Normally the holiday season, meaning the time leading up and surrounding christmas or whatever religious holiday you might celebrate in the fourth quarter of the year, is the time in which most big titles hit store shelves, which means that we are left with a long and painful dry period for the rest of the year, especially in the summer period. But not so this year. There have been several big budget titles of top quality that have been scattered across those first 6 months nicely, among them Dead Space 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Killzone 3, Bulletstorm, InFamous 2, L.A. Noire, The Witcher 2 and Mortal Kombat, just to name a few. And I have to say, that is a damn amazing catalouge of games that does not need to hide itself from what's on the horizon for the second half of the year. Oh, and Duke Nukem Forever finally saw the light of day, after OVER 10 YEARS!! (Too bad it
sucked hard).
But of course, apart from the games, we also saw a brand new platform being launched with the Nintendo 3DS. Granted, it's launch was not what you would call a great start, with sales numbers only slowly climbing up and a lineup of games that was not exactly top of the line, but the young handheld just got it's first masterpiece with the remastered edition of Zelda -Ocarina of time and with plenty great first-party games to come the 3DS is far from a failure.