This week sees the release of Capcom’s Remember Me (PS3, 360), a title that appears to have divided critics, as I had expected. I hope it’s at least interesting as I want something interesting to play. I’m starting to feel like everything I play is a shadow of something else. Here’s hoping.

This week also gets the general availability of Marvel Heroes as well as the Odyssey expansion for EVE Online for all of your MMO needs and State of Decay (XBLA), Gunpoint (PC) and PA: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 for your indie needs. In other PC news, Prime World Defenders releases as does the Allied Corps expansion for Panzer Corps and the Forbidden Worlds expansion for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion. Continue Reading…

That headline is a misnomer. Any HK-47 is the best HK-47 of all, mobile or otherwise. I am, of course, referring to everyone’s favorite cranky assassin droid from Knights of the Old Republic. In one of the strangest game announcements in recent memory, the iPad version of KOTOR was revealed to the world today in the form of an IGN review. What follows was the strangest collection of journalistic twists and turns I’ve ever seen. Many sites didn’t want to report that an iPad version of KOTOR existed, they instead reported that IGN had reviewed an iPad port of KOTOR as if the latter would be possible without the former. I’m all for hedging one’s bets and sure, I’ve had issue with IGN content in the past, but I’d never accuse them, or anyone for that matter, of outright lying and making up a review of a non-existent product.

I can certainly understand exclusive reviews, but keeping the very existence of your game completely under wraps until the review drops seems like an odd choice. I know that many PR shops are experimenting with shorter PR cycles, Evolve, for example, and I’m all for it, but there’s short and then there’s this. Sure, it’s great for the consumer to read about a game for the first time, see it in iTunes and buy it, but this is KOTOR we’re talking about. Even if the port was utter crap, many people would buy it just for the nostalgia factor. Instead we got a morning of articles about how this game may or may not exist.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I wouldn’t mind taking a walk on the Dark Side this time around, but for me, so much of what made KOTOR awesome was the story twist. Now that I know it’s coming, will it still be worth it? What’s a meatbag to do?

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Calendar Man is a day late this week on account of two things. One is Memorial Day. The other is my run-in with a utility knife to the tune of 12 stitches in the middle finger of my left hand. Typing has been compromised, to say the least. On the plus side, I get a week’s vacation from finishing my basement. Yay, stitches.

This week has the release of Fuse (PS3, 360), Insomniac’s four person co-op alien weapon game. I played the demo and was a bit worried over the fact that my AI teammates did not know that my gun was a mobile shield platform. They all seemed content to stick behind actual cover and leave me to die. Then again, seeing how I did die so much, maybe they were on to something. I’ll have more thoughts later in the week when my copy arrives. Also out this week is GRID 2 (PS3, 360, PC), a game about cars, not grids. Other releases include the Old Gods expansion for Crusader Kings II, Daedalic’s Night of the Rabbit and other games I can’t tell you about at the moment because I think bees are building a hive in my stitches.

I’ll leave you to your own deal finding due to the aforementioned bees, but don’t worry. My main man Cheapy D has got your back. He always does.