When it comes to fans of Need for Speed, the idea of taking the long running racer into the realm of an MMO is pleasant thought. Racing through the streets with old friends and new ones while building your own character sounds like a great idea. As add cars and customizing those cars only helps to whet the appetite of most race fans. But when you add in the causal game factor you might be a little confused at what you find. In the new MMO Need for Speed World racer fans get their chance to take their racing style to the world but is this game the racing sim they’ve been waiting for or another casual game for the growing casual audience?

The newest addition to Left 4 Dead 2 is more than just the average add-on campaign. These new story known as The Passing gives the story of Left 4 Dead 2 a much needed connection to the survivors from the first Left 4 Dead.

For PC users these levels are being released as a free add-on within a patch. When it comes to Xbox 360 users, you're unfortunately forced to purchase the levels. This doesn’t mean that I'm not going to review this new episode in L4D2 even though it was free for most. It only means that some of us are luckier than others.

Nevertheless, before I can truly talk about the good and bad of The Passing we have to first talk about The Passing itself and its impact on the franchise. This new campaign contains what's probably the most important moment in the series since arriving on the roof top in the first Left 4 Dead. 

 The newest trend in gaming is the old west. This time period of lawless man, quick gun fights and gold mining is on the mind of most gamers. However, up until now, the period never had a chance to shine. For years, gamers had to struggle with bad controls, bad stories and a miss understanding of what the old west means to most gamers. This had more to do with our concept of the old west and it being tainted by film and not so much by true history. But for gamers there were only one of two games that really captured the true nature of the time, or at least our understanding of it.

Now a new game from Fatshark studios and Paradox Games, Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West looks to take the idea of the old west and give it some team based action.

In August of 2007 the world was given BioShock. To many, the game was heralded as a turning point in gaming. With an ambitious story and no multiplayer in a first person shooter, the game was thought to be a new way of presenting this action heavy genre. This is even after games like Half Life, Deus EX and System Shock made the same attempts in previous years.

The first BioShock gave publishers a new found confidence in game writing and it gave players a new world to explore and fall in love with. Yet, even before the release of the game, players and journalists wanted to know about a multiplayer mode. These requests were quenched when the game’s sequel and its multiplayer mode was officially announced in March of 2008.

Fast forward two years and 2K Games has released the all new BioShock 2. So is this the story driven first person shooter fans have been waiting for, or is it a lame attempt at trying to recapture the magic of 2007?