Hey all Updates!!!

So as you may be aware of, I haven't been posting recently, due to my own mad crazy life and personal issues. But enough about me.

Firstly I have been looking hard and long at my blog and I think it is time for it to be updated, I have been too ' run of the mill' posting the same old news that everyone else does and not been focusing on the weird and wacky world that is gaming.

I promised readers new and quirky and fresh gaming news and I have been doing the complete opposite. So that is firstly going to change.

Also the look of the site is pretty naff, that to is going to change, more features, reviews and again better news.

So hopefully in the next few weeks you will see a new and improved bimbogamer, I hope you will be pleased with the changes!

Keep checking back for the update!

Bimbobarbie xx

Gears of War 2 Release Date

Announced for November 2008 by Microsoft, today we can assure you that Gears of War 2 leaves precisely to Europe on 17 of November.

Also if you can’t wait to get your hands on Microsoft Games Too Human in Europe, you’ll be getting your hands on the game in current August, August 2008.

As of now there is no official North American release date for Gears of War 2 but it’s rumored for a November 16 release window .

Resident Evil 5 New Trailer!

Last night every one has been anticipating the release of a trailer for the upcoming Title Resident Evil 5.

The mysterious counter on the official site had people wondering what was due to come. I myself was excited to see if the new trailer featured any new gamplay and maybe more story would be unfolded.

Capcom should be happy with their new title, from what I have seen, it looks like they have took Resident Evil 4 and put it on extremely powerful steriods.

One thing I am happy about is the fact they have stuck to this style of gameplay, over the shoulder, and what also looks interesting in the way the camera changes angle when you engaged in close combat.

Roll on November, I cannot wait to see more gameplay, more story and what other little things Capcom has in store for us.

Well done Capcom with the trailer, I know you have got millions of fans dribbling at the mouth!

Click the link below to be taken to the trailer

RESIDENT EVIL 5 TRAILER

Nyko Announce New Charge Base Shipped To Stores

Nyko Technologies®, the premier gaming peripherals manufacturer, today announced that their Charge Base 360 has shipped to stores. This new charging solution for the Xbox 360 provides a drop-in charging and storage solution for up to two wireless controllers.

Nyko is the first to offer such a charging solution for the millions of Xbox 360 owners looking for a faster and more efficient way to store and charge their controllers. The Charge Base 360 offers an alternative to USB charging or wasteful and expensive disposable batteries.

Nyko’s Charge Base 360 comes with two custom NiMH rechargeable batteries that feature special contact points, allowing the controllers to be easily dropped into the Charge Base 360 without removing the battery packs. Two ports allow up to two controllers to charge simultaneously, with a single charge providing up to 25 hours of play time for each controller.

The device is AC powered and plugs into any standard outlet for a charge time of less than 2 hours for one controller, and less than 4 hours for two controllers. The Charge Base 360 also includes two LED lights which change color to indicate the charge status of each controller.

“Nyko has identified a need among Xbox 360 owners looking for a more convenient way to store and charge their controllers, said Chris Arbogast, Director of Marketing at Nyko Technologies. “The Charge Base 360 eliminates the use of wasteful and expensive disposable batteries and keeps your controllers charged while you store them, so that they are ready to go for an extended gaming session every time you pick them up.

”Nyko’s Charge Base for the Xbox 360 is available for the suggested retail price of $34.99. Please visit http://www.nyko.com/ for more information.A limited edition run of 200 units in a Black & Gold color scheme will go on sale June 2nd, exclusively on the Nyko store website at http://www.nyko.com/chargebase360/ for the standard MSRP of $34.99.

UBISOFT REINVENTS ACTION SPORTS VIDEO GAMES WITH Shaun White Snowboarding

SAN FRANCISCO – May 28, 2008 – Today Ubisoft announces the development of Shaun White Snowboarding, a title destined to break all former action sports video game notions and redefine the action sports genre. The game will appear on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, Windows-based PC, and the Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo, and is scheduled for release in Holiday 2008.

Powered by the award-winning Assassin's Creed™ engine for Xbox 360 and the PLAYSTATION 3 system, Shaun White Snowboarding truly captures the action sports lifestyle. Shaun White Snowboarding is being developed from the ground up for the Wii system, taking full advantage of the Wii Balance Board™ accessory and featuring its own unique storyline and adventure with Shaun White.

“Shaun White Snowboarding will turn all of the traditional ideas and experiences of past action sports titles upside down,” said Tony Key, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Ubisoft. “The combination of Ubisoft’s innovation approach and the influence of Shaun’s lifestyle and perspective make this gaming experience like no other.”

Developed in close collaboration with Shaun White, Olympic Gold Medalist and eight-time X Games Gold Medalist, Shaun White Snowboarding allows players to enter a world of total freedom, where they can create their own experience and choose how, where, and with whom they want to ride.

Key Features of Shaun White Snowboarding for Xbox 360, the PLAYSTATION 3 system, and Windows-based PC:

Open World Mountains Choose how you ride in open-world mountains across the world. Conquer extreme peak conditions, create your own paths in the back country, or compete with fellow riders in the terrain parks.
Your Friends Are Always Around Play in a world where your friends are always around. Do your own runs on mountains populated by real gamers, or join your friends for a quick session from any mountain.

More than Just Snowboarding Have fun with your friends on and off the board! Throw snowballs, hike to access secret spots, film your friends doing ripping tricks. You can also upload your videos online to share with the world.

Ride Your Way Express yourself through tricks, riding styles, and highly customizable avatars – both in single-player and in the online world. Use the intuitive dual analog control to pull off a huge variety of tricks that express your style.

Next-Gen Technology Built on the Assassin's Creed engine, this game creates a massive world with gorgeous visuals and realistic NPC interactions. This is also the first time a snowboarding game is completely driven by physics instead of animation.

Authentic Snowboarding Ubisoft has worked closely with Shaun White to infuse the gaming experience with authenticity, personality and humor. Shaun is a friend and mentor in the game, and will help you with your skills. And, if you are deemed worthy, you may even be able to play as Shaun in the game …

For more information on Shaun White Snowboarding, please visit http://www.shaunwhitegame.com/.

XBLA Title Roogoo To be released on the 4th June

About Roogoo

Platform: Xbox LIVE® Arcade

Players: 1-4

Price: 800 Points

Genre: Puzzle

Overview:

Save the planet Roo and all its citizens from the evil Meemos by guiding differently shaped meteors to avoid collision with the planet. Rotate floating land masses to allow meteors to pass through safely. Use quick whit to avoid or destroy obstacles preventing completion of a level.

Features:

• Contains 45 levels of action packed puzzle racing games.

• Single player, Multiplayer (up to four), and Leadership boards to view highest available scores among other competitive players.

• Five differently shaped and colored meteors

• Collect stars to double your chance of winning or losing.

• Meemos and butterflies placed throughout levels as obstacles for a challenging yet entertaining game play experience

• Entertaining short story segments

Everyone check out the screenshots below and remember to check out the game on release! 4th June!

Killer Instinct 3 Coming to 360!!

new episode of the series Killer Instinct (in the past in arcade, Super Nintendo and on Nintendo 64), this time on Xbox 360. The dires come directly from American magazine EGM: Killer Instinct 3D: Death, Destruction and Doom. Reality or joke of the developers? Confirmation will still have to be awaited

UPCOMING FREE VETERAN MAP PACK FOR EA'S ARMY OF TWO

Free Downloadable Content Features Two New Campaign Maps and Enhanced Versus Map.

This year’s breakout 3rd person co-op shooter just got more intense! Players now have the chance to extend their ARMY OF TWO™ experience with two brand new co-op campaign maps and an enhanced multiplayer map that offers more opportunities to show that a two-man team can be unstoppable.

The free Veteran Map Pack, sponsored by Pontiac, will be available on May 29 in North America and Europe on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace and PLAYSTATION® Store.

Players will experience an all-new map as they find themselves underground in a subway station in Kiev where they must find and destroy the central hub of a dangerous militia. The second map takes players back to SSC headquarters in Miami where they finally get the chance to take out Dalton, Rios and Salem’s ex-boss and the man responsible for framing them, in an intense boss fight where the glory of revenge is finally felt.

The Veteran Map Pack features dynamic and interactive environments including destructible objects that were not available in the retail version. The action also continues online with two-on-two teams battling it out in the China Canal Lock map.

Mysterious Resident Evil Countdown

For all you Res Evil freaks out there ( myself included), there has been talk of a trailer hopefully to be surfaced on the 31st May, I am waiting patiently desperate to see whats in store.

You will be happy to know ( OK maybe confused and anxious also) that on the official Resident Evil site http://www.residentevil.com/ there is a mysterious countdown, ticking away at the top of the screen. Is this the countdown to the release of yet another trailer?

More news will hopefully be released soon, lets all watch anxiously till the counter gets to 72:00:00!

check out the official Capcom Resident Evil site at http://www.residentevil.com/

Consoles Through The Years!

I love retro games, I still play my amiga games on a regular basis. Lately I have become facinated by retro consoles, I am trying to collect them, which is proving differcult as some of them I didnt even know exsisted!

I was so happy to come across and article on the site My360.com.au, which focuses on the range of consoles from the 1970's to today. Some of them are amazing, some of them I owned too (mostly the nintendo and sega range) But my favorite of all being the Amiga 500, which isnt actually listed on the site ( as it isnt classed as a console) but this was the system which got me into gaming.

Some of the consoles you wont know, especially if you are young, some of the ones from the 70's I have never even seen before, but all I know is that I would love to have them in my collection.

So for all you console collectors out there click the link below to see the collection they have.

CLICK HERE FOR RETRO GAMES CONSOLES

Guitar Hero World Record By 13 Year Old

(Dallas, TX) – On May 17th, 13 year-old Grapevine native Daniel Johnson beat the Guinness World Record for high score on a single song for “Guitar Hero III” when he attended the Guitar Hero 24-Hour Marathon presented by Blockbuster. Daniel played on a XBOX 360 and scored 890,971, beating the previous record by more than 10,000 points while playing “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce at the Expert Level on his first attempt.

When asked what he thought about breaking the world record, Daniel said, “I’m glad that I had the opportunity to break the record and help people learn about Education is Freedom.”

The previous record was held by Chris Chike who achieved a score of 880,920 in March 2008.

The Guitar Hero 24-Hour Marathon, presented by Blockbuster was an event benefiting the Dallas non-profit foundation, Education is Freedom, which is part of the “Igniting Opportunity for the Children of Dallas Campaign (IOCD),” a cause dedicated to increasing the educational achievement of children in Dallas. Several Dallas CEO’s, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and Jim Keyes, CEO for Blockbuster all participated at the event.

First- through fifth-place winners received an array of prizes from Southwest Airlines, Activision and BLOCKBUSTER.


Well done Kid!!

Were Has Bimbo Been!?!?

Come back readers!!! I am still here!! For those of you out there who has been wondering were I have been, I haven't fell off the face of the earth, I am here, just been out of service shall I say.

For those of you who didn't know, I have been in Gay Paris last weekend. The best time ever was had by me, so much so I think I could live there and I hope to be returning very soon.

I had the privilege of not only seeing the beautiful sights of Paris, but I got to see the Pièce de résistance ( OK trying to roll with the french theme, roll with me) that is Load Inc. Most of you have seen in my blog the past 2 months, that I have had a really good relationship with Load Inc. and I have a passion for what they do over there. They are a great team, who are so passionate about their work and I think it is so vital to let people know about all the hard work they put into their games for us gamers to play.

I got a really in depth look into the running of the studio, I was even acquainted with the world famous coffee machine and of course the ' big wig' himself, the lovely talented Denis Bourdain, who I have to add, made me feel so welcome, the type of person you would love to meet in Paris.

So this week I am hoping to post news and photographs of my time in Load Inc.

Watch this space!

And lastly I want to say thank you for letting me spend time in the studio!