We just wrapped up a detailed comparison between the single player campaign experience for Modern Warfare 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. After completing both games, we crowned MW2 as the clear winner. We now move onto the multiplayer experience. BFBC2 has stirred up some controversy as the multiplayer beta experience had been hit or miss for some people. After some hands on game playing with the final copy of the game, we can now definitely say whether DICE delivers another killer Battlefield game.

If you were to gauge internet chatter these days, you'd swear that the rivalry between Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Modern Warfare 2 was bigger than the 16-bit console wars, or the classic Celtics vs Bulls rivalry. Or even bigger than a Democrats vs Republicans showdown. People have clearly taken sides, and aren't shy about sharing their views, despite that most people haven't even played BFBC2 yet. So I went into playing BFBC2 with one clear intention - to determine if EA's game could actually be better than Activision's game. So which one came out on top when it comes down to the single player campaign?

The revival of the NBA Jam franchise has been getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, it's been mostly the attention of Nintendo Wii owners as that has been the only platform that EA has announced they are currently supporting. Which is downright disappointing because we all want to go online with our XBox Live or PSN accounts for some one on one, right?

While there still is no official confirmation that the game is coming out on Xbox 360 or PS3, we have stumbled across a resume of an EA Programmer, who happens to list that she is working on NBA Jam. In addition to having the game listed

I was one of those latecomers when it came to jumping on board the whole Half Life 2 bandwagon. I got the Orange Box when it was marked down to $9.99, and finally got to enjoy the game that everyone was buzzing about 3 years ago. But then the big shocker was that after I beat the game, and Portal, I ended up playing Team Fortress 2 for another 40 hours. The game was that good.

But it wasn't just the great multiplayer deathmatches, it was the whole style of the game. The art direction, the character design, and the audio work has such colorful flare. And I was thinking to myself, it would cool if this was actually made into a cartoon. Lo and behold...

While having lunch today at EA's HQ, I had the pleasure of partaking in a special game launch lunch. We're talking about a hellish meal gussied up with Dante's Inferno trappings. Clever idea, though I did wish they took the whole theme further, and serve everything up that is blood red, or cooked over a big flame.

What did I have? The bowels of hell pork loin, tender like the meat of human flesh, served on a bed of crawling maggots. I'm pretty sure on any other at EA, it would have just been called Pork loin and Orzo.