A lot of stuff happens in the world of games every week - some of which you might have missed. Here's a quick round-up of what we considered to be the most talked about news stories of the past five days....
PlayStation Move exposed at GDC
Sony used this week's GDC to splurge a whole bunch of info about PlayStation Move - the new motion controller that looks strangely familiar (glowy ball notwithstanding) to some other motion controller that has been on the market for a few years now.
We covered it pretty extensively for anyone that was, y'know, interested:
Every PlayStation Move game and how much you care about them
QUIZ: Wiimore or PlayStation Move?
PlayStation Move: Five ideas we'd like to see
Rumour: Annoying character to spoil Arkham Asylum 2 for everyone
There's been talk thatBatman is set to be joined by sidekick Robinfor Arkham Asylum 2. Most people seemed opposed to this idea. Some were downright affronted by the very suggestion. But would it really be that terrible? GamesRadar's official man of comics, Henry Gilbert, pointed out that therehave been many Robin'sover the years and we really don't know which one - if any - we're going to get.
Infinity Ward makes a clever pun: 'Mapathy'
To promote the release of its upcoming Modern Warfare 2 DLC (called 'Stimulus package'), Infinity Ward conjured up 'Mapathy'. The dev describes the collision of words to mean: "A state of indifference to the same old maps one has been playing for the last several months." We couldn't help thinking that more maps perhaps wasn't the best cure for mapathy. So we wrote this:Are new maps enough for MW2 DLC?
Kratos has sex. We watch
A new God of War game means more having sex mini-games. And, compared to the previous GoW's shagging sequences, this one dominates. Hit the link for a quick recap on Kratos' previous conquests and the video of his latest shagging.
God of War III's sex mini-game revealed
And this week on CVG...
Xbox 360 outsells Wii in US for first time since 2007
10 years later, in a post-Baldur's Gate 3 and Avowed world, Obsidian is giving its own throwback CRPG Pillars of Eternity a turn-based combat mode
When Destiny 2 "weekly active users dropped lower and faster than we'd seen since 2018," Bungie assembled an A-Team to put out some fires: "We needed to do something"
