This new video for the upcoming Bourne Conspiracy game looks pretty good. Although it lacks the face that made Jason Bourne famous, it really looks great. I’ve seen some previous videos on X-Play where they showed actual gameplay and it looks like a game I’m definitely interested in. I was a really big fan of the movies and the books. I just hope it’s not just a movie-to-game-cash-in.

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Street Fighter 4 (or IV for all the Romans out there) is being hyped like crazy. The folks over at 1up.com have managed to get some exclusive playtime with the upcoming fighter. The information is very limited and stretched out to 3 pages of not much more than “the game looks very good” and “we can’t wait” or “they couldn’t tell us more than that”. They do tell us a little about a new “saving system” (not save as in save your game’s progress, but save as in block/parry), a “revenge gauge”, and new “ultra combos”. Read the full article over at 1up.com for the details.

All of the new screens they’ve just posted are the same ones the entire internet had their hands on last week, including us. In case you missed it, here they are.

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From the premiere footage shown at Spike TV’s VGAs last week, it looks like the new Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 will be a choose your own adventure style movie game. Right? I mean what the crap is with promoting a big time game like this with live action footage? They’d teased that they would reveal a trailer for the upcoming game at this year’s VGAs, and this is what we get. Wow, that’s worth watching Samuel L. Jackson swear for a few hours about stuff he doesn’t even know or care about.

Where is the beef? The meat of the game? I want to see the next-next-gen version of Vegas. Don’t you? I want to see something like new gameplay, or at least renderings of game footage. Come on Ubisoft.

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The new video from SpikeTV’s VGAs actually looks like it might be a decent game. At least the graphics look good.

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Well, I finally got into the Hulu.com beta. I haven’t been using it very long, but as far as tv on the internet is concerned, it ain’t bad. For one, the site and player actually work on browsers that aren’t Internet Explorer. Like Firefox and Opera. They’ve also allowed the movies and videos to be embed in your personal site or blog (see the clip from Family Guy above). One of the coolest things about embeding a clip is you can actually choose the time when you want it to start and end. That way you can use just a small clip of exactly what you want to share.

Okay, so it’s ad supported, how’s that? Well, I’m pretty sure the entire internet is ad supported and it seems to be working so far. As for Hulu, sometimes a show or movie will have a short ad before it plays to say “brought to you by such and such product for limited commercial interuption”. That’s fine with me, less commercials is always a good thing. What ’s funny is that most of the videos you watch actually have less commercials than when they aired on tv in the first place, far less.

So, when Hulu finally goes live for the public, I think it’s worth a look. They not only have plenty of great programing, like Heroes, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Office, etc. And as long as they don’t go changing the current formula of ad to video ratio, or start making us pay for it, than it should be pretty successful.

Oh, and if you’ve never seen 24, they have the entire 1st and 6th seasons. I highly suggest watching the first season. You’ll be hooked.

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The upcoming Halo 3 Heroic map pack coming out on December 11th has just gotten some pictures. The pic you see above is of the new map ‘Foundry’. The pack will run you 800 Microsoft points, or roughly $10 US. For some higher resolution pics go here.

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Am I the only one that noticed this or am I just seeing things. This is an actual screenshot. The only thing I did to it was circle certain interesting ”parts”. Looks like the new Street Fighter IV (4) adds more than  just enhanced 3D visuals. It seems Ryu likes fighting, I mean really likes it.

The game is reported as being a traditional 2D style fighter with new 3D style graphics. From the picture you can see some of the new 3 demsional features they’re including, eh? You’d think someone at Capcom would have at least checked the pic before releasing it to the guys over at 1UP.com

Look for the Street Fighter 4 sometime in 2008.

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Wow, this really looks good. If this ever comes out I might actually want to buy a PS3.

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Medal of Honor Heroes 2 hasn’t really gotten much press. While it’s a sequal to a game most people never played, let alone never heard of, this game looks to help move the Wii a step closer to the “hardcore” gamers. The game may not look nearly as good as most similar games on the other two consoles, it does boast some of the best control options on the Wii.With the release of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption many Wii gamers have fallen in love with FPS controls on the Wii. MoHH2 looks to improve on the controls provided in Corruption by giving the player extensive customization for pretty much any control scheme you can dream up.

Okay, so the game is still set in WWII, not the “modern combat” setting many gamers are moving into now. I hate to have to preface things like this, but, for a Wii game it looks to really impress. The fact that they are one of the first developers to try real online multiplayer with the Wii. Let alone 32 players at a time.

And if that wasn’t enough, the game also supports the Wii Zapper, woopidy doo. But here’s a cool spot of fun, an Arcade mode, designed for the so-called casual gaming Wii crowd, you know the toddlers and grandparents that can’t handle the difficult controls of a First Person Shooter, but still want to shoot the crap out of Nazis. The Arcade mode is basically an on rails shooter version of the full game, which I’m actually really looking forward to.

Oh yeah, and it’s coming to PSP also, minus the Arcade mode, I think. Don’t quote me on that.

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So, now we add another Metal Gear Solid character to the growing list of characters in the next installment of Smash Bros. Enter Frank Jaeger, or the Gray Fox, or simply “Ninja”. Check out the Smash Bros. Dojo for more info.

This game wasn’t really big in my world, but now with a level editor and an expansive and varied list of characters, including everyone from Sonic to Mario to Solid Snake, I’m definitely more interested in this game now than ever.

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