So I'm back after a bit of a hiatus and I've been working on my first Skyrim mod. I'll write more about it soon but in the meantime find the link to download it below along with a launch trailer.

Oh dear. Poor old 'Urge to Play' has been neglected. Don't worry. I will be back soon with something for you to get your teeth into.

It must be tough being a game developer. All that work and only ten percent of people will actually play your game through to the end. Weeks spent on that big plot twist, that unique character design, that carefully engineered level and only a tenth of the buggers who bought the game will ever see it. 

I'm certainly guilty of leaving a ton of games unfinshed. But who could blame me? With Steam sales, flash games and cheap as chips mobile games I've gorged on the ubiquity of cheap entertainment. I'll take a big juicy bite but the leave the rest of the dish unfinished, quickly moving to the next course as if games where dishes at a classy Chinese buffet. As with that Chinese buffet I also suffer the regret of over indulgence. In my desire to sample all there is to offer could I have missed the subtle nuances each dish wished to offer my palette. Should I not return to that Chinese restaurant and order... Hang on, I'm confusing myself. I was talking about finishing video games.

So here's the deal. I'll pick a game I haven't finished (but have put at least a few hours into) and try to finish it in a week. Then I'll write about the experience because it might be interesting. Or something.

Anyway, first up for The Finisher - Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Sega have released a video of the Alien: Colonial Marine's demo show at to this years E3 with Gearbox's Randy Pitchford providing some additional commentary. I've posted the video below, which seems to show a good slice of the game, but thought I'd take this opportunity to to share some thoughts on the Aliens franchise in general.

Poor little Isaac. First his mum starts hearing God, then she locks him in a room and then she try's to kill him. His only hope is a hasty escape to the basement. Will he find sanctuary?

Christ no! All he finds are room after room of horrors, determined to kill him. Isaac will die. A lot.

Ooh, this really gives me mixed feelings. I know Starbreeze can make good games and this all nice and future-shooty but I flippin' loved the original games and this ain't them. I'm sure I'll still play it but I'll hold off for Cartel to see if that can give me a proper man management fix.

UPDATE: Joystiq have a preview up, although it doesn't add too much to the trailer.

So this popped up on the interweb yesterday. It looks very interesting, if a little clunky (although plenty of time fix that). Brings to mind Space Hulk crossed with TF2. I have a hard enough time controlling one character let alone four so I'm glad to see multiplayer co-op is on the cards. You can find out more at the Signal Ops website. The team are also trying to raise some funds if you want to help out.

OnLive, that voodoo magic system that allows you to play games over the Internet, has finally launched in UK. The most amazing thing about it is that it actually works. It really does. Download the client, sign up for a free account and you’ll be able to play a bunch of triple-A games regardless of the power of your PC or Mac. There is even a flipping fag packet sized console that will plug into your HDTV for £70 (which they were giving away for free at the Eurogamer Expo). At the moment your first game is only a quid with titles such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine available at launch.

However it's not quite the gaming nirvana it would like you to think it is. Certainly it's a great step towards cloud gaming but it’s not all perfect. For a start you'll need a pretty decent broadband connection to use it and there are some things that need to be taken into consideration. So, for lack of anything more original, what's the good, the bad and the ugly of OnLive?