14 DAY TRIAL // This week has been dominated by the launch of Halo: Reach, the final Bungie made video game in the long running series, but there's have been other pieces of news that were prominent enough to make it into this recap.
And if you are interested in more video games themed reading you can see a review of the World War II strategy game R.U.S.E., alongside a series of Gamer Diaries linked to it, but there's also a Weekend Reading piece and an EndWeekGame installment to parse.
On Monday Ubisoft announced that the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 versions of its pop themed Michael Jackson: The Game will be delayed, probably for 2011, but that gamers on the Wii will still get the title on time.
On the same day the developers at Eidos have assured long time fans that the move to gaming consoles will in no way work to limit the complexity level of Deus Ex. Human Revolution.
Tuesday was the day when the developers at Treyarch said that they have no plans to ever charge for the multiplayer component of Call of Duty: Black Ops while the people at Obsidian talked about faction fighting and moral choices in the upcoming role playing game Fallout: New Vegas.
On Wednesday Blizzard issued a strong worded statement to cheaters, threatening them with band from Battle.net, which would cripple their Starcraft 2 experience, if they continue using nefarious means to win.
The day also saw a patent uncovered which seems to show an add on for the PlayStation 3 that will allow backwards compatibility.
Thursday a lot of players reported that the cooperative mode for Halo: Reach was not accessible to those who own an Arcade version of the Xbox 360 with 4 GB of memory with Microsoft saying that it is working on a fix.
At the same time Criterion stated that the game world for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit will be four times as big as that in its previous hit Burnout Paradise.
Friday we found out that Sony is preparing a firmware update for the PlayStation 3 which will introduce 3D play for Blu-ray content while Bobby Kotick talked about selling movies based on video games directly to gamers.