), in an exclusive interview with PCGamer asserted that 'Blizzard has done quite well off of that – the fact that people have the illusion that PC is not a place where you can make money. It’s made it even easier for us to do really well.'

And do well they have. World of Warcraft was just the first in a massive line of new generation Blizzard games, a line that includes StarCraft II and the upcoming Diablo 3.

Jay went on to claim that it was down to functionality, rather than platform loyalty, that had kept Blizzard in the PC market all these years. And that makes sense. It's hard to see how World of Warcraft or StarCraft II could be easily ported onto a controller. My first RTS experience was on the PSX with Command and Conquer: Red Alert. It's safe to say that I didn't know what I was missing until I used a mouse and keyboard.

Blizzard's assertion that they're a games developer rather than a PC developer is actually rather good, in my mind. True, they have no platform loyalty, but as long as they continue to make great games for the PC, we're laughing. And more focus on the game, rather than the platform, has got to be a good thing.

Good on you, Blizzard!

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