It's safe to say that tomorrow marks the first big week for releases of 2012. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning finally makes its way to Xbox 360, PS3, and PC this Tuesday, next to The Darkness II and Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition. For downloadable titles, Gotham City Impostors slides to XBLA, PSN, and PC tomorrow, alongside Shank 2on XBLA and PSN. Last but not least, Resident Evil: Revelations comes out for the 3DS tomorrow, while the Jak & Daxter Collection makes its long-awaited debut on the PS3.
Be sure to stay tuned to The Destructoid Show tomorrow for our FULL reviews of both The Darkness II and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. In the meantime, does anything look worth picking up to you this week?
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Getting Darkness II on Steam as soon as it unlocks, and picking up Revelations tomorrow. Shank 2 will probably get put on the back burner. I still have Shank to play through thanks to that Humble Bundle from awhile ago.
Darkness 2 looks really great. The campaign looks really re-playable and the co op missions are icing on the cake. Might wait for it though cuz im getting revelations and have Shadows of the Damned coming in the mail next week!
...and maybe Jak & Daxter Collection if my finances allow it,but with Tekken 3D and Tales of the Abyss next week and Dynasty Warriors NEXT the week after I will probably restrain myself.
Bad news, everyone that wanted to get your 3DS Cover from your revelations preorder, you are probably out of luck. Our store is getting zero, Z-E-R-O. Some stores got like 1, or 2, if you want one you will have almost no chance unless you get up to a store at open.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, I pretty much preordered it for that. Don't be dicks to the GS people because you don't get it though, its not their fault.
Those who decided to save a dollar on shipping from Amazon.com will be getting Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning sometime next week.
That means another week of seeing other people talk/write about the game that they pre-ordered but won't actually get to play as well as another week to catch up on that backlog before it arrives.
I'll be gettin amalur, the darkness II and imposters at some point. Just ordered ass creed rev on sale though :/ and am pretty tempted to get MGS HD collection as i've just realised thats been released in the uk now.
Ummm no.... PSO is nothing like this.... The style and systems are not even close, you might want to look at Phantasy Star Online 2 which is in the works
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8:15 PM on 02.06.2012 | 
@TheRedComet - Er, PSO and KoA coudln't have less in common.
...and maybe Jak & Daxter Collection if my finances allow it,but with Tekken 3D and Tales of the Abyss next week and Dynasty Warriors NEXT the week after I will probably restrain myself.
I wouldn't have made the association, but I can see it: A large action-RPG with direct combat controls.
Personally, I think the game has more in common with Divinity II.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, I pretty much preordered it for that. Don't be dicks to the GS people because you don't get it though, its not their fault.
Oh man,I hope that my GS actually has one for me,since that's the ONLY reason I bought this game in GS instead of Amazon.
Oh well, I have the LoZ 3DS so I wasn't going to use it anyways, but that's some dickery if I don't get it...
That means another week of seeing other people talk/write about the game that they pre-ordered but won't actually get to play as well as another week to catch up on that backlog before it arrives.
Tara Long? More like Tara Wrong! Heyooooo
(feel free too use that bad joke, Max)
I'd LOVE to get The Darkness II, loved the first, and also a big fan of the comic book. The demo was cool too. But alas I can't afford it.
Same goes for Gotham City Imposters and Kingdoms of Amalur...
Ummm no.... PSO is nothing like this.... The style and systems are not even close, you might want to look at Phantasy Star Online 2 which is in the works