As most gamers know, especially the degenerate ones like myself the holidays is a time for getting your friends and family shitty gifts while you squirrel away additional funds to keep up with the hellish video game release schedule. What you may or may not have noticed but it would appear that this week in particular could be the start and the end of the whole thing with every damn thing being pushed out. Ok, maybe thats a bit of an exaggeration, but this is easily, and in fact, the only week that really has a flux of noteworthy titles. Unfortunately that means I probably won’t get into the Upcoming Releases like I did this time of year last year, but I will let you know how things will be going for me this week and why. Sadly, it would seem however that the family is looking like they may come out winners this season due to lack of content!

I already posted about this, but because Nintendo is weird and likes to do things on Sundays, this is already out but I’m still counting it this week. In a nut shell, it’s incredibly cute, and quite fun even though it is very clear that I’m not the intended audience for that game. This my friends is the power of Nintendo.

This looks like some insanely fast paced 3rd person action. I spent some quality time with the demo and had a great time. It’s closer to Ninja Gaiden than Gears and that makes me happy. I’m really looking forward to this one.

I admit this as a guilty pleasure, I had some fun with the original but not enough to invest anymore time in it. That is until I played the demo for Dj Hero 2. The additional of freestyle crossfades and scratches created a situation that can be really rewarding when you pull something off that actually sounds good. I fluked it a couple times in the demo but I can imagine if you get really familiar with the songs you can do some really neat stuff.

I recently finished the original Ultimate Ninja Storm, and I really enjoyed the combat later in game when the opponents actually fought back, people aren’t really talking much about the adventure mode in UNS2 and I think that’s going to be the key to me getting through it in less time than it took the last one. This would appear to be good solid fun for Naruto fans.

And finally, and honestly least interesting to me, Fallout New Vegas, I won’t be picking this up tomorrow, it was weird, it seemed like the more information that trickled out about it the less interested I was in it. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Fallout 3, but there is something about this one that doesn’t smell right. I’m going to wait for the dust to settle, and most likely wait for a decent steam sale on this one.

That sums on this week though, a pretty good haul I must say… sadly, next week we’ve got Rock Band 3, and the week after I believe in Kinect, and Dance Central (oh come on, it’ll be hoot). Call of Duty shortly after that. And sadly, that’s it for these season folks. I’d still say this was a good year for gaming it just happened in March instead. Oh well I guess this is just going to help fun all the Rock Band pro mode gear I’m going to need to buy.