Thanks to Starman for the idea and Kotaku for the image.

A resounding “Bang” detonated across the scene followed by the words “Head Shot!” - shortly there after a small chime rings signaling achievement/trophy/medal unlocked. These  aforementioned achievements cloud our vision and poison the enjoyment and purity of the games themselves.

Noteworthy Releases:

PS3:

-Demon’s Souls; Release Date: 10/06/09 (Scoring roughly 90 on metacritic a PS3 exclusive in the action RPG genre) - Preview Post: http://www.megatonik.com/2009/08/under-marketed-end-of-the-year-video-game-gem/

“Here we are again with another cash cow being brought out to graze.   Is it a bad thing?”

Holding on to my own copy of Katamari Forever as of two days ago, I was quite astonished to have it what seems to be ‘early’.

I’m excited for this announcement as I am a fan of anything that originally had a price hurdle that becomes free, and rather like the idea that I can play as much as I want of DDO.   In this case the company is going the route of micro-transactions to profit.   In order to experience some dungeons/classes or to boost a character a small fee may be paid (Reminds me of the Gunbound system).   Oddly enough I rather support this idea, not only can I play until I run into blocked content (I know there is a class and some other content blocked off, I am under the impression you can reach max level and play a large amount of the game) - plus I can pick and choose to my hearts’ content. If nothing else, I’m certainly not going to argue with free.   An instanced based dungeon crawler I can get all my buddies to play since it’s free?   Count me in.

Hit the jump for images of the quick sign-up and download process at www.ddo.com.

Make a piece of Japanese/Muramasa inspired Fan Art, and upload it to the Official Muramasa site for a shot at 1,000 bucks any time before September 28th.

For a direct quote about the contest hit the jump…

As I have been following this title for awhile it was somewhat confusing to me to see that Gamestop is now shipping this title (http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=73359) where as many others including IGN and Amazon denote the release date as the 8th. I have acquired myself a copy from Gamestop as of today and can attest to its’ availability at my locale.

Gamestop slip up?   Shipped early/some sort of deal Gamestop made without my knowledge?    I’m just happy to say that if you head to Gamestop you should be able to purchase Muramasa today.

How Fly is a new segment for MEGATONik, designed to help you get the best out of your Gamefly experience.  The worst feeling you can get from a Gamefly game is to pop it in, and have it suck; then you have to wait a week to get your new game, which also may or may not suck.  Also, you don’t really want to rent a massive epic like Persona 4 from Gamefly, having it sitting at your house for several months taking up a spot in your Q. This is not a review of a game as a whole; this is how good of a rental a game is.  A game may be great, but a poor rental; a game may just be a terrible value at full price, but a great rental; and it may be somewhere in between.  So, with that said, How Fly is Lara Croft’s latest (from a kind of long while ago)?