That being said, it appears that Blizzcon 2012 will not come to be (official statement). Claiming that they feel, as a company, they wouldn’t have time to truly give its fans the convention they deserve. Reasons are connected to the games slated for release this year. All focus has been turned to these in an attempt to make them something Blizzard would declare “release-worthy”. Despite my issues with Blizzard that still persist I am looking forward to Diablo III and hope that this hiatus from face time with the fans will actually help with the upcoming game releases being a little smoother.

The companies that were used to secure Battlefield 3′s multiplayer are Even Balance and GGC-Stream. Even Balance, being the creators of Punkbuster, have been pointing their fingers at GGC. This is because GGC exists as a volunteer group of admins which can at times leave a company open to bad elements. A wrong volunteer choice and your systems are wide open. GGC of course had to retaliate by pointing the finger at Even Balance claiming their software is buggy and easy to misguide. They are even claiming that they’ve had to deal with it before (GGC statement).

In the end, as in all flame wars, the only true winners are those who aren’t involved at all yet get a great view of the battle from the outside. I’ve brought my comfy chair and some cold beverage. This should be fun.

WHAM!

The trade of The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde is slated for release February 22nd. That and there is a little more news tacked on.

“We developed the take for the script for almost a year, based on my outline for the comic book. First came the comic book outline, see, then the film outline based on that. Subsequently, I wrote the comic script off the film outline, which is backwards I know, but the process revealed all sorts of new details and character work I hadn’t anticipated. Almost immediately, I wrote the screenplay, or the film script, based on the comic script this time. Not the film outline. I know, weird. I was so happy with how the screenplay turned out, I went back and revised the comic script based on what I learned in this next step in the process. That’s how the comic became the comic and the film became the film.” – Cole Haddon (Newsarama)

My vote is for Robert Downey Jr. as Jeckyl.

KITTAH’S IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

Seriously, that’s all you need to know…well that and it comes out sometime in the Spring. No other info is available right now but keep an eye on their Facebook and Twitter page as well as the official page for updates.

With most of the issues I disliked about Final Fantasy XIII fixed in XIII-2, adding time travel to it all makes me excited to play FF XIII-2 on January 31st. Now if only I can travel back in time to actually finish the last part of FF XIII…

Since nothing lately has been appealing on my Nintendo 3DS and all I have to occupy my time is playing SwapNote with the rest of the guys here on the site, I am looking forward to Heroes of Ruin from n-Space and Square-Enix. From the looks of this new video, I am ready for an RPG to fully take up all my attention and Heroes of Ruin might do just that.

As we get that much closer to Christmas, the folks over at Trion Worlds drop a Holiday Edition of their Warfront video series for all of us to view. Watch closely if you want to win access to the beta for End of Nations.

Of all the features shown for the PS Vita version of Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3, I think sharing DLC between the PS3 version and the PS Vita version is great. Well, as long as they don’t charge you more for DLC now that it can be shared between devices.

I have mixed feelings about Alan Wake: American Nightmare. On one hand, I want to play more Alan Wake. Loved the survival horror atmosphere Alan Wake had and was enjoyably scared throughout it. I am not seeing that same setting with this extended trailer. Looks like Remedy Games is going more of a fast action based third-person shooter style now. The thing that made me love Alan Wake looks sucked out of American Nightmare.

I hope when more of this game is revealed, I will get to see more survival horror more than fast, wave based shooting. Alan Wake: American Nightmare will hit XBLA sometime early 2012.