Battleborn: Best pre-order offer ever !

I won't beat around the bush, just look at that image above ! look at it ! Its unbelievable, right ?!?! Yes, but its true ! You get a FREE COLLECTIBLE FIGURE with your regular copy of Battleborn for nothing extra ! All one has to do is pre-order and going by how fun the open beta was , it isn't much of a decision to make !

Its an Arena Shooter, right, and if thats not your ball game, then probably you won't like it much but for people who like Arena shooters, this one is a very very  well made game, with very unique characters, the borderlands humour and a very cool art style ! My point being that if you liked the beta then there is no point in NOT pre-ordering this game when you can get a free collectible figure which is usually reserved for high priced special editions !

I got so excited by the news that I HAD to share this with everyone ...now, go , get outta here and pre order the damn game before the figures run out :^D !

• pre order link: http://www.gamestheshop.com/battleborn%20for%20ps4/1944#1943

Halo 5 Vidoc: A Hero Reborn.....really HALO???

Fellow Spartans, I think its pretty well know now that a new Vidoc titles "A Hero Reborn" was released by 343i recently showcasing quite a bit of new footage from Halo 5 as well detailing out their plans for the direction they are taking with the campaign of Halo 5.

Here's the vidoc for your viewing pleasure:

Now, I know its supposed to make us go gaga and over our heads with frenzy but .

........Call me cynical or whatever, but that vidoc does not look like Halo to me at all!

The armour and environment design , the colours, the art direction is so so damn different now that it could be some other game all together. Even the Master Chief silhouette is so changed that its hardly recognisable. IMO, they went too far already.

I don't feel excited :( , I am not angry or anything but I feel a gem is lost. I used to wait with baited breath for all HALO Vidocs and ads as they were all so amazing. This ......not at all. They are changing things for the sake of changing things. Its as if they want to make sure they leave their mark on the HALO franchise. They seem to believe they are bigger than HALO in this HALO project. Its not about HALO, its about our HALO and Bungie's HALO.

or maybe I am just crazy !

XBOX ONE: Fuel the Gaming industry, Don't Dilute it !

 As a gamer and a developer, here are my thoughts:

What MS did wrong with XBOX ONE was it diluted the console hardware industry. Now every console will need to also need to showcase TV features to survive. And instead of giving maximum powerful machines for games , hardware resources will have to be allotted to making extra features work. Either this will lead to weaker gaming machines or costlier gaming machines. I don't want either of that trend to spread as it hampers gaming, as a hobby and as an industry, and no one else.

If MS had launched a separate product called Xbox Magic Tv and made it the water cooler it wants to I wouldn't mind at all. But making a GAME console diverge and do all this just makes for bad trend that has started and cannot be stopped now !

It can't be undone now, lets just hope the other competitors don't follow suit and instead support gaming, indie devs and make them the highlight of their game consoles. Steam, Humble Bundle, ease of purchasing and sharing are the future of games. Going back to TV is not !