So it’s finally a official, after denying it for months Sony is cutting the fat off their behemoth, the PS3, releasing the “PS3 slim”. They are also cutting the price down to $299 (in the US…Europe is probably almost double as usual).

The recent announcement by ActiVision to up the price for Modern Warfare 2 a notch in the United Kingdom has angered many gamers. Microsoft, quickly following suit with Forza Motorsport 3, didn’t do anything to stop the usual “don’t support this” and “I will pirate that” posts flooding popular gaming forums.

Another BFTP centered around a game that recently got a brand new remake, namely the classic beat-em-up “TMNT: Turtles in Time”. The game was originally released on arcade in 1991 and later ported to the Super Nintendo, which is where I know it from.

I quit playing MMOs around two years ago and haven’t touched one since. I know what MMOs can do to you, so I’ve tried to avoid them. I’ve skipped several games that I had been following the development of, such as Warhammer, Darkfall and Age of Conan. As I like being in from the start the game I am looking at right now is Aion, due for release in western territories in September.

While trying to get through my pile of unplayed or “unfinished” games, a pile that’s grown considerably over the past month, I just couldn’t resist picking up “Trine” via Steam shortly after its release. I’d had my eyes on the game since I stumbled upon a couple of screenshots and an in-game video some weeks ago.

In September it’s finally time for the PC version of the game and it looks like Capcom won’t repeat the embarassment that was the PC port of Resident Evil 4 (/puke). The PC version of the game comes packed with higher resolution textures, improved graphics effects, enhanced and improved controller options (hotkeys, hotkeys, hotkeys!!!!) and support for Nvidia 3D Vision goggles (if you’ve got a monitor that supports 120Hz refresh rate…).

Back from an involuntary gaming break (caused by moving my lazy self into a new apartment) to deliver a short BFTP, featuring the classic “Monkey Island” series. After being silent since 2000 and “Escape from Monkey Island” the franchise was rebooted just last week (July 7 to be exact) as the first of five episodes titled “Tales of Monkey Island” was made available on WiiWare and PC…

It has been known for some time that PC gamers were getting the short end of the stick with Terminal Reality’s new Ghostbusters game, seeing as both multiplayer and additional content has been cut completely from the PC version.

A statement has since been issued by the game’s developer adressing the lack of multiplayer, and it seems like the multiplayer was cut from the #1 online gaming platform so that the console versions could be “the best that they could be.”

One of my all time favorite games is also a game that most gamers today never played, or even heard of for that matter. FunCom’s 1999 classic “The Longest Journey” is to this day praised as one of the best adventure games ever for its interesting, magical story, mature dialogue and superb voicework.

Blast from the Past (BFTP) is a new segment on the site, aiming to go back a few years in time and dig up gems that today’s gamers never heard of or yesterday’s gamers simply missed out on.