StarCraft II in stores 7/27/10

The long awaited sequel to the hit RTS will be in stores July 27th, Blizzard announced today. The Standard Edition will retail at $59.99 and the Collector's Edition will go for $99.99 but comes loaded with an art book, a 2GB flashdrive with the original Starcraft and the Brood War expansion on it and more.

Tactical View of Bad Company 2 Maps Available

This morning EA announced that a top down/tactical view of all maps in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 are ready for download via the Battlefield Blog here. I downloaded them myself and found that they are VERY detailed. Perfect for those who thoughtfully plan out attacks. Unlike Flea who just runs in, guns blazing, killing everything in his path. Including teammates.

ReTweet'd: Halo Reach Edition

The Reach Beta hits sometime tomorrow morning (PST) and Xbox Live's Major Nelson has apparently been fielding a lot of questions as to the exact time of release:

@majornelson: The official Halo: Reach beta is expected it to go live late Monday (May 3rd) morning, Pacific time. No, I don't know the EXACT time. - via Twitter

A bit later he posted a visual guide for installing the Reach Beta via ODST. Just in case you need it, you can find it here.

There has been a delay.

(Podcast) Sunday this week has been delayed until tomorrow (Monday) in order to give us more time with the Reach Beta. That way I can give my impressions of it on the podcast. As we all know, the more we have to talk about the better. You can also expect things like minute reviews of FIFA World Cup 2010, Tecmo Super Bowl Throwback, our thoughts on the Reach Beta and the Call of Duty: Black Ops reveal trailer and more!

Did The Just Cause 2 Launch Go Wrong?

Either Square Enix and Eidos are planning to re-release Just Cause 2 already or Play.com love the game so much that they think it deserves to be released again. (Play.com FTL!) As a result Play.com win our dumb move of the month for letting you pre-order a game that is already available. Don't get me wrong Just Cause 2 is a great game but I don't really think that it is worth waiting for all over again, especially when you can just order the game now from Play.com themselves and get it now.


At least I got a kick out of their mistake and it gave me something else to blog about, so thanks goes to whoever made this mistake over @ play for making my day.

Games You Should Avoid In May 2010

May sees quite a few games being released on various systems with great games like 3D Dot Game Heroes, Red Dead Redemption, Mod Nation Racers, Prince of Persia and Split Second Velocity all demanding your hard earned money. That being said there is a load of crap on the way that you should avoid, we here at Playdit! have selected some of the best worst games being released this month that should never have been made.


What can be more exciting than flying a plane soaring through the Sky's? If you said being an Airport traffic controller then great news you can finally play the game of your dreams. Featuring an amazing 15 different international airports where you can give planes permission to take off and land! Who the heck thought that this would be a good game? the person who commissioned this pile of shite needs to take a good look in the mirror and think about what they have done. Avoid this mundane crap like the plague.



People like Quiz games, it's official with games like Scene It! and Buzz selling well on the 360 and PS3. There is a reason for this and that reason is they are fun to play while you have a few friends round (I.E. Mrs Flea has invited a friend and their partner round when you want to play games, so as a compromise you dig Scene It! out so you can keep playing something) One thing that makes these fun is because they have a good mix of trivia from entertainment to music to sport. So a game where the questions are all about retarded animals that you couldn't care about unless they were served on a plate with gravy and vegetables is a bad idea. Look at the box art at how much fun those people are having, that my friends is called bullshit marketing teams clutching at straws to sell shitty games to us by pretending they are fun.


Do I really need to say anything about this game? Apparently it also uses the balance board to play the game. Fatties need not apply though as you will probably see a message flash on screen saying "Your to fat to be a model!" or "Come back when your a size zero chubby!" More shovel ware for the Wii oh what a surprise! and Nintendo still wonder why the Wii is becoming the laughing stock among gamers.


Dancing on Ice is a game based on a shitty TV show that's broadcast over here in the UK. It is normally watched by women with no taste and men that more than likely bat for the other team. The game could probably give the worst movie tie-in game you can think of a run for their money. Yet another piece of crap to be released on the Wii. While I do applaud Nintendo for learning from the lack of the games released for the Gamecube, if the result of that is shite like this being released Nintendo need to go back to their stringent quality controls once again.


Games that just missed out on a place on this months list are..

• Petz Fantasy (DS)
• Fix It (Wii & DS)
• Sonny With A Chance (DS)
• Playmobil Knight (DS)

I'm in your base killing your doods!

Just the other week I ended up finally getting around to playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 that has been sitting on my shelf for the last few weeks, and I have to say there is just something about the game that is awesome. There is just something about the game that I am really enjoying online that seems me wanting to play the game over and over again. (Much to the annoyance of Mrs Flea, especially when she wants me to do something less fun!) Don't get me wrong she doesn't mind me occasionally playing games as she realises that it is something that I really enjoy, but this game is habit forming in the worst way.

Going to your base to kill your doods!

The game offers an experience that CoD: MW2 just doesn't offer, sure Conquest is just a variation of CoD's Head Quarters mode. (But then isn't that just a variation of King of the Hill?) Yet the variation on BC2 just seems a lot more fun as you don't just have one target to capture making the game a lot more tactical, instead of just standing back and grenade spamming the Head Quarters like so many CoD players seem to do.

Flea at the top of the after game scoreboard

The strange thing is I really liked the first Modern Warfare game and wasn't keen on the first Bad Company game. So why the sudden change? It could be that I am just bored of Modern Warfare's style of play so Bad Company gives me something different that I can now enjoy and appreciate that I didn't before. Then again it could be because at the moment I am normally finishing at the top of the leader boards (sometimes by quite a margin which is always a great experience)

And again? Wow he is awesome lol

Maybe one day I will return to Modern Warfare 2 and enjoy it just as much as I am enjoying Bad Company 2, if so it won't be for quite a while as Bad Company 2 remains such fun. (Especially the Rush mode which you really should play) If I am going to recommend one game to play online then it has to be Bad Company 2, just don't ask me what the single player mode is like as I haven't got a clue.