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Apart from Ken Kutaragi retiring have you all noticed there's absolutely nothing of note happening in the gaming world for the last few months?

It's the gaming doldrums, that rare combination of calm seas and nothing blowing to give gaming momentum. I think this year is especially quiet due to two new consoles being released with not many games and now everyone is frantically trying to polish off games in development so they'll have something to release for the summer.

It's OK for PS3 users who get Oblivion to keep them busy, and it's fine for FFXI fans who've got FFXI to fall back on, and I guess XBox users will be content shooting each other in their shooty games and Nintendo users will carry on collecting stars and bouncing on mushrooms, but in terms of anything new happening it's been a dire quarter of a year. I can't remember it being this quiet in the previous two decades, and now that E3 has been scrapped we haven't even got all the pre-show press hype that used to give us something to drool over during the lenient months.

I note that Ken Kutaragi timed his retirement just before the Forza 2 demo gets released, it may not be a coincidence.

Anyhow, to keep us busy during this lean period, here's a little compo:

Guess what IGN is going to nominate as Overall Game of the Year (GOTY, see?) for 2007.

Personally I'm going to plump for Mass Effect on the XBox 360 because it offers something relatively new (spacey RPG shooter) and looks like it might do it rather well.

It could be ousted from this position by something unheard of getting released this year, but I don't think these days it's possible to have something in development for 5 years without us knowing about it.

Previous IGN Overall Game of the Year Winners were:

2006: Okami (PS2)
2005: God of War (PS2)
2004: Half-Life 2 (PC)

So add your guess. Whoever gets it right can have every poster replying to their topics during 2008 add a little /bow to the end of their replies, and deservedly so. Although I can't make it compulsory.

(Closing date for entries: June 30th 2007)

Apart from Ken Kutaragi retiring have you all noticed there's absolutely nothing of note happening in the gaming world for the last few months?

It's the gaming doldrums, that rare combination of calm seas and nothing blowing to give gaming momentum. I think this year is especially quiet due to two new consoles being released with not many games and now everyone is frantically trying to polish off games in development so they'll have something to release for the summer.

It's OK for PS3 users who get Oblivion to keep them busy, and it's fine for FFXI fans who've got FFXI to fall back on, and I guess XBox users will be content shooting each other in their shooty games and Nintendo users will carry on collecting stars and bouncing on mushrooms, but in terms of anything new happening it's been a dire quarter of a year. I can't remember it being this quiet in the previous two decades, and now that E3 has been scrapped we haven't even got all the pre-show press hype that used to give us something to drool over during the lenient months.

I note that Ken Kutaragi timed his retirement just before the Forza 2 demo gets released, it may not be a coincidence.

Anyhow, to keep us busy during this lean period, here's a little compo:

Guess what IGN is going to nominate as Overall Game of the Year (GOTY, see?) for 2007.

Personally I'm going to plump for Mass Effect on the XBox 360 because it offers something relatively new (spacey RPG shooter) and looks like it might do it rather well.

It could be ousted from this position by something unheard of getting released this year, but I don't think these days it's possible to have something in development for 5 years without us knowing about it.

Previous IGN Overall Game of the Year Winners were:

2006: Okami (PS2)
2005: God of War (PS2)
2004: Half-Life 2 (PC)

So add your guess. Whoever gets it right can have every poster replying to their topics during 2008 add a little /bow to the end of their replies, and deservedly so. Although I can't make it compulsory.

(Closing date for entries: June 30th 2007)

I'd expect it to be out of GTA IV, Mass Effect, Bioshock and Assassins Creed. It's a tough one to call as they all look excellent, and any of them could easily win.

I'll go for GTA IV

If Assassin's Creed does live up to all the hype that has surrounded it for the last 300 years, then it may be a very good choice for winner, but then Mass Effect does have it's own hype machine working overtime too.

No-one has even mentioned Halo 3 yet, mainly (I guess) because everyone thinks it can't surpass the last 2 or compete against last year's Gear of War. But you never know...

Halo 3.

Despite the lacking single-player of the 2nd title - Bungie have a new and more powerful box of tricks to do wonders with so I expect Halo 3 to be nothing less than phenomenal.

I do want ranked matches involving 3 teams though. :)

Of course, when I said 'Gear of war' I was obviously talking about the game Gears of War, not the game involving a Morris Minor with a dodgy gearbox...

Assassin's Creed is one of the games I'm looking forward to. I'm going to say that, although there could potentially be so many.

God of War 2.

Does look impressive for a PS2 game, yes, but does it stand out enough from the first one?

I've actually worked out this entire time, it's time for another 6-pack thread.

But then, apart from Nintendo's efforts, the gaming industry is steadily going downhill.

People are less interested in it than they were before, people are moving on from the home console, everyone wants something new.

I know I'm certainly bored with the same old titles with new faces.