When the announcement was made that Final Fantasy XIII – once exclusive to the PS3 – was going to make its way to the rival X360 platform, the gaming world was put in to a state of shock.

Now that the first Final Fantasy for this generation of consoles is finally available, lets see if the game itself manages the same effect – or if 13 is indeed an unlucky number.

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There isn’t much I can tell you about this weeks review without ruining the mood of it so.. I won’t.

This week Yahtzee takes on Bioshock 2 and it’s one of his better ones but unbelievably the language is a little worse than usual.

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Borderlands, the RPG loot-a-thon shooter from Gearbox and 2K has been pretty well supported with post-release content. The first, the Zombie Island of Dr Ned was an exercise in how to do self-contained episodic content right. The second, Mad Moxxie’s underdome riot was a less-than awesome arena mode.

Let’s take a look at the latest add-on for the game, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, and see if it’s worth your money.

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Heavy Rain has finally arrived and after many months of discussions over visuals, a controversial control scheme and Quantic Dreams’ ability to deliver solid titles, we finally got to see what all the buzz was about.

By now most of you know that Heavy Rain is not your traditional videogame. Some have had trouble calling it a videogame at all while others believe that it’s the next step in interactive story telling.

We put on our raincoats, opened our umbrellas and ventured forth into the storm to bring you the full review, after the jump.

[Please note: As Heavy Rain is entirely story driven, we have ensured that the review remains 100% spoiler free]

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One more sleep, it’s just one more sleep until Friday arrives and that is always a great reason to celebrate.

And the normal way we celebrate Thursday’s is to get our early morning coffee and take a listen to this weeks Zero Punctuation.

Yahtzee takes on Mass Effect 2 this week and it must have been quite a stretch for him to find enough problems to make a review out of this game but unsurprisingly he has managed… not his best work in my opinion but still funny.

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The first BioShock was a masterpiece – a story expertly crafted, punctuated by the objectivist philosophies of Ayn Rand. Its twisted, tortured dystopian under-sea setting was unique and interesting, its art-deco visuals – although ruinous – rich and sumptuous, and above all, its narrative compelling.

Many gamers – such as myself -  felt a sequel to be unwarranted – that the game was complete and that a sequel would feel unnecessary, diminishing the impact of our first foray into Rapture. We were worried that a sequel, made by a different developer, wouldn’t be able to capture the spirit of its forebear, and wouldn’t be able to deliver nearly as moving an experience. We were also wrong.

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The first reviews for Heavy Rain are rolling in and so I decided to give them all a look to see how things are going.

A lot of the reviews are saying that Heavy Rain isn’t really a game, but more of an interactive movie experience, and a lot are quick to point out that this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I must say that my excitement for Heavy Rain has been building up very steadily over the last couple of months and I can’t wait to get my hands on the game.

Let’s have a look at how it’s doing.

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Here in sunny South Africa we’re generally a sports-mad bunch. Many a Saturday afternoon is whiled away, sat around a screen, with beer and biltong consumed in disproportionate amounts. Where we falter in our enthusiasm is with regards to winter sports.

This is, of course, mostly due to geography – but it’s hard to get excited when we, unlike Jamaica, don’t even have a bobsleigh team. The 2010 winter Olympics begin this Friday in Vancouver, and as with most such events it comes with its own videogame. Let’s take a look and see if Vancouver 2010 holds the gold at the podium, or crashes headfirst into the icy snow below.

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Every now and then, a videogame comes along that changes everything that you thought you knew about gaming. A game so epic, so magnificent, so deep and so emotional that you are blown back in the realization that a new era of gaming is upon us.

Unfortunately, we didn’t receive a review copy of Karaoke Revolution, so we opted to review Mass Effect 2 instead.

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Dark Void was one of those games that looked like it could be truly awesome but when it finally got released was pretty much panned by all major critics.

So when I woke up this morning and saw that Yahtzee had taken it upon himself to also review it I expected the worst… but strangely enough he actually seemed to like it… sort off.

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Vigil Studios, created by the immensely talented comic artist Joe Madureira takes it’s first baby steps into the world of gaming with Darksiders.

Darksiders puts you into the very awesome shoes of one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Which one? Well, War of course. You arrive prematurely at what you think is the end of the world party and things go belly up from there.

Hit the jump for our review

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This week Yahtzee takes on Bayonetta and we also find out that he isn’t infatuated by pixelated ladies which comes as a bit of surprised seeing as that he is British and the British are renowned for having to keep their sexual urges private and locked away.

Anyway back to the point, it’s a review about Bayonetta and it’s still pretty funny. Also it appears that Yahtzee wants to review Borderlands but the game keeps crashing on him.

Maybe next week.

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So, the Bermuda Triangle wasn’t a myth all along.

Dark Void enters the gaming world as a combination of third person shooter with a difference and a strange type of action flight simulator. If you have ever wanted to know what it feels like to strap on a jet pack and zoom off into the skies then Dark Void is the game for that.

The question is, does it all work well when it’s put into a videogame? Find out, full review after the jump.

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I will not lie, Bayonetta is one crazy-ass witch with a bad attitude and way too many weapons available to her.

Fans of Japanese third person action massacre games have been keeping a keen eye out for Bayonetta over the last couple of months and Nu Metro was kind enough to supply us with a review copy so that we could see what all the fuss is about.

Hit the link for our review.

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It’s Thursday again which means that it’s time to listed to Yahtzee rattle on about some other game he hated this week.

In my opinion today’s episode is one of his better ones with some awesome disses against Darkside and the development team behind it.

In other news Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw is also currently writing a book which may or may not have something to do with Zero Punctuation, honestly I can’t see how the humour will work on paper but it will be worth a look when the book is released in August this year.

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