Deus Ex: Human Revolution is utterly fantastic. If you’ve got a PC, Xbox 360 or PS3, go play it immediately. (I’d suggest its best on PC, since I’m a PC gamer and prefer mouse for first person games … but this is generally a stealther game not a pure FPS, so you can probably play just fine with a controller.)

Playing games on the couch is to be commended, but next moment I get near a 360, I’m going to fire up Crimson Alliance. Looks like it wants to channel the old Baldurs Gate console games (not the PC game, totally different series) .. I’m grateful for any old school dungeon crawl beat-em-up.

I’d say Portal 2, Deus Ex, and Starcraft 2 are up for game of the year, but theres some tough competition coming.

I mean, with Skyrim coming in November …. but alas, that is right after the twins arrive, so maybe I wont’ get to see it… things I’m hoping to check out ’soon’ are..

• final episode of Doctor Who season 6 .. DW is my favourite show (for some 30 years..!), but last episode is right after the twins. Blast! :)

Replays from yesteryear..

• War of Magic: Elemental .. meh; but Fallen Enchantress is due out!
• Playing Civ IV again
• Playing Civ V again .. new expansion pack is coming, and they’ve patched up.. is it worthwhile now?
• SMAC – Sid Meieir’s Alpha Centauri — a true oldie classic.. replay!
• Galactic Civilization 2 — pick up the expansions and .. replay! A classic from 2006-2008!
• Master of Magic from what .. 1991 or something? Replay :)

New stuff:

• 360: Batman: Arkham City
• PC/360: Battlefield 3
• PC: Portal 2 DLC
• PC: Skyrim — and pick up the DLC!
• PC/360: Grimrock – an old school styled RPG (think Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder) on a new fancy engine
• PC: Starcraft 2 expansions
• PC: Thief 4
• PC/360: Deus Ex : HR DLC/expansions
• 360: Crimson Alliance
• PC: Terraria updates .. meh, lost interest
• PC: Diablo III.. when? Q1 2012..
• PC: Halflife III — every gaming ‘want list’ must include HL3, in hopes Valve will think about it
• PC: DoTA 2 from Valve
• PC: Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.. unless its another WoW clone
• PC: Miner Wars .. Descent reborn!
• PC: Another indie Elite-style shooter
• PC: “X3″ space sim?
• PC: Master of the Arcane.. another MoM type game?

Mind you, I’m still hoping to squeeze a couple hacks in..

• Ordered a TV-out cable from ‘peca’ on gp32x forum; if it arrives in time, I’d like to see some retro-on-big-TV action; bluetooth (iCP) to Pandora to TV.. theres a limited number of ports/apps that support both BT controller and will work with TV-out (notably, picodrive and pcs-rearmed don’t work with TV-out but do support BT controllers..); I’ve done some experimentation and my Hatari port shoudl work fine; time permitting, I’ll patch snes9x for iCP support, should be a piece of cake (take an hour..); might be possible to do a quicik mod, or configurable option anyway, for minimenu. Time permitting, modify MAME4ALL. Then iCP -> Pandora (mmenu, MAME4ALL/Hatari/snes9x) -> TV … total win.
• If I can get one of my Ataris opened up, could apply HxC floppy emulator and UltraSatan hard drive emulator to good effect, but doubt this will happen.

Course, also need to read some books and comics, and watch some video..

Hmm, am I biting off a little much? :)