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Why the fuck do all the great games I’ve been looking forward to all come out at once?! Octobers releases for the 360 are fucking awesome, and as I’m going to Canada in November, my games budget for the month is practically nill. I’ve just bought Bioshock and Halo 3 which will hopefully keep me busy, but heres a list of some of the great titles I’ll be missing until November… they’re all Xbox 360 titles because I no longer buy Wii games and I don’t own a PS3..

Project Gotham Racing 4
I do own the PGR3 disc, but stupid crappy PAL region locking made the £24.99 Joypad, PGR3 and Arcade Offline price error at Play not all that great. Still, PGR4 is going to be awesome and the first racing game I’ve looked forward to in a while. Hell, even the PS3 has been using it to advertise GT5 so it must be good!

Beautiful Katamari Damacy
I fucking love Katamari! Baa ba da da da daaa ba da da da daaaa! It’s one of the only games I play on the PSP, and the PS2 version is great. “Roll on” high definition Katamari Goodness…

Speaking of Katamari… someone needs to do a magnetic remote control Gashapon Katamari Damacy model… I’d buy one tomorrow! Shame I can’t patent someone elses copyright…

Ace Combat 6
The demo rocks – I’ve never been a fan of flight sims but the Ace Combat series has always kept it arcade feeling in the same way that After Burner did many a moon ago.

FIFA 08
I’m not a massive football follower (I support Blackburn Rovers FFS) but Winning Eleven is my most played football game, and probably my most played game if I added up all the hours starting at the original Playstation. As I didn’t buy FIFA 07, I must be due to give a FIFA title another whirl to see if they’ve got the formula any closer.. graphically superior but always behind Konami when it comes to actual gameplay. I’ve played the demo and it was enjoyable… I especially like the Attract mode playable area’s Gears of War style running you can do by pressing RT.

EA would’ve had to give up the footy market a long time ago if it wasn’t for their monopoly on the player names… one of the main reasons my mates hate the PES/WE games. FIFA 08 should keep me satisfied until WE11’s release in November.

Guitar Heroes 3
The track lists for GH3 look fucking amazing. Pearl Jam. Check. Smashing Pumpkins. Check. Slayer. Check. Iron Maiden. Check. Fucking hell, even Killswitch Engage are on the line up. Talk about rocking out with your cock out! Shame the wireless guitar is a faggy Les Paul , given the track list a Flying V or a BC Rich Warlock would’ve been more fitting..

Clive Barkers Jericho
Blood, guts and FPS Horror action directed in its entirety by Clive Barker. I’m not pissing my pants in anticipation for this but it does sound pretty good. I’ll probably pick it up (pending a good review) when the next game drought surfaces… probably after Xmas now.

Well, that’s it for Octobers line up for me. I’m currently enjoying Stranglehold, even if it does give me motion sickness. I’d add Half Life 2: The Orange Box but I’m hoping for my bonus on Monday if we make budget (my fucking awesome new Shuttle PC… not the Hentai Case I wanted but still…) so I’d “purchase” that from TPB for PC if I do… It should give the 256MB Radeon HD2600XT I put in it a bit of a workout in any case… its no GF 8800 Ultra but I had a budget to work to.