Lock the tv in the closet, send the wife/girlfriend/kids for a all expences paid trip to getthehellawayanywhere land, because you'll want to spend some quality time alone with your prefered gaming device this month, with loads of fantastic titles due to be released in November!

I'd say 'ask for it for christmas' if I was some n00b that didnt know most of our readers get paid more than I do (not hard!). But obviously ya'll will want to play them NOW, screw christmas...

For PC gamers, World of Warcraft is my pick for the next few months of great fun gameplay, with Half-life 2 a good buffer game for when you need a WoW break for something a little faster. For Xbox fans the obvious money is Halo 2, which every person that owns a Xbox will be rushing out to buy first available chance they get. And Killzone looks like being the big title on the playstation 2 Edit, doh! forgot GTA:SA, read Justin's awesome review of that here.

Oh, and one game I've been watching all the great movies released for that is sure looking like a truely fantastic game for the RTS fans is LOTR:Battle for Middle Earth, its a shame it has the whole LOTR name as a significant number of gamers are likely to put it automatically in the vapourware pile during selection, given the track record of most franchise games. This is a game made by some of the old Westwood team, that really had a genuine interest in representing the francise in a well thought out, and beautifuly constructed game, buy it!

not to mention GTA:SA has just come out for PS2 too

but yeah, shaping up to be a good summer holiday ^_^

HL2 wins.
Sif WoW.

• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within - All platforms
• Everquest II - PC
• Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines - PC
• Need for Speed Underground II - All platforms
• Tales of Symphonia - Gamecube
• Paper Mario 2 - Gamecube

Oh baby--not to mention Half-life 2 of course.

Sif WoW.

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hl2 is looking good considering im enjoying cs again :)
also whats the go with gran turismo 4?

hl2 and wow are equal on my levels

wow is f***ing amazing

hl2 better be

yayayayayayay nerd time 4 petey

Holy f***ing s***.

Between WoW, HL2, Tales of Symphonia, Paper Mario 2 and Halo 2, I'm pretty f***ing upset that I got a full time job recently. Where will I find the time?!

I'd be excited about WoW if I had the bandwidth to play it with, but at least I'll have a healthy selection of long-term singleplayer games until they install my ADSL.

This is one crazy season for games. It almost makes up for the drought we've been going through.

Other games that are on the horizon:

• Pikmin 2
  
• Metroid Prime 2
  
• Kotor 2 (february)

KOTOR 2 is out in december if you have an Xbox, which I don't :(

I am hanging out for NFSU2 bigtime, second only to HL2. Cant wait to rice up a Type-R and pwnbitchz online.

Hi term! no I am back downunder for a little while (for the summer!).

yeah KOTOR II will be mad

plus HL2 of course

Football Manager 2005 is out now - best game for soccer enthusiasts.

From the makers of the Championship Manager series. The only game i've been hanging for ... plus HL2

Bugger Halo 2 on Xbox. If it's (Halo2) not on PC I'm not interested. I'll save my XBox for racing games and beatemups.

And sif you wouldn't put Half-Life 2 as the top choice with occasional bouts of WoW :)

I'm also spewing that Stalker won't be released before Christmas like was originally planned. It looks like it will be May 2005 :(

Medal of Honor Pacific Assault--is what im looking forward to..just paid of the last payment on my pre-order of the limited Ed. DVD version for the PC ofcourse...also GTA:SA takes the cake for PS2 cant wait for the PC versoin...hope the PC one doesnt get edited :)

HOT BATTEL!@

Haven't been too much into my gaming lately but looking forward to

- Metriod Prime 2 - GC and NFSU 2 - PC

Good times are ahead!

I want WoW now!

definatlly time for an upgrade...you can buy mine :)

Jerds will be CS progayming soon, you watch!

Haven't been into my gaming much lately either but HL2 wins

Heheh... I upgraded from my 1ghz geforce2 already. Can't wait to get my dirty little poor hands on any of the new games.

WoW scares me.... i can see myself playing it for months...

and at the end of it say to myself 'was it worth it?'

Its a damn addictive game. I have had to make myself get away from the comp just to break the vicous 'just one more level' cycle.

NFSU2 is bloody insane. Its fixed an aweful lot of what was wrong with the first title... and has ECU tuning etc.

HL2 looks great too. If you preorder from EB by today you get $10 off. And you can get a further $20 off if you grab a coupon from PC GAMES ADDICT december issue[28].page 46 I think.

And don't forget the new Nintendo DS for all y'all who are importing ;). I can see myself spending upwards of 100 hours before the end of the year just on Metroid prime: first Hunt [online of course^^]

I abosolutly can't wait for Operation Flashpoint 2, i spent a good 3 years play Operation Flashpoint 1 and I'm only just now getting a bit bored of it. But i still have to wait for late 2005 :(

i was told WoW costs $15 a month subscription to play over internet or something, is this true ? and while im asking, is WoW internet only? or can you play via other networks eg. lan?

wow is around $20 a month to play. u can only play on blizzard servers over the net so no lan for u.

That's really pathetic. I'd rather pay 25k and look like a woman.

half-life 2
world of warcraft
need for speed: underground 2
prince of persia: warrior within