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Earlier this week a dispute popped up between popular publishers Activision, and the Call of Duty 2, 4, and Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward.  The two top men at Infinity Ward, the founders Vince West and Jason Zampella, were fired by Activision for disputes in the creative future of the Call of Duty series.  Activision also has announced that this years Call of Duty will be developed by Treyarch while leaving the year afters for a new company.  Infinity Ward will seemingly not have another CoD game out until 2011.

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What is foreseen as the “JRPG of the year,” Final Fantasy XIII, will release in the US on Tuesday. While it seemed to get positive feedback in Japan, now that the game is coming stateside, some reviews have been coming out, and they have generally been worse than expected.

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Name: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

Release Date: 2/16/10
Genre: Point and Click Adventure
Rating: T

Eureka! We are back with another installment in the popular Ace Attorney franchise. Its been two years since we were last in the courts with Apollo Justice and it seems that we will have to wait a bit longer because in Ace Attorney Investigations, the player takes the role of Miles Edgeworth as he uses logic to deduct what really happens at each crime scene. The game takes a fresh and new approach on the Ace Attorney series introducing the first major changes that the series has seen since its creation. I appreciate that they are taking creative liberties, however, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

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Name: Bayonetta
Release Date: 1/8/2010
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Platinum Games
Genre: Action
Rating: M

Bayonetta is the next game in the Platinum Games series of new games. Many compare this game to Devil May Cry, since the main designer of it designed this game, however I believe this game takes many more creative liberties and a much different approach to the one in Devil May Cry.

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