Sure, It Feels Like a Scuba Suit, But I Wouldn't Take Your Laptop Swimming 

Product: Laptop Sleeve 17" - Fiery Orange
Manufacturer: Built NY
Price: $40.00

For those times when you need to protect your laptop, but you don't want to haul round a big heavy laptop bag - Built NY has the simple Laptop Sleeve to help you out.  The sleeve is made of neoprene with a colorful outside and black inside. The zipper is plastic with a metal pull.   It can hold up to a 17" laptop, as long as the machine isn't too thick. A Macbook Pro fits fine, where as our ASUS G2S did not fit in the sleeve.

The site, GamePolitics.com has been going through records from federal courts for insights into Midway's financial meltdown. Boiling down that Midway claims $167,523,000 in assets versus $281,033,000 in liabilities.

The list of Midway's 30 top heavy hitting creditors is staggering. Among these, Wells Fargo Bank has the most to lose as Midway owes them $150,000,000 from unsecured loans.

A Mouse or a Snake?

On the last day of CES 2009, I got to sit down with Razor founder Robert Krakoff to talk about the new Razor Mamba.

The Mamba is Razor's first wireless mouse and the only wireless mouse created for hardcore gamers.  As many of you know, gaming with wireless mice has never been a good idea. Due to the latency of the sensor, battery life, weight, and signal conflict, using wireless mice to play the most common PC games such as first-person shooters has always been a problem. However, after 8 years of research and development, Razor appears to have solved the latency issues in wireless mice.

Get Lost... and Damned! 

Plenty of people are complaining about the price of The Lost and the Damned, though 20 bucks for up to 15 hours of new campaign sounds like a good deal to me. Rockstar is also offering a handful of new multiplayer modes, exclusive to the pack. Apart from Free Mode and Deathmatch, these modes are unique to The Lost and the Damned, which is good news for folks that are a little sick of running through Mafia over and over again.

We Have Nothing to Fear but a Pissed Off Neked Chick. 

Title: F.E.A.R. Project Origin
Publisher/Developer: Warner Bros. Interactive/Monolith
Platform: PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Release Date: 02/10/2009
Number of Players: Single player campaign/ 16 player Multiplayer

As I set out to write this review (having stayed up till 4am to finish the game) I find myself still a bit torn. Did I like this game or not? Well, obviously that’s always a question in mind of a review writer, but I find myself unable to fully answer that question. I think it may be due, in part, to my expectations and, perhaps, my recollection of the previous title (yes, I am ignoring a certain titles which were NOT F.E.A.R.). The other part that may be interfering with my clear view of FEAR 2 is that I have been inundated with horror titles over the last year.

... all at the same time!

Jack Thompson is back again! This time, far too close to me here in Vegas. His new Utah Game Ammendment is making press already. And while I agree with him on the point of enforcing ESRB restrictions at the retail level, he pretty much goes on to ruin any credibility he had left by sticking his foot so far into his mouth that he can taste his own kneecap. If you're bored and want to subject yourself to some more Thompsonisms, read the G4TV review here.

If you really just don't want to read the whole thing, let me quote my favourite part just for litte ol' you:

"By the way, I helped drive Take-Two's stock down  from $27 (when I sold mine), down to $8. I'm obviously way smarter than the idiots running Take-Two."

Now if you will pardon me, I need to fill up the gas tank so I can actually make the drive around Jack's ego.

Dammit, I Am Agreeing with Adam Again!

This week Adam posts his Soapbox gripe about multiplayer. For those of you who've been following GTW for a while, this arguement might sound familiar. That would probably be because of this article. Click on to listen to what Adam has to say, read our editorial here, then come let us know how you feel about the issue.

Zombies Were People Too! 

Yesterday, because it was spent sleeping and I missed it; Capcom® confirmed that Dead Rising 2 is on the way out as the following press release from Capcom® states.

London – February 9, 2009 - Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today confirmed that Dead Rising™ 2 is in development for three different gaming platforms: the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment’s PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) and the PC. The sequel to the 1.5 million-plus selling Dead Rising™, Dead Rising 2 will take the franchise to a new level of zombie-killing fun with tens of thousands of zombies, the all new gambling paradise of Fortune City to explore and conquer plus a host of new in-game objects that can all be used as deadly weapons to stave off the zombie assault.