A Gamer's Week: 18 – 25 April

This gaming week has been cut a bit short because on Monday we celebrated the second day of Orthodox Easter. Still, we managed to get in one interesting article related to the right to vote as opposed to the right to play videogames.

Tuesday, we saw Obsidian partner up with Bethesda to bring us another Fallout videogame. New Vegas is set to be released in 2010 and will tell a story parallel to that of the third game in the series. Let's hope that the story telling power of Obsidian, which has a track record of creating great sequels, will make New Vegas a truly memorable experience. We also heard from Capcom, which is set to unveil the date on which Street Fighter IV would be coming to the PC.

Wednesday saw the release of patch 3.1.1 for World of Warcraft, which eliminated some of the bugs and refunded all of the talent points for players. On the same day, Valve launched the Survival pack for Left 4 Dead that brings two fresh campaigns for the Versus mode and the all-new Survival mode. Get ready for a lot of tanks!

Sony continued its media blitz, trying to show off the advantages of the PlayStation 3 gaming console in relation to its competitors. Its newest idea is to say that the PS3 owns the living room and will attract the current Wii players when they become interested in more hardcore videogames. Speaking of hardcore, it seems that Guitar Hero, with its slew of releases, will be dominating the battle of the music games in 2009, while The Beatles will have less of an impact for Rock Band than Harmonix believes.

Finally, on Friday, we heard Blizzard vehemently deny talking to Microsoft about the successor to the Xbox 360, although the rumors are swirling that the Redmond company is thinking about a next generation console. And on a more lighthearted note, we heard from EA Sports about the athletes who would be featured on the various covers for NCAA Football 10.

Oh, and we spent One Hour with the weird and fabulous Zeno Clash. Check it out.